(This post is mostly obsolete to to the many improvements in FSO 7.3, 7.4 and beyond. I would seriously urge you to consider using MAPS. See here) With FOS 7.2.0 Brocade introduced MAPS (no not the google version). It\’s a new functionality that is intended to replace and improve the usability of Fabric Watch. As […]
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In some of my previous post I have outlined the reasons and consequences of errors on a link. There are multiple locations where a bit may flip from a 0 to a 1 or reverse. CRC errors, encoding errors, synchronisation and link failures are the usual symptoms and may lead to corrupted frames, primitives signals
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Many customers are asking this question of where does storage sit in the \”Software Defined\” market place of today. I gave this some thought a while ago and when I see the current buzz of doing everything \”Software Defined\” I can draw no other conclusion than storage is at least 10 (if not 20 or
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If you work with Brocade gear you might have come across their management tool called Brocade Network Advisor. A very nifty piece of software which lets you do almost 99% of all things you want to do with your fabrics whether is FOS or NOS based. When you work in support you often need logs
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A buddy of mine posted this article and it reminded me of the presentation I did for the Melbourne VMUG back in April of this year. The first law of the Time Lords | Aussie Storage Blog: If you have ever worked in support (or had the need to check on events in general as
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Fellow blogger and keen dissector of fluff Chris Evans really hit the nail on the head with this one. ViPR – Frankenstorage Revisited | Architecting IT: Even after reading the announcement from EMC a couple of times I really struggle with finding out what is actually announced. It looks like they crammed every existing technology
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Cisco guru and long time networking expert Ivan Pepelnjak hits the nail on its head with the below post. It is one more addition to my series of why you should stay away from FCoE. FCoE is only good for ONE thing: to stay confined in the space of the Cisco UCS platform where Cisco
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The Cisco MDS 9506,9509 and 9513 series director class FC switches have been in for the long haul. They were brought to market back in the early 2000\’s (2003 to be exact) and have run a separate code-base from the rest of the Cisco switching family in the form of the Catalyst Ethernet switches. The
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After a very busy couple of weeks I\’ve spent some time to dissect the release notes of Brocade FOS 7.1 and I must say there are some really nice features in there but also some that I REALLY think should be removed right away. It may come to no surprise that I always look very critical to whatever come
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I encourage change especially if there are technological advances that improves functionality, reliability, availability and serviceability (or RAS in short). What I hate if these changes increase risk and require a fair chuck of organisational change even more if they amplify each other (like FCoE). What I hate even more though is for marketing people
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