Exactly 20 years ago I installed my first Fibre Channel switch. It was from a startup company founded by Kumar Malavalli, Paul Bonderson and Seth Neiman who wanted to dive into the storage networking business based on a protocol developed by one of my long term mentors and the god-father of Fibre-Channel Horst Truestedt together […]
Brocade is no more Read More »
OK, OK, don\’t panic. In 99.999% of all cases you\’re BNA management system is well dug deep inside the datacenter\’s behind a fair few layers of firewalls, switch ACL\’s and other physical or non-physical borders so bad dudes being able to exploit the vulnerability is relatively unlikely. Just in the event you still want to
Brocade Network Advisor vulnerable to SWEET32 Read More »
VANTARA. Hitachi Vantara. Yes, took me a while to get used to it as well after almost 15 years at HDS but I must say reading all the internal and external communications and overall business and technical transformation gets me more excited by the day. HDS, Pentaho and Hitachi Insight Group are combined into a
Hitachi Va….. what??? Read More »
If there is one thing that gets people relatively annoyed is that their data is not available for a certain amount of time. You can\’t get to your sales data, orders cannot be fulfilled, your tracking and tracing options for your goods on their way to your customers does not show up etc. That makes
Data Corruption in Storage Area Networks Read More »
System administrators are very inventive and lazy. I know, I used to be one of them. 🙂 Everything that can be done to make ones life easier is about to be scripted, configured, designed etc. If you are responsible for an overall environment from Apps to servers to networks and storage you can make very
Host based mirroring kills your storage network!! Read More »
A relatively simple regular expression is all that needed to change all marketing material and documentation but the consequences for customers are significant. In the short term everything will be business as usual. The product portfolio currently designed, manufactured, sold and supported by Brocade will be heavily scrutinized. Broadcom has already mentioned that the entire
Bro(ad)c(a|o)(de|m) – Brocade to Broadcom What\’s next? Read More »
A relatively simple regular expression is all that needed to change all marketing material and documentation but the consequences for customers are significant. In the short term everything will be business as usual. The product portfolio currently designed, manufactured, sold and supported by Brocade will be heavily scrutinized. Broadcom has already mentioned that the entire
Bro(ad)c(a|o)(de|m) – Brocade to Broadcom What\’s next? Read More »
Arrays from all vendors have significant troubleshooting capabilities but in most cases these are scambled in the most obscure way you can imagine. You need special tools to be able to have a look at the log-dumps that come out of these systems. The nice part is that they contain a wealth of information including
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In the storage world there mainly have been two environments : 1 FCP and 2. SBCC which stands for Fibre Channel – Protocol and Single Byte Command Code Set. read on
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If you\’ve been laying low during Christmas last year and have overlooked that Brocade announced its first to market with \”Gen 6\” (32G) hardware and FOS code 8, you\’re forgiven. FOS 8 was mainly released to support the new G620 hardware but a lot of functions and features did either not work or were not
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