High Memory and CPU utilization on a FC switch.
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Troubleshooting
Crackdown on FOS support
If you\’ve read my articles over the last decade or so you\’ve seen I\’m keen on maintenance. Both from a physical hardware as well as software perspective a storage environment needs to be kept in tip-top shape at all times.
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Initiator, Target, Both or None ??
Whenever you\’ve encountered an output of a nameserver entry you may have come across the phenomenon that the fabric has no clue what the attached device is. For a FC switch an attached device (or N-port in technical terms) is not more than a source or destination where frames originate from or can be sent
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SFP in -INF state
The entire IT industry is packed with mathematics. So instead of keeping things easy we need to work our way around imposed restriction that have been imposed on us by history. When hardware was developed 1 to 5 decades ago things were (maybe still are) very expensive. Every corner was cut to keep costs low
FOS 8.2.1 – the one that is required.. or not?
Like clockwork Brocade releases new FOS version around every 6 months. No news here. FOS 8.2.1 is however a release you may need to pay special attention to especially if you have X6 director class switches hooked up to a 240 volt, 50 Hz power mains as well as sitting between a rock and a
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Logs, Logs, Logs and more Logs
Nice title especially if you\’re in the lumberjack business. 🙂 All kidding aside. Support engineers rely 100% on these things and if we\’re asking for them please don\’t hesitate to provide them. It has been ventilated a fair amount of time that some people see this as some sort of \”delay-tactic\” from support engineers but
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Release notes and upgrades. Decision time.
Ughh, upgrades, maintenance, risk of downtime, out of hours work and pulling all-nighters or even weekends when your wife and kids start wondering who that strange man is that sometimes shows his face through the back-door. But what made you decide to do the upgrades on your OS, firmware, applications etc.
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When to replace an SFP
Maybe the title should be \”When to NOT replace an SFP\” as I see in many occasions it is seen as a first option of fixing problems. In reality the SFP is one of the least failing components in the environment and replacing them more often leads to other problem than actually resolving the original
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Brocade Network Advisor vulnerable to SWEET32
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
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Data Corruption in Storage Area Networks
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
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