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 »
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
Ficon Dynamic Routing (FIDR) Read More »
In the IT world a panic is most often related to a operating systems kernel to run out of resources or some unknown state where it cannot recover and stops. Depending on the configuration it might dump its memory contents to a file or a remote system. This allows developers to check this file and
Appalling state of Storage Networks Read More »
Having to miss last years edition I was fortunate enough to be able to attend this years CiscoLive! conference in my hometown Melbourne again. Venue was excellent as usual. MCEC provides perfect facilities and is in the heart of the city so no dramas here. The opening keynote already showed to direction where Cisco has
CiscoLive! Melbourne – 2016 Read More »
It is no secret that many vendors use open source software in their products and solutions. One of the most ubiquitous is Linux which is often the base of many of these products and used as core-OS because of it\’s flexibility and freely available status without the need of keeping track of licenses (to some
Open Source Software (OSS) and security breaches in proprietary firmware Read More »
As with all good stuff there are always people and companies that try to jump on the bandwagon and make some dollars by using cheap kit and sell it as \”Original\” or \”Compatible\” or \”Vendor equivalent\”. Don\’t fall for this trap and simply buy Original Vendor Branded & Supported equipment. One example is FiberStore.
Brocade \”compatible\” SFP\’s will disrupt your fabric. Read More »
As with all good stuff there are always people and companies that try to jump on the bandwagon and make some dollars by using cheap kit and sell it as \”Original\” or \”Compatible\” or \”Vendor equivalent\”. Don\’t fall for this trap and simply buy Original Vendor Branded & Supported equipment. One example is FiberStore.
Brocade \”compatible\” SFP\’s will disrupt your fabric. Read More »
Brocade isn\’t always very forthcoming about what they are working on. Obviously a fair chunk of development and engineering efforts are spent on cloud integration and enablement of their software and hardware stack into this computing methodology. Acquisitions like Foundry, Vyatta and now Connectem show that the horizon has broadened the views of Brocade. To
The technical pathways of Brocade in cloud storage adoption Read More »
Ever since the dawn of time the storage administrators have been indoctrinated with redundancy. You have to have everything at least twice in order to maintain uptime and be able to achieve this to a level of around 99,999%. This is true in many occasions however there are exceptions when even dual fabrics (ie physically
Cross-fabric collateral damage Read More »
For years many storage environments have used both active-active and active-passive multipath (MPIO) access mechanisms to access storage arrays in a dispersed or linear method. On enterprise class storage arrays with global caches the active-active method is most often used while on modular arrays you\’ll see the active-passive scenario often applied. Inherently this means that
Energy Efficient Fibre Channel and related cost savings Read More »
