To many it has always been a mystery what happens when you connect fibre-channel switches to each other and all of a sudden magic happens and you can have an host \”talk\” to an array or an other device on an other switch. The same mystery however applies when this doesn\’t work and you see […]
5.1 ISL/E-port configuration – The right way. Read More »
I ran into this in my lab when upgrading a switch which caused a fabric-segmentation and obviously the release notes of a previous version show: Other Important Notes and Recommendations Management Server Platform Capability support changes in FOS v6.4 FOS v6.4 no longer automatically enables the Management Server (MS) Platform capability when a switch attempts
Upgrade FOS leads to fabric segmentation. Read More »
There is already a fair chunk of functionality in FOS but, being a support-engineer, you always come up with features and functions that will improve storage fabrics. Being on a Ficon course last week and meeting some Brocade friends I requested them to add the following to the (most likely) long RFE (Request for Enhancement)
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So this week I had an interesting case. As you know the Hitachi arrays have a replication functionality called HUR (Hitachi Universal Replicator) which is an advanced a-synchronous replication solution offered for Mainframe and OpenSystems environments. HUR does not use a primary to secondary push method but rather the target system is issuing reads to
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