Many of you have used and managed fibre-channel based storage networks over the years. It comes to no surprise that a network protocol primarily developed to handle extremely time-sensitive operations is build with extreme demand regarding hardware and software quality and clear guidelines on how these communications should proceed. It is due to this that […]
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So this morning I uploaded my proposal to T11 (13-348v0) in order to get the ball rolling to get it adopted in the FC-LS-3 standard. (That would be awesome). Obviously the task to get things done in a very stable protocol which is known for some serious backward compatibility is not an easy undertaking. I\’ve
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Fibre-Channel is still the predominant transport protocol for storage related data transmission. And rightfully so. Over the past +-two decades it has proven to be very efficient and extremely reliable in moving channel based data transmissions between initiators and targets. The reliability is due to the fact the underlying infrastructure is almost bulletproof. Fibre-Channel requires
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If your not into enterprise storage and live in France you might confuse the acronym with the Brotherhood of Infirmary Anaesthetics (Syndicat National des Infirmiers-Anesthésistes) but if you relate it to storage you obviously end up at the Storage Networking Industry Association. This organisation is founded based upon the core values of developing vendor neutral
There has been quite some confusion around the use of fill words with the adoption of the 8G fibre-channel standard. Some admins have reported that they have problems connecting devices on this speed as well as numerous headaches in long-distance replication especially when DWDM/CWDM equipment is involved.An ordered set is a transmission word used to
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I attended Cisco Live this week in Melbourne. Since it was very close to home and Cisco was kind enough to provide me with an entry ticket. (Many thanks for this.) While strolling around the expo floor I ran into the nice people from Fluke Networks who were showing their testing equipment and of course
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On many occasions I\’ve seen posts from storage administrator who mapped some luns to hosts and on the first use the entire pool got whacked with all bells and whistles going off. (Yes, we can control bells and whistles.:-)) The administrator did nothing wrong however he should have communicated with the server admin what the
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So what is the problem with storage networking these days? some of you might argue that it\’s the best thing since sliced bread and it\’s the most stable way to shove data back and forth and maybe it is however this is not always the case. The problem is some gaps still exist which have
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