Blogs about: Fibre Channel
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Murphys Law in Action
A friend of mine recently had a problem while installing a new SAN24B-4 (an IBM 2498B24, which is a rebadged Brocade 300 Fibre Channel switch). The problem was simple: It was dead. The switch would… more →
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Cisco Nexus Fibre Channel configuration template
wrote 2 days ago: I recently had the opportunity to configure native fibre channel in my test lab at work using Nexus … more →
Cabling, Handling and Cleaning Considerations in Storage Area Networks
wrote 2 days ago: As Fibre Channel network speeds increase, there is a greater sensitivity to problems in cabling and … more →
New IBM System Networking features for the Fibre Channel fabric backbones
wrote 1 week ago: The 8 Gbps Enhanced Extension Blade (#3891) includes the following features to address the most dema … more →
IBM System Networking SAN96B-5 delivers 16 Gbps high-density Gen 5 Fibre Channel Switches for data center consolidation and cloud-optimized networks
wrote 1 week ago: SAN96B-5 Gen 5 Fibre Channel Switches are designed to meet the demands of highly virtualized, privat … more →
LSZH Cable
wrote 1 week ago: Choose advanced lszh Cable to Get Extreme Safety Standards In computer savvy world, everyone is seek … more →
Is FCoE winning the war vs. Native FC?
wrote 2 weeks ago: I had a customer recently buy 2 Cisco Nexus 5548UP switches to be used for their Fibre Channel (FC) … more →
Rumors of Fibre Channel’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated
wrote 1 month ago: If you believed all the media hype and vendor pontifcations three years ago, you would have thought … more →
what is network virtualization
wrote 1 month ago: Physical network is segmented into logical parts to provide network virtualization by combining netw … more →
Generation Lost
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wrote 1 month ago: I’m not trying to cause a big sensation (talking about my generation) – The Who Naming p … more →
Fibre Channel: Generations
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wrote 1 month ago: In case you haven’t heard, Brocade is rebranding their 16 Gbit Fibre Channel offerings as Gene … more →
Murphys Law in Action
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wrote 1 month ago: A friend of mine recently had a problem while installing a new SAN24B-4 (an IBM 2498B24, which is a … more →
VMware vSphere misidentifies local or SAN-attached SSD drives as non-SSD
wrote 1 month ago: Symptom: You are trying to configure Host Cache Configuration feature in VMware vSphere 5. The Host … more →
Jumbo Fibre Channel Frames
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wrote 1 month ago: In the world of Ethernet, jumbo frames (technically any Ethernet frame larger than 1,500 bytes) is o … more →
Open Source Storage Area Network–Part 1
wrote 3 months ago: In this multi-part blog post, I will be going over setting up a custom built Storage Area Network (S … more →
Drive Down Costs with a Storage Refresh
wrote 4 months ago: Like most other things, technology suffers from advancing age. That leading-edge wonder of just a f … more →
The role of converged infrastructure in the data center
wrote 4 months ago: GigaOM Research projects that the cloud computing market will grow from $70.1 billion in 2012 to $15 … more →
Lessons Learned from OSA Platform
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wrote 5 months ago: It has been quite a while since the last post. We have been busy testing and configuring the server … more →
The evolution of IBM SVC connection choices
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wrote 5 months ago: IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) has offered Fibre Channel Storage Virtualization since June 2003. … more →
List all physical QLogic HBA’s driver and firmware information of all your ESXi 4.1/5.0 hosts using PowerCLI 5.0.1
wrote 6 months ago: I wanted to know the version of the QLogic HBA driver and firmware of all ESXi hosts. I took the scr … more →
