#fc Articles


Brocade CF Replacement Hints

This post is based on a submission from a reader of this blog Eberhard, maybe primarily of the popular Brocade SAN upgrades post. Many thanks for this, hoping it will help someone out there! The topic here is how to replace the embedded Compact Flash card if that breaks. You …

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Brocade Accredited Server Specialist - BASP

http://www.brocade.com/education/certification-accreditation/accredited_server_connectivity/curriculum.page I'm currently preparing for yet another accreditation, the previous one I took was the BADCS, The BASP (Brocade Accredited Server Specialist) appear to focus on the server side. Things like: how to install drivers HBA management tools describe features how to …

Brocade Accredited Data Center Specialist - BADCS

Time to study for another one :) Working my way towards the "Data Center Track". To complete it it would be enough for me to complete 5 accreditations. This one has a pretty cool name - BADCS! http://www.brocade.com/education/certification-accreditation/accredited-data-center-specialist/prerequisites.page I haven't tried one of these …

Storage FC HBA Transfer Size Tuning

HP just published an advisory describing how to tune some parameters for Emulex, Qlogic and Brocade Fibre Channel HBAs: c02518189. It sounds like these are new, but these changes have been around for at least 6 months in all three vendors' HBAs. Emulex "Emulex driver version 2.42.002 or …

BCFP - good threads in the brocade forum

How to set up two FCIP tunnels between two B7500: http://community.brocade.com/message/15261 Connecting two sites via FCR: http://community.brocade.com/message/16828#16828 Set up FCIP between two B7800: http://community.brocade.com/message/14216#14216 Why is there an IP in ipaddrshow on FC …

BCFP - Fibre Channel Routing - FCR - FC-FC Routing

FCR; Fibre Channel Routing; FC-FC Routing; etc; etc. This has many names. FC-FC Routing service provides FCR (fibre channel routing). Basically what it does is that it lets you zone devices in two separate fabrics without merging them. These two separate fabrics are called 'edge fabrics' in Brocade lingo, they …