Attending "Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management" in August. Quite a few of these technologies I haven't touched upon before so probably best to go through them before the course. Initially I wonder how many of these are Red Hat specific, or how many of these I can accomplish …

Ever wondered which is the easiest way? Using the "configDefault --all" does not clear everything, for example it doesn't clear: system name, zoning, etc. Setting the switch to AG mode (Access Gateway) - will clear more things as it basically dumbs down the switch, it does not remove the licenses, IP …

Due to somewhat popular demand here's another post detailing the steps for somewhat successfully installing HP P6000 Command View Simulator on Windows 7 x64. It can be a bitch. The older post is from 2011 with CV 9.4, this one also has PA - performance advisory bundled. Download: http://software …

In early April of 2013 Brocade had a great offer - ask for it and you'll get a voucher to an exam - for free! I took them up on their offer and scored a voucher for the BCNE (Brocade Certified Network Engineer). After that I noticed that Brocade also has a …

Introduction Lustre is a filesystem often used by clusters because many computers can mount the filesystem simultaneously. This is a small log/instruction for how to setup Lustre in 3 virtualized machines (one metadata server, one object storage server and one client). Basic components: VMWare Workstation 3 x CentOS 6 …

Thursday today, the day after the Day. It was a real long day, and to my surprise it said 'press' on my pass - so I had to try to ask some questions :) Some things picked up: * New VDX 8770 product released - a modular Ethernet switch. Room for 384 10GbE ports …

Checked in at the hotel, mighty fancy one, it has a pool :) Weather is great down here, much warmer than in San Fran. Hotel is basically right next door to where I'm heading tomorrow and it looks like there's quite a lot of people coming! Cisco is right next door …

I've been invited by Brocade to their Brocade Analyst and Technology Day 2012! It's in San José, California and it's going to be a blast to get over to the US again, it's been a while. In anticipation of possible future blog posts I just want to let you know …

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 …

Say what?? Access Gateway - Brocade NPV (great discussion in the comments on this post by the way) (N_port Virtualization (not NPIV) - Cisco Transparent Mode - QLogic These are all names for the basic idea / functionality but as there's no standard the vendors have made up their own names for it. A …