After the announcement of the available material Fabric OS 7.0.0a has been released. On the page http://community.brocade.com/docs/DOC-2041 only the first revision of the 7.0 release notes is available. The BCFA 16G beta course material is also available, probably a good idea to …

The problematic PDF The CFP300 material on http://community.brocade.com/docs/DOC-2041 is encrypted so that it cannot be printed/re-edited without a password. If you try to open this with evince (default .pdf viewer in Gnome) it will ask for a password. pdftotext (comes with the software suite …

Just signed up for this test! Time to start studying! Details for what is needed: http://community.brocade.com/docs/DOC-2041 Also, it's free - get it while it's hot ;)

The P6000 firmware XCS 10000000 is out, or has been for a while now. You can find it on http://software.hp.com or the link above. The Command View 9.4 release notes are here. Extra nice stuff (besides the obvious ones like new hw support): HDD upgrades via …

How to find the latest firmware for an HP Brocade SAN switch How to find out which Brocade Firmware is the latest and which is the last supported one? On HP SPOCK: http://h20272.www2.hp.com/ (this required an HP Passport, they are free to create). Go to Switches …

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Storage-Area-Networks-SAN/XCS-10-000-00/m-p/4789795 2011-07-12: Updated with new link to new HP ITRC forum. Also it looks like VAAI is not implemented in this firmware. Some more news! With Google Translate: "Under the new EVA was also the XCS software updated and is now …

After a question in my SAN switch firmware upgrade article I made a comparison of two downloads of 6.3.1b (one via IBM and one from HP) - the only differences were a file called ancillary and one called EULA.pdf. I used examdiff to find the differences. All the …

What day it is can be told by all the suitcases around the room. Version Control An overview of the version control used in CERN. Quite cool, they're not using Git yet but they are moving away from CVS to SVN (subversion) which is not updated anymore. Apparently hard to …

Dinner on the 3rd night was amazing. It was at the hotel Weisse Schwan in Arheilgen outside Darmstadt and it was a nice reception hall with big round tables, waiters with lots of wine and great buffet food. A+ Cloudy day! Or - Infrastructure as a Service - IaaS A few had …

Day 3 woop! An evaluation of gluster: uses distributed metadata, so no bottleneck that comes with a metadata server, can or will do do some replication/snapshot. Virtualization of mass storage (tapes). Using IBM's TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) and ERMM. Where ERMM manages the libraries, so that TSM only sees …