Finally got around to start preparing the last certificate/accreditation - BANAS to complete the Brocade Data Center Track (ok, not last. There are plenty more!). It looks like it's an accreditation showing that the taker can do some basic tasks in Brocade Network Advisor (BNA). This used to be a …

Update! If you view this blog on an a mobile device with the right user agent (and apparently very few of you do that) there's now very little white space wasted! It's not perfect yet but I'm working on it making it nicer. It seems to have some Now about …

Yesterday I upgraded Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 14.04 devel release. This is not recommended :) I wonder what will happen when 14.04 real is out.. *update: it is out now, so the "-d" in "update-manager -d" is no longer necessary? How to? Just run "update-manager -d" and click …

Finally got fed up with the Xperia Active (ST17i or satsuma) - couldn't update anything because all the space was used up and it was rebooting when I wasn't touching it. Solution? Install Cyanogenmod! Cyanogenmod's wiki has a good overview of how to get it installed. Basically you reinstall the operating …

Spoke a bit with some people in the Brocade stand at HP Discover in Barcelona. The open source / core http://www.vyatta.org/download will be kept, but could not get any commitment to what will happen to it or if they will update it. The 5400 (VSE, 6.6 …

Merry Christmas! Thanks for stopping by so often! The most visited articles last 2 months are: Brocade SAN Switch Firmware Upgrades OK, that's the biggest one by a magnitude and the article I have surely spent most time on to keep up to date over the years :) Here's the shared …

Trying out Arch Linux on a Lenovo T400! First step after getting the T400 Dual Core Centrino 2.26GHz 4GB RAM: replace the 160GB spinning rust to a 120GB Samsung 840. Very easy to take out the old disk and put the new SSD in the carrier. https://wiki.archlinux …

https://command.io is up for public beta now. It is a page from where you can manage your servers online in a pretty web interface. It uses ssh - you need to allow commando.io's server to ssh into your server. You can specify with which user, which port and …

For training these I set up networks. Many. Drawing the networks first in LibreOffice Draw and then setting them up with virtual machine templates and LAN segments. The exam I took in October and because it was a beta exam the results aren't out until December :) The BCvRP has the …

Been checking out the Vyatta vRouter a bit closer. Mostly because of the BCvRE exam but I'm slowly starting to think there might be some benefits to using it elsewhere too. See vyatta-a-routervpnfirewall-in-a-vm-brocade-certified-vrouter-engineer/ for where to find manuals or training materials. See the objectives. I tried installing Vyatta vRouter 6 …