Still studying for Brocade's BCFP Exam. This post is to try to put light on some of the terms/technologies you'll be surrounded by when learning about FCIP. Guides you should see are the "Fabric OS FCIP Administrator's Guide" and you should probably start with the material for BCFP - part …

You may have heard about this storage or SAN stuff, but what is it? Is it complicated and cool? Yes. Now it doesn't have to be complicated, but it sure can be sometimes. This post is just a brief primer/introduction to storage and what it entails. In case maybe …

Went through the apache logs on my web-server and saw some access requests to my phpmyadmin page. It's probably a good idea to restrict access to this web based sql admin interface (in case there is an exploit I don't want somebody to use it on this). How to make …

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 …

From about 2/3 to the end: And as usual - there's lots of spoilers below. If you haven't read the book yet, I'd advise you not to read the below. Part1 Part2 Part3 There is actually quite a lot going on about the First Shore. The malazans found the kids …

More studying. Only a month and a half to go. Currently repeating/re-reading BCFA stuff and mostly focusing on the new stuff. Expect to do this this whole week but gradually weave in more BCFP stuff. An idea - I don't think I need to re-hearse the BCFA that much. The …

I am currently going for the BCFP - fabric professional - exam, but I did the BCFA 6 months ago so I'll re-read the material and of course there's the new stuff with FOS 7, new hardware, 16g, new ASIC that I should probably learn as well. Some new stuff 'fabric name' …

https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=P6000EVASimulator Command View EVA is HP's web based management tool for their EVA/P6000 products. It's been looking the same for quite some time except the quite old ones. It's simple to use compared to other management softwares but sure …

Part 3 Review Part 2 Part 1 I think this book is easier to read than the previous ones. For some reason I kind of like all the thinking, pondering and analyzing that the characters do. They grow on you? I wonder if it's just the book or maybe the …

Right now I'm reading through the BCFA material and writing what I find useful in a google docs document - later I will take this and send to my Kindle - for some of that memorization :) Think it's a good idea to refresh some of the BCFA stuff before tackling the BCFP …