The free material does not go through the virtual fabrics and the exam objectives does not mention them specifically. Even so - it's probably a good idea to get some grip about it anyway as it is mentioned in the BCFP 8G material and there are questions concerning it in the …

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 …

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 …

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' …

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 …

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 …

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 …