This is a post in series of me studying for the BCFD - Brocade Certified Fabric Designer and it's my comments on the document SAN Design Best Practices. Apparently this document is planned to be updated. The one I have is version 2.1. To find the latest go to My …

http://brasstacksblog.typepad.com/brass-tacks/2012/01/hard-zoning-versus-soft-zoning-in-a-fcfcoe-san.html Usually I don't just post links like this, but I have honestly only just glimpsed through it and it looks very thorough.

How to set up two FCIP tunnels between two B7500: http://community.brocade.com/message/15261 Connecting two sites via FCR: http://community.brocade.com/message/16828#16828 Set up FCIP between two B7800: http://community.brocade.com/message/14216#14216 Why is there an IP in ipaddrshow on FC …

OK, so now you've been studying for a while? Read the material once or twice, made notes. Have you read more details about a command in the command reference guide, or more details about a technique in the FCIP Admin Guide or the FOS guide? Or how do you do …

Another studying tip! Head over to the forum/community at Brocade. Do it. After you read this post :p For example in the BCFP there will be questions about NPIV, so it makes sense to read the forum for threads regarding NPIV. Right? I mean there's bound to be troubleshooting …

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' …