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 …

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 …

Overview Table of Contents Overview Updates in this article Old Updates < 2013 Old Updates < 2020 More Recent Updates Steps Decide Download firmware links Firmware Upgrade Order Release notes FOS Notes from the release notes DCFM: Data Centre Fabric Manager / BNA: Brocade Network Advisor Updates to documents Fabric Watch and MAPS …