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 …

The P6000 firmware XCS 10000000 is out, or has been for a while now. You can find it on http://software.hp.com or the link above. The Command View 9.4 release notes are here. Extra nice stuff (besides the obvious ones like new hw support): HDD upgrades via …

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 …

Just a good howto - tip - solution. It's a little hard to find good threads. Hard to find something.. should probably write it in here when I think of it. Also the ITRC are moving to another platform in June 2011 so maybe these won't be available after this. ** Update 2011-06-27 …

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 …

On theregister there was recently a post that maybe HP will announce the new EVA's in Vegas in June - the P6000. I just opened a discussion on the ITRC forum, maybe we'll see some more posts there. I myself am hoping for some thin provisioning or why not SAS backends …

** 2011-08-18 Just updated the link to the HP forum. I also wrote a primer to Data Storage. Just listened to this podcast episode #96 of Infosmack on theregister (about storage). Very interesting to hear what some really experienced people say about storage and the future. Like hybrid disk drives becoming …

Just got the Royal rank - 2500 points :) http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1477054&admit=109447626+1302808876390+28353475 Woop woop! HP's ITRC forum is a great place to learn more, help out :) For me the primary reason is to remember the things I learnt while working …

Linky to the register "Western Digital is buying Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for $4.25bn in a friendly takeover ..." Hitachi GST has quite a few home-based disk products which do look interesting. Hitachi GST's page is very slow at the moment (2011-03-07 22:06 EET) - it even stopped responding. Maybe …

Lots of acronyms :) VMAX - EMC VSP - HDS VAAI - VMWare's Storage API I really liked a post by the storage anarchist as it quite eloquently explains what is happening and a great benefit of VAAI. Granted the post primarily speaks about the eraze part and I'm not that knowledgeable about VAAI …