Brocade MAPS (Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite) can be configured to provide best practice proactive port management on switches. It can take a little bit of tuning to get it right, but for the most part, it provides some good automatic protection for ports. I've found that it…
I recently upgraded Brocade fabric OS (on a 6510) from the 7.2 family to the 7.3 family. The upgrade itself went pretty flawlessly, however I noticed the authorized_keys file had been removed from /fabos/users/admin/.ssh/authorized_keys.admin It was fairly simple to re-create it…
This is a simple script which takes a CSV input file (plus a few arguments) and updates the zoning config. The script * Checks that the config name already exists * Checks that the specified storage alias already exists * automatically saves the config * automatically enables the config --> note - this…
So you've hit a situation where a Fibre Channel link light has gone out and you don't know what is wrong. Alternately, perhaps you have extremely high latency on just one ESX hosts with regular storage disconnections (even though the link light looks fine) At a…
This is just a simple cheat sheet I'll likely expand over time to capture all the useful information pertaining to fibre optic communications. Connectors The most common data connectors are outlined below LC Lucent Connector Typically used for 4Gbps+ Fibre Channel and 10Gbps Ethernet communications. Most structured cabling…