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BVQ Installation Manual now available in English
mipi
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The BVQ Installation Manual is
now translated to English. Please have a look into the BVQ Releases and Downloads page Enroll here
from Blog: The BVQ Blog
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Analysis of a completely overloaded SVC
mipi
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switch
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controller
volume
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analysis
storage
vmware
v7000
bvq
8,104 Views
Analysis of a completely overloaded SVC See the complete Story here Customer Use Case: Analysis of a completely overloaded system I
added this document because I have never seen such results before. The
Storage has real performance Issues and it is easy...
from Blog: The BVQ Blog
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WEB Conference - SVC Performance Analysis Live Demo Apr. 24
mipi
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7,703 Views
Thi is the news entry in BVQ WIKI http://bvqwiki.sva.de/x/aYBl I want to invite you to a live demo with BVQ - the demo will be scheduled with Teamviewer. You need to receive an invitation for this so please send an email like stated below. The Web...
from Blog: The BVQ Blog
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Performance problems on SVC or Storwize .. Analysis example videos
mipi
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storage
analysis
volume
bvq
svc
performance
v3700
issue
controller
vmware
v7000
problem
monitoring
planning
san
switch
10,029 Views
BVQ is by today the only analysis software on the market which covers the new front end and back end cache structures which have been introduced with SVC Storwize code V7.3 V7.4. The knowledge and coverage of these new structures are eminent to be successful...
from Blog: The BVQ Blog
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how much time do you have to solve a VMware performance issue?
mipi
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v3700
vmware
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bvq
v7000
svc
monitoring
san
analysis
volume
controller
6,665 Views
Answer: it depends - this is not the correct answer!!! Correct Answer: minus one second! Fast way to from a VMware performance issue to a find the SVC or Storwize vDisk to analyze the root cause of the performance problem http://bvqwiki.sva.de/x/BoBW
from Blog: The BVQ Blog
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best practice - how to save a lot of money when you want to extend capacity for your SVC or Storwize
mipi
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v7000
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performance
planning
san
svc
volume
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6,319 Views
This white paper is an excerpt of a customer analysis. The
customer wanted to know about the optimal strategy for future capacity
growth. He was running out of disk space in his high performance class
and needed a quick solution here. He also wanted to...
from Blog: The BVQ Blog
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Join the IBM Rational Electronics Symposium and Lead the Next Wave of Software Innovation
ParidhiVerma
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innovation
devices
medical
rational
network
jose
software
brody
electronics
paul
san
ibm
semiconductor
7,114 Views
Are you eager to lead the innovation in medical devices, network equipment & semiconductor industries? We will be hosting the IBM Rational Electronics Symposium in San Jose, on April 18. Paul Brody, IBM Global Industry Leader, Electronics will discuss...
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How to Use BVQ to analyze SVC or Storwize ... (uncut live videos)
I have added some videos that show how to use BVQ to analyze SVC or Storwize systems. These videos
are not reworked - they are from a session, where we used a screen cam
and a microphone and recorded what we were doing. But they show very well how to use...
from Blog: The BVQ Blog
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netstat and grep command for Storwize and SVC CLI
Here you can find a collection of pages with technical tips and tricks regarding the management of an IBM SVC based environment. BVQ and SVC and Storwize are very closely related. For this reason we also store some SVC informations and Tips and Tricks...
from Blog: The BVQ Blog
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Video Analyze Volume performance issue (7 min)
This is from a customer situation in the week from September 17, 2012 severe performance issues have been detected on several hosts in the VMware Farm. A first analysis showed that one of the responsible discs has been ESX_D37. The problem was especially high...
from Blog: The BVQ Blog
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2.5 Minutes Movie - Check SVC Cluster Nodes for overload Conditions
I have added a great movie that shows how we check a SVC or Storwize V7000, Storwize V3700 Storage for CPU or Global Caches overload. With BVQ you only need seconds to find out whether the storage is overloaded or not. This video shows how to do this....
from Blog: The BVQ Blog
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Performance Bottleneck Analysis on IBM SVC und IBM Storwize
BVQ Use Case: Performance Bottleneck Analysis on IBM SVC and IBM Storwize Latency peaks, even if they are intermittent are dangerous troublemakers and you need targeted methods to track them down and to prevent them. This White Paper presents such...
from Blog: The BVQ Blog
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Brocade Fabric OS v7.1 in the eyes of a troubleshooter
seb_
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os
longdistance
fabos
v7.1
sfp
link
fos
reset
fabric
ras
statsclear
troubleshooting
brocade
san
21,901 Views
To like working in tech support, you have to be the most optimistic guy around. You have to be even more optimistic about the product you support than the sales guy trying to sell it. Why? Because the product can be as fantastic as possible - jam-packed with...
from Blog: seb's sanblog
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Let's meet us at the Pulse in Las Vegas!
I will be at the Pulse in Las Vegas to learn about all the IBM news and I want to use the free time there to meet Business Partners or customers with the interest in SVC or Storwize V7000, Storwize V3700 Monitoring. Please call me up, when you are interested...
from Blog: The BVQ Blog
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Happy New Year 2013
Well this year passed by with highspeed. How perception can change... I felt 2011 was a pretty long year. Our first child was born and the life of my wife and me was turned upside down. It was a lot of work, but good work! And I felt my body and brain...
from Blog: seb's sanblog
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A evolução do NAS
O assunto Big Data , cada vez mais
presente nas agendas executivas, e o enorme crescimento de dados
gerados a cada dia fazem as empresas e os provedores de serviços de TI,
inclusive de Cloud Computing , repensar suas estratégias de
armazenamento de...
from Blog: Technology Leadership Council - Brazil
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How to fight back pressure against an appliance in a core edge fabric
seb_
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vc
performance
buffers
brocade
appliance
hold_time
asic
frame
svc
san
buffer_credits
core
edge
4 Comments
25,411 Views
A slow drain device often has a huge impact on the performance of many other devices in a SAN environment. That happens, because they block resources in a fabric other devices use as well. The main example for such a resource are ISLs, particularly the Virtual...
from Blog: seb's sanblog
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How to handle a congestion bottleneck
seb_
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troubleshooting
performance
bottleneckmon
workload
brocade
congestion
san
bandwidth
24,392 Views
I check the referrers of this blog from time to time to get to know where my readers are coming from. For many of them I cannot actually see it, because often "bridge"-pages are used - for example by the social networking sites. But a fair amount...
from Blog: seb's sanblog
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The risk of a fake SFP
seb_
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cisco
compatible
45w1216
spf
san
ibm
spoof
troubleshooting
brocade
re-brand
2 Comments
32,853 Views
It's the nightmare of every motorist. Your car was just repaired a few days ago and now it stopped running in the middle of nowhere. Or you even crashed, because the brakes just didn't work in the rain. Fake parts are a big problem in the automotive...
from Blog: seb's sanblog
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Do we need SAN skills in a stacked and clouded world?
Working on a refresh of my IBM internal SAN problem determination course from last year, I stumbled over the first couple of slides again. They are a little bit of a "raison d'être" for the course - the answer to the question "Why should I learn...
from Blog: seb's sanblog
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Replicated rootvg, ghostdev and NPIV
cggibbo
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boot
chris
lpar
support
led
replication
chris_gibson
virtual
npiv
554
hang
san
ghostdev
replicated
fibre
disaster
aix
recovery
hung
fc
vfc
hds
channel
gibson
dr
vsp
14 Comments
57,655 Views
Update, May 14th, 2019 : It's been 7 years since I first published this post. Power Systems and PowerVM technology has progressed significantly since then. Hence the need for me to provide an update to this blog post. So, if you're planning on or...
from Blog: Chris's AIX Blog
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How to configure your SAN for Global Mirror using FCoIP with Brocade Multiprotocol Devices
talor
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fabric
global_mirror
svc
san
zoning
fcoip
storwize
brocade
14 Comments
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Remote replication using V7000 has been very popular, and there are many clients happily replicating without FC connectivity between the sites. I have written about SVC and V7000 low bandwidth global mirror before (link below) but it's worth writing up how to...
from Blog: Advent One Infrastructure Blog
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Generate zoning commands from zoneshow output on brocade switches
There have been a number of times where I've need to take zoning from one fabric, and create it on another fabric. Typically this is when doing switch migrations where I am going to create one or more new fabrics, re-create the zoning, then move the host and...
from Blog: Advent One Infrastructure Blog
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IBMEdge Technical Conference June 4-8, 2012
KeithA.Thuerk
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security
cloud
tier
puresystems
mainframe
conference
san
storage
dr/bc
smarter
data
ibm
easy
ilm
virtualization
efficiency
technical
ibmedge
applications
15,072 Views
What : IBMEdge is 4.5 days of world class technical training and you can meet your favorite ATS personality. IBMEdge brings > 250 technical sessions taught by IBM Distinguished Engineers, leading product experts, clients and partners, + 20 client led...
from Blog: Accelerate with IBM Storage
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How to determine the average frame size
seb_
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brocade
san
cisco
frame
average
troubleshooting
buffer_credits
performance
portstatsshow
3 Comments
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I was asked where to look at in a switch to find the average frame size for a port. The safest way would be to use an external monitoring tool like a VirtualWisdom or a tracer as described in my LD mode article but if you don't own something like that you can...
from Blog: seb's sanblog
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How to NOT connect an SVC in a core-edge Brocade fabric
seb_
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vc
edge
performance
brocade
longdistance
svc
channel
isl
virtual
san
core
le
san_design
18 Comments
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In one of my previous posts I wrote about "Why inter-node traffic across ISLs should be avoided" . There is an additional "bad practice" that could lead to performance problems in the host-to-SVC traffic. Let's imagine a core-edge fabric. A...
from Blog: seb's sanblog
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SVC + Storwize V7000 + Unified : 208 days reboot bug resolved with new firmware release (V6.3.0.2, V1.3.0.5)
meyawi
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v6.3.0.2
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6.3.0.2
svc
days
v1.3.0.5
software
bug
ibm
storage
kernel
v7000
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A new firmware level has been released and corrects a serious bug : Storwize V7000 and SVC : 6.3.0.2 (30 March 2012) Storwize V7000 Unified : 1.3.0.5 (2 April 2012) This strange bug due to a known Linux kernel issue which result in a kernel panic (due to a...
from Blog: AIX, Power Systems, Storage... and more
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Storwize V7000 : Software Upgrade
Upgrading the IBM Storwize V7000 is an easy procedure without interruption as the storage architecture provides 2 nodes, and upgrade runs on one node before shutting down and upgrading the other node. This upgrade operation will take approximately 30 minutes....
from Blog: AIX, Power Systems, Storage... and more
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Join Us: Communications Industry Forum: Delivering Innovation and Quality in the Mobile Ecosystem
ParidhiVerma
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engineering
systems
software
san
mobile
jose
csp
neps
communications
innovation
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Communications Industry Forum: Delivering Innovation and Quality in the Mobile Ecosystem April 26, 2012 - 9:30AM - 4:30PM PST (lunch & parking will be complimentary) Location: IBM - North San Jose Office 4400 North 1st Street San Jose, CA 95134 IBM will...
from Blog: The Mobile Frontier
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SAN Myths Uncovered 2: The LD mode (Brocade)
seb_
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brocade
le
mode
ld
troubleshooting
san
configuration
frame_size
ls
remote
long_distance
3 Comments
33,345 Views
I didn't blog for a while now because of an internal project. Like each software development project it's never really over and development will be going on in the next years to bring in new functions, but I hope I have some more time for blogging again now....
from Blog: seb's sanblog
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Where on earth are the IBM VMware SRAs?
anthonyv
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san
srm
v7000
storwize
ibm
vmware
sra
storage
netapp
vsphere
xiv.
xiv
tagged
svc
and
7 Comments
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I always laugh when people say to me: I wouldn't know what to blog about! When you work in pre-sales support, you constantly get asked questions and each one of them could be the subject of a new blog post. Right now the most common question I am getting...
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Defining SAN performance-related terms
seb_
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slow
definition
pressure
buffer
bottleneck
congestion
brocade
device
credit
san
dictionary
back
drain
starvation
snia
performance
4 Comments
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I claim that in 2012 performance problems will keep their place amongst the most frequent and most impacting problems in the SAN. In many of the cases the client's users really notice a performance impact and so the admin calls for support. Other support cases...
from Blog: seb's sanblog
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FCoE, a integração das redes LAN e SAN
Há cerca de dez anos, artigos comparavam os sistemas de telefonia
tradicionais com os, até então, novos sistemas de telefonia baseados no
protocolo Internet (IP). Enquanto fatores como baixo custo de aquisição e
confiabilidade eram associados aos...
from Blog: Technology Leadership Council - Brazil
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Smarter Planet - To The Bright Future and Innovation Community Blog
renata.gar
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ibm
sillicon
entrepreneur
technology
sjsu
diane_pham
renatagar
smarterplanet
governor
future
san
gavinnewsom
stefanie.rhodes
smartcamp
francisco
9,527 Views
Back at Bently Reserve with a stage set for knowledge, experience and perspective sharing. The IBM SmartCamp program resumes the finals with speeches that outline and uplift SmarterPlanet solutions, entrepreneurial pursuits and IBM Solutions, as well as...
from Blog: IBM SmartCamp Community
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Green IT and switch maintenance
seb_
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it
san
test
brocade
sfp
ecological
fabricos
fru
switch
green
maintenance
troubleshooting
environment
parts
14,068 Views
The term ecological footprint describes the total impact of someone or something on the environment. To achieve sustainability this footprint should be kept as low as possible. We should not demand more from Mother Nature than she can provide and of course we...
from Blog: seb's sanblog
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Semmelweis could see the problem
Ignaz Semmelweis I listened to another great podcast from the Freakonomics team recently in which they recounted the story of Doctor Ignaz Semmelweis, which inspired me to make a connection to something I see in my day to day job. Doctor Semmelweis worked...
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IBM Storage Fix information as of January 29, 2012
My good friend Rob Jackard from the ATS Group has compiled this list of updates to the IBM Support site. It is a very comprehensive list of updates, flashes, tips and warnings and it is well worth spending a few minutes scanning the list to see if any apply...
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Pitfalls of compressing online storage Community Blog
Originating Author: David Vellante Co-author: David Floyer Tip: ctrl +/- to increase/decrease text size There has been significant discussion in the industry about
storage optimization and making better use of storage capacity. A number
of storage vendors...
from Blog: JSK V7000
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The drawback of easy management interfaces - or why the cloud is inevitable
seb_
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administrator
storage
management
skill
support
admin
san
easy-to-use
cloud
troubleshooting
13,607 Views
In the last couple of years beside of the buzzwords "cloud", "big data" and "VAAI" there is another topic that plays a big role in every discussion about storage products: "easy management". In most cases it means an intuitive and catchy graphical user...
from Blog: seb's sanblog
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My year 2011 (and then?)
I blog for a while now. Looking back I had a personal blog about things I'm interested in some years during my study. I did a comedic fake news page, too. My wife and I write a blog about our baby and I also have an IBM internal blog about SAN troubleshooting....
from Blog: seb's sanblog
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Top Storage Conferences
Many a times we want to know what are the top conferences in storage that one needs to target his/her reseach papers or spend his $ for attending the conference. Here is a list of shortlisted Storage conferences that one can consider. <!--
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from Blog: Sandeep Patil
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Thinking about cloud security? What about your SAN?
seb_
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san
fabric
access
cloud
brocade
aaa
policy
security
fabricos
storage
2 Comments
16,402 Views
Everyone is talking about cloud security these days. Is it clever to give my data outside my own data center? To another company? Maybe even outside the country? How safe and secure is that? Not only the way in between but also then there? Are they protected...
from Blog: seb's sanblog
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How to simplify your SAN zoning
anthonyv
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fibre
simplify
san
zoning
ds800
switch
alias
v7000
xiv
storwize
svc
channel
2 Comments
23,963 Views
Lets imagine a new rack server or a new blade server has been added to your Fibre Channel SAN. The first job for the SAN administrator is to zone it to the storage it requires access to. The task normally runs something like this: Identify the WWPNs for the...
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Why consider IBM Network Advisor?
Many of the preventable issues that occur in a SAN fabric can be avoided by using the right management and monitoring software. One way to get this software is to create or adapt open source packages. While I really like the idea (and price) of...
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IBM Symposium Melbourne Day 1
TonyPearson
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san384b-2
san768b-2
phil+tasker
icl
joe+screnci
ibm
cloud+storage
australia
brocade
melbourne
san
fcp
clod+barrera
gary+luke
2 Comments
18,066 Views
This week, I am in Melbourne, Australia for the [ IBM System x and System Storage Technical Symposium ]. Here is a recap of Day 1:
Keynote Session The keynote was led by Phil Tasker, IBM Business Unit Executive (BUE) for STG Education Programs in Growth...
from Blog: Inside System Storage
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SAN Myths Uncovered: Quality of Service in Brocade FabricOS
seb_
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fabos
vc
san
quality_of_service
isl
fabricos
brocade
qos
priority
performance
11 Comments
46,031 Views
When Brocade released FabricOS v6.0 in 2007 Quality of Service sounded like a great idea: It allows you to prioritize your traffic flow to the level of certain device pairs. There are 3 levels of priority: High - Medium - Low Inter Switch Links (ISLs) are...
from Blog: seb's sanblog
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IBM Symposium Auckland Day 2
TonyPearson
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v7000+unified
disaster+recovery
xiv
system+x
business+continuity
aucklan
bc+dr
new+zealand
storage+symposium
best+practices
ibm
storwize+v7000
san
15,489 Views
Continuing my coverage of the [ IBM System x and System Storage Technical Symposium ], here is a recap of Day 2:
XIV: Implementation, Migration and Optimization Special thanks to Anthony Vandewerdt, who sent me his version of this presentation that he...
from Blog: Inside System Storage
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Brocade bottleneckmon 101
seb_
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troubleshooting
slow_drain_device
latency
performance
storage
congestion
brocade
problem
bottleneckmon
san
1 Comment
45,737 Views
Performance problems are still the most malicious issues on my list. They come in many flavors and most of them have two things in common: 1) They are hardly SAN defects and 2) They need to be solved as quickly as possible, because they really have an...
from Blog: seb's sanblog
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IBM System Storage DS8000 Easy Tier product tour Community Blogfrom Blog: JSK V7000
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Why SONAS with IBM Active Cloud Engine Community Blogfrom Blog: JSK V7000
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