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Fill Words. What are those, what do they do and why are they needed

My view of the world - Wed, 03/28/2012 - 06:03
There has been quit some confusion around the use of fill words with the adoption of the 8G fibre-channel standard. Some admins have reported that they have problems connecting devices on this speed as well as numerous headaches in long-distance replication especially when DWDM/CWDM equipment is involved.
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The importance of clean fibre optics

My view of the world - Fri, 03/23/2012 - 07:53
I attended Cisco Live this week in Melbourne. Since it was very close to home and Cisco was kind enough to provide me with an entry ticket. (Many thanks for this.)

While strolling around the expo floor I ran into the nice people from Fluke Networks who were showing their testing equipment and of course I was very interested in the optical side of the fence. (I haven't seen wireless storage networks yet so I'll save that part of their impressive toolkit for later. :-)).


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US Government shoots itself in the foot.

My view of the world - Fri, 02/24/2012 - 06:54
You have to love the Americans. No country in the world has such a diverse range of people from all over the world as they do. The funny thing is you can easily categorise them into classes.

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Help, my Thin Provisioning is not working

My view of the world - Wed, 02/01/2012 - 07:35
On many occasions I've seen posts from storage administrator who mapped some luns to hosts and on the first use the entire pool got whacked with all bells and whistles going off. (Yes, we can control bells and whistles.:-))

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Help, my Thin Provisioning is not working

My view of the world - Wed, 02/01/2012 - 07:35
On many occasions I've seen posts from storage administrator who mapped some luns to hosts and on the first use the entire pool got whacked with all bells and whistles going off. (Yes, we can control bells and whistles.:-))

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