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I have a client that uses a very old mainframe that can only take ESCON. Obviously I would like to use a modern director storage platform, and I am looking for a device that can bridge ESCON to FICON. Has anyone heard of such a thing? Recommendatio...
I did a review of the ieMentor CCIE Storage Workbook and Walkthrough books for CCIE Storage lab study. You can read my review hereThe short of it is I found the materials to be very good. If anyone has any specific questions about them feel free to...
This is more of nuts and bolts curiosity than anything of importance. But as most know the MDS is running a form of linux. Does anyone know what filesystem is used? There is a kjournald process so my guess is ext3, but I wasn't sure if there was a...
Cisco has released the Supervisor-2A for the MDS:http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/mds9000/hw/sup_2a/Sup2A_technote.htmlThis supports FCoE, but with what modules? Does anyone have any information on what modules support FCoE, how t...
Can someone explain what uses SW_ILS command code 0x78? I see this when analyzing PAA dumps of trunk links and I wasn't sure what the purpose of this is.Thanks,Brian
According to Optika, their unit can allow a FICON mainframe to speak ESCON, but not an ESCON mainframe to speak FICON........unless someone says otherwise this is what they told me.I also spoke to Luminex who has a product that can do this for Tape o...
Although static routes may be an option, I have seen bugs with static routes and would not use them myself. Specifically I have seen very strange behavior with domain services and other fabric services.The way to accomplish what you are trying to do...
Netflow is not supported. However you can use Performance Monitor which is part of the Fabric Manager Server package (licensed) or you can use a SPAN session to a PAA and capture traffic with NTOP. Brian
Was it working at some point? Is there connectivity between the server running FM and the fabric? You may just delete the fabric and re-discover it, I have not ran into this issue.
