Links for November 28, 2009:
FC Port, Channel, and Storage Virtualization – "A logical or virtual layer is usually developed on top of physical hardware to move beyond the limitations of physical hardware. The most basic forms of virtualization are found at the port, channel and storage level. One type of port level virtualization is known [...]
Links for November 27, 2009:
Understanding NPIV and NPV – blog.scottlowe.org – The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers – "Two technologies that seem to have come to the fore recently are NPIV (N_Port ID Virtualization) and NPV (N_Port Virtualization). Judging just by the names, you might think that these two [...]
Links for August 24, 2009:
New User’s Guide to Configuring Cisco MDS Zones via CLI – blog.scottlowe.org – The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers – "The topic of this post is how to use the command-line interface (CLI) to configure zones on a Cisco MDS 9000 series Fibre Channel switch."
Links for August 17, 2009:
Password Recovery Procedure for the MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Directors and Fabric Switches [Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Switches] – Cisco Systems – "This document describes the procedure to recover a lost administrator password from the console port of a Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switch."
Links for June 29, 2009:
VMware Communities: Change iscsi lun to fcp – VMware communities post on moving NetApp iSCSI VMFS LUN to FCP.