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  1. 03-02-2009, 03:39 PM #1
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    Default Brocade fiber switches

    Anyone here have any experience with brocade fiber channel switches? Specifically inter switch connections.
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    Isn't that a kind of linen?
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    Is that one comes with my DirectTV?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wikipedia
    Brocade is a class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in colored silks and with or without gold and silver threads. The name, related to the same root as the word "broccoli", comes from Italian broccato meaning "embossed cloth," originally past participle of the verb broccare "to stud, set with nails," from brocco, "small nail," from Latin broccus, "projecting, pointed."[1]
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    Anything specifically?
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    Quote Originally Posted by wrxmr2eater View Post
    Anything specifically?
    We just got a new Dell Blade Chassis with the Brocade 4424 Switches with Access gateway licenses. I am tring to connect it to our existing san which uses IBM branded Brocade fiber switches with full switch mode licenses. I am trying to figure out how to connect them and how to configure the routing to pass traffic to the servers in the blade chassis.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wrxmr2eater View Post
    Anything specifically?
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    i hear they're brotastic. Seriously, bro.
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    Quote Originally Posted by onething View Post
    Actually, my answer would officially be huh?
    What he said.
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    Identified one issue. No NPIV license one set of older switches.
    Got a fiber link that wont light up on the other.

    Edit: Okay. getting there. Good light on the one SAN both switches. Just need to figure out how to get the pass through WWN to show up in the switch across the NPIV link.

    Will have to uprgade the OS in the other SAN from 5.0.3 to support NPIV without a license. But it is looking good.
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    Hmm Dell Blades are interesting. They don't actualy broadcast the WWN until the OS and drivers are loaded. So you have to get the server up and running before you can link the SAN drives. Small problem but easy to over come.

    Now just have to upgrade the other Switches.
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    Is he talking english?
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    Quote Originally Posted by creek View Post
    Is he talking english?
    Nope, its geek.

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