Tag Archives: initiator

Bulk add zones on Brocade FOS using Powershell

In my previous post I presented a script which makes it much faster to add many zones to a Cisco MDS switch with the use of the “single initiator – single target” principle. lately I have been working with some … Continue reading

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Bulk add zones on Cisco MDS SAN using Powershell

When adding many zones to an existing zoneset, it can be a large amount of work when using the “single initiator – single target” principle. About two years ago, my collegue Jon Klaus http://goo.gl/tliyn created a very cool VBS script … Continue reading

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Cisco UCS with VNX and vSphere: Booting from SAN

Last week we were installing a new vSphere 5 environment on a Cisco UCS platform with the EMC VNX5300 storage platform for a customer and decided to use the really cool new feature called “Auto Deploy” which makes it possible to use stateless … Continue reading

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Recoverpoint: SANTap splitting can give you a headache

When deciding to implement a Recoverpoint environment, you have to decide which splitter(s) you will use to duplicate and redirect the I/O’s to your replication target, whether this is a local copy or a remote copy. You can use a … Continue reading

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