Experimental jet-powered locomotive test bed Last year I blogged about 497 being the IT number of the beast . Why 497? Because if a product uses a 32 bit counter to record uptime, and that counter records a tick every 10 msec, then that 32-bit counter will overflow after approximately 497.1 days. This...
This fits into the category of oldie but a goodie…. Let me share with you a great tool that will make your life easier and won’t cost you a cent: Brocade SAN Health. If you have used it then you already know this: This is a truly brilliant tool. And the original author at Brocade? An Australian...
IBM has been selling IBM branded Brocade switches since 2001 when we announced the 8-port 2109-S08 and 16-port 2109-S16. These were classic switches that ran at 1 Gbps. They had a front operator panel with a small keypad (a feature which in the rush to fit in more SFPs, did not appear in future models...