More often then expected – it is necessary to connect to the Filer using SSH or Telnet. Console access using a serial cable is not always an option – nevertheless the NetApp is supporting those interactive session – but with some limitations. 1 Console Session using Serial Port 1 SSH/Telnet Session which is interactive and [...]
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FCOE. Can’t we all just get along?
A very nice article on the Cisco Blog from Seth Mashon starts with: I was sitting in a room with a client the other day and normally in these conference rooms with the mahogany tables and high back leather chairs*, you have Cisco on one side of the table, and the client on the other. [...]
READ MORE »Add extra storage on the fly with LVM2
How to add extra storage on the fly using LVM. Here are the steps I used to get my 80GB Maxtor(sda) and 60GB Western Digital(sdb) to work together as one logical unit. I am also using ext3 as my filesystem because it supports on-line resizing. Fresh install of Ubuntu Server 8.10 Run updates: sudo aptitude [...]
READ MORE »Storage networking is different
Storage is, well, permanent. If there’s an undetected error in your application session, your program might crash; if the incorrect data is written to a disk, it stays there indefinitely. Read more @ Cisco IOS Hints
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