If you really want to get into the higher end storage and become a storage admin, far better to just get a Brocade switch off of eBay. That way, you can get used to the Brocade fabtic commands, create zones and so on. A 24 port 4Gb Brocade Silkworm 200E is usually less than $100. Get two of them to configure multipath connections along with multipath policies. For targets, you can get inexpensive FC SAN like HP MSA 1000 or 2000. Make sure they have dual controllers so you can configure multipathing.
osi model supports the ip address so why we can't able to use osi model in real world ? and can some one can impliment osi model in there new hardware or software?
There are several ways you can go in order to utilize a 10Gbps link. Depending on your setup, you can do a P2P connection. The 10G nics on the server and end device can be on the same network, then you set up the routing for those to move traffic. Another is to have an inexpensive Cisco or X vendor switch that has 10G SFP+/GBIC ports with modules. The issue that you might run into is the number of ports available. Most of them will have 2- 4 ports. So you'd have your server and or client/server, which would connect to the switch via the SFP+. You'd most likely still need to set up a dedicated network for the 10G. There are going to be other limiting factors when using 10G uplinks, such as hard disk read and write speed. You can do file transfers only as fast as the HDD and components can handle. I hope that helps! Thank you for learning with us.
I don't understand how this is a fibre channel SAN fabric. Is the Cisco switch provding the zoning? Using a Qlogic HBA you can create a FC target but that's not really where the fabric comes into play. That's just SCSI over optical connections.
Can someone who understands fiber-channel help me understand why he didn't choose a peer-to-peer connection (given the setup and ability to add a switch later)? I have 2 dual-port 16gb brocade cards I'm trying to implement in a 'System X 3650 M4' IBM hypervisor to an old Poweredge 2950 running truenas and I feel like I'm over my head (I have IT support, several programming languages, and CCNA level networking experience, though, so I'm not completely out of the loop)
Jeremy, Thank you so much for this micro nugget. I've been looking at creating my fibre channel lab! Once again, awesome info!
If you really want to get into the higher end storage and become a storage admin, far better to just get a Brocade switch off of eBay. That way, you can get used to the Brocade fabtic commands, create zones and so on. A 24 port 4Gb Brocade Silkworm 200E is usually less than $100. Get two of them to configure multipath connections along with multipath policies. For targets, you can get inexpensive FC SAN like HP MSA 1000 or 2000. Make sure they have dual controllers so you can configure multipathing.
Thanks for this
Is there full videos for this setting up rest of the labs?
Thanks Jeremy! Which microphone headset is that???
Thanks for this. Do you know a free FC target software to use? but not to be Openfiler
You didn't tell a word about those HP micro servers, that are mentioned in your video. What models are they? How much do they cost?
Can you please make a video how to set up Linux FC target?
osi model supports the ip address so why we can't able to use osi model in real world ?
and can some one can impliment osi model in there new hardware or software?
Helpful video, what do you recommend for a cheap cisco switch to use for a 10Gbps or 8Gbps SAN home Lab?
There are several ways you can go in order to utilize a 10Gbps link. Depending on your setup, you can do a P2P connection. The 10G nics on the server and end device can be on the same network, then you set up the routing for those to move traffic.
Another is to have an inexpensive Cisco or X vendor switch that has 10G SFP+/GBIC ports with modules. The issue that you might run into is the number of ports available. Most of them will have 2- 4 ports. So you'd have your server and or client/server, which would connect to the switch via the SFP+. You'd most likely still need to set up a dedicated network for the 10G.
There are going to be other limiting factors when using 10G uplinks, such as hard disk read and write speed. You can do file transfers only as fast as the HDD and components can handle.
I hope that helps! Thank you for learning with us.
I don't understand how this is a fibre channel SAN fabric. Is the Cisco switch provding the zoning? Using a Qlogic HBA you can create a FC target but that's not really where the fabric comes into play. That's just SCSI over optical connections.
What did you use as the SAN?
is there any simulator can do this experiment?
Can someone who understands fiber-channel help me understand why he didn't choose a peer-to-peer connection (given the setup and ability to add a switch later)? I have 2 dual-port 16gb brocade cards I'm trying to implement in a 'System X 3650 M4' IBM hypervisor to an old Poweredge 2950 running truenas and I feel like I'm over my head (I have IT support, several programming languages, and CCNA level networking experience, though, so I'm not completely out of the loop)
I wanna know the answer too.
For peer to peer I'd rather just do a direct access storage instead though.
Jeremy,how can i contact you ?
Wow I think I’m living on the wrong continent🤐😩😩🤭
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Linux and VMware servers, yeh OK I can't be bothered with that - just let me know if this possible for normal people, thanks.
4 Gb NIC or HBAs? :-)
HBA is correct