Storage Area Networks (SAN)

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    How to better understand data disk (HDD) health status ...

    By: Ashish Sharma , 2 months ago

    How to check, monitor, and study drive(s) [SATA, SAS, SSD] errors for physical storage arrays (/clusters)? It will real-time help to monitor activity and healthy disk/drive sectors operations handshaking with an end-to-end device internally, transfer, ...

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    Encryption to business data stored in storage clus ...

    By: Ashish Sharma , 2 months ago

    Like security is crucial to the business, encryption of data is also important parallelly. Both go hand in hand to maintain a secure environment. Implement and use approved standard algorithms like AES-256, Blowfish, etc., in an infrastructure. There ...

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    Why do we need to understand and remove weak ciphers ...

    By: Ashish Sharma , 2 months ago

    Levels of security to business data are always a priority and play a crucial part that to be followed daily. One of them is SSH security. Tools like PuTTY must be allowed and configured to login servers (with secure ciphers activated in them), i.e., ...

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    IBM Systems Rockstar 2021 TechU Sessions

    By: David Green 2 months ago

    IBM Technical University (IBM TechU) 2021 is a virtual event that will run from October 25-28, 2021. You can register here: https://www.ibm.com/training/events/vtechu2021 and find the agenda here: https://ibmtechu.com/cgi-bin/cms/apt20.cgi There ...

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    How Slow Drain Devices Can Affect Storage Networks

    By: David Green 2 months ago

    This video explains how a slow drain device can affect a storage network. Also see this related video on how buffer credits work.

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    Implementing Resilient IBM c-Type and Cisco Fabrics

    By: David Green 2 months ago

    A new IBM Redpaper was published as a public draft. This paper covers best practices for implementing an IBM c-Type or Cisco fabric https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/redp5632.html?Open

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    IBM Spectrum Virtualize Port Masking

    By: David Green 2 months ago

    Watch this video to learn about the Spectrum Virtualize Port Masking feature and why you should use it.

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    Introducing the next generation of IBM SAN c-type Extension Switch -- IBM SAN16C-R

    By: David Mannenbach 3 months ago

    IBM SAN16C-R Extension Switch (MTM 8977-R16): What IBM SAN16C-R can do for your business IBM Storage Networking SAN16C-R , the next generation of the highly flexible, industry-leading IBM Storage Networking c-type switches, is an optimized platform ...

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