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		<title>No SAN is an island&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.50micron.com/2009/09/16/no-san-is-an-island/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.50micron.com/2009/09/16/no-san-is-an-island/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, that was too cutsey for such a classy establishment. When you&#8217;re building a SAN, everything should play together, in the same SAN box if you will (with my apologies to QLogic.) When you start putting in multiple stand-alone SAN islands you increase your maintenance overhead exponentially.  You also prevent the very thing that make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HPUX</title>
		<link>http://blog.50micron.com/2008/06/09/hpux/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.50micron.com/2008/06/09/hpux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HPUX]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sangod.com/?p=219</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny that I got my start working with HP systems, first HP-MPE, then HP-UX, because I hate HP these days. HPUX is still the only operating system that can&#8217;t tolerate something as simple as a switch migration. HPUX is still, to this day, dependant on the /dev/dsk/cxtxdx numbering in it&#8217;s volume groups.  Unlike all [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Brocade is just in a buying mood these days&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.50micron.com/2008/03/04/brocade-is-just-in-a-buying-mood-these-days/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.50micron.com/2008/03/04/brocade-is-just-in-a-buying-mood-these-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Switches]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sangod.com/?p=205</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Brocade bought SBS. I don&#8217;t know how many of you happen to have looked at the resume I had posted &#8211; but I spent a couple of years at Strategic Business Systems (www.sbsplanet.com). I&#8217;m not sure what Brocade is hoping to get out of this.  SBS doesn&#8217;t do sales, and doesn&#8217;t even really have any [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Be the Packet&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://blog.50micron.com/2007/03/07/lthe-packet/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.50micron.com/2007/03/07/lthe-packet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Switches]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sangod.com/?p=108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was whiteboarding a switch migration today with one of the DCR people, and it occurred to me: If you can visualize the data&#8217;s path through the system, your life gets a lot easier.Â  If you can see the path the data is going to take through the San, I.E. from Switch1, Blade1, Port4 through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fake Synchronous SAN</title>
		<link>http://blog.50micron.com/2007/02/06/82/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.50micron.com/2007/02/06/82/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DR/COOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gripe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Replication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Switches]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sangod.com/?p=82</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In response to this article on &#8220;EnterpriseStorageForum&#8221;: Â SynchronousÂ SAN Sets Fibre Channel Distance Record My Response: True Synchronous transmission works over any distance &#8211; if you can live with the latency.Â Â  The problem is that most hosts operating systems can&#8217;t.Â  So different buffering schemes are cooked up to fool the host into thinking the write is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cisco dial-home follow-up!</title>
		<link>http://blog.50micron.com/2006/12/23/cisco-dial-home-follow-up/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.50micron.com/2006/12/23/cisco-dial-home-follow-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Switches]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cisco has released version 3.0(2) of their firmware, and with this, comes, finally, an EMAIL-HOME feature for the switch.Â  It&#8217;s not perfect (because unlike the dial-home on the Symm, this is dependent on an external server or two, and doesn&#8217;t work if the network connection is down. The long and the short of it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EMC and Cisco are some kind of partners.</title>
		<link>http://blog.50micron.com/2006/12/09/emc-and-cisco-are-some-kind-of-partners/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.50micron.com/2006/12/09/emc-and-cisco-are-some-kind-of-partners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2006 06:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cisco]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, there is something I hate about Cisco- and it&#8217;s not really about Cisco, it&#8217;s about EMC&#8217;s complete failure to completely support their MDS series of switches. First &#8211; When you buy an MDS 9xxx switch from Cisco, it comes with the ability to dial into Cisco when there is a problem, much like EMC [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Brocade + McData = McBroken?  (Or BrokeData?)</title>
		<link>http://blog.50micron.com/2006/09/23/brocade-mcdata-mcbroken-or-brokedata/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.50micron.com/2006/09/23/brocade-mcdata-mcbroken-or-brokedata/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2006 05:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Switches]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sangod.com/?p=23</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.mcdata.com/about/news/releases/2006/0808c.html Given the choice between brocade and McData I&#8217;ll usually choose McData.Â  Now that I don&#8217;t have a choice, I think I&#8217;ll stick with Cisco. Truthfully Brocade needed McData.Â  McData has a solid director class switch, one that will withstand the tests of time and the rigors of a large-scale production datacenter.Â  Brocade never really [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Switch preferences &#8211; Cisco vs. Brocade vs. Mcdata</title>
		<link>http://blog.50micron.com/2006/09/10/switch-preferences-cisco-vs-brocade-vs-mcdata/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.50micron.com/2006/09/10/switch-preferences-cisco-vs-brocade-vs-mcdata/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 01:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Switches]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sangod.com/?p=7</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s like religion with some people.Â  Cisco vs. Brocade. As someone who is no longer affiliated with any storage manufacturer or vendor, I can finally voice a real opinion. As a consultant, I&#8217;ve installed more than 100 switches of every size and flavor.Â  The most disasterous install was a job in Norfolk, VA, where a [...]]]></description>
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