Going to EMC World 2015? Take a free EMC Proven Professional exam!

Posted by on February 24, 2015 No comments
EMC Proven Professional

Free exams at EMC World in May 2015

EMC Proven Professional

Are you visiting EMC World 2015 in May in Las Vegas this year?

Always wanted to take a Proven Professional exam? EMC offers a free first attempt on any exam you choose!

Also being offered this year… VCE Certified Professional and VMware certification exams!! So take your shot and get certified!

Space is limited – pre-register for your exam today! Take a look at the official registration page at the Pierson Vue website: http://pearsonvue.com/emc/emcworld/?linkId=12480718

EMC Elect 2015: who is on the list this year?

Posted by on February 23, 2015 1 comment
EMC Elect 2015

EMC Elect 2015

And then there were 102

A little bit later than usual, but the list has been made public. I want to stress that again this year every single person on the list was chosen because of their contribution to the community in 2014, whether that’s Twitter, a personal blog site, ECN (EMC Community Network), speaking in public or any other form of knowledge transfer of EMC products or services to the public community. Did I say public? Yes: every single person on the list has made an immense effort in trying to reach a broad audience. The most common ways to evangelize knowledge about EMC “stuff” are probably Twitter, ECN and blogging, but any other form of doing so is highly appreciated.

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Cisco Smart Zoning: is it really worth the effort? YES!

Posted by on February 18, 2015 1 comment

It’s been available since NX-OS 5.2(6), but is the community ready for a change? It seems the majority of SAN managers are still afraid to start using it, but why? the concept is so simple: it looks like the infamous “default zone” has made it’s way back to the storage area network, but with a twist.

Default zoning

When I was introduced to the world of Fibre Channel, over ten years ago, I remember going through the automatic steps of setting up a freshly powered-on SAN-switch and disabling the default zone, because that one makes that all initiators and targets can communicate with each other. And two initiators talking to each other is not done, because on the midrange arrays an initiator (used for data replication) can also be a target and you don’t want ports logging into each other.

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Free 100 GB Cloud storage

Posted by on February 13, 2015 No comments

Your storage was increased successfully!

Well, that’s what you will get when signing in to your Onedrive account, formerly known as Skydrive.

Dropbox offers as little as 5 to 10 GB, Box offers 50 GB, but Microsoft now offers 100 GB for two years, FOR FREE!

My experience is that Dropbox is fast, box is large and Onedrive is slow, but very large. But it’s all free!

To get this 100 GB added to your Onedrive account, go to this URL: Click here.

Cisco releases update for its SAN switches to fix the Shellshock aka Bashbug

Posted by on November 18, 2014 No comments
Cisco MDS

Although I was triggered by a daily update I received from EMC in this knowledge base article: https://support.emc.com/kb/194669, it was Cisco who finally published an update for various firmwares that did not have a fix yet for the shellshock aka bashbug.
You can find all Release Notes on the Cisco site at http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/storage-networking/mds-9000-nx-os-san-os-software/products-release-notes-list.html.
The EMC version of the Release Notes can be found here:

If you haven’t upgraded yet, I’d plan to do so in the very near future!