Connectivity changes for April 2011

The updates for the month of April (Yes, I know it’s May!) are listed below:

Brocade

Firmware added to the April ESM (Courtesy of Aditya Nadkarni)

• FOS v6.4.1_dcb was added for the Dell M8428-k convergence I/O module
• FOS v6.3.2b is tagged as the new "Target" release

Cisco UCS

Firmware added to the April ESM (Courtesy of Shreedhan Nikam) 

• UCS code 1.3(1q)

QLogic

Firmware added to the April ESM (Courtesy of Avan Cheng)

• 7.4.0.22 for SB52xx, SB56xx and SB58xx
• 7.8.0.12 for SB9x00

FCoE TechBook

vPC overview and case studies (Courtesy of Erik Paine) – If you want to see exactly how vPC fits into an FCoE environment, check out Erik’s new section on vPC.  He provides an overview of vPC, a detailed description of the 5 basic vPC topologies (including information on which topologies support FCoE) and step-by-step instructions on how to configure the reference topology we provide.  

EMC Celerra Multi-Path File System in an FCoE environment (Courtesy of Keith Fu) – Keith put together a very nice overview of how MPFS can be used in an FCoE environment and provided some actual testing results that show MPFS blowing the doors off of NFS.   

EMC RecoverPoint with Fibre Channel over Ethernet (Courtesy of Mugdha Kulkarni) – Mugdha did some nice work with this RecoverPoint overview. If you want to understand how to use FCoE with RecoverPoint, look no further.

VE_Ports (Courtesy of Erik Smith) – I provided an update to the FCoE intro section that describes what a VE_Port is, how it is created and the environments it can be used in. 

Thanks for reading!