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Fibre Channel over Ethernet - FCoE
Started this discussion. Last reply by Grant Sauls Jun 15, 2009. 5 Replies 0 Likes
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Grant Sauls commented on Network Manager's blog post 'Training & Certifying Data Center Professionals - What are the Options?'
This blog is excellent. I done many of the courses listed here which is good to know.
The Cisco stuff is also very good especially DC SAN and DC Application Services.
Again, Excellent Blog.
Grant Sauls replied to Lisa Darnell's discussion 'RCDD opportunities in Europe.'
Hi Lisa,
there is only one individual that i believe can assist you with this is John Laban, he is a member. The second option is to contact Bicsi Europe and request a list of possible RCDD's to hunt Down.....
Other individuals that you can…
Grant Sauls replied to taha elyousfi's discussion 'Benchmarking Data centers'
Hi Taha,
What are you trying to benchmark. The client or the Data Centre???
Are you trying to consider if the client should build a Data Center?
Grant
Grant Sauls replied to Grant Sauls's discussion 'Fibre Channel over Ethernet - FCoE'
No it's not a webex. It's completely virtual. if you send me your email address i will forward the email with the link to you and you can register. My email is grant@fe.co.za
Grant
Richard Sebastian replied to Grant Sauls's discussion 'Fibre Channel over Ethernet - FCoE'
That would be great. It looks like a very nice system. The servers are souped up, and I really like the RAM access scheme they came up with.
How it all ties together through their FEX and Nexus series switches will be interesting to see.
Are you…
Grant Sauls replied to Grant Sauls's discussion 'Fibre Channel over Ethernet - FCoE'
Hi,
i will be attending a virtual conference tomorrow for the same thing. so it hopefully clarify some of the technology and how implementation will take place.
i'll let you know how it goes on my side as well.
Grant
Richard Sebastian replied to Grant Sauls's discussion 'Fibre Channel over Ethernet - FCoE'
I'm going to be attending a training session this Wednesday on Cisco's new Unified Computing System (UCS). It is based on the FCOE concept. From what I've read so far, they're "selling" the FCOE benefit as: Fewer points…
John Laban replied to Grant Sauls's discussion 'Fibre Channel over Ethernet - FCoE'
ummmm ....... take a peek at what cisco is proposing for copper 10G with their new 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects.........
why do you cisci are not supporting 10GBase-T ?
..........................is this an equipment lock in strategy through…
Fibre Channel over Ethernet - FCoE
Has anybody body implemented FCoE?What are the immediate benefits seen?What is the down side to using this technology?I have attached a white paper that i found on the introduction to FCoE in the Data Center. it would be interesting to hear about anybody's implementation.See More
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- Company name
- Falcon Electronics
- My company is best described as a:
- Enterprise Data Center
- Company website
- http://www.fe.co.za
- Jobtitle/position
- COO
- My role is best described as:
- Data center design specialist
- I am:
- Certified Data Center Professional
- Relevant qualifications & certifications (Please list certification authority + dates)
- Cisco Data center storage networking design specialist - oct 2010.
Cisco data center storage networking support specialist - July 2010
Cisco data center application services design specialist - nov 2010
Cisco certified design associate CCDA - Aug 2009
Cisco IP telephony design specialist - nov 2009
Microsoft certified IT professional : enterpriseadministrator - 2009
HP MasterASE: Procurve Security - June 2010
HP MasterASE: Procurve Convergence Specialist - Nov 2009
City &Guilds communications engineer - 2005
Cisco data center sales networking specialist
Data
- My main areas of expertise are:
- Cables/Connectors/Wiring, Cooling Systems, DCiM, Infrastructure Management, IT Management, Networks, Project management, Racks/Enclosures, Storage, Test/Measurement
- More about me (How long have you been in the industry, expertise, career history, ambitions, website/blog, etc)
- I've been in the industry for 15 years. My profession started in Project management and then moved into IT where I started my N+ and MCSE NT4 and then moved onto completing my CCNA and worked on deploying new infrastructure designs and deployment of server rooms / server farms with the latest cabling technology from the likes of AVAYA,Panduit, ITT canon at the time.
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- At 11:43am on March 13, 2009,
John Laban said…
- Hi Grant
loong time no speak ,,,,,,,,, hows life these days in sunny South Africa ?
John
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