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Brocade health check commands

Brocade health check commands

Brocade health check commands Below are the commands to check brocade switch health for daily monitoring purpose. psshow It shows power supplies status fanshow It shows fan status tempshow It displays internal temperature readings...

Fibre Channel Frame

Fibre Channel Frame

Fibre Channel Frame S O F HEADER PAYLOAD C R C E O F 4 24 2112 4 4   Fibre Channel places a restriction on the length of the data field of a...

Fibre Channel Networking Model

Fibre Channel Networking Model

Fibre Channel Networking Model It is easier to understand a communications protocol if it is first broken down into parts or layers. For better understanding, the Fibre channel protocol has been broken into five...

SFP Types

SFP Types

SFP Types Short Wavelength (SWL) Long Wavelength (LWL) Extended Long Wavelength (ELWL) Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM)   SWL Fiber Optic SFP Module – Based on short-wavelength 850 nm lasers supporting 2 and 4 Gbit/sec...

Fiber Optic Cables

Fiber Optic Cables

Fiber Optic Cables In FC SAN, optical fibre cables are used as data transmitters. In FC SAN data transmits in the form of light. Fiber types are available in two types: single mode fiber...

Brocade operating systems

Brocade operating systems

Brocade SAN switch operating Systems Real-time Operating System (RTOS) Brocade uses Vxworks as Real-time Operating System Brocade uses Linux Real-time Operating System It directly communicates with the hardware It loads at the initial boot...

Brocade ASIC family

Brocade ASIC family

Brocade ASIC Technology ASIC stands for Application-specific integrated circuit. Brocade switches are differentiated into generations based on the ASICs used in the switch. Different ASICs are used in different generations. ASICs are responsible for...