Thursday, September 6, 2012

Brocade Fibre Channel Upgrade

Below is a Fibre Channel upgrade (4GB to 8GB) I recently completed: Silkworm 4XXX's to DCX-4S's



This migration occurred during business hours without any interruption to business services (4 x SAN Arrays, 21 vSphere Hosts + variety of other open systems hosts).

Scope of the work included:
  • ISL Trunking to ease migration bandwidth requirements
  • Fabric migrations to FABOS V6.4 (V7 to come)
  • Migration of IBM BladeCentre subordinate FC modules to access gateways using NPIV
  • Decommission of old hardware