Monthly Archives: March 2017

Brocade 300 password recovery and factory reset

Let’s say you purchase a couple of 300s on the Ebay and someone forgot to reset config but you can’t get in as all default passwords got changed. Here’s what we need to do:

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vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 bug – Intermediate authentication issues – Native platform error -1765328378

Another mysterious bug from VMware – intermediate authentication failures. Symptoms: I’ve noticed some of the backup jobs were failing because Veeam failed to log in to vCenter. If you’re familiar with Veeam software – you define backup account per vCenter … Continue reading

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3PAR with AO and SSDs. How much do I need?

Most of the people involved with storage deal on daily basis with performance and capacity monitoring. There are two metrics which everyone cares the most: size and IOPS. Of course, latency, queue depth and many more have significant impact as well. If you … Continue reading

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