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I've recently found myself dealing with a lot of storage area network issues. It's my team that has the privilege of maintaining 22 different Fiber Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) switches with multiple independent and redundant SAN fabrics. I've … [Continue reading]
The folks at Gestalt IT are putting on yet another Networking Field Day event in Silicon Valley. You can follow the hash tag #NFD8 on Twitter and/or watch the live video streams at http://techfieldday.com/event/nfd8Cheers! … [Continue reading]
Here's a short story, partially still in progress. With all the security breaches going on I thought for a few moments that I might have been caught up in one of them. This past Thursday night I noticed that both my virtual servers, which are hosted … [Continue reading]
In my latest adventure I had to untangle the interaction between a pair of Cisco ACE 4710s and Akamai's Content Distribution Network (CDN) including SiteShield, Mointpoint, and SiteSpect. It's truly amazing how complex and almost convoluted a CDN can … [Continue reading]
I recently ran into an puzzling issue with a web framework that was failing to perform under a load test. This web framework was being front-ended by a pair of Cisco ACE 4710 Application Control Engine (Load-Balancer) using a single IP address in a … [Continue reading]