Anybody using Brocade Fibre Switches on a regular basis will notice that sometimes the web interface can sometimes be, shall we say funky!

It sometimes show defragmented fabric in the web browser, but there is no reason for it etc.

Here’s an overview of some useful commands that you can execute from the Telnet command line:

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Alongside a few other cool tools MightyCare Solutions have released StorageView.

This handy little app will give you visibility of your Virtual Machines’ disk status in a very friendly GUI.

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I have no idea how much creditability this story has, but I suspect that IBM will want to get back into the forefront of virtualisation so could have some legs.

Check it out here.

A colleague and I have been pondering on Microsoft’s Quick Migration technology and wondered when we might find the time to compare it to VMotion.

Well, now we don’t need to wonder because Mike D has written an excellent article outlining real use cases and points out why Quick Migration simply isn’t a viable option.

The article is broken down into two parts and part one can be found here with part two being here.