Category Archives: Fabric Manager

Using Device Manager to your advantage in the CCIE Storage Lab

I have been studying for my CCIE Storage Lab for quite some time. In practicing the various technologies available on the MDS, I mostly prefer to use the command line to do almost all of my work. There are however … Continue reading

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My lab diagram generated from Cisco Fabric Manager

Here is a diagram of the lab created from Cisco Fabric Manager. Fabric Manager allows you to export the Fabric Layout (among other things) in either Visio, Visio with labels or a JPEG image. The Visio actually comes out very … Continue reading

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Fabric Manager Server and Licensing in SAN-OS 3.x

I blogged a while back about this issue in my post Fabric Manager and 3.3(5), but I wanted to post about it again because I am surprised I don’t hear more about this particular bug. I don’t have all the … Continue reading

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Fabric Manager and 3.3(5)

The version of SAN-OS I have been practicing with is 3.3(5), since that is the latest in the 3.3 train, and likely to have the least amount of bugs.  There are some additional bugs I have encountered however.  There is … Continue reading

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