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Baerf · 07-01-2009, 02:15 PM

Not sure where this should go with regards the forums placement, so if not in the right place please move and accept my apologies.

Anyone here have any experience in SAN fabrics? And more so the real nitty-gritty part of it? Just been on a Brocade course and it interested the hell out of me - never been a networking type of person, but i can see why people get into now.

To be honest the course was a step above my skill-set (was advanced theory, when i should of been on the fundamentals) but i got a good 70% of it.

I can see this becoming one of the core basics of IT (more so than now - as compliance hasn't really moved into this as yet), but looking at the vendors (Brocade, Cisco, EMC etc..) with each vendor being completely different, does anyone have any insight on what vendor product is looking to be the main one? (i.e. Network = Cisco, Virtualise = VMWare).

Basically i want to start looking into specializing in one of the vendors, but don't want to specialize in a dead-duck.

07-01-2009, 02:15 PM	#1 (permalink)
Baerf Stupid Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Where dragons be. Posts: 96 +0 Internets	SAN Fabrics Not sure where this should go with regards the forums placement, so if not in the right place please move and accept my apologies. Anyone here have any experience in SAN fabrics? And more so the real nitty-gritty part of it? Just been on a Brocade course and it interested the hell out of me - never been a networking type of person, but i can see why people get into now. To be honest the course was a step above my skill-set (was advanced theory, when i should of been on the fundamentals) but i got a good 70% of it. I can see this becoming one of the core basics of IT (more so than now - as compliance hasn't really moved into this as yet), but looking at the vendors (Brocade, Cisco, EMC etc..) with each vendor being completely different, does anyone have any insight on what vendor product is looking to be the main one? (i.e. Network = Cisco, Virtualise = VMWare). Basically i want to start looking into specializing in one of the vendors, but don't want to specialize in a dead-duck.