[150574] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCoE/CNA Deployment w/ Nexus 5K, HP 580s, QLogic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Cappuccio)
Mon Feb 27 19:51:24 2012
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:50:15 -0800
From: Chris Cappuccio <chris@nmedia.net>
To: David Swafford <david@davidswafford.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAA8=vb6mJzCr3EpvY6n=2uCFdm5dxGNA5YdE_cj+XMJ-w-UpvQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
David Swafford [david@davidswafford.com] wrote:
>
> Lots of head-banging and teamwork eventually got us squared away! This
> situation is a good example of why network guys NEED to have a great
> relationship with both server and storage guys (we're all really close
> where I'm at). Had there been tension/etc between the teams, this would
> have been signifiantky harder to resolve.
I don't know how this points to the NEED to have a great relationship with your vendor. Your vendors all failed to figure anything out. Obviously you need smart guys on staff to work-around problems...