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To: Greg Hull who wrote (20559)2/3/1999 2:10:00 PM
From: Greg Hull  Read Replies (2) of 29386
 
Moreover, while Fibre Channel provides more centralized management, servers don't automatically route data where it belongs. The instructions must still come from the multiple host adapters, and the management software to automate those instructions needs to be improved.

"I'm keeping an eye on management software and watching as it evolves," Hallam says. "There still has to be an administrator monitoring our network. I hope to achieve full automation at some point, maybe within a few years."

Kisor has made no move to fully switched Fibre Channel yet, and probably won't until the automated management is worked out.


To you FC hardware and software engineers out there. To what extent should the FibreAlliance address these management issues, or is FA just a first step?

Greg
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