Charlie Schluting

Fibre Channel (FC) has more security mechanisms built-in that most people realize. They are largely underutilized and misunderstood, so SANs are said to

Understanding the way Fibre Channel (FC) identifies domains, and a new mechanism for virtualizing your fabric, enables you to exploit these concepts to

Understanding the guts of the Fibre Channel (FC) protocol itself, including the naming format and addressing scheme, allows one to better understand

As we dive deeper into SAN technology, it's Fibre Channel's turn to be examined. Fibre Channel, or FC, is the underpinning of all SAN technologies these

Welcome! We begin out Storage Networking 101 series with an introduction to Storage Area Networks and storage technologies. In case you missed it, be sure

"Cluster" is probably the most heavily abused term in the computing world. In this article we'll talk about what a cluster really is, and give an overview

Last week we took the plunge and started learning about zsh. The remaining question was, "what does it take to convert an avid csh/tcsh user to

We can make life easier if we simply learn some new tricks, so let's try a little experiment: I'm going to switch shells, converting everything in my tcsh

Considering a conversion from NIS to LDAP? It may be more difficult than you plan. NIS, designed by Sun Microsystems and sometimes called a Yellow Pages

Last week, we talked about some new features available in NFSv4. This week we'll explain what's required to get NFS servers and clients talking NFSv4, and

The consensus among many Unix and Linux users seems to be that sudo is more secure than using the root account, because it requires you type your password

All good things must come to an end, and so it is with Networking 101. This installment, we take a look back at everything we covered in our series. We