Welcome to the Flackbox blog, where my aim is to help you build your cloud and data center career. If you’re looking to widen your knowledge across server, networking and storage technologies then you’ve come to the right place. I regularly upload training video tutorials featuring vendors such as Cisco, NetApp and VMware.
iSCSI SAN Overview – Video Tutorial
Posted on March 28, 2019 By Flackbox
In this SAN and NAS Storage tutorial, I cover the iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) SAN protocol. iSCSI runs over Ethernet networks and was originally designed as a less expensive alternative to Fibre Channel. It has higher packet overhead and has traditionally been seen as ha...
Fibre Channel SAN Part 4 – Redundancy and Multipathing
Posted on March 21, 2019 By Flackbox
In this SAN and NAS Storage tutorial, I cover the redundancy options available for Fibre Channel, and how clients can choose the paths to their storage through multipathing. Scroll down for the video and also text tutorial. Want the complete course? Click here to get the Introduction to SAN and NAS ...
Fibre Channel SAN Part 3 – Fabric Login
Posted on March 14, 2019 By Flackbox
In this SAN and NAS Storage tutorial, I cover the fabric login process with FLOGI and PLRI. Scroll down for the video and also text tutorial. Want the complete course? Click here to get the Introduction to SAN and NAS Storage course for free Fibre Channel SAN Part 2 – Zoning, LUN Masking and...
Fibre Channel SAN Part 2 – Zoning and LUN Masking
Posted on March 7, 2019 By Flackbox
In this SAN and NAS Storage tutorial, I cover Fibre Channel security through the use of zoning and LUN masking. Scroll down for the video and also text tutorial. This post is a continuation of Fibre Channel SAN Overview Part One – FCP and Addressing Want the complete course? Click here to get th...
Fibre Channel SAN Part 1 – FCP and WWPN Addressing
Posted on February 28, 2019 By Flackbox
In this SAN and NAS Storage tutorial, the best place to start when explaining Storage Area Networks is with Fibre Channel, the original SAN protocol. Scroll down for the video and also text tutorial. Want the complete course? Click here to get the Introduction to SAN and NAS Storage course for free ...
VMware SRM Site Recovery Manager with NetApp SnapMirror Lab Guide
Posted on February 1, 2019 By Vincent Li
This guide has complete step by step instructions to help you setup a home lab for VMware SRM Site Recovery Manager with the NetApp Snapmirror Data Protection solution. Everything is free and because it’s virtualized you can run it all on your laptop. Lab Guide by Vincent Li. Vincent has over ...
SuperPutty Installation and Configuration Tutorial
Posted on January 17, 2019 By Flackbox
I get asked quite regularly what the cool SSH client application I use in my videos is. SuperPutty runs on top of Putty and allows you to connect to the CLI of multiple devices in different tabs in the same window. This is much more convenient than having a separate window for each device, and [&hel...
VyOS Router Installation and Configuration Tutorial
Posted on January 15, 2019 By Flackbox
This NetApp training tutorial explains how to install and configure the VyOS virtual router in VMware Workstation. The networks and IP addresses configured in the tutorial are for my NetApp lab, but you can easily adapt them to any project you’re working on. Scroll down for the step by step vi...