Ask the EMC Elect Experts about Fibre Channel Routing

Discussing all about Fiber Channel Routing best practices for your Data Center with EMC Elect Founder Members

 Allen Ward , dynamox and  RRR

Welcome to this EMC Support Community Ask the Expert conversation. This promises to be a an exciting and informative event for those who manage and build their data centers and want to get some great tips and tricks on how to configure FC routing for best results and a slightly easier life.

Allen Ward, an EMC Elect Member and Founder, has been with the IT department of a large financial services organization for over 15 years now and dedicated to Storage technologies for the last 12+ years. He started out with CLARiiON FC4700s and has worked his way through the CLARiiON line and on to his company's  newest VNX7500s with all the bells and whistles. Part way through that period he picked up support for a Symmetrix 8830 and then implemented some new DMX3 arrays into the enterprise. In the last couple of years Allen's Company put in their first VMAX arrays as well. Allen has been heavily involved in the EMC Community Network and EMC Support Forums for several years and holds EMC Proven Professional Expert certifications in both CLARiiON and Symmetrix technologies.

Dynamox, an EMC Elect member and Founder, works for a private research university. In his role as storage administrator he supports nine academic divisions and one non-profit hospital. He's been in the storage industry since 1999 when he first started with Dell PowerVault storage arrays.  Currently he supports multiple storage platforms from EMC: Clariion, VNX,  Symmetrix (DMX/VMAX), Celerra and Isilon.  He is a frequent support forum contributor, and a Support Forum MVP who enjoys helping and learning from his peers in the EMC Support Community Forums.

Rob Koper , an EMC Elect Member and Founder, is working in the IT industry since 1994 and since 2004 working for Open Line Consultancy. He started with Clariion CX300 and DMX-2 and worked with all newer arrays ever since, up to current technologies like VNX 5700 and the larger DMX-4 and VMAX 20k systems. He's mainly involved in managing and migrating data to storage arrays over large Cisco and Brocade SANs that span multiple sites widely spread through the Netherlands. Since 2007 he's an active member on ECN and the Support Forums and he currently holds Proven Professional certifications like Implementation Engineer for VNX, Clariion (expert) and Symmetrix as well as Technology Architect for VNX, Clariion and Symmetrix.

This event begins on April  15th, 2013, and the discussion will be opened then for questions . Allen,Dynamox, and  Rob will then be taking your questions then until May 1st. Plus all three experts will record a wrap of this discussion from Vegas @ EMC World 2013 in the exclusive EMC ELECT corner !

Watch this space for further details