Apple Personal Modem 300/1200 on my Apple IIgs.
I know it's true and I've willingly purchased such things, but I can't believe that $2500 was the acceptable price point for that level of performance.
The Brocade documentation is pretty good. Which switches do you have? You can use the web gui to do a lot of the administration. If you have older ones, you may have to install an older version of Java Web Start or Open WebStart.
You could probably pick up an old Brocade 300 for cheap.
My problem with FC switches is that you mostly set it and forget it, but then something happens and you have to re-remember the syntax; usually because something broke.
Motorcycles You Have Known
What did you used to ride? What are you riding now? Which one did you love the most? What's laying in a torn apart pile in your garage? Any stories behind them?
My first squidbike. Rode this thing EVERYWHERE, but then I busted the 2nd/6th gear dogs. Successfully replaced them, but it leaked oil from then on from splitting the cases. !
My second less squiddy bike; I really loved the SV. Great handler after the RT prog springs and Penske rear shock were put on. !
Number 3. I could never get the hang of riding this correctly. It wanted to go very fast and I didn't. !
Number 3.5 (basketcase). Rode it, like, twice. Intended to restore it, but ended up giving it away for free. It was super dangerous to ride (i.e. brakes? what are brakes?). !
For systems creation, provisioning and config management Hashicorp's terraform and packer, and RedHat's ansible are indispensable.
govc for managing guests in vCenter.
jq for parsing json.
I like tmux better than screen, but use both.
Not really a tool, per se, but Netbox is a great DCIM/IPAM application for managing your infrastructure.
Just learned about it and am currently learning, but Apache JMeter looks like a useful tool for running automated load testing against different kinds of services.