When SAN concept started to gain some market exposure circa 1999 (to me at least), there was much talk about one of the real benefits, namely server-free backup. The LUN(s) on a production system would be directly backed up to tape over fibre channel, not passing any host. To this day, I have never...

How could I backup windows XP so that I could restore it to the exact settings I have in place without having to backup the entire drive? Thanks

I am trying to find out how to do something that does not make much sense to me. I have spoken to a few people who say they have taken multiple servers (1u in this case) and striped the drives on those 1u servers so that all servers in the group were seeing all data on all servers. Does this make...

Hey there, I just found this pretty neat site that is giving away free stuff, such as the 1GB of Corsair XMX Xtreme Memory, a bundle including; an Ati Radeon 9800 PRO, 512MB of PC3200 DDR RAM, and a 180GB hard drive. There is also the option to get the brand new ATI Radeon x800 PRO video card, or...

Hi, Sorry if this question is not new. My company is considering having a co-location facility in the near future, and this is the first time we're considering a non-Open Source project as a solution. (We were able to get by with NFS, but not any more...) We need to be able to replicate storage...

I am looking to find a low cost SCSI storage unit that is both very fast, and has permanent store capabilities. I am envisioning a 1U box that essentially is one big RAMDISK. And it has a battery and a hard drive, so in the event of a power failure, all the data in the RAM disk can be flushed to...

Hi, Since my last posting has evolved to a SCSI vs SATA thread, which does not solve my problem, I've posted this new news as a follow up. Unfortunaly our supplier will not take the card back, we made a specific order for it, and it's a "low flow" card, that would end up on their stock for a long...

Dear All, We have a sun badged sanbox 8 here. Its been working fine, but I've recently needed to logon, and it won't accept the admin password. (Guess I wrote it down wrong......) I've checked the web/qlogic/sun and can't see anything about resetting the password on this model of switch. At this...

I'm fairly familiar with general SAN technology (mostly from client connection side). Being a contractor, I'm sometimes asked to look into SAN performance metrics, disk layout schemas, etc.... My guess is that clients are not willing to spend big $$ for SAN specialists and try to see if...

We are trying to have a diskless AIX system... Booting AIX from our HDS lightning box it not a problem, works fine. The issue comes up when we try to frovide redundancy to the rootvg. There are a number of DMP products we can use HDLM, MPIO or VxVM. However it seems none of them are supported and...

Hi folks I seem to have an intermitant fault where my dual layer NE ND3100AD writer is identified as a CD-RW and sometimes as DVD/CD-R Drive in My Computer in Windows XP home. Obviously the latter is correct so has anyone any idea why this shoul be?? It still seems to write correctly although I...

Does anyone have a solution to the following problem: requirements: 1)A storage unit-system 2)with a data transfer rate of up to 5 GByte/sec (yes that is Giga) 3)Storage capacity of up to 20 TByte. 4)Preferably an off the self solution (though suggesting an architecture of eg. a specific raid...

Occasionally, my backups will hang after backing up 300-400k of an internal SCSI boot drive. There are no errors or alerts reported in either Backup Exec or in Windows Server 2003 logs. The problem occurs on 3 servers with the same hardware configuration--internal Seagate SCSI boot drive &...

Any know know much about the solutions from Panasas? The PanFS looks similar to clustered filesystem like CxFS, GFS, StorNext, Lustre...etc. except it is object-based. Their solution seems to include the backend storage, control blades, and some NFS/CIFS heads for interop. What is the benefit of...

Has anyone used or heard of this device/company. I'm looking for a VTL solution. Is anyone using a different kind of VTL or know of one to use or not use? Mike

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I'm looking for a way to achieve the following list of features. I think I've taken a "wrong turn", so I'm backing up and reconsidering my opions. Thoughts and recommendations would be very appreciated. Loosely speaking, I'm looking for to provide storage service over a network to a collection of...

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:07:39 +0100, "Sven DLM" wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a HSM solution for a customer who wants to put data that is rarely used on less expensive media. There should be some means of intelligence behind it. It doesn't concern e-mail archiving, but...

Hello All, I know that it sounds quite stupid but how much IOPS could do Symmetrix 8430 and CX300? How much the performance will be dropped in case of migration from Symmetrix 8430 to CX300 (assuming they both the same cache size and 4TB of raw data)? Just rought numbers : 3-4 times slower?...

Hi all. I have a second hand Storagetek D173 disk array, that I am struggling with performance (or lack of) It has six 10k, 73GB disks and dual 1Gbit controllers (everything is fibre) Currently all the disks are configured in RAID0 (it was RAID5, but thought it might have been that slowing it...