Is anybody could kindly share with me any security checklists/guidelines to be used to verify information security and configuration aspects for SAN & NAS environments (EMC, Hitachi, NetApp). Thanks in advance, S.

Anyone have any experiences of the Storewiz STN-5000? It's supposed to be some sort of on the fly compressor that sits in front of a NAS filer. http://www.storewiz.com/ I've looked in the archives but couldn't find much! Thanks Andrew

A Storage Networking User Group (or SNUG) is a grass-roots organization of data storage technology users. SNUGs schedule and conduct face-to-face meetings with other local users to discuss their mutual challenges, exchange information, and interact with technology experts. SNUGs are managed by...

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I have a Windows Server 2003 with 2 Qlogic QLA2340 FC HBAs and I'm trying to configure these for failover. I'm using the latest drivers for the cards, and the SANsurfer FC HBA manager to configure them. The SAN is accessible, but it seems only one of the cards reaches the SAN. Diskmanager in...

There is something called "bitmap" in UFS, it maps logical blocks to 0 and 1 depending on type of block - free or taken. How do I retrieve this bitmap ? Is there some ioctl around ? Also - can you provide me with links to UFS structure description ?

Hello all, I have a customer who is adamant that there is some software or hardware or combination of both that allows the secondary volume of a mirror to instantaneously see the data that was created on the primary. In all of my experience with both Windows and UNIX environments I have not come...

My small company has inherited a brand new Clariion FC4700. I know this unit is several years old but will serve our needs well. I have everything to use this unit in a new Windows 2003 Server SAN including Dell 56F switches, GBICs, QLogic Fiber controllers, fiber cabls, etc. What I am trying to...

Do any of you know when the DLT600 is supposed to be available? I found nothing on the Quantum site about it. The specification looks good: 36MB/s and 300GB native on each tape. greetings,

We buy a fair number of used L180 and L700 tape libraries, and we have noticed a fairly large number of these systems have one of the two DC power supplies dead. Opening these always shows a burn at exactly the same transistor on the PCB. Recently we had a unit under test where the DC power...

Hi, I know there is backup software that allows incremental and differential backups so that it isn't always necessary to backup everything even if only some data were added or changed. The problem is that in my case there is also a lot of re-structuring going on with my data, i.e. data move from...

Hello I am using a storage system from Dell/EMC CX-400 with two DAEs (two cases to fill in harddisks). One case is full with FC Seagate 15K 36GB harddisks. I have never been enthusiastic about its performance but at least it seems that you can operate an Oracle DB on these disks. The secound case...

I'm looking to speak with someone who has been through a major change of their primary storage vendor. How did you do it? How did you move your data? Why did you do it? Was it worth the hassle? Thanks, Alan

I purchased a Sandisk 1mg and my husband tried to backup too much data and now I need to erase it and start over. How do I do it?

Anyone surfing this group doing this? If so what do you think about it? I know of several companies that do and have had extensive conversation with one of the admins doing this. I think it's a good idea if you can build in the availability initially. OnTap software has huge advantages for...

Hello, What do people have in mind when they talk about: DOC (Disk On Chip) DOM (Disk On Module) SSD (Solid State Drive) Are they different technologies?

I need to give a presentation on the benefits of AIX vs Solaris. Can everyone share your thoughts. Keep in mind that I`m not looking to dismiss either platform, I think they both work very well with specific databases, storage and apps. Thoughts please! Thanks

We are using the Veritas Backupexec software for LAN tape backup. We would like to perform backups to a network storage device. Can anyone recommend a device for purchase or should we make our own storage device? Jim J

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Some screenshots from Ranish partition manager: http://members.lycos.co.uk/muhaha1981/ I have manually converted the only primary partition on second disk to extended partition. Can anyone suggest why this partition works with FreeDOS and Windows XP, but errors out from DIR command in MS-DOS...