I have a dell branded ax100, w/ three host servers, the two w/ the most data are netware and one small ms 2k3 box. I have the dual controllers on the ax100, along with a brocade 8 port switch. I also have a pv 132t ( adic scalar 24 ) Has anyone had experience backing up the ax100 over fiber. ...

We're looking at replacing an ancient Clariion, and adding more servers to the mix. I'm looking for about 1 TB of storage split between 5 servers. We don't push any of them very hard, so I'm leaning towards iSCSI. The IBM DS300 looks _really_ good. Most of the other smaller units I've looked at...

We have a couple Win 2000 servers and an exchange 2000 server One of the win2000 servers is running brightstor backup for windows and Exchange agent. We backup a directory on each of the windows 2000 servers plus the exchange server. THe backup is to a dat tape drive, and fits on one 20GB tape,...

On a tape library we use, we are getting an FSC1 code of 4822 for an IBM LTO2 tape drive. What does this code indicate? Where does IBM document all of the four digit error codes for the LTO2 tape drive? -- Will

Hi, I was working with an HP Proliant DL360 system with a "Smart Array 5i" controller and 2 72GB SCSI drives. The system was originally configured with the two drives in a RAID1 configuration, as one "Logical Drive". The Logical Drive was partitioned as one 10GB partition and one 60GB...

In the past I've had instances of the following problem. During backup operations to a tape, I'd get an error such as this: "An inconsistency was encountered on the media in miniQIC. Do not append to this media." I finally solved this problem, and wanted to pass the solution on to others. If I...

Hello, I was wondering if someone would know how to modify the Node WWN for a Qlogic 23XX FC-HBA. I tried going through the BIOS, but that did not help. thanks, tarak

You can use this software to encrypt your important files which you don't want others to see with AES encryption algorithm. Cool File Encryption adopts the international standard cryptographic algorithm--AES that has been proved to be secure by numerous attacks and tests. Cool File Encryption is...

I was wondering if anyone here knows of a forum/bbs where people discuss SAN's ?. I'm having trouble finding info on this subject, specifically about EMC hardware. Thanks. Clive.

If I use replication to make a copy of data at a DR site how do I create a tape backup off of that for long-term retention? Short-lived snaps are no problem, they only live on disk but once every few months I want to write a tape to capture that point in time for longer retention. If the DR site...

Recently I had an IBMer at work that said the 3995 Optical Jukebox should only have about 300 mounts per day. We're way over that number. Before I ask to have two more drives purchased (to mitigate the mount load), can someone confirm or deny the above statement about 300 mounts per day? Mike

What is RAID 1+0? A mirror of 2 stripe sets? Or a a stripe assembled from lots of 2-disk mirrors? I've heard that one of those ways is bad, and thus the widely used RAID 1+0 uses the second way. Why the first way is bad? -- Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP StorageCraft...

Hi all, I inherited a couple Fibre Channel Cheetahs (ST39102FC) that I'd like to build a small but fast disk subsystem with. Can anyone recommend reasonably priced backplanes or enclosures to build a nice loop? I'm looking at 6 to 8 drives for a start but given that these are really cheap on eBay,...

Does anyone know of a way to track binary usage from a users NFS mounted home dir? We're running into a problem where a user is running binaries out of their home dir that are already installed in AFS causing the NFS server to get hammered. I'd like to be able to trace who that user is. Server...

Hello, We would like to increase the remote replication bandwidth between our Symmetrix 8000 boxes with additional ESCON lines but we are running out of card slots in our Symmetrix 8830. Can someone tell me if there are ESCON cards available with 4 or more ports? Thank you,

I am looking for a third party to support an older EMC 3930 in Salt Lake City. Does anybody know who I could contact for support? Thanks, rob

Hi, I have a Dell Pentium 3 PC that I'm thinking about upgrading. I found a website that builds barebones machines, and I'd like to use my existing SCSI hard drive. The problem is, all of the motherboards they offer seem to only be compatible with ATA or IDE hard drives. So my main two...

Hello together, we have here an problem with Netbackup on Sun Solaris. We want backup an Oracle DB, with 2 Streams, the first Stream works correctly an come back with successfuly message, the second Stream come with error: 03:06:56.756 16 writeToServer: ERR - send() to server on socket failed:...

I've recently aquired some Hitachi parts that I think are from a TagmaStore (9990) system. Part numbers follow: SH288-B memory dimms SH341 memory dimms SH342 memory dimms WP552 cache carrier board WP490 cache carrier board WP541 ??????? WP520 Array control processor

I have a ethernet drive that is storing Ghost images. This is on a Home LAN peer to peer network. When I boot from the Ghost CD into the recovery invironment, and when using the "browse command' to find the network drive, the Ghost app will not find any devices on the network. I read something in...