Hi all, How can I configure DS4300 (with storage partitions) to allow a logical drive to be accesible by all hosts in the SAN ? We are going to use Sanergy with TSM for LAN-free backup purposes. Thanks in advance. -- Marek

Is Logical Unit Number to SSCI, file descriptor to file?

Hi, Right now we are looking for the relaibility study of the disk, tape, magneto-optic disk etc. which are primarily involve in the mass storage. Our requirement is any of the tape or above device data to predict the relaibility. I'll deeply appriciate if anyone can help me out to get the data...

The subject line may be a bit stupid but I am looking to setup a system where we have a requirment that we have a single view into a 32 TB storage system (think of this as a one big C drive). Right now we got 6 servers each with around 5 TB of storage, but to access them we need to mount each...

Would somebody please tell me as to where i can get a pdf file of the book "Storage Area Networks for dummies" Thanks in advance.

Hi, I am trying to come up with a calculator that lets me compute the cost of storage per terabyte of data stored. I have a 3 tier system (with various vendors) with a primary - secondary - tape backup architecture My goal is to see which vendor combinations are providing me the least cost of...

The spindle/track density of 500GB drives is about double that of 300GB (before right-sizing and all that) but the spindle size is the same, 3.5". So if my drives are half full, my logic states that my seek times will actually be less because the head has to travel less distance (higher track...

I am a complete newbie in virtualization. First up I want to know about virtualization and VMWare and am looking for some pointers. Also, I have been toying with the idea of virtualizing a storage management application which runs on Linux (and other Unices too). I came across VMWare but I am yet...

Hi... As I'd indicated in a previous thread, we recently purchased a FAS960c Filer... we spent about $30K per shelf which hosts 2 TB of total data (1.3 TB of usable data after RAID). That is roughly $15K per TB direct cost to us. My question is, should I expect that price to go down next year due...

I'm looking for a supplier of VHDCI cables that are high quality and reasonable cost. For a 3 ft cable, I would define reasonable cost as $25 to $30/cable. We are starting to use a Paralan SCSI Cable Tester religiously on all cables we buy, and we are finding failures at LVD speeds on at least...

Hi all. I'm implementing an high availability and load balanced cluster with linux. I have two redirectors that dispatch requests to two mail servers and two web servers. I'm not sure about the storage. SAN fiber channel solutions by NetApp or by EMC are out of our budget. The Apple's SAN Xserve...

Hi - I upgraded the tape drive an LTO1 (Overland) to an HP LTO2 tape drive. I was told that I would be able to see the LTO1 tapes on the drive. I inserted the LTO1 tape and catologed it but the catalog failed. Is there something I need to do? The tapes are 2 years old so they are no longer on...

Hi, I'm running Veritas NetBackup Enterprise Edition version 5.1 MP4 under Windows 2003 and Vault module. I have a problem trying to run the Vault Report "Media Coming On-Site". My Vault session happen correctly and I'm able to generate the Vault Report "Media Coming Off-Site". I've also been...

I am designing a setup with an existing DS4300 and new HP blades. I wish to run HP Opteron blades (not IA-64) clustered with Windows 2003 64bit and SQL2005 64bit, but cannot find any document that says this is supported. The closest I get is an indication that 64bit Windows cluster will...

Output from vxprint. Disks are in an EMC Symmetrix 8830. We are seeing high % busy for c6t17d21 to c6t17d25. Based on different disk size below, could I have used STRIPE layout instead of CONCAT? Thank you. Disk group: app dg app default default 91000 1032974724.4739.svr01 dm...

I have been trying to connect our HP BladeSystem to our IBM SAN with no luck. I have tried with an hp bl25p and a bl30p. Our zoning is correct because the QLogic BIOS on these blades can see the LUN assigned to it. However when windows is booted neither the os or the QLogic SanSurfer sees the...

Hi all, I am in the process of configuring my CX300 SAN & DAE enclosure which will act as backend storage for (amongst other things) two MS SQL 2005 servers and a MS Exchange 2003 server. As log files for the above products write to disk in a sequential manner, they only require RAID1 storage. I...

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Hi all, I am looking for some help with the configuration of my iscsi connection. We have an Infortrend Eonstor iscsi with luns we want to access via a Qlogic card in a HP Prolient under RHEL 4 running 2.6.9-34.ELsmp kernel. All is fine when I run the iscli tool. The qlogic card is found, I...

Hi All, We have been having intermittent problems as of late labeling brand new Quantum SuperDLT I tapes in SDLT320 drives. Have any of you seen any quality control issues with brand new media? Because of this, I am researching using another vendor for our Super DLT tapes. Any opinions on...