Hello, at present I am working on an Infiniband implementation on a Virtex-II Pro. As far as I know the build-in RocketIOs are fully compliant to the Infiniband standard (beacon and variant CRC excluded). There are two types of CRC, the invariant and the variant type. Although the RocketIOs are...

Hello, i'd like to implement the following scenario: there is a server who has to have multiple ip adresses. Each of the adresse must be capable to present shares to the network. All the storage is on only one NAS. Target is here that i am able to give access to the specific shares via a VLAN...

Hi Storage folks, Can some one suggest me which training is good for a Unix Admin with Solaris experience,Sun's DAS, Entry level storage, Work group Storage, & Volume Manager? It would be great if you can list any reasons why one is better over the other. Thanks, Shivakanth.

I have video file about 750 MB and can not record it on CD-R that have capacity just 700 MB. What is the ways to solve this problem. Thank everybody for help.

Recently ran into the account of a guy who built his own 1.2TB RAID50-based storage array for $1600 (see URL:http://www.finnie.org/terabyte/). I really like the idea and have been thinking about following suit. Like Finnie, I want to be able to store huge amounts of DivX/Xvid files online. In...

Hi World, We are architecting a SAN infrastructure and looking to purchase SAN storage and Switches. WE have nailed down the storage that we are looking to buy. It is a Hitachi 9530 . We are not sure which switch we want to buy though, we are looking at either two brocade 3250 8 port switches or...

I can ot install Remote Agent one this particular server I am using BE 9.0 I go to Tools Seal No and Installtion . Pick Remote and then selct Remote Agent. It brings up list of al available PC and server. I can pick any server but this one machine (let say trgup, it has NT 4 installed) is always...

Can anyone tell me what the significant differences are between the brocade 3200 and the 3250. Brocades web site indicates that the 3250 is cheaper, but I would like to know if there are any features in the 3200 that have been cut down in the 3250 in order to reduce the price.

To Whom It May Concern : We have two Solaris 2.8 SUN servers (E6500 & SunFire F6800) which run PowerPath VERSION: 2.1.0_b100 and PowerPath VERSION: 3.0.3_b030 repectively. Both servers have Veritas Oracle DB Edition 3.5 (i.e., VxVM & VxFS) with DMP enabled. Certain paths to controllers have...

Any Exabyte DLT robot experts out there? I am having a problem with our Exabyte 230D. It does not push the tape all the way into the drives. The way that it is supposed to work is that it places the tape about 3/4 of the way into the drive, then the grippers release, it backs off a couple of cm,...

I have Veritas Sunpoint control 3.5.1 I try discover my fc switches, and sw discovers only few of them. 2 switches are in different lan, so maybe this is firwall problem. But i need to know which ports/protocols SPC uses for discover? Thanx4help -krp-

Has anyone ever heard anyone claim that the length of a HD's warranty was simply a marketing and price point decision by the mfg and the warranty length has nothing to do with expected drive life? Somewhere I think I remember someone making such a claim and a bunch of trolls tried unsuccessfully...

Hi everyone, Can anyone tell me where i can buy NAND flash memory chips. I am interested in samsung ones, but any other NAND chip can be helpfull. I can see them on samsung website but dont know how i can buy small quantities of them given that i am in australia. thanks

Hi all! So I bought a new 250MB Western Digital drive, and put it into my USB2 & Firewire enclosure, replacing the 120MB one I'd had in there. Under Windows 2000, using Firewire (via a Cardbus card in my laptop) crashes Windows over and over again. Not sure if it's related to the drive or the...

Hi, Accroding to the HP MSA1500 spec, it does not list Sun Solaris as a supported platform. What does this mean? Can I still connect it to a HBA on Sun box? Will I be able to see the LUN allocated? Thanks

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...

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Hi there, Ages and ages ago I saw a hardware RAID product that fitted in a 5.25" drive bay and used 2.5" hard disks. Does anyone here with a better memory than me know who makes such a product ? I basically want to make use of fast and quiet notebook drives and stripe them for performance on my...

Pardon my question, I am a beginner in NDMP land. We are developing a snapshot file system that can track the files which changed since the previous snapshot. Pathnames of those changed files can be listed with a special command. Now I have two questions: Can I give one of the commercial NDMP...

Can anyone think of a reason why all the virtual disks on a RAID-5 reverted from NTFS to RAW? I'm stumped. I've got Win2K Pro running on Dell hardware.