I work for a consulting firm, and have begun to do troubleshooting on small SANs, mostly HP MSA1500cs based. Many times the problem the customer is talking about is some vague intermittent slowness issue or something like that. In cases like this, my troubleshooting goes something like this: 1. ...

This device is a sort of small HDD in your hand but it could be better if somehow fitted it with the cellphone, as it will not be hassle free to carry two devices(cellphone and BluOnyx). The amount of data that you can store in this device ranges between 1 GB to 40 GB. This 85 x 54 x 6 mm devices...

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There are two filers in cluster mode with below network conf. Filer1 /etc/rc - hostname filer1 vif create multi vif1 -b ip e0a e0b ifconfig vif1 `hostname`-vif1 mediatype auto netmask 255.255.255.0 partner vif1 /etc/hosts - 10.199.41.51 filer1 filer1-vif1

I'm talking about a rackmount computer (Tyan GT24) with 4 drive cages for SATA drives which plug into a backplane. If I have the drives laid out atop the computer with the SATA cables running over the open case into the RAID card, the drives are very fast (70-80 MB/second). Now if I merely...

has anyone ever heard of copan systems (www.copansys.com) just wondering what people think of them and there MAID platform

Hi, We have a ML370 that has a 5 disk RAID 5 array.. One of the disks has the red light flashing and the event log says the status is "predictive failure".. I have just ordered a new drive which should be here in the next day or so.. Now for the question.. What is the procedure for replacing...

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.

Hi all, I'm trying to look for ways to find out the WWNs of the HBAs from different types of hosts. Solaris: For 5.10 there's the command "fcinfo hba-port". For 5.8/5.9 and on certain 5.10 boxes without binary, I have difficulty getting the info - /var/adm/messages doesn't seem to contain the...

Hi Folks: I have to go to Japan and work on a server configuration. Both servers have MSA1500 array controllers. OS is Windows 2003 Server. The company has been evaluating one of our base server configurations for months and ended up buying it. Now they want to upgrade this base server to...

I have a dell server that has a powervault disk storage array attached. The server is a 2600 poweredge running win2k3 server. The powervault has 12 slots of capacity with only 4 disks in place now with approx 400MB of data on the array. We are wanting to expand that by another 3 disks. If we do...

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.

I've seen product literature that claims SDLT drives are read- compatible with tapes written by the 35/70gb DLT7000. My SDLT 160/320 drive won't even load the tapes. (software not an issue here) Has anyone had any luck doing this? If so, is there a trick? Maybe only the SDLT 110/220 can do it?...

I know this is a broad question, but here goes... If performance were not an issue, what is better to stick to in an enterprise.... NAS or SAN? What is generally more flexible and easier to manage? Dvy

Greetings: We are running a HP EVA 3000 storage area network and in Command View EVA there is a user setting under Occupancy called Alarm Level. We have it set at 90%, but what is the purpose of this alarm? Is there a performance consideration when the occupancy level exceeds a certain...

Hi, I'm considering to deploy my paging space in a SAN product, say, HDS AMS1000. I know it's a safer decision to use rootvg but I think it worths a discussion. It's a olap application so the paging is major of big data blocks. Pls share your opinions and pls share the experience using a paging...

I finally bought myself another HD tonight, as the 80gig one I have not is not nearly enough. I was just wondering if I should transfer Windows over to my newer, faster, and much bigger hard drive, or leave it isolated on my old one? My new hard drive is definately superior, as it has 16mb cache as...

Has anyone had problems with performance of the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500 Gbytes ST3500630AS P/N 9BJ146-308 ? I have no problems with the earlier revisions of the drive, such as P/N 9BJ146-305, but the latest revision, which is the -308 revision, which has firmware 3.AAK runs at a maximum...

What low end fibre channel rackmount RAID arrays will give me a consistent 20 MB / second average read and write speed with a reasonable number of 15K RPM SCSI drives in a RAID 5 or RAID 6 configuration? I've been using Compaq RA4x000 arrays as a cheap disk source for applications that do not...

Hi guys I have a bit of a problem I have a 300 gig harddrive. It has a 288 gig partiton that has 158 gigs free. I was wondering if there was a way to partition some of that free space into another partition without formating or losing my files.I have vista on the other 12 gigs of this HD and win xp...