From: (Will Spencer) Newsgroups: comp.arch.storage,comp.answers,news.answers Subject: SAN (Storage Area Network) Security FAQ Revision 2004/02/12 - Part 1/1 Followup-To: comp.arch.storage Approved: Reply-To: (FAQ...

We have a EMC DS-16B switch that boots, however never gets to be in an online and ready state. At the prompt most commands reveal "Switch not ready", and subsequent logins produce the message "WARNING: switch still initializing - please wait". The problem is it *never* finishes initializing....

We're in the process of building a new server which is to be ultra-redundant, and there's been speculation on SCSI version, suitable flavors of RAID, replacement processes, and such. I'm hoping that someone here can answer a few quick questions. 1. This system is going to have 10 drives, all of...

We just upgraded to Windows Server 2003 from Windows 2000 Server and our connectivity to our Dell EMC 4500 SAN completely broke (we could no longer connect to the SAN). We have an Exchange 2000, SQL 2000, and Windows 2000 file cluster accessing our SAN and fortunately we only upgraded the file...

On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 01:15:54 GMT, Darren Dunham wrote: Yes, this is actually not hard to believe at all. Remember when Sun's st driver would not allow you to write in high-density format on an Exabyte tape (i.e. the 8500's "4.6 GB" format) if you had ...

Softek, which is owned by Fujitsu, purchased a license of Datacores SanSymphony code. The Softek engineer said to me that they had to do a lot of work to stablize Datacore's code. He then admitted to me that if he was in my shoes that he would not use this type of virtualization...

Hi All, I'm currently in the middle of a project to implement an IBM SVC Cluster on one of my SANs so that I can virtualize everything behind it. One of the concerns we have is how certain applications behave, including MS Exchange 2003. Right now, we have IBM FastT900's with Windows and AIX hosts....

I'm running a trial version of Arcserve v9.0 for Netware on a NW5.1 Sp6 box. I'm trying to backup an HP ProLiant DL 360 server which has a Gigabit ethernet card installed in it. My Media server had a 100Mbps NIC which I swapped out and installed a Gigabit card into. However I am continually getting...

Eric Lee Green writes: it is possible. The only real question is how to scale that approach up to handle commercial volumes of data and thruput and the requirements of replication across multiple mirrored data centers -- and who is to go after this convergence. CERN is...

Here is an post concerning data backup, terrorism, and the World Trade Center which was first put here on Sept. 3, 2001. --- From: Thor Lancelot Simon ) Subject: Disaster Stories Needed Newsgroups: alt.computer.consultants, alt.disasters.misc, comp.arch.storage Date: 2001-09-03...

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A FMD disc the size of a CD can hold 50-100 GB per disc? Is this still in development, was a hoax, or did Sony or some other big company buy the developers out and kill the project ? FMD...

any users report for Nexsan ATAboy storage systems ? Albert

"The Diskette Experiments: A Hypothetical Longevity of the Floppy Disk" By: Paul Allen Panks ) See website for details. Written summary below: http://members.tripod.com/~panks/diskfun.html In three separate experiments (conducted at regular intervals), I have determined the...

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...

Does anyone know how I could automated create q-trees using a script or a other way ?

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From: (Will Spencer) Newsgroups: comp.arch.storage,comp.answers,news.answers Subject: Enterprise Storage Management (ESM) FAQ Revision 2004/02/16 - Part 1/1 Followup-To: comp.arch.storage Approved: Reply-To:...

I'm trying to figure out the pros and cons for backing up to a disk device vs. using a virtual tape library like the Clariion Disk Library. You're backing up to disk on both of them, presumably at the same speeds but it seems that the VTL adds a level of complexity and cost. Does anyone have any...

Mine is a disk based backup/restore product. It is multithreaded, which means many backups and restores are happening simultaneously. The product has basically three types of interactions with the disk. 1. Read. This is synchronous. Most reads happen on mounted shadow copies (using...