Technical question: We have a rather uncommon setup on a number of AS/400 systems partitions in that they use external SAN disk, not internal spindles. They work pretty well, and some machines even use a load source emulator card (ie. NO internal disk at all). 'D' IPLs, DR tests, system rebuilds...

Hey, I'm looking for a NAS that is able to do the following: - 500gb - web server - print server - itunes server - smtp mail server

I have an old FAS760 on loan for a learning system. I've loaded all 8 floppies of 6.5.6 and then listed the disks. I decided to pop up one disk out so that I could later "add" it and when I rebooted the system kept saying it couldn't find the image. What pulls here? I thought loading the floppies...

Hi, Could you please let me know the different algorithms for various techniques which can be used to sanitize or Data Shredder for sensitive production data for the used disks in a storage system. Thanks & Regds, Babi

Does anyone have any experience converting the old DOS Macrofiche COLD reports into another format? I have a client who only has a handful of old reports they want converted to RTF format. They want to get rid of all their DOS applications, and Macrofiche is one of them. But, they need to...

We're running into an issue where people who have both a linux and solaris environment are crashing when switching between them. The reason this happens is because .gnome in their home dir is used by both, but neither like to share. I'm curious if anyone else has seen this issue and fixed it? Or...

What is FA Port in Storage Systems

Can someone explain to me, Why need to have 8 trays on EVA to archive redundancy. And what's the redundancy we talking abotu here ? thanks wanni

Dear all, I'm currently looking for a (cheap) alternative to replace our current SAN. During my search I've found multiple (mostly 1U) raid heads and would like to hear your opinion on those product, errr I mean solutions. I'm especially interested in the products from...

A professor in a small physics department has recieved two old tape libraries and a couple of sun machines. We are trying to evaluate if these machines are worth setting up or not. The hardware includes: - Storagetek 9730 tape library - Adic Scalar 218 tape library - Sun Ultra 5 (powers up, but...

Here's the scenario: Fiber Channel Initiators (servers) on one end and an iSCSI target 
(storage array) on the other array Basically I need to know if it's possible to use FC HBA cards (QLOGIC) 
to access an iSCSI target using a Cisco SN 5428 Storage Router Please help me out with this, I'm...

Greetings: We purchased an HP EVA 3000 about a year ago and currently have it connected only to an HP ES40 running OpenVMS. We have just purchased an ES47 to replace the ES40 and thought we could just move the fibre cables from the old server to the new server, change the WWIDs in Command View...

Hello, This is Subir Das from Network Appliance. I would like to implement a tool which will retrieve san switch configuration data. This tool would be collecting data from Brocade, McData, Cisco and Qlogic switches. Q1. Should I use SMI-S interface or SNMP technology to retrieve...

Ques : Advantages / Disadvantages of AspPOP3 and AspMail over other ..Net mail components ?

Hi ALl I'm struggling to find how to add a user on my 12000 switch.... the list from "help" doesn't seem to have any user admin commands other than passwd. I've also looked around the GUI but can't find anything... I've been logging on as an admin. Do I need to be root? Cheers

We are trying to have a diskless AIX system... Booting AIX from our HDS lightning box it not a problem, works fine. The issue comes up when we try to frovide redundancy to the rootvg. There are a number of DMP products we can use HDLM, MPIO or VxVM. However it seems none of them are supported and...

I want to change the email server from the one that was defined during install. Where is it done?? Thanx.

Does anyone have or know of a good whitepaper on this topic? I am looking into certification and thought it would be a good place to start. Thanks.

Does anyone know of a version of RDAC that will run on the non-turbo version of IBM's FAStT600? V/

Hi All I'm looking at a Supermicro SATA Raid chassis with 250gb maxtors (x5) to give me a proper stripped array (that I can also use the same physical drives attached to an Abit IC7-G mainboard). Has anyone used the Supermicro CSE-M35T1 cage and any comments or feedback on the cage. Having...