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Hey Everyone - I'm working on a presentation on virtualization in the enterprise for my team. I was wondering if any of you would mind offering some personal insight / experiences with either server or storage virtualization (or both). What I'm really looking for are where and how server /...

Hello everyone, Is Brightstor's default block size 65536 bytes? If not, is it possible to change it to other value, say 512 bytes instead? Thanks for the help. I'll appreciate it. -shiera-

Hello everyone, I'm only just a neophyte on storage... and I desperately need your help on these: 1. How are data stored in tape? I mean, the block addressing. 2. Is there any correspondence between Tape LBA and HDD LBA? (I'm referring to Ultrium 1 and Ultrium 2 format... or do all...

(Shiera) wrote in message ... Hello everyone! I've been searching for a good book, if possible, a complete reference on Tape technology. There's a "RAB", The RAIDbook, published by The RAID Advisory Board... I am hoping...

Hello everyone! I've been searching for a good book, and as much as possible, a complete reference on Tape technology. There's a "RAB", The RAIDbook, published by The RAID Advisory Board... I am hoping there is a book like this one.. say a "TAPE book". Hope you could recommend me one. ^-^ A book...

Hello everyone... Just some follow-up questions on Malc's answers to my previous questions... Since data are stored sequentially, so the block positioning are also sequential, right? How can we identify an end of the block, especially if a single cartridge contains blocks of different sizes? Is...

Hello everyone, I really need your help on the following. Excerpt from SCSI Stream Commands-2 (SSC-2) Working Draft: 1.) "Filemarks are special recorded logical objects not containing user data." 2.) "Setmarks are optional special recorded logical objects not containing user data."

(M Adnan) wrote in message ... Hi All, I am trying to evaluate this product for a document management software iManage. Has anyone used this for retrieving documents online? If you are using it or ever tried to...

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.

Can some one point me to a good resource that point out the differences amonng the disk technologies? (or) good brief resources for each of these (ATA,SATA,SAS) Thanks a lot, S

I am trying to figure out, when creating a snapshot/snapclone sssu script for HP EVA storage system, how to make the snapshot or snapclone name a variable, preferably a timestamp, this way I can automate the create of the snapshots and not have to worry about the name already being used. Any ideas?

This is a NAS that comes with no hard drives. You add your own SATA drives. It has USB to support storage expansion to an externa USB hard drive. Does anyone know if it can be used with an external USB drive as the ONLY drive? I have a large IDE drive in a USB enclosure, so I'd rather not have...

Can someone please explain to me the difference between Tier 1 and Tier 2 storage? Cheers!

Hi, We have a windows client application that interacts with an as400 server module to backup the files from the windows box to a tape device. The windows box has several mapped drives of NAS devices running Windows storage server. The application is becoming extremely slow when it is trying to...

I have 4 FC switches in a single fabric: 3 brocade 2800, FOS v2.0.6j and one is 3800, FOS 3.1.1. All the switches are functionally working fine, but when I telnet to one of the 2800 switches, I see a whole lot of following error messages: ErrLog: Error Level=3 continuously cluttering on the...

Hello All, I'm trying to create a home storage lab where I can setup clustering, HA, etc.... This is what I have so far: 1 - Clariion DAE_R/W 10 - 9.1GB drives 2 - Emulex LP8000/GBICs 1 - VIXEL Rapport 1000 Fibre Channel 7-Port Hub

I set up a Raid 1 on Suse 9.1, and although the /proc/mdstats say both disks are up, I don't know if the data is really getting mirrored. I have many questions, some of which a 1) I'm mirroring everything, but when I change grub to boot to the second disk first, the machine doesn't boot. Why...

Hi I want a disk (SCSI) which is bad, (ie, read() (disk driver) on that disk should retry sufficient times before returning error). Under what conditions disk driver retries on a bad disk. Is it bad block read or something else ? How to create such a condition in a good disk ? ie, how to make a...

Hi, we have a couple of EVA 5000, I'm planning to put Solars/sparc's in front of them as well as HP-UX/pa-risc and Linux/i386(compaq) (running large fileservers on HP-UX is a constant pain and we have a lot more Sun than HP as fileservers so I'd like to throw away HP as a fileserver and only run...