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the marketing stuff says it has iSCSI connectivty.... does this mean it can be used as NAS or as an iSCSI SAN or a mix of both? anyone have experience using this box as iSCSI SAN?

am i mistaken or is this primarily for file sharing? I don't see how (reading their marketing lit) that i would, say, run an Oracle database on this that's on a Sun box.

anyone know how extensively Sun or anyone else has tested the scalability of UFS in real-world write-intensive environments in terms of number of files and/or dirs? i'm not talking theoretical limits, but what's actively in use every day? We've had some issues with NTFS at ~100,000,000...

what sort of options are there for a setup where systems write to a single CIFS hostname\share but it actually goes to two separate storage repositories? i don't want replication, but actual independent writes, and i'm wondering if there is some sort of hardware box that would handle that?

does anyone know of one? I cannot find one on their website, and I'm not really interested in getting hounded by salespeople before seeing one. thanks

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Eric Lee Green writes: In article , Malcolm Weir ruminated: Tape's failure modes tend to be less catastrophic than disk's. E.g. That is not my experience. In general, when a section of tape becomes unreadable, every bit of...

Hi All, Apologies in advance if I'm being particularly simple. With SSD drives coming down in price, and becoming a standard feature in Intel's forthcoming Centrino 2 architecture, will this make caching redundant in operating systems? Current operating systems such as Windows XP and much more...

Hi everyone, I recently migrated to an MSA1500 based SAN. I have the following config: MSA1500 with redundant controller, but did not purchase the extra 128MB cache upgrade (DOH) 2x MSA30's loaded with 72GB 15k U320 drives (all LUNS are 0+1) 1 MSA20 with 7.2k 160GB SATA drives (1 LUN and it is...

I'm looking for some comments/feedback on the EVA6000 versus the DS4700. I've read the specifications and gotten the pitch from each vendor and personally I don't see that much difference between them. As well, we're probably going to be connecting an IBM p550Q to the storage and use VIO for a...

I have enterprise class storage (ESS800) and some lower-end fastt900 storage connected to AIX and Windows hosts. Is there any benefit in creating smaller LUN's vs bigger LUN's when connecting an AIX server to the ESS (or FAStT). I was always lead to believe that the more hdisks the better since...

We have a SUN cluster which is SAN connected to two Sun 3510FC storage arrays. The disks are physically striped and mirrored at the hardware level in the arrays, however when the Volumes were created using Veritas Foundation Suite they were concatenated as opposed to striped. In reading some other...

Would somebody please tell me as to where i can get a pdf file of the book "Storage Area Networks for dummies" Thanks in advance.

Hi I have seen your storage configuration in Storage Showoff thread and have some question about this work because I want to implement similar solution in our office. We want to Install Sixteen 500GB HDD to achieve 8TB or twelve 750GB HDD of storage with RAID capability, but we are limited in...

Hi I have seen your storage configuration in Storage Showoff thread and have some question about this work because I want to implement similar solution in our office. We want to Install Sixteen 500GB HDD to achieve 8TB or twelve 750GB HDD of storage with RAID capability, but we are limited in...

Hello c.a.s, I need to connect QLogic,McData and Brocade FC switches into one fabric - if anyone did it already - please send me details (setting,fimware ver.,tips and hints). I'll summarize and post to the group. Thanks, AriG.

I am a complete newbie in virtualization. First up I want to know about virtualization and VMWare and am looking for some pointers. Also, I have been toying with the idea of virtualizing a storage management application which runs on Linux (and other Unices too). I came across VMWare but I am yet...

Hi, Is there some information on what the file system created by NTBackup looks like. I am new to storage technologies but I am familiar with FAT and NTFS file systems. If you can point me to the right source or explain the overall architecture, I'd be grateful. Thanks, Ahmad