I have a home network consisting of two computers connected to a small router via 10/100 Mbps ethernet. I have 4 IDE hard disks, each 200GB or less. The operating systems are Windows XP SP1 and SP2, Windows 98, Linux Red Hat 9, and Linux Fedora Core 3. Now for the hard bit - what's the easiest way...

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Hi All, I'm looking for information about CreekPath's SRM product. I haven't had any luck finding any forums or user sites concerning CP and their site only provides a Knowledge Base. Anyone here use CP and care to share experiences or know of a site that has people who do? TIA!

My EMC rep couldn't answer this question... EMC's Centera is supposed to replace optical disk ("permanent data"), but an optical disks life is 35 years plus. Is the Centera considered "permanent data"? What are existing Centera customers supposed to do when EMC eventually EOL's and stops...

I have a Windows Server 2003 with 2 Qlogic QLA2340 FC HBAs and I'm trying to configure these for failover. I'm using the latest drivers for the cards, and the SANsurfer FC HBA manager to configure them. The SAN is accessible, but it seems only one of the cards reaches the SAN. Diskmanager in...

We built out our enterprise SAN about 2 1/2 years ago, and like every newbie we did everything wrong, we bought two director class switches (Brocade 12k) and a 9980 from HDS about 40TB and are hemorrhaging ports like no tomorrow, so i'm pushing for a redesign, I want to switch to a core...

Hi, (I'm a newbie to this group. If I should be posting elsewhere, please let me know where.) I have a LAN with 3 PCs running Windows XP. At the moment I plug a USB drive into each PC separately and run a Dantz Retrospect backup, which gives me disaster recovery. I want a solution that will let...

Have you thought about a newer technology solutons like Avamar? These guys connect an appliance to your network, keep the volume of data going to the appliance under control using commonality factoring and then can do a function called "tape out". It would mean having data available on line for...

Is there any advantage(s) using SCSI block commands (SBC) against SCSI streaming commands (SSC) over Fibre Channel for large file transfers (streaming)? Which one is more efficient? Does any one have seen such topic being discussed or analyzed? Your input and direction is truly...

I know that the iSCSI DSM has been available from a number of providers, but in the fiber channel space the only company that seems to be offering support for Microsoft MPIO is HP. Evidently storage vendors need to create DSM's for their disk arrays. I am troubled that other major players in the...

I have been manging a 48TB DMX3000 for about the last 10 months with little training and I have now run into an issue that I am not sure how to resolve. We have a VMWare host that we are trying to allocate LUN's to that are beyond the range that VMWare will recognize (Decimal 256). Because...

Hello, I am planning to experiment with an online service technology for file sharing something similar to sendthisfile.com or putfile.com where there is a huge storage requirement and bandwidth Any ideas of a cost effective storage solution (in Linux or MS) which could be implemented from a...

Has anyone ever seen an error message B_UDC DSP error on the serial login to an ADIC SNC 5100 fibre bridge? We tried to connect this bridge to another vendor's tape library, with one SCSI port on the library, one SCSI for LTO3 drive #1 and a third SCSI on the fibre bridge to LTO3 drive #2. ...

Are there reasons to prefer the HP branded LTO3 native fibre tape drive over the IBM LTO3 native fibre tape drive when used with the HP Omniback tape backup software on HP-UX? I would expect that HP has some proprietary differentiated features and that HP Omnback exploits those to...

Hi all, I need to write an introductory documentation about SAN technologies. Which software can I use for make a visual diagram (or a public domain picture) to explain about: -fiber cable and different connectors -host bus adapter and GBIC -topologies (switches, hubs, fabrics, naming schema...)...

I like to demount one of the two DLT SCSI drives in my Overland LibraryXpress LXB Module. Unfortunately the system can not run with only one installed drive. When I demount one drive, an error message 2072 appears and the system is not anymore usable. In the menus of the LXB I could not found a...

HI all. I'm trying to use a Certance CDL432LWF in AutoLoader mode. (It's a DAT72 drive with 6-tape cartridge.) I hope to use it as a pure autolader with some software that doen't work with Msoft removeable storage etc. On the LCD menu, you can can set the unit to Autoloader mode such that each...

Hi! I'm new to Fibre Channel switches and have a problem seting up a small SAN for evaluating a Cluster-Filesystem Software. The SAN consists of a JBOD With 10 public LUNs and three computers (two SGI Octanes and one Win XP PC). After I recieved the switch, I have reset it to factory defaults...

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...

I'm wondering how much difference there exists between SATA and, say FCAL drives when it comes to robustness. I'm talking drives that will be more than 20% busy with seeks, always spinning, in news servers. I've seen a too-high rate on FCAL disks used as JBOD - about half the drives developing bad...