Hi, We have recently purchased an IBM DS300 for use on our network and have managed to set it up so it is visible from one server which is what we wanted but we have got a problem. The server is a Windows 2000 server and I am connecting using Micrsoft ISCSI Initiator to connect to the...

I'm trying to setup the Adaptec Snap 4500 for the first time. Since we don't have DHCP on the network it defaults to IP 10.10.10.10 and subnet 0.0.0.0. The management software recognizes the name of the server and show it is online, but has the IP configuration greyed-out in the context menu...

Hi, We're currently running a couple of SAN-Switches in a HP C-Class Blade interconnected to our central switches (Brocade) with redundant links. Though the central SAN-Switch does have a trunking license the Blade-Switches don't have one (yet). My questions: o) Is a trunking license really...

Hello, I use Veritas Backup Exec for Windows NT and Windows 2000 Version 8.6. When I start the program I receive the following error message: "Could not connect to the Device and Media Service". And of course the backups failed. When I want to see the Job Log, I receive the following...

I've heard lots of FUD about the EMC Clariion/CX-series catching a virus since they boot windows and sit on a network. Has anyone had a EMC system get a virus?

Can you somebody forward me details/documentation on using MPIO with Redhat linux?

The format used by NDMP is NOT in the Spec. It's the only way they got all the NAS vendors to agree to use it. NDMP is only a communication protocol. It says "hi. I'm here to back you up, please send a backup stream to this device." NDMP then does what it's told and tells your backup app what...

I started with a new company and I inheirited a backup system problem. This has a NetVault 7.1 with patch E installed. A Breece Hill 8 pak library, on a Windows 2000 server. The 8-pak has the library set to SCSI 0 and the tape drive itself set to SCSI 1. The library has been replaced by Breece...

Hi all. I am currently setting up my first fabric. I want to add my existing simple fibre SAN setup to it. I just need a little bit of clarification / sanity check on what I am doing. Currently I have a simple point-to-point setup with a LSILogic Disk array with 2x controllers with 2x fibre...

I've just setup 4 scsi 10g disk on a LVM volume, and created one partition which comes up to be 36g. My question is, what happens if one of the hard drives fail? what does LVM do? does the entire group die? I am running ubuntu dapper on a intel pentium III 800mhz server.

Hey, does anyone know where I can get the latest Guardian OS for my Snap Server 4200, apart from the Snap/Adaptec site itself? Thanks.

Is anyone using LSF in their environment? If so would you be willing to share the type of backend storage being used? Thanks. ~F

I recently bought a Thecus N2100 YES box. I was after a network disk which I could store HD video footage on (at least until someone decides on a DVD format). Basically it has an Intel Xscale chip, 128MB memory and (I've put in) 2 x 300gb Maxtor eSATA disks. Turning the box on I get the startup...

Very simple scenario. 1 LUN from any dynamically expandable RAID disk subsystem. into 1 disk group into 1 volume with 1 filesystem. We wish to grow the filesystem and dont want to add another second LUN to the diskgroup because of lots of reasons, least of which is we paid lots of money for that...

SymmWin Visual Symmetrix view to Excel file..................................can it be done?? I just want to copy the table to an excel sheet. TIA

Anyone can describe the impact on Netapp filer if primary DNS server goes down. Configuration is as follows :- In "/etc/resolv.conf" file more than one DNS servers are mentioned. Primarily filer is bound with NIS as nis is first entry in "/etc/ nsswitch.conf" file and dns is second. In "/etc/hosts"...

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. ...

Currently my TSM server is not running aio and after the holiday I'm considering turning it on. Does anyone know of a reason that an AIX TSM server should not run aio? Mike

Considering purchasing some Raidzone Gangstor boxes. Looking for feedback from users of this equipment. Are you happy with the equipment, the service and support? Thanks. Jim

Hi, We might want to change the FA's assigned to certain hosts to more distribute the load. We would like to do this without loosing any data. However, we know that sometimes we might not be able to keep the SCSI ID that was assigned to those disks before. We are using Veritas Volume Managar and...