Hi, I am newbie in storage. I have installed two servers in 2003 Edition. The two servers are using EVA8000 SAN, and I have created a LUN with 500GB and shared it. So, now two servers are able to look at this single point of LUN and access the files. Now the question is I am not able to see the...

Hi, I have a clariion fc5300 and a brocade 2400 switch in my lab. I also have EMC's navisphere manager but I do not have navisphere hosts agent ( mainly for solaris and hp-ux 11iv2 ) so I can't use the navisphere manager to control my storage. Does anyone have? Please help and thanks.

Dear all, I've posted some time ago and reported problems with latency on our SAN. We've come to the conclusion that we've to run a benchmark, we've suggested bonnie++ and our Datacenter has welcomed that idea. We mainly host DB2 Databases on the SAN and have an application which writes (and...

Hi, I am pretty new in connecting Solaris servers to Clariion CX using Emulex or any SAN for it matters. I wonder if anyone can explain or guide me to docus on my queries ** What is persistent binding means? ** what is WWPN? ** when configuring the lpfc.conf, which is the corect WWPN to use? the...

My 30gb MaxtorDiamondMax plus 8 HDD stopped booting into windows, no even in safemode , FIXBOOT, then led to 'NTLD missing' message, I put it in as slave in Windows XP using another a Master, I hoped it would see all my documents, programs, folders.... but it says the HDD is only 10mb, also with...

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...)...

Does anyone have any information about the availability of the Linksys EFG120 Network Attached Storage (NAS) device? It was announced as shipping by Linksys like a month ago and is listed by many retailers but nobody has any in-stock. I'm thinking it's not really shipping. Today I checked the...

I've question regarding RAID 5, is there any benefit in going beyond 3 hard disks when you're using RAID 5 ?. Obviously if you need huge amounts of storage then 'yes' but if you have modest storage requirements (say 8 GB) and need faster read/writes is there any benefit from having more disks ?...

Hi, I'm running Brightstor Arcserve Backup 9 on a RedHat ES 3.0. My average load on this duel processor server is over 1 and the process causing this is the caloggerd deamon. It's always using 24.9% CPU when I view it in using top. The next process is recorded is only 0.2% CPU. Another thing...

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For a Windows-only site with a couple of Win2K clusters, SQL, Exchange, Citrix, and IIS I'm looking to build an overview of viable ways of real-time or near real-time replication of data to a remote site. No access to raw fibre, just TCP/IP with decent bandwidth (30-50Mbit/s dedicated). I'd like...

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Is anyone aware of a product or products that will allow for the seamless sharing of both of these platforms? I know HDS has a product that used to be called "RapidXchange" that allow for the reading of open systems data on a mainframe. Thanks.

Hi Folks: I have to go to Japan and work on a server configuration. Both servers have MSA1500 array controllers. OS is Windows 2003 Server. The company has been evaluating one of our base server configurations for months and ended up buying it. Now they want to upgrade this base server to...

Hi, I thought we had everything covered, but we still have issues. I can't find HP's "Checklist" for Windows hosts on a SAN (for backup). Our Windows group thought they had it but noone can find it. We have a mix of 2000 and 2003. Anybody gotta link to a doc/web/pdf? Thanks, Tom

Hi everyone, I'm preparing to put together a system geared towards editing large files in Photoshop as well other graphic-based functions. I was hoping for some input on the potential build which includes: Processors: Dual AMD Opteron Model 146, 1MB L2 Cache 64-bit Processors Motherboard:

Hello Do you Know the diffrences between these two drives? oh and just to make my post useful :- 1, Make sure all ide drives are connected with boot Hard drive as primary master (set with jumper on back of hard drive (use anti-static strap)) 2, when using linux make sure you have a low-level hard...

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Hi, I found an EMC specific mailing list / group on yahoo groups. It deals with EMC software and hardware only. That list is a low volume list, and could certainly use expertise which I have seen on this newsgroup. Please join the group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/emc_list/