Hi All, Recently, we received a pile of 3590 tapes from one of our customers, and we have no way of reading them. After a bit of digging, I found some reasonably priced refurbs (http://www.tapedrives-3480to3590.com/), though I'm still in a bit of sticker-shock. My extremely naive...

hi everyone, Am presenlty Testing the I/o performance on the new CX-500 San From Emc And Hba From Emulex,The LUn Size is 1 TB and when doing the Testing with SQlIO Tool with a I/o block size-8 i get 39.3 MB/sec for Random write requestes but when doing the same with Random Read requests i get...

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I'm trying to figure out the pros and cons for backing up to a disk device vs. using a virtual tape library like the Clariion Disk Library. You're backing up to disk on both of them, presumably at the same speeds but it seems that the VTL adds a level of complexity and cost. Does anyone have any...

I've been working on a Sun StorEdge 3511 with dual RAID controllers and three expansion boxes. We originally purchased the equipment expecting to get 16 terabytes of usable space. Now that it's "all set up", we're really seeing more like 14 or 15 terabytes, depending on how you do the...

Hi All, We have 3 Snap! servers in use, and one (2200) have been giving us problems off and on, but of late it seems to have lost it's network connectivity. I was hoping to reload the OS to see if this solves the problems, but you need the Snap! Assist software to do this. Problem here is that...

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I recently rsync'd around 2.8TB between a RHE server (jfs fs) and a Netapps system. Did a 'du -sk' against each to verify the transfers: 2894932960 sources total, KB 2751664496 destination total, KB That's a 140GB discrepancy. Subsequent verbose rsyncs have turned up nothing that was...

hi everyone, Am presenlty Testing the I/o performance on the new CX-500 San From Emc And Hba From Emulex,The LUn Size is 1 TB and when doing the Testing with SQlIO Tool with a I/o block size-8 i get 39.3 MB/sec for Random write requestes but when doing the same with Random Read requests i get...

Hello, As far as I understand, when you have a SAN network with a fibre switch and several computers want to access to the same resource (hard disk arrays) a file-locking software is necessary. If it is not used, every computer sees the resource as private. If I am not correct, please, let me...

Hi, I have recently inherited a Quantum ATL P1000. It is having trouble reading barcodes. I have a question for anybody who has used one of these before, is the Laser/LED light visible during inventory if you look into the top of the unit? I'm not seeing any light at all during inventory (on...

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We have two Iomega P800 NAS servers running cut down edition of Windows 2000 server. Both have dual 2.4GHz and 1GB RAM each. Server A is online and has 1TB capacity. Approx. 300GB of the storage is currently occupied. This server is used to store customer files. We regularly backup this server to...

Hi, I have had a multitude of problems with my superloader L600. I call Quantum tech support under a warranty contract quite often. As of recently, all superloader support has been outsourced to India. The way I found out was every time I call, a person speaking with an Indian accent would pick...

For years I've been using boot manager programs with multiple primary partitions on multiple drives. Or I skip the boot manager and use a disk editor to change the partition table in some cases. From that perspective I can't figure out what would be a proper definition for a 'primary' partition. ...

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With a storage array in AVT mode (so that luns move from one controller to the other if I/O for that lun reaches the other controller), a Windows host with a dual port HBA, and each controller has ports, there are 8 possible paths to the lun. Is is possible to configure the HBA failover using...

Hello, Could somebody explain me the mechanism/procedure of loop master selection in Fibre Channel Arbitrared Loops? I wonder wchich device becomes the loop master - is it the one with the lowest WWN? Thanks

Background info : EMC Celerra IP : 10.36.96.217 Backup Server IP : 10.36.96.208 Backup between the two works fine, however has to go through a switch and drains the main bandwidth available from the Celerra, so what I have done is directly connected a port on the Celerra via cat6 to another...

Hi, Our SAN run over two locations (10 kilometers), one is humanless, the other is near my desk. Now I am looking for SAN-DVD-drive for 2 reasons: 1. booting machines from CD/DVD (CD/DVD here, machine there) 2. creating boot images on DVD Are there native fibrechannel DVD-RW drives or scsi-fc...