I've been told, but find it hard to believe, that fibre channel disks are quite a bit more reliable than SCSI disks. My own limited experience with fibre channel disks is that they fail at a similar rate to SCSI disks. In the past I've used arrays that contain SCSI disks. At my new job we use...

We're looking at investing in a SAN and have been comparing these two solutions but can't decide which way to go. does anyone have experience of either? any comments about comparing the two? Regards Paul

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Hi, i buyed a used crossroads 4200 als oem scsi router via ebay. Unfortunable i have no ip address or access data(user and password) Does someone know a way set the box to factory defaults? If nessesary i can open the box to bridge a ciruit. Best regards

Not really keeping up with the iscsi trends but anyone know if this would be possible sometime in the future with Solaris to boot the system via iscsi targets ? The reason I ask is because of the ability to use my SAN + ISCSI to easilly rollout many systems w/o the need of jumpstart/flash...

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...

Hello, Just a quick info gathering. I am at a customer site installing a new HDS 9990. The high level config overview: HDS 9990 (Open V 40GB LUNS) HDS 9200 (Legacy Array) Sun Fire v880 Brocade 4100's (2 Fabrics) QLogic 2GB Cards (375-3102) to new SAN

We are about to order a DMX3000 with 146GB 10K drives. Does anyone know the likely manufacturer and model # of the physical disk drives? Thanks!

Hi. Migrating an older symm to DMX, since R1/R2 conversion needs a bin file change in the old symm, we are using existing SRDF relationship to migrate data from DMX to old Symm. Now the question is, there are a few devices that are visible to a HP-UX host that don't have SRDF relationship (not...

Hi There, I need to configure Veritas DMP on a AIX 5.2 machine. MPIO seems to be grabbing the devices away. Is there a nice way to disable MPIO compeletely ? SO that I can configure DMP instead ? All help welcome.

Hi All For my research I need large storage for satellite data files. I am looking to build storage for about 1TB redundant array and 2TB volatile array. I have looked around at snap servers or other SAN solutions. I also have looked at scsi solutions but don't think that scsi is economicable....

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Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows includes a really nice feature that lets you point to which volume in a mirrored pair you will direct read requests to. You can mirror a high-speed volume to a low-cost high density form of disk, but keep all of the read I/O traffic directed at the...

I'm looking for some insight from people out there using iscsi. We're experimenting with it where I work, but the two solutions we've been testing so far haven't delivered great performance. We're using Windows 2k3 on some 3.x ghz dl320g3 servers, with one of the gigabit nic's connected to a...

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

I seek purchase recommendations on a SATA RAID 5 controller and hard drive enclosure that meets the following specs: 1. SATA II features (300MB/s, NCQ/TCQ, SMART, etc.) 2. Hot Swappable 3. Enclosure Management 4. Enclsoure has Four or Five Hard Drive bays and fits in three consecutive 5.25"...

Hi All, What is the best practice for computing the cost per GB within a SAN? If only computing the cost per GB on a single IDE HDD, it's relatively simple. However, in a SAN environment, there is so much additional infrastructure including switches, management software, arrays filled with varying...

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I am trying to find out if Legato Networker 5.5.2 will run under Solaris 9 on Sun Sparc. I found one reference where it is listed as being supported on Solaris 8, but only see Networker 6.x as being supported on Solaris 9. Is the option of running it under Solaris 9 ruled out?