Has anyone seen a good drive testing application that will run as a bootable CD and test any logical device exposed on the BIOS boot storage adapter? -- Will

Does anyone know if the CX300 requires the Supplemental Power Supply? The documentation seems to imply that you must have the SPS in order to do write caching. I understand it provides battery-backed power for cache destaging, but our datacenter is fully UPS protected so I don't want to waste...

Is it possible to add an extra drive to the existing 2 Ultriums in the MSL 6030??

Hello. Can someone come up with some expectations for lifetimes for different tape solutions (Travan, DAT, DLT, Ultrium) for mission critical data. That is in different situations: - tape is written once, put in safe storage - tape is written multiple times (some sort of rotation in the backup...

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...

Can someone tell me how critical this is and what it means.. thanx. the bug

Disk space is not a concern, performance and above all failover capacity are more important to us. I've seen plenty of posts about RAID 5 and RAID 10 (1 + 0) But, the people (such as silver Dell tech support)I was asking to are mostly suggesting me to use RAID 5, especially HARDWARE RAID 5 with...

Say I have the Western Digital 500GB NetCenter, with all my video/audio etc on it, hooked up to my standard router. Say I have Apple TV hooked up to my TV. With this setup I'd still have to be running a PC somewhere for Apple TV to be streaming music/video because iTunes would be on a PC even...

is there any possibilities to map owner,group,subgroup etc against the qtree for reporting purpose. My aim is to find out allocation vs usage for business groups. qtree is allocated to business groups. unix users and groups are not mapped with these business groups due to work of nature so need to...

The question is on the role of host cache during disaster with SAN. Let's assume a simple setup with a host connecting to an external RAID box. An application write data, host put them on it's page cache and tells the application that it's done, and so application carries on. While the dirty data...

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Hi, How long would it take (on a decent NAS filer) to read the meta data for 300TB of data via NFS? I know the answer varys for different vendors, but im just looking for a ballpark... Assuming average file size of 1MB, which is the case in my environment, I estimate I have about 300 million...

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I am trying to upgrade an IBM LTO2 tape drive from a firmware revision in the 3000 series to 53Y3 using the IBM LTO-TDX tool under Windows. First, is this utility still IBM's state of the art for firmware upgrades? The UI and error checking look to be about 1987 quality software. ...

Hello, I would also like to find the source for an (sample) XBSA client or application (i.e. links against an XBSA library) so I can better understand the XBSA API, function call sequence , etc. Vasili

Hi I write from Barcelona, Spain We have our security copies in around 3000 cd's we are now realizing that cd support is not eternal. We want to pass it to other storage system ( in example, hdd for dialy consulting and tapes as a backup for put it in a bank cage). My first doubt is does anyone...

I need to know where exactly file sits on the disk. I know that I can use "ncheck /dev/... | grep filename" in order to find file's i-number. How do I translate that number to physical sector on disk ? I tried to understand how fsdb works, but failed.. Please help..

I currently have an opportunity available for a Senior Storage Engineer with a Infrastructure Hardware reseller's professional services arm and wanted to see if you would be interested in the opportunity. They are looking for people well versed in the installation and integration of EMC, HP, &...

Hello I've two servers in clusters (Windows Server 2003) CLS with the clusters CLS01 and CLS02 I just make some updates and after reboot the server CLS02 I can't see the virtual disks. in clusters! I can manage both of them from each cluster but How can I see my virtual disks?

Is there anything to say about the maximum number of drives you should connect to a Ultra320 channel on a RAID controller (for a single RAID5 set)? Modern Ultra320 10.000RPM drives have a throughput between 59 and 118MB/s (according to Seagate datasheets). Does this mean you can only have 3 to 5...