Hi: A very happy EMC Clariion CX customer says that he will not consider buying an IBM FAStT because in case of power failures, the CX automatically downloads unwritten data from cache to disks using their self power cells. Does anybody know about workarounds to have this kind of safety with IBM...

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Can somone please point me in the direction of a microsoft document showing the steps involved in allocating a new LUN to a cluster setup. If I have an active/passive two node microsoft cluster, and I want to add a new LUN to it, is there any harm in allocating the new LUN to both nodes, then...

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We've just installed a new FC SAN and I've just got a couple of questions about some issues we're seeing. Basically we've got single ported dual controller's connected to 2 switches. Each host has a single HBA connected to a switch. The switch is fabric enabled and both are interconnected. Our...

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Hi all. I'm triying to begin a code theory investigation about the redundancy codes in RAID systems. I will like to know if there are any papers about this type of codes and where could I get them. Thanks in advance. Gustavo Vázquez.-

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.

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...

"Jack Stewart" wrote in message ... Does anyone have (relatively recent) experience with both a NetApp NAS & EMC Celerra? If so, I'ld appreciate any comments that you might have. Our management is looking into...

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...

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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...

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...

Three years ago when some idiots set up the fileserver, for some reason - space i guess (though it wasn't required back then), the main SCSI drive array was configured as a single spanned volume consisting of 5x 34GB drives. This mistake wasn't noticed until recently when i added a new RAID 1 array...

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According to new benchmark tests by the nonprofit Storage Performance Council, Sun StorEdge entry-level and midrange systems leave the competition in the dust, with price/performance far ahead of IBM and others. See the...

I have a pair of the single-RJ12 jack Clariion DPER/DAER SPS battery backup units, but neither of them will turn on. It sounds like a hardware issue, but out of a stack of around 12 of them, none would turn on, or show any sign of life. I've taken one of them apart and tried disconnecting...

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...