I'm trying to get some performance numbers on a NAS system and was trying to determine the most cost effective way to put a load on system. Do I have to get a whole bunch of nfs/cifs clients or is there a "black box" that essentially simulates the network traffic?

What are some good software utilities for surface testing hard drives for errors under Windows 2000 / 2003? We were using IOMETER for a while, but recently it has stopped working because some other program is taking a TCP port it wants to own, and it also appears that development has stopped...

Well guys, I finally found my 'holy grail' robot to physically automate CD/DVD disc spanning for backup purposes. No I'm not talking about one of those office copier sized machines that only institutions can get enough use out of to get a return on their institutional sized investment. However,...

Assume a file /home/test in the WAFL filesystem and its snapshot as /.snapshot/hourly.x/test Both of them are having the same inode number say INO Now if /home/test is changed, why doesnt its inode number change, since INO will be needed to represent /.snapshot/hourly.x/test?

Greetings. I'm posting this new thread for all of you to let me know your opinion about which storage scheme (in a generic way, independent of the O.S.) works better for you. E.G. This guy in Flickr prefers this kind of organization for his files: http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrickm/115767018/

hi, As i understand Visual SRM can scan different types of storage and collect information about the resources. ex: Exchange server, SQL/Oracle DB server or some network drive. in case of network drive, VisualSRM can collect size info for all folders and subdirectories insie this mapped drive. How...

Opportunities available at prestigious storage company in Amsterdam Netherlands. Skills needed: * Excellent networking skills Cisco etc * Customer case management * Good knowledge of CIFS ( Windows 2000 / 3, Active Directory or Unix (including NFS) SAN protocols such as FCP, iSCSI

Hi all! Since the amount of data to backup in our institute is several TB, I was looking for a tape library like the Overland Neo 2000 or Quantum PX502 with LTO 3 tapes (12 TB native) and automatic changer (U320 SCSI). Everything should run on Linux. The problem is the following. The library...

EqualLogic's VP of marketing will be providing a free informative webinar on how an iSCSI SAN can help simplify storage needs for healthcard (and other) industries. Tuesday, Mar 28, 2006 2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST John Joseph, Vice President of Marketing,...

I'm looking for a storage consultant in the South San Francisco Bay Area to do occasional short jobs testing storage arrays, bringing them up to latest firmware, etc. I'm very flexible on hours, and this could even be done by someone with a regular job during off hours. Time would not exceed...

I am a storage admin for a large SAN environment. I am having an ongoing debate with the Solaris admins about the best way to layout a new Oracle database. We have a HDS 9980V, some high end SUN box with multiple HBAs connected to multiple Host Ports on the 9980. Veritas VM provides DMP to all...

Hi - I am debating over a NetApp 3020c filer with sata drives or an equallogic iSCSI san with 2 servers running MS Server Enterprise 2003 r2 for CIFS sharing. We are looking at growing this evnviroment to 40TB over the next few years. Performance is important but not too critical (thus the sata...

I am reviewing NAS options for our office and am using any input I can find to qualify, so I appreciate any input from those that have experience here. This is a small office (75 Users), our needs are for 1TB or less on RAID 5. We are a Windows 2003 AD shop and remote control is not necessary. I...

Hi, I am using Iometer tool.I need to print the result of Iometer as pass or fail with the values. I don't know how to decide whether Iometer test for particular access specification is passed or not (i think we have to check error coun.I am not sure) Please specify the conditions for Iometer test...

Does anyone have a parts catalog for the Hitachi TagmaStore series to share?

I have a problem and I need some help I currently have a Sony Model SMO-F541 MO Disk Drive that has broken down and given up the goods. To replace it I have a Sony Model SMO-F551-01 MO Disk Drive. The Sony website gives jumper settings for a F551 but not the 01. PLEASE someone tell me where I can...

I have a ADIC FastStor FS-DLT 7000 autoloading tape drive. When I plug it in, the green LED goes ON followed by a short beep. Then the beep goes away, and a minute laters comes back, beeping non-stop. The LCD display info screen is blank and shows me nothing. What could be the problem ? Please...

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Very simple scenario. 1 LUN from any dynamically expandable RAID disk subsystem. into 1 disk group into 1 volume with 1 filesystem. We wish to grow the filesystem and dont want to add another second LUN to the diskgroup because of lots of reasons, least of which is we paid lots of money for that...

Requesting information (or links to information) regarding on how to backup to multiple DVDs via disc spanning. Thank you, Ken