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Hi All, I'm currently in the middle of a project to implement an IBM SVC Cluster on one of my SANs so that I can virtualize everything behind it. One of the concerns we have is how certain applications behave, including MS Exchange 2003. Right now, we have IBM FastT900's with Windows and AIX hosts....

Any feedback on this product? We are considering using them along with NexSan storage arrays to build NAS. Looks to be a cheaper alternative to NetApp nearline products. Anyone using them in production? TIA -G

AOS: The next big thing in data storage Globalization has brought newer business challenges in the enterprise. Issues like better corporate governance and compliance (be it Sarbanes-Oxley in the US that requires timely and accurate financial reporting, or Clause 49 in India) have taken the center...

I was just wondering for those of you who have HP, or HDS environments, I know they are going to appiq. As I understand it though, appiq has no tools for doing LUN level performance monitoring, cache monitoring on the SAN, or tools to initiate things like true copy, snapshots, etc. Will you have...

Is there anyone else which has been running AppIQ in a large environment? We've been having some problems and I'm looking to see if it's common and what people have been doing to resolve it. Doug dot vibbert at constellation dot com.

Just a general word, reviewing the appiq support matrix ahead of time will greatly help you later. If the HBA isn't supported, don't import it into the system, it will generate a lot of errors and cause a lot of headaches later. (each vendor entries are seperated by spaces between the lines and...

We have an application which is based around an oracle database and processes 100's millions of records per day. A number of tables in the oracle database are hit very hard, with reads and writes to a set of tables occuring on a near-random basis (dictated by the data received). I'm in the...

What is the best way to archive all of the data on a Snap Appliance 4500? Management wants a copy of all data off-site before writing more files. We have 350GB of data at this time and ~24 hours (Saturday night to Sunday night) to transfer it to removable media. They don't want us to use...

Hello. I'm trying to update the archive strategy of our small graphics department. First, the environment is not server centric: each designer works on files stored on his computer. To archive files, the designer uploads a finished job to shared folder on a server. Then, an administrator burns...

Hello, We want to start archiving R/3 data. We are thinking of storing the archive files on an external file server, by mapping this drive to the application server. Has anyone experience with archiving the SAP-data on another server than the application-server? With kind regards,

I've installed BrightStore ArcServe v11 in a Windows 2000 Server's machine. The DDS4 tapes worked OK for a couple of weeks, and suddenly this error (UNRECOVERABLE DATA ERROR) started to appear and I can't even format the tapes. I've tried using the cleaning tapes (I've bought a new one too), and...

hello, i use arcserve 6.5 on a windows nt 4.0 sp6 machine. the backup works fine (no error in the log file) but i have an error 3841 when i try to restore any file that are located on the second or third session on the tape. I am sure that the all the files are on the tape. The file in the first...

I've recently purchased a copy of Brightstor Arcserve 9.01 for Netware to replace Backup Exec v9.0 for Netware. I'm connected to an HP Surestor 20/2 DLT 8000 tape library unit via two AHA2940 scsi cards. When I load Arcserve on the server I only see the robot (C7200-8000) and one Quantum DLT8000...

Hi, We are using ArcServe 11.0, win2003 Server Standard Edition. To do our backup with an autoloader we need to install the tape-library-option. Unfortunately our dealer can only sell us the tape-library-option Version 11.5 Does anyone know if ArcServe Tape-Library-Option R 11.5 is compatible

I am performing a brick level back up of the MS Exhange mail boxes. It backs up sucessfully, but I cannot see how to restore from the brick level back up. Surely it can't be that difficult?!

I'm running a trial version of Arcserve v9.0 for Netware on a NW5.1 Sp6 box. I'm trying to backup an HP ProLiant DL 360 server which has a Gigabit ethernet card installed in it. My Media server had a 100Mbps NIC which I swapped out and installed a Gigabit card into. However I am continually getting...

Hi! We've been using ArcServe for NT/W2K for a number of years. Our software vendor is pushing us to switch over to BackupExec ("it's got a clearer roadmap"). I'm trying to analyse the sales bumpf from both companies to work out if one is clearer better than the other. Have any of you guys used...

I use ArsrerveIT 6.61 SP2A for Win NT. I have a problem with restoring backed up files from Novell machine with Netware Client Agent (all patches are applied). After restoring some files are OK (*.exe, *.pdf) and the others are corrupted (*.doc, *.xls and others). Thank you in advance for any...

I have a Quantum SDLT320 drive on a linux host for which we've bought: 5 Quantum SDLT-I tapes and 5 HP SDLT-I tapes. I am alarmed that two of each brand are defective. Symptoms are twofold: 1 tape took tar files up to (I presume) capacity without error, but "tar tvf" of those files failed. 3 tapes...