Type of storage/backup solution
Hey everyone,I just started with a medium sized business doing IT work, and they have asked me to research types of backup solutions. At this point we are running a server that holds about 350 GB of data, and we have 2 remote offsite locations which they would also like to back up as well. The...
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| May 3 2007 3:27 PM GMT
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DWillms
Storage, Storage products and equipment, Adapters/Interfaces
Data Center Builds
Does anyone have any ideas on how to get involved with build outs for data centers from a telecom perspective. My company is looking for opportunities to build out our network but I need to be able to present them with the scenario. I realize this might sound like a "sales" message or...
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| Jan 9 2007 4:48 PM GMT
| asked by
lejoneric
Budgeting, Business/IT alignment, Compliance
Exchange 2000 server and ms outlook 2000 installation,configuration
Hi,I am going to deply MS Exchange 2000 server in my organisation, Before that we have no message system, Now we have 200 systems of windows XP/Windows 98 with MS Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Pls guide me how to Install and Configure MS Echange 2000 Server and MS Outlook 2000.What r the parameters...
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| Jan 8 2007 11:09 PM GMT
| asked by
chinmoymohanty
Exchange security, Hardware, Cabling
EMC Clariion CX700 Problems - Data Sector Invalidated
Hello,I have two EMC Clariion CX700's (which, for convenience we call CX700-1 and CX700-2) and one recently added CX3-40 in my SAN environment using fiber-switch fabric. Over the weekend, I experienced a hardware failure on SPA on CX700-1. After having it replaced by my vendor's technician and...
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| Nov 15 2006 5:44 PM GMT
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UniCal
Storage, Storage products and equipment, Adapters/Interfaces
Equallogic
Hi,Just looking for people's experiences of using Equallogic SAN attached storage. Specifically- Performance- Interoperability- Cost - Competition- Management softwareThanks in advanceNoz
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| Nov 6 2006 11:03 AM GMT
| asked by
nozmeister0
Arrays, SAN, Storage servers
IBM TS7740 Virtualization Engine
Does anyone know what IBM disk controller or disk array is integrated as the disk buffer into their recently announced TS7740 enterprise tape virtualization solution?
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| Sep 12 2006 6:12 PM GMT
| asked by
Kerouac
Storage, Backup & recovery, Storage products and equipment
Increasing server performance
Help reviving servers.Configuration current:8 300GB disks in Raid 5 10000RPM Each.Total 2TB (70%Full) with an average of 68kb files tottal of 24 million files. The curent read rate is at 8MB/Sec on NTFS windows 2003 Partition. Any suggestions on increasing performance on current configuration. P.S....
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| Sep 7 2006 5:59 PM GMT
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dimchik
Storage, Storage products and equipment, Adapters/Interfaces
802.11 vs 802.16
I have a small co. with a point to point wireless grid. I handle off site monitoring of gas nad oil flow. I have been overlaping my grid with new locations, and more to come. So I have been looking into new wireless Sys. I have made the choice to use All-In-One?360 Multi-Band/Multi-Mode Antenna...
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| Aug 14 2006 8:30 PM GMT
| asked by
cablegeeks
Budgeting, Compliance, Laws
Storage allocation methods
My current employer began allocating disk before having a storage administrator on staff. When a file system would achieve 90%, the individual systems admins would log on and just assign themselves new LUNs. This has made layout of the disk a nightmare. One thing they have done - in the name of...
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| Aug 11 2006 8:30 AM GMT
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jcdick1
Storage, Arrays, SAN
Drives Not showing full capacity after reinstall XP
DimensionXPS/Gen2 machine. WinXP Home SP2. Intel 82801ER SATA Raid controller(factory), (*2*) WD 1200JB 70GB hard drives. MyComputer shows only the "partition"'s worth of the drive used when I did WinXP reinstall, and goofed format (fat32, instead of NTFS).Have researched incl. Dell, and still...
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| Jul 19 2006 5:33 PM GMT
| asked by
Nanci252
Hardware, Arrays, RAID
Disk Usage
I am just looking for opinions about users file server disk usage.About 30% of our users average over 1.25 gig of disk space used. This includes all user files and email file. I am just wondering if this is normal or excessive. If people can please let me know what their usage is I would...
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| Jul 3 2006 1:19 PM GMT
| asked by
imazing
Budgeting, Business/IT alignment, Project management
Sun Multipack 711 SCSI Hard Disk Array
Can the Sun Multipack 711 SCSI Hard Disk Array be used with PCs having SCSI 1 or SCSI 2 cards, or with PowerMac with external SCSI 2 port?thank you for your attention. malcolm
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| Jun 9 2006 4:25 AM GMT
| asked by
fingercheck
Arrays
Host based Striping of LUNs
I'm looking for some information regarding host based striping of LUNs - specifically to improve performance. I have a Raid 5 LUN that hold a database. I know that I have a latency issue on this LUN so i'm debating whether to split the LUN into two seperate Raid 5 LUNS then stipe these using host...
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| Mar 24 2006 6:52 AM GMT
| asked by
geddesb
Storage, Storage products and equipment, Arrays
storage
Hi , I am mahesh.j a fresher , i would like build my carrier on storage .where i am familer to storage hardware now i would like expertise on it.My question is that how to be expertise on it, so i would request u all help me on it by ur guidlines. what are platform of operating...
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| Mar 21 2006 9:05 AM GMT
| asked by
sjmahesh
Storage, Commvault, Computer Associates
HP EVA 3000 to 6000 upgrade/replacement
HelloCan anyone share with me their experiences or knowledge of upgrading and/or replace a HP Eva 3000 to a HP EVA 6000.Thanks for your time and helpjculkincys
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| Mar 6 2006 9:59 AM GMT
| asked by
jculkincys
Storage, Storage products and equipment, Arrays
Query on Storage labs
Hi,We are a Software product company exploring options to test our product offerings on EMC, Hitachi storage arrays. Having said this we are looking out for (commercial) Storage labs such as Veritest that enable fee-based access for external users/non-partners.Please have your advice on this.Many...
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| Mar 1 2006 2:42 AM GMT
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Mainstream
Storage, Computer Associates, EMC
Exchange restores from swapped raid 1 drives
My question relates to hardware and exchange. In this scenario I would be running a set of hotswap raid 1 drives: one with exchange and the information store databases and another with transaction logs. If my Information store were to become corrupt and I loaded a backup set of drives with the...
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| Dec 22 2005 1:55 PM GMT
| asked by
Arakes
Exchange, Exchange security, Hardware
hard drive
I want to know the Practical / Technical and Management information on how to operate the hard disks can someone help
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| Dec 7 2005 7:18 AM GMT
| asked by
eduado
Career development, Outsourcing, Project management
RAID question
I currently have the following setup on my server:Win2k3 Adaptec 29160 Ultra 160 SCSI adapter2-36G SCSI drives2-73G SCSI drivesthe 36G holds the OS and programsthe 73G holds data filesI have each mirrored with software RAID 1 in the OSI am ordering a new hardware RAID SCSI controller to make the...
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| Sep 21 2005 5:53 PM GMT
| asked by
TheVyrys
Hardware, Cabling, Servers
Exchange 2003 / File Server Cluster - Best practice - WHAT IS your OPINION?
I have setup a 2-node Win2k3 cluster with a PowerVault 13 Disk Storage. WE are using this for: 1) Exchange and 2)File/Print servicesI have a 2 140GB disk on a RAID 1 for with partitions q: for Quorum and E: I have the rest of the 11 on a RAID 5 139 TB 1 partion d:** This will be for 250 USERS...
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| Aug 17 2005 2:02 PM GMT
| asked by
ocarmona
Exchange, Exchange security, Microsoft Windows
