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How many of you are considering FCoE as a transition from Fibre Channel to Ethernet?

How many of you are considering FCoE as a transition from Fibre Channel to Ethernet?

How widespread is de-duplication in your data center?

How widespread is de-duplication in your data center? Backup/archive de-dupe? Integrated into every file server? Being considered but not yet implemented?

capacity management planning for 30+ servers

Hi all, I have to do capacity planning for each server in our envr. about 30 server, i need an experts help, do u have any tremplate, any tools that can estimate how much storage each server needs for the future "next two years for example" i need it too urgent , any template help me ,,,

Is thin provisioning a nice to have or critical in your storage planning?

Is thin provisioning a nice to have or critical in your storage planning?

What is keeping you from moving to D2D2T backup solution?

What is keeping you from moving to D2D2T backup solution?

Are new improvements in storage around power and cooling leading you to start factoring storage into your power and cooling planning?

Are new improvements in storage around power and cooling leading you to start factoring storage into your power and cooling planning?

Is virtualization causing you to rethink your storage infrastructure or consider adding/moving to a SAN?

Is virtualization causing you to rethink your storage infrastructure or consider adding/moving to a SAN?

IP-SAN solutions

Am looking for resources to help me find a low-cost IP-SAN solution. This request for help was originally submitted to the Research Assistant on WhatIs.com.

Do 10Gbit iSCSI and 8Gbit FC change how you think about your strategy for managing your data in the future?

Do 10Gbit iSCSI and 8Gbit FC change how you think about this and your strategy for managing your data in the future?

Are you using both Fibre Channel and iSCSI in your storage environment?

The Storage Experts from Dell are interested in knowing you thoughts on this question: Are you using both Fibre Channel and iSCSI in your storage environment, or do you favor one over the other? If you have questions for the Storage Experts from Dell read this blog post on how to start the...

how can we access the SAN/ storage which is attached to solaris server from a linux server/box over the network

how can we access the SAN/ storage which is attached to solaris server from a linux server/box over the network and the storage should be permanent even though we restart the linux box/server

Why are users losing connection to NAS with event ID 1030 and 1058?

Recently I deployed a new NAS with Dell PowerEdge 2950. My NAS is running Windows Storage Server R2 and my AD server is still running Windows 2000. My problem is users are suddenly losing connection and are unable to access the NAS. The event viewer shows event ID 1030 and 1058. The only solution...

Reverse FC/iSCSI Gateway

I have a FC SAN in place and want to purchase an iSCSI array to segregate some data from the rest of the SAN members. I know of a few iSCSI gateways that all iSCSI initiators to talk to a FC target. I want to do the opposite...FC initiators to an iSCSI target. Does anyone know of a gateway type...