Storing and updating text files on Fibre Channel switches
Hi, I am exploring a use case where in I need to store some text files on the FC switch which is connected to the host. Question is – 1) Can we store text files on the switches, persistent to switch reboots 2) Is there any API’s that can be used to create,modify and delete [...]
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| February 16, 2011 10:45 AM
FC Switch, Fibre channel, Fibre channel switches, Switches
Hi, I am exploring a use case where in I need to store some text files on the FC switch which is connected to the host. Question is – 1) Can we store text files on the switches, persistent to switch reboots 2) Is there any API’s that can be used to create,modify and delete [...]
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| February 16, 2011 10:45 AM
FC Switch, Fibre channel, Fibre channel switches, Switches
What are the benefits tO FC and iSCSI?
Cost effective and easier to manage ?
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| June 16, 2010 5:58 AM
FC, Fibre channel, iSCSI, iSCSI and FC Network, iSCSI Ports, Storage in 2010
Cost effective and easier to manage ?
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| June 16, 2010 5:58 AM
FC, Fibre channel, iSCSI, iSCSI and FC Network, iSCSI Ports, Storage in 2010
FC cable speed
How can I tell what speed capability of fiber channel cables?
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| March 25, 2010 5:03 PM
Fiber Channel, Fibre channel, Fibre Channel Cables, Fibre Channel Internet Protocol
How can I tell what speed capability of fiber channel cables?
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| March 25, 2010 5:03 PM
Fiber Channel, Fibre channel, Fibre Channel Cables, Fibre Channel Internet Protocol
Fibre Channel HBAs initiator or target mode for netapp
How can you tell if the fibre channel hbas are in initiator or target mode in a NettApp SAN?
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| November 10, 2009 4:06 PM
Fibre channel, Fibre channel SAN, HBA, NetApp, Netapp 3140, SAN
How can you tell if the fibre channel hbas are in initiator or target mode in a NettApp SAN?
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| November 10, 2009 4:06 PM
Fibre channel, Fibre channel SAN, HBA, NetApp, Netapp 3140, SAN
Fibre Channel or ISCSI for SAN
We have a SAN that is mission critical to the business. Performance and availabilty are key. I have read that I should lean towards fibre channel for this versus ISCSI but was curious if anyone has seen a noticable difference.
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| October 6, 2009 3:48 PM
Fibre channel, Fibre channel SAN, iSCSI, iSCSI SAN, SAN
We have a SAN that is mission critical to the business. Performance and availabilty are key. I have read that I should lean towards fibre channel for this versus ISCSI but was curious if anyone has seen a noticable difference.
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| October 6, 2009 3:48 PM
Fibre channel, Fibre channel SAN, iSCSI, iSCSI SAN, SAN
Fibre Channel cables – are they all the same?
Looking to purchase some fibre channel cables and was curious about what people think about each brand and if they have noticed any difference with the lower priced brand? Looking at SC-SC and LC-LC
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| October 6, 2009 5:24 PM
Fibre channel, Fibre Channel Cables
Looking to purchase some fibre channel cables and was curious about what people think about each brand and if they have noticed any difference with the lower priced brand? Looking at SC-SC and LC-LC
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| October 6, 2009 5:24 PM
Fibre channel, Fibre Channel Cables
FCoE investment: worth the upgrade or holding off?
Do you use mostly traditional Fibre Channel or FCoE devices in your organization, or a balance of both? What are the contributing factors? What would be the tipping point that would cause you to switch from using mostly one type over to the other? Also see: Will 2011 be the year of Fibre Channel over [...]
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| August 18, 2009 8:37 PM
FCoE, Fibre channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Storage hardware
Do you use mostly traditional Fibre Channel or FCoE devices in your organization, or a balance of both? What are the contributing factors? What would be the tipping point that would cause you to switch from using mostly one type over to the other? Also see: Will 2011 be the year of Fibre Channel over [...]
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| August 18, 2009 8:37 PM
FCoE, Fibre channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Storage hardware
Would you go with iSCSI or Fibre Channel for mass storage in this case?
Is there any TPS benchmarking available in deciding whether to go for Fibre channel or iSCSI? We are using Oracle database which requires a Terabyte of storage and will be operating at the 1000TPS at peak level. In this case – should we go for iSCSI or Fibre Channel as the mass storage device? Thank [...]
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| June 23, 2009 3:19 PM
Fibre channel, iSCSI, Oracle Benchmark Testing, Storage Channel, Storage management, Transactions Per Second
Is there any TPS benchmarking available in deciding whether to go for Fibre channel or iSCSI? We are using Oracle database which requires a Terabyte of storage and will be operating at the 1000TPS at peak level. In this case – should we go for iSCSI or Fibre Channel as the mass storage device? Thank [...]
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| June 23, 2009 3:19 PM
Fibre channel, iSCSI, Oracle Benchmark Testing, Storage Channel, Storage management, Transactions Per Second
How can I use fibre channel hard disk in SATA or IDE port
how can I use fibler channle hard disk in sata or IDE port
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| June 8, 2012 10:26 AM
Fibre channel, IDE hard drives, SATA hard drives
how can I use fibler channle hard disk in sata or IDE port
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| June 8, 2012 10:26 AM
Fibre channel, IDE hard drives, SATA hard drives
XenServer on Hitachi BladeSymphony 320
I have installed XenServer on a blade inside a Hitachi BladeSymphony 320. The issue i have is that it doesnt recognize the FC HBA Any suggestions
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| February 23, 2009 5:10 PM
Blade servers, Fibre channel, HBA, Hitachi BladeSymphony, XenServer
I have installed XenServer on a blade inside a Hitachi BladeSymphony 320. The issue i have is that it doesnt recognize the FC HBA Any suggestions
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| February 23, 2009 5:10 PM
Blade servers, Fibre channel, HBA, Hitachi BladeSymphony, XenServer
Need SAN upgrade suggestions
Need to upgrade our SAN due to performance limitations of the HP MSA2000 using fibre channel to connect to our xen servers Any suggestions on products and your experiences Thanks
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| February 21, 2009 2:48 PM
Fibre channel, HP MSA2000, SAN, SAN Upgrades, Storage management, XenServer
Need to upgrade our SAN due to performance limitations of the HP MSA2000 using fibre channel to connect to our xen servers Any suggestions on products and your experiences Thanks
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| February 21, 2009 2:48 PM
Fibre channel, HP MSA2000, SAN, SAN Upgrades, Storage management, XenServer
Adding an additonal Fibre channel card on XServe G5
I have tape library that connects via fibre channel. When I set up the tape library, I’ve connected it to an open port on a QLogic fibre channel switch that had an XServer G5 and seven RAIDS. The tape library is running into speed and connection issues when the RAIDs are being hit with a [...]
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| February 24, 2009 4:23 PM
Fibre channel, Fibre Channel Card, Fibre channel switches, Qlogic, RAID, Tape libraries, Xserve, Xserve G5
I have tape library that connects via fibre channel. When I set up the tape library, I’ve connected it to an open port on a QLogic fibre channel switch that had an XServer G5 and seven RAIDS. The tape library is running into speed and connection issues when the RAIDs are being hit with a [...]
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| February 24, 2009 4:23 PM
Fibre channel, Fibre Channel Card, Fibre channel switches, Qlogic, RAID, Tape libraries, Xserve, Xserve G5
NetApp drive replacement warranty contract vs not
So I have taken a job where the entire network is falling apart and I have a couple NetApp filers. The FAS 3020 is still under contract and working fine with 7.0.4. It uses Seagate ST3146807FC FC-AL 10.6k 146GB fibre disks. The F840 however has a couple broken disks that need to be replaced and [...]
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| February 11, 2009 4:10 PM
F840, FAS3020, Fibre channel, Fibre Disks, NAS, NetApp, Seagate, Seagate ST3146807FC
So I have taken a job where the entire network is falling apart and I have a couple NetApp filers. The FAS 3020 is still under contract and working fine with 7.0.4. It uses Seagate ST3146807FC FC-AL 10.6k 146GB fibre disks. The F840 however has a couple broken disks that need to be replaced and [...]
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| February 11, 2009 4:10 PM
F840, FAS3020, Fibre channel, Fibre Disks, NAS, NetApp, Seagate, Seagate ST3146807FC
Throughput calculator for all the SAN subsystem?
I was searching for a long time for a simple tool which can tell us the controller throughput of any SAN environment. Its necessary for every Storage engineer to have this utility to cross verify the subsystem we buy. Ofcourse the vendor will have the tool or LAB benchmark for the same. But those will [...]
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| August 20, 2009 9:43 AM
Bandwidth, Fibre channel, Network storage, NFS, SAN, SAN throughput, SAN throughput sizing, Shared Network Storage, Storage Area Network, Throughput
I was searching for a long time for a simple tool which can tell us the controller throughput of any SAN environment. Its necessary for every Storage engineer to have this utility to cross verify the subsystem we buy. Ofcourse the vendor will have the tool or LAB benchmark for the same. But those will [...]
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| August 20, 2009 9:43 AM
Bandwidth, Fibre channel, Network storage, NFS, SAN, SAN throughput, SAN throughput sizing, Shared Network Storage, Storage Area Network, Throughput
Any common tool for measuring controller throughput?
I was searching for a long time for a simple tool which can tell us the controller throughput of any SAN environment. Its necessary for every Storage engineer to have this utility to cross verify the subsystem we buy. Ofcourse the vendor will have the tool or LAB benchmark for the same. But those will [...]
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| February 6, 2009 9:41 AM
Fibre channel, NAS, Network Controller, SAN, SAN throughput sizing, Storage management
I was searching for a long time for a simple tool which can tell us the controller throughput of any SAN environment. Its necessary for every Storage engineer to have this utility to cross verify the subsystem we buy. Ofcourse the vendor will have the tool or LAB benchmark for the same. But those will [...]
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| February 6, 2009 9:41 AM
Fibre channel, NAS, Network Controller, SAN, SAN throughput sizing, Storage management
Fibre Channel Card Drivers to access SCSI layer
Are there comercially available Fibre Channel Cards with drivers that allow direct access to the low level SCSI commands on a disk?
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| January 15, 2009 2:13 PM
Fibre channel, Fibre Channel Card, SCSI
Are there comercially available Fibre Channel Cards with drivers that allow direct access to the low level SCSI commands on a disk?
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| January 15, 2009 2:13 PM
Fibre channel, Fibre Channel Card, SCSI
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?
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| February 5, 2009 4:46 PM
Dell Storage, FCoE, Fibre channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet
How many of you are considering FCoE as a transition from Fibre Channel to Ethernet?
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| February 5, 2009 4:46 PM
Dell Storage, FCoE, Fibre channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet
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?
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| November 6, 2008 5:31 PM
Data management, Dell Storage, Fibre channel, iSCSI, Storage strategy
Do 10Gbit iSCSI and 8Gbit FC change how you think about this and your strategy for managing your data in the future?
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| November 6, 2008 5:31 PM
Data management, Dell Storage, Fibre channel, iSCSI, Storage strategy
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 conversation.
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| September 8, 2008 1:38 PM
Dell Storage, Fibre channel, iSCSI
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 conversation.
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| September 8, 2008 1:38 PM
Dell Storage, Fibre channel, iSCSI
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 [...]
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| September 9, 2008 7:05 PM
Dell Storage, Fibre channel, Fibre channel SAN, iSCSI, SAN
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 [...]
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| September 9, 2008 7:05 PM
Dell Storage, Fibre channel, Fibre channel SAN, iSCSI, SAN
