NETAPP SnapShot or VTL ???
Hello, We currently purchased 2 Netapp 3050 Filers for CIFS, FC, and ISCSI. We also have the Snapshot feature, but are not using it at this time. Now we are looking into a VTL for local recovery. Here’s our dilema. Why not forget about the VTL and take advantage of the NETAPP’s SNAPSHOT functionality. We [...]
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| July 30, 2008 2:48 PM
CIFS, FC, iSCSI, NetApp, SATA, VTL
Hello, We currently purchased 2 Netapp 3050 Filers for CIFS, FC, and ISCSI. We also have the Snapshot feature, but are not using it at this time. Now we are looking into a VTL for local recovery. Here’s our dilema. Why not forget about the VTL and take advantage of the NETAPP’s SNAPSHOT functionality. We [...]
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| July 30, 2008 2:48 PM
CIFS, FC, iSCSI, NetApp, SATA, VTL
Storage System
Dear Experts, I am evaluating storage solution for my office application running on MS SQL/Oracle/Exchange 2003 etc. As usual, the only two big players in the market are HP & IBM. IBM proposed N5200/N3700 to HP EVA4000. As far as I understand, the N5200/N3700 is a IPSAN compare to EVA4000 of FC SAN. Moving forward, [...]
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| February 3, 2009 11:38 PM
EVA4000, FC, iSCSI, SAN, SATA, Storage hardware
Dear Experts, I am evaluating storage solution for my office application running on MS SQL/Oracle/Exchange 2003 etc. As usual, the only two big players in the market are HP & IBM. IBM proposed N5200/N3700 to HP EVA4000. As far as I understand, the N5200/N3700 is a IPSAN compare to EVA4000 of FC SAN. Moving forward, [...]
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| February 3, 2009 11:38 PM
EVA4000, FC, iSCSI, SAN, SATA, Storage hardware
iSCSI vs FC SAN
We are trying to determine if there is any impact to MS SQL 2000 servers given either a iSCSI SAN vs Fibre Channel SAN. The majority of the databases are read/query intensive during the day, and write intensive during the overnight job cycle. Currently we have 8 SQL database servers (Windows 2000) which we would [...]
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| August 6, 2009 10:01 AM
CLARiiON, CX500i, EMC, Fibre channel, Fibre channel SAN, Flexline 340, iSCSI, SAN
We are trying to determine if there is any impact to MS SQL 2000 servers given either a iSCSI SAN vs Fibre Channel SAN. The majority of the databases are read/query intensive during the day, and write intensive during the overnight job cycle. Currently we have 8 SQL database servers (Windows 2000) which we would [...]
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| August 6, 2009 10:01 AM
CLARiiON, CX500i, EMC, Fibre channel, Fibre channel SAN, Flexline 340, iSCSI, SAN
Cisco switch for iSCSI SAN
A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: I was wondering if you could recommend a Cisco switch that can be used for Exchange to SAN (NetApp FAS960C) iSCSI connectivity.
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| February 3, 2009 3:36 PM
Cisco switches, FAS960C, iSCSI, iSCSI SAN, NetApp, SAN, SAN switches
A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: I was wondering if you could recommend a Cisco switch that can be used for Exchange to SAN (NetApp FAS960C) iSCSI connectivity.
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| February 3, 2009 3:36 PM
Cisco switches, FAS960C, iSCSI, iSCSI SAN, NetApp, SAN, SAN switches
ISCSI storage virtualization?
A SearchStorage.com reader asks: Happy with a new purchase but I’m getting confused on terms like iSCSI storage virtualization and auto-Provisioning of massive (2TB) logical volumes — can you help? I was searching the web for iSCSI target software and I wound up purchasing SANmelody software from DataCore. I thought I was getting disk virtualization, [...]
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| July 30, 2008 1:06 PM
DataCore, iSCSI, Storage virtualization
A SearchStorage.com reader asks: Happy with a new purchase but I’m getting confused on terms like iSCSI storage virtualization and auto-Provisioning of massive (2TB) logical volumes — can you help? I was searching the web for iSCSI target software and I wound up purchasing SANmelody software from DataCore. I thought I was getting disk virtualization, [...]
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| July 30, 2008 1:06 PM
DataCore, iSCSI, Storage virtualization
