RAID configuration
I am setting up an additional server as my application server. I have five SCSI hard disks, 1 GB each. The database is projected to grow to nearly 3 GB. How can i configure the system to help proper startup, provide sufficient storage capacity, and protect the database from data loss? Can anybody help me [...]
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| November 16, 2009 6:57 PM
RAID, RAID configuration, RAID Performance, SCSI
I am setting up an additional server as my application server. I have five SCSI hard disks, 1 GB each. The database is projected to grow to nearly 3 GB. How can i configure the system to help proper startup, provide sufficient storage capacity, and protect the database from data loss? Can anybody help me [...]
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| November 16, 2009 6:57 PM
RAID, RAID configuration, RAID Performance, SCSI
RAID 5 and disk capacity
You mention that fewer than four disks (three) on RAID-5 isn’t worth it. Why?
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| July 8, 2009 3:00 PM
RAID, RAID 5, RAID Capacity, Storage management
You mention that fewer than four disks (three) on RAID-5 isn’t worth it. Why?
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| July 8, 2009 3:00 PM
RAID, RAID 5, RAID Capacity, Storage management
RAID 5 and three-way mirroring
Our Spac solaris 10 box has only three disks (budge limitation), and they were configured with hardware RAID 1 (3-way). Obviously, the disk performance is going to suffer since both OS and DATA will live on the same mirrored disks, however, this part of disk configuration puzzles me even more: a soft RAID 5 is [...]
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| July 8, 2009 2:58 PM
Disk mirroring, RAID, RAID 1, RAID 5, Solaris 10, Storage management
Our Spac solaris 10 box has only three disks (budge limitation), and they were configured with hardware RAID 1 (3-way). Obviously, the disk performance is going to suffer since both OS and DATA will live on the same mirrored disks, however, this part of disk configuration puzzles me even more: a soft RAID 5 is [...]
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| July 8, 2009 2:58 PM
Disk mirroring, RAID, RAID 1, RAID 5, Solaris 10, Storage management
Backup of large amount of data
I need some suggestions on a backup procedure. Here’s what I am backing up to a 3.5 TB fileserver (RAID 5). 200 GB of application and document files from an application server. About 200 GB each on four medical imaging workstations. 100 GB of SQL database files from a SQL Server 100 GB of backed [...]
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| August 25, 2009 6:49 PM
Backup & recovery, Data backup, File servers, NAS, RAID, RAID 5, SQL Database
I need some suggestions on a backup procedure. Here’s what I am backing up to a 3.5 TB fileserver (RAID 5). 200 GB of application and document files from an application server. About 200 GB each on four medical imaging workstations. 100 GB of SQL database files from a SQL Server 100 GB of backed [...]
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| August 25, 2009 6:49 PM
Backup & recovery, Data backup, File servers, NAS, RAID, RAID 5, SQL Database
installing a raid controller
i have a server ml150 HP running windows 2003 that has a single hard drive. i want to intergrate a raid controller E200 smart array without loosing my data. i want to add two more hard drives. and configure raid 5.
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| June 25, 2009 2:55 PM
RAID, Raid Controller, Windows Server 2003
i have a server ml150 HP running windows 2003 that has a single hard drive. i want to intergrate a raid controller E200 smart array without loosing my data. i want to add two more hard drives. and configure raid 5.
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| June 25, 2009 2:55 PM
RAID, Raid Controller, Windows Server 2003
x3400 ibm server linux install with raid 1
i have X3400 IBM server, i just want to install (red hat 4 es) with RAID 1 , But when i configure raid 1 and boot with linux cd after booting when i press on manual partition error showing that no Hard disk was found. BUT in BIOS , IN controll A Utility Harddisk was [...]
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| June 26, 2009 5:03 AM
IBM System x3400, RAID, RAID 1, Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
i have X3400 IBM server, i just want to install (red hat 4 es) with RAID 1 , But when i configure raid 1 and boot with linux cd after booting when i press on manual partition error showing that no Hard disk was found. BUT in BIOS , IN controll A Utility Harddisk was [...]
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| June 26, 2009 5:03 AM
IBM System x3400, RAID, RAID 1, Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
Raid 5 How do I setup?
I have a server with four drives and I want to install a raid 5 configuration Do i need to keep one disk at a different volume, not raid 5, to run the OS ?
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| June 15, 2009 4:44 PM
RAID, RAID 5, RAID5, Storage
I have a server with four drives and I want to install a raid 5 configuration Do i need to keep one disk at a different volume, not raid 5, to run the OS ?
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| June 15, 2009 4:44 PM
RAID, RAID 5, RAID5, Storage
RAID 1 with 4 SATA II drives
I have a M/B with an integrated nVidia SATA II RAID controller. The M/B died the other day leaving me in a pickle. In an act of desparation, I took the four SATA II drives out of the server and put them into another server with a similar nVidia SATA II RAID controller. To my [...]
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| June 8, 2009 12:26 PM
nVidia SATA II RAID controller, RAID, RAID 1, SATA 2
I have a M/B with an integrated nVidia SATA II RAID controller. The M/B died the other day leaving me in a pickle. In an act of desparation, I took the four SATA II drives out of the server and put them into another server with a similar nVidia SATA II RAID controller. To my [...]
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| June 8, 2009 12:26 PM
nVidia SATA II RAID controller, RAID, RAID 1, SATA 2
Windows 2003 Enterprise server not seeing new HDrives
Hi there. We have a windows 2003 server here in the office that we just put 4 new 34.6gb HDs in for a total of 6. The drives are running RAID 5. When we first put them in the HP system management software the admin uses to track the RAID arrays and what not had [...]
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| June 4, 2009 1:51 PM
Hard drives, Logical Drive, RAID, RAID 5, RAID Array, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Hi there. We have a windows 2003 server here in the office that we just put 4 new 34.6gb HDs in for a total of 6. The drives are running RAID 5. When we first put them in the HP system management software the admin uses to track the RAID arrays and what not had [...]
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| June 4, 2009 1:51 PM
Hard drives, Logical Drive, RAID, RAID 5, RAID Array, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Windows XP SP2 installation problem on Dell PowerEdge 2850 server
When I try to install XP on the server, it seems like windows can’t find any hard drive, so as soon as you press enter to setup, you don’t see any disk to format whatsoever? Does anybody ever experienced this kind of problem, if so can you please give me a solution to this problem [...]
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| May 18, 2009 12:17 AM
Dell PowerEdge 2850, RAID, Windows XP installation
When I try to install XP on the server, it seems like windows can’t find any hard drive, so as soon as you press enter to setup, you don’t see any disk to format whatsoever? Does anybody ever experienced this kind of problem, if so can you please give me a solution to this problem [...]
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| May 18, 2009 12:17 AM
Dell PowerEdge 2850, RAID, Windows XP installation
Windows server 2003 installation problem
I have to install windows 2003 in a server machine. It contains SCSI hard disks and the Hard Disk is connected to the motherboard with RAID controller Card. When I try to install windows 2003, the OS is not recognize the Hard Disks. So I cant Install the Operating System to the server machine.
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| April 28, 2009 7:48 AM
RAID, Raid Controller, SCSI, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Installation
I have to install windows 2003 in a server machine. It contains SCSI hard disks and the Hard Disk is connected to the motherboard with RAID controller Card. When I try to install windows 2003, the OS is not recognize the Hard Disks. So I cant Install the Operating System to the server machine.
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| April 28, 2009 7:48 AM
RAID, Raid Controller, SCSI, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Installation
Is a 3 drive RAID 5 array a good idea?
I am specifying a new server and have been told that a 3 drive RAID 5 array is not a good idea as I will not have a bootable drive in the event of a array controller failure. A better idea is O/S on a RAID1 mirror with apps too, and data on RAID 5 [...]
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| April 19, 2013 2:26 PM
RAID, RAID 5, RAID Array
I am specifying a new server and have been told that a 3 drive RAID 5 array is not a good idea as I will not have a bootable drive in the event of a array controller failure. A better idea is O/S on a RAID1 mirror with apps too, and data on RAID 5 [...]
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| April 19, 2013 2:26 PM
RAID, RAID 5, RAID Array
3 bit parity
I was just reading about parity on searchstorage.techtarget.com and have a question about 3 bit parity vs. 1 bit parity. I understand the setting to 0 for an even # of bits and setting to 1 for an odd #. Doesn’t seem very reliable because you could lose 2 bits in data transmission. Just wondering [...]
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| November 9, 2012 6:33 PM
Data management and storage, parity, RAID
I was just reading about parity on searchstorage.techtarget.com and have a question about 3 bit parity vs. 1 bit parity. I understand the setting to 0 for an even # of bits and setting to 1 for an odd #. Doesn’t seem very reliable because you could lose 2 bits in data transmission. Just wondering [...]
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| November 9, 2012 6:33 PM
Data management and storage, parity, RAID
RAID stripe and cluster size configuration
Does anyone know some way of testing/ tuning the best performance out of a DAS RAID. ie. Different Stripes and formatted clusters for the different types of raid.
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| May 14, 2009 11:21 PM
Direct Attached Storage, RAID, RAID configuration, RAID stripe size
Does anyone know some way of testing/ tuning the best performance out of a DAS RAID. ie. Different Stripes and formatted clusters for the different types of raid.
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| May 14, 2009 11:21 PM
Direct Attached Storage, RAID, RAID configuration, RAID stripe size
Data Dictionary Update
We had an external raid fail that had plenty of data. We have since unmounted the raid. However, the data dictionary views are still seeing this drive and are therefore giving an error when trying to query the views. How can we update the data dictionary?????
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| March 21, 2009 7:33 PM
Data Dictionary, External RAID, RAID
We had an external raid fail that had plenty of data. We have since unmounted the raid. However, the data dictionary views are still seeing this drive and are therefore giving an error when trying to query the views. How can we update the data dictionary?????
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| March 21, 2009 7:33 PM
Data Dictionary, External RAID, RAID
RAID 5 configuration on Dell PowerEdge 2800 hard disk failure
Using DELL Poweredge 2800 with a Raid 5 configuration of 2 hard drives capacity 85GB Ultra 320 SCSI. Hard disks have been showing failure. I tried to bring the hard drives ONLINE by FORCE option provided in the utility manager to configure RAID and got the hard drives up but couldn’t login to windows server [...]
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| March 17, 2009 5:57 PM
Backup, Dell PowerEdge 2800, iSCSI, RAID, RAID 5, RAID configuration, Restore, Windows Server 2003
Using DELL Poweredge 2800 with a Raid 5 configuration of 2 hard drives capacity 85GB Ultra 320 SCSI. Hard disks have been showing failure. I tried to bring the hard drives ONLINE by FORCE option provided in the utility manager to configure RAID and got the hard drives up but couldn’t login to windows server [...]
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| March 17, 2009 5:57 PM
Backup, Dell PowerEdge 2800, iSCSI, RAID, RAID 5, RAID configuration, Restore, Windows Server 2003
RAID to HP Proliant DL360 G5 server
How can I configure RAID setup to HP Proliant DL360 G5 server? Please can someone help me? Thanks!
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| April 18, 2013 5:52 AM
HP ProLiant DL360 G5, RAID, RAID configuration
How can I configure RAID setup to HP Proliant DL360 G5 server? Please can someone help me? Thanks!
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| April 18, 2013 5:52 AM
HP ProLiant DL360 G5, RAID, RAID configuration
VRAID vs RAID
What are the basic differences between VRAID and RAID?
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| March 10, 2009 2:05 PM
RAID, Virtual RAID, Virtual storage, VRAID
What are the basic differences between VRAID and RAID?
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| March 10, 2009 2:05 PM
RAID, Virtual RAID, Virtual storage, VRAID
RAID management with IBM System x3400
hi iam new here and i have some questions to all of you who is working on RAID. 1. i have x3400 IBM SERVER and it has 2 disk with 74 GB each while installing with server cd the only availabel option raid 1 i selected that and after that i install w2k3 server standard [...]
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| March 9, 2009 8:34 AM
Disk mirroring, IBM System x3400, Partition Magic, RAID, RAID 5, RAID 5 fault tolerance, RAID configuration, RAID failure, Storage management
hi iam new here and i have some questions to all of you who is working on RAID. 1. i have x3400 IBM SERVER and it has 2 disk with 74 GB each while installing with server cd the only availabel option raid 1 i selected that and after that i install w2k3 server standard [...]
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| March 9, 2009 8:34 AM
Disk mirroring, IBM System x3400, Partition Magic, RAID, RAID 5, RAID 5 fault tolerance, RAID configuration, RAID failure, Storage management
Deciding on a RAID Level for a 64-bit SQL Server 2005
I need to install SQL Server 2005 (64-bit) on two new servers, but these servers have only four hard disks with 500GB each. From what I understand, all my operating systems, data and log files will reside on these four disks. I have two choices: to use RAID Level 1 or Level 1 +0. Which [...]
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| March 6, 2009 8:22 PM
RAID, RAID Level 1, RAID Level 1 +0, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2005 (64-bit)
I need to install SQL Server 2005 (64-bit) on two new servers, but these servers have only four hard disks with 500GB each. From what I understand, all my operating systems, data and log files will reside on these four disks. I have two choices: to use RAID Level 1 or Level 1 +0. Which [...]
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| March 6, 2009 8:22 PM
RAID, RAID Level 1, RAID Level 1 +0, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2005 (64-bit)
