Storage Management

Storage-over-distance options?

Which Storage-over-distance options are suitable for two sites that are 2,000 KM apart?

Offsite storage v. onsite storage

It's clear that both offsite and onsite storage solutions have their benefits and downfalls. Onsite is considered more convenient but less secure in case of disaster; offsite is more secure but less convenient and more costly. Which do you use at your organization, and what led to the final...

Capacity/Performance Management

we are starting a Capacity/Performance Management project for monitoring our servers and storage devices and there does not seem to be much information on this. where can I find information on products/software, metrics, etc, related to capacity management?

Intel Matrix Storage Manager

Will I loose data if I go to mirrored/RAID drives? I bought a HP e9180f with Vista 64 pre-installed on a 1T drive. I have another 1T drive from my old machine. They play nice together (no hardware/software issues) and I would like to mirror them. But the Intel tool is inconsistent about telling me...

storage charge back

Has anyone found a package for storage charge back that actually works at most levels:array, server, deptment, and application.

RAID 5 and disk capacity

You mention that fewer than four disks (three) on RAID-5 isn't worth it. Why?

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...

How to rename a Storage Group in EMC Navisphere?

Is there a way to rename a Storage Group in EMC Navisphere Management Suite? Much appreciated if someone would mention the steps on where/how to do this. Thank you. Moderator Note: This is a submitted question

Need suggestions for correcting slow and error prone Backup Exec process

We have been set up to backup to an online vault using Backup Exec software. The process seems to take forever and had frequent failures. Is the software the problem? What would you recommend. We have approximately 400 Gig of data. The vault was originally seeded with the data. Moderator Note:...

How to mount HP StorageWorks MSA2000 snapshot and assign LUN?

Running VMware ESX and have a StorageWorks MSA2000 snapshot. What steps do we need to take to mount the snapshot to a VM and assign a LUN? Thank you very much. Moderator Note: This is a submitted question

Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System

Question about the Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System. Can the Network Management port use static IP instead of DHCP? How do you set this? Getting an error when I try using the Browser User Interface. Thank you. Moderator Note: This is a submitted question

Error when trying to delete Volume on StorageTek 6140

We don't have a problem creating or deleting other volumes -- but on the StorageTek 6140, getting the error "The volume is unmapped." Anyone run into this? Thanks. Moderator Note: This is a submitted question

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?...

Dell PowerVault MD3000i alert question

I have the alerts setup already for the critical alerts but would like to know if\when the system fails over from primary to secondary node (active\passive). Is there a way to do this?

HDDs for VMWare ESXi 3.5

I'm about to purchase a new server to run VMWare ESXi 3.5 The specs are: Intel SR2500 Server with RAID SR2500ALLXR 2x Intel Xeon Quad 5420 CPU 12GB DDR2 667 ECC REG RAM 2 extra Intel SR2500 Server with RAID SR2500ALLXR @$ 3,850 +GST 1x Intel Xeon Quad 5420 CPU 12GB DDR2 667 ECC REG RAM 2 extra...

Automatic shutdown for EMC CLARiiON CX3-8

Need to configure Automatic Shutdown for SAN CX3-8 in case of extreme conditions like overheating of server room

Quota Alerts for Windows Server 2003

if you go over quota limits, how is the alert handled?

Access rights for Storage Team members

We are having to justify the access rights that our storage team members have to the Windows, VMWare, and Unix servers. Our storage team is also responsible for all backups, restores, and disaster recovery. Can any one provide a best practices or a already compiled list of access rights that...

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager or Veritas NetBackup?

Which is the best Data Protection solution available today in market?

Tracking DMX storage allocation

How are you tracking your storage allocations from your DMX to your servers? We began with the Excel-based design workbook that EMC delivers at the end of the installation engagement & that works up to a point. I've written code that loads the info into SQL & does some reporting on it, but is...