Storage Products And Equipment

Performance Testing

Hello,         Would you please anybody tell me what are the test conditions or what are the procedure to test of storage product that is based Service Oriented Architecture and file based secondary storage product.  Thanks Bib    

Criteria to test performance of synchronous replication

Hi, I am working on synchronous replication implementation. Can anybody tell what are the parameters or criterias on which our synchronous replication implementation may be compared with other sync replication implementations? Also, can anybody provide us with any testbed report link?

IBM XIV and 3PAR

Could anyone relate to me there experiences (pro or con) regarding either IBM XIV or 3PAR storage units?

I don't know which storage system to buy!

I have a large budget, I need a storage system that stores videos that can be accessed online, I also need to store files (documents) which can be accessed via a mobile network. What do I buy?

Looking for NAS solution

I have a number of IDE drives (between 250GB - 500GB) that I have out grown over the years. I was curious whether anyone is aware of a NAS (100/GB Int) device or similar chasis / enclosure (USB/Firewire) that accepts IDE drives and is affordable? I would prefer to have all three connections. I...

SAN switches

why and when to configure zoning in the SAN switches any body can explian please

Looking for information on STOP37 product.

I've used the STOP37 product at another company and thought it was great. I'm looking for any information on it that anyone on this site can supply. Is it still being distributed? Where can I get it or information on it? Are there any products like it that other companies are using?

SAN fiber channel interconnect

Could someone describe the materials required for a fiber channel interconnect for a backbone network. I assume it is a switch, fiber patch "cables" and pci cards for server. Could someone give me information and/or a reference to vendors.

Looking for Antivirus for Win Storage 2003 x64 server

Hi, We are looking for an antivirus software that proven to work well with windows storage 2003 x64 server. Our current product works just fine on all other 2003 servers, but it brings down this one from time to time. Thanks, Oksana

Type of storage/backup solution

Hey everyone, I just started with a medium sized business doing IT work, and they have asked me to research types of backup solutions. At this point we are running a server that holds about 350 GB of data, and we have 2 remote offsite locations which they would also like to back up as well. The...

Urgent!!!!!!! Failed drive.....

Hi, I have a Raid Raidtec 3104 model that incloude one logical drive with Raid5 level.It was attached to a HP DL380G4 with Win server 2k sp4. By default in the "View and edit Drives" menu status of chanel2-id4 and channel2-id5 is 'Used DRV' !!!!??? In the "View and edit logical Drives -> View...

Backup Exec 9.1 to WIndows Storage 2003

I've just gotten a Dell NAS running Windows Storage 2003 64...I am trying to load a Backup Exec v9.1 remote server agent on it but unable to get it installed. Can someone help me with this...Thanks Santiago

Data erasing solutions?

Hello everyone, I am currently working on a worldwide project and I need address one specific issue: Which is the better solution in terms of: 1. Administration (time dedicated to daily production). 2. Product effectiveness and by this I mean the products capacity to provide a 100% or close to...

EMC Clariion CX700 Problems - Data Sector Invalidated

Hello, I have two EMC Clariion CX700's (which, for convenience we call CX700-1 and CX700-2) and one recently added CX3-40 in my SAN environment using fiber-switch fabric. Over the weekend, I experienced a hardware failure on SPA on CX700-1. After having it replaced by my vendor's technician and...

IBM TS7740 Virtualization Engine

Does anyone know what IBM disk controller or disk array is integrated as the disk buffer into their recently announced TS7740 enterprise tape virtualization solution?

How do you increase the primary partion size in Win2K Pro

I am running into space issues on a Win2K Pro desktop. How can I expand the primary partion (C: drive) to utilize unused space on another drive (on the same physical disk)? I do also have a second physical disk with space available if a solution exists using that option. Could I solve the...

USB Flash Drives Not Installing On XP

Hello All! I've been noticing recently that certain USB drives have not been installing automatically to windows XP pro. I'm working on one right now and have not found a solution to it yet. A user needs to install a Sandisk Cruzer Mini USB Drive to her machine which uses XP Pro. Instead of...

End Program - explorer.exe

From the last few days I am facing this problem. When I shut down my Win 2000 Server(SP4) at the end of the day the end program-exlorer.exe dialog box comes up twice and it shuts down only after I click on the 2 end now buttons. Both end program dialog boxes are same and comes one after another....

Backup application can't access tape drive

A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: I have windows 2003 server connectged to Adic i2k lib with Brocade 3800 switche, Master server has all 8 drives zoned to the server via www name. One storage node is also connected to same Brocade swithch and has access to 2 of the same drive as Master...

Report from check disk on active NTFS partition

If I run check disk on the next system boot, I'd like to know if it found and fixed any problems. Does it generate a report, and where would I find it? Someone suggested the event log, but I may not know what I am looking for: a log, a report, a breif line item description?