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Hi , I am mahesh.j a fresher , i would like build my carrier on storage .where i am familer to storage hardware now i would like expertise on it.My question is that how to be expertise on it, so i would request u all help me on it by ur guidlines. what are platform of operating...

Query on Storage labs

Hi, We are a Software product company exploring options to test our product offerings on EMC, Hitachi storage arrays. Having said this we are looking out for (commercial) Storage labs such as Veritest that enable fee-based access for external users/non-partners. Please have your advice on this. ...

Compressing Old Files

Hello, I would like to know the option(Compressing Old Files) which comes up during disk cleanup in win XP and win 2000. Is it good or bad? I mean, If I do the compression regularly will that effect my system/files in a long run? Is it same to that option (compress drive to save space) in disk...

Retention period for unstructured files

A SearchStorage reader recently asked: I am trying to determine a general retention period for unstructured files that don't have leagal requirements. These would be those files that users ask to be restored because they accidentally deleted it. I was wondering if you have a chart that depicts the...

Exchange restores from swapped raid 1 drives

My question relates to hardware and exchange. In this scenario I would be running a set of hotswap raid 1 drives: one with exchange and the information store databases and another with transaction logs. If my Information store were to become corrupt and I loaded a backup set of drives with the...

Netapp FC info ONLY!

A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: I've got a question regarding NetApp storage connected through fibre channel. I don't want NetApp NAS info. Are there any subscribers to this forum who are doing this in their IT shop? I would like to know how many sub-systems, how much storage and...

Hard drive failure

I have a "Maxtor 40GB" in which I installed Windows 2000 on its first partition (I split it into 4 partitions and formatted all of them using FAT32), now I can't access its primary partition but when I connect the drive as a slave I can see all the partition, I can save files to the other three...

Netapp filer vs. IBM Ds8000

A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: Can somebody help me? I am trying to find the differences between a Netapps filer and IBM Ds8000 series storages and probably their bets use environment.

Retrieving data from a diskette

A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: Is there anyway to retrieve saved info from a diskette that tells you the disk is not formatted when you know it has been due to having lots of saved info on it?

XP Boot/finding backup data

A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: Please tell me how to erase tape in win2003,And how to make winxp Boot Fastly(Takes time in starting up windows) and how to see the backed up datas after taking the backup.

EMC Celerra vs. HP Windows storage server

A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: Do you think that a NAS gateway solution EMC Celerra NS704G is comparable with an HP Windows storage server appliance DL585 proliant based machine. I am especially interested in a performance comparision.

Hitachi NSC55/Sun StorEdge 9985

A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: What's the difference between the Hitachi NSC55 and the Sun StorEdge 9985? I know Sun re-brands and sells Hitachi gear, are these the same box?

HP Dataprotector vs. EMC Networker

A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: What's best: HP Dataprotector or EMC Networker

selling used equipment

A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: We have a whole bunch of the following usedStorage equipment we are looking to sell. Sun Microsystem StorEdge D1000, A3500, 6500. All in the rack with power supply. All equipments were pulled from a working enviroment. We also have a Compaq Storagework...

HBA compatibility

if an hba is compatible with a fiber switch, does it matter that it's compatible with a disk array on that switch? OR just being able to communicate with the switch allows it to work with the disk array? Thanks..

A Way to have multiple "Views" (permissions) to the same directory data

Basically, we would like to reorganize our data repository (right now just a hierarchical directory structure) in such a way that we can present fully permissions ?views? to various levels within our company. So if I have a directory structure something like the following: ----------- | ...

CX-500 LUNs

A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: Am presenlty Testing the I/o performance on the new CX-500 San From Emc And Hba From Emulex,The LUn Size is 1 TB and when doing the Testing with SQlIO Tool with a I/o block size-8 i get 39.3 MB/sec for Random write requestes but when doing the same with...

Emulex HBA and Clariion CX500 compatibility

A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: Are you aware of any known compatibility issues between Emulex HBA's and Clariion CX500's ?

EMC CX-500 LUNs

A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: we have a EMC CX-500 with navisphere 6.0 in a switch fabric enviroment. how to find out, via command line, the LUN's that has been assigned to storage group and deivce name that appears on the host. LUN 101 <--> hostA: /dev/dsk/c0t1d5

ARCserve 2000 issues

A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: I have installed ARCserve 2000 Client Agents onto a Compaq Server. I ran the Register IT and received a successful registration message. The services would not start. Tried the following: A?Checked Client Agent for Windows Used Client Agent Service...