Storage Products And Equipment

Hard Disk Data Recovery - NTFS MBR Failure-2

Hello everyone, I have a Western Digital 800JB ATA 80GB 7200rpm drive that was used for a time as a boot drive for WXPP. It was replaced recently as a boot drive by a smaller 40GB drive, and the 80GB drive relegated to backup duties (slaved to a CD drive on a 40-wire cable). Before full transfer...

Hard Disk Data Recovery - NTFS MBR Failure

Hello everyone, I have a Western Digital 800JB ATA 80GB 7200rpm drive that was used for a time as a boot drive for WXPP. It was replaced recently as a boot drive by a smaller 40GB drive, and the 80GB drive relegated to backup duties (slaved to a CD drive on a 40-wire cable). Before full transfer...

No bootup with W2k - after "Verifying DMI pool data"

I had a working Win 2k OS running smoothly on Drive C, with a small D partition. I tried Norton 2004 Ghost and backed up Drive D to a CD. Ghost created a bootable CD with the proper backup file to restore D. I booted with the CD and restored Drive D as a test run, and selected the RESET option when...

Dell Poweredge Server 2800

I am running a Windows 2000 network, and recently purchased a Dell Poweredge 2800 Server, the server is running Server 2003. I need some general tips as to how best to configure this server to best optimise it's capability. One vendor informs me of some of it's capabilities but I need some...

Does EMC Symmetrix z8530/8000 use a separate backup battery for protecting cache?

A SearchStorage.com reader recently wrote to ask: Does EMC Symmetrix z8530/8000 use a separate backup battery to protect cache, or does it use the full system backup battery?

heterogenous SAN software?

is there a vendor that does heterogenous SAN software? linux (any flavor) and windows client, it needs to run fast and robust, as we are streaming video over this SAN.

HBA not showing WWN

A SearchStorage.com reader asks: WE have a data center server, 2003 servers and two HBAs in each node. Both the cards are Emulex Fibre Channel Cards. One card is already in working condition. We have recently added the second HBA card. The driver was updated, and I am able to detect two HBAs from...

Best rules of thumb?

What are five best rules of thumb when reviewing output from system monitors for preventing future problems. The system monitors could be any SMF/RMF MICS TSO/MON MXG OMEGAMON system monitor type report for reporting on the mainframe. Example might be 1. sustained CPU utilization over 85% 2....

Alternative to EMC VisualSRM?

Could you kindly advise a competitive product against EMC VisualSRM Suite. I need to source for an alternative solution.

First SAN for my company and it is breaking the bank.

On my windows 2 cpu server with 20 disks, disk queue lengths exceed 40. Windows perfmon and IOmeter benchmarks give me 0.9K IOPs for write and 2K for reads, 8K OLTP block size. #disks : 20 : 36 GB, 15K rpm, U320 scsi with two dual channel controllers with 256 MB cache each. I am moving to a SAN....

High Availablility

I would like to suggest the best standby, data Guard, or other High Availability solution to management. Specifically, I would like to compare Oracles Standby High availability solutions to Replistor -- I believe by EMC. Currently we have about 12 Windows based Oracle Servers, but the solution...