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

Answer Question   |  August 6, 2009  2:28 PM
Backup & recovery, EMC, HP Dataprotector, Storage, Storage products and equipment

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 TL895 look like new. Please can you advice [...]

Answer Question   |  October 11, 2005  2:26 PM
Backup & recovery, Storage, Storage products and equipment

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..

Answer Question   |  October 25, 2005  2:22 PM
Backup & recovery, Storage, Storage products and equipment

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: ———– | | – Customer | | – Proposals | | [...]

Answer Question   |  September 8, 2005  11:51 AM
Data analysis, Data warehousing applications, Desktops, E-business, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Patch management, Security, Servers, SQL Server, Storage, Storage management, Storage products and equipment

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 Random [...]

Answer Question   |  September 25, 2008  10:53 AM
Backup & recovery, CX500, Emulex, HBA, LUNs, RAID 10, SAN, Storage products and equipment

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 ?

Answer Question   |  September 2, 2005  10:51 AM
Backup & recovery, Storage, Storage products and equipment

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

Answer Question   |  February 4, 2009  10:47 AM
Backup & recovery, EMC CX500 LUN, LUN, Storage, Storage products and equipment

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 Manager to try and start the services. Failed. A?Checked Service Control [...]

Answer Question   |  March 23, 2009  12:10 PM
Backup & recovery, Storage, Storage products and equipment

bechmark test on video card
A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: Is lower better? I just did a bechmark test on my video card using a software that cane with my system, the first time I got a score of 73, after letting the progam optimize the card it dropped to 43

Answer Question   |  August 26, 2005  12:06 PM
Backup & recovery, Storage, Storage products and equipment

Backup examples
A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: Are there any example documents out there for the Management and Maintenance of Backup Media(Tapes)?

Answer Question   |  August 27, 2005  11:59 AM
Backup & recovery, Storage, Storage products and equipment

Selectively removing data from a backup tape
Is there any method available to remove selected data from a backup tape without erasing the tape? I have several tapes with numerous backup sets on them and need to remove selected data from each backup set while maintaining the remainder of data in each backup set. The need arrives from data existing in the [...]

Answer Question   |  August 15, 2005  10:45 AM
Backup & recovery, DataCenter, Storage products and equipment

Help with IBM ds6800 storage array. can’t assign storage unit to complex.
Getting a message that says the storage management console server can not be contacted. we’ve never installed one of these before, but been to IBM training on it. training was uselsess for implementation from scratch. has anyone done one of these and can tell me where we are going wrong? will be very appreciative…..

Answer Question   |  August 8, 2005  4:01 PM
Arrays, Fibre channel, IBM, Implementation, IT architecture, SAN, Storage, Storage products and equipment, Storage servers

qlogic BIOS setings
A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: How do you set qlogic BIOS setings?

Answer Question   |  August 4, 2005  11:12 AM
Backup & recovery, Storage, Storage products and equipment

Mainframe Datasets & EBCDIC codepages
Hi all, I am ‘stuck’ & would appreciate some of your time to consider my question below please……. We have some in-house written software which converts data from ASCII to EBCDIC & visa-versa (amongst other functions…) One of our marketing agencies have recently started using a process (on advice from IBM) on the AS400 whereby [...]

Answer Question   |  July 27, 2005  4:57 AM
DataCenter, Development, Disk drives, IBM, Special-purpose software, Storage, Storage management, Storage products and equipment, Tech support

How to configure the 4th Hard disk of 36gb into existing 18.2gb x 3 hard disk
A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: kindly guide how to configure the 4th hard disk to the existing capacity of 18.2gb x 3 hard disk. we have the system with raid -5 , system already showing the 4th hard disk but we could not get the 4th hard disk capacity into the existing one. I hope [...]

Answer Question   |  July 26, 2005  3:19 PM
Backup & recovery, Storage, Storage products and equipment

RAID 3 for video editing
A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: Hi, I am a budding filmmaker looking for an inexpensive way to setup an at home post production facility (video editing, sound,etc.) Most of the raid cards that I have seen are very expensive. Can you recommend a raid 3 card that’s reasonably priced and what other levels of raid [...]

Answer Question   |  August 28, 2008  3:01 PM
RAID, RAID 3, Storage products and equipment

Veritas Backup Exec 9.1 issues
A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: We are using ?Veritas Backup Exec 9.1? for our Windows Server 2000 to backup data. This program is not working and we cannot backup the data. The error message is: ?Device could not be backed up because an error occurred while connecting to the Remote Agent for Windows Servers. Make [...]

Answer Question   |  July 20, 2005  1:04 PM
Backup & recovery, Storage, Storage products and equipment

maximize storage space on disk
A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: I brought 120g hardisk. I really surprise, that I found there are only 112G. do you have any idea to get back that balance 8G and how I can apply if I find the same problem in thumb drive.

Answer Question   |  July 21, 2005  12:58 PM
Backup & recovery, Storage, Storage products and equipment

Failover clustering in windows 2003 environment.
A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: I want to test a failover clustering in windows 2003 environment. As am doing this at home, I don’t have a SAN or Shared SCSI with me. Am struck at Shared Quorum. If am using Majority Node Cluster, is it possible to test with the IDE hard disks of these [...]

Answer Question   |  February 24, 2011  12:52 PM
Backup & recovery, Clustering, Failover, Microsoft Windows, SAN, SCSI, Storage clustering, Storage products and equipment, Windows Server 2003

RAID vs Mirroring
Conceptually, I understand the difference between RAID and mirroring. But many times, things are not always as simple as they seem. That said, I’m configuring a new i5 520 with 35gb drives RAID protected versus 35gb drives mirrored and with IBM’s recent offerings, the mirrored drives are less than the RAID drives. Is this as [...]

Answer Question   |  August 28, 2008  4:31 PM
Disk drives, Mirroring, RAID, Storage products and equipment