Storage Servers

storage charge back

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

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...

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

Windows Storage 2003 Server

Good morning All, I need help, I am considering about getting a Dell NAS appliance running Windows Storage 2003 Server. I am wondering if anyone can tell me or point me, where I can find info about this like admin, printer sharing, etc. The Windows Storage site is not much help. Also, if someone...

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...

Equallogic

Hi, Just looking for people's experiences of using Equallogic SAN attached storage. Specifically - Performance - Interoperability - Cost - Competition - Management software Thanks in advance Noz

Increasing server performance

Help reviving servers. Configuration current: 8 300GB disks in Raid 5 10000RPM Each. Total 2TB (70%Full) with an average of 68kb files tottal of 24 million files. The curent read rate is at 8MB/Sec on NTFS windows 2003 Partition. Any suggestions on increasing performance on current configuration. ...

802.11 vs 802.16

I have a small co. with a point to point wireless grid. I handle off site monitoring of gas nad oil flow. I have been overlaping my grid with new locations, and more to come. So I have been looking into new wireless Sys. I have made the choice to use All-In-One?360 Multi-Band/Multi-Mode Antenna...

Disk Usage

I am just looking for opinions about users file server disk usage. About 30% of our users average over 1.25 gig of disk space used. This includes all user files and email file. I am just wondering if this is normal or excessive. If people can please let me know what their usage is I would...

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?

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...

EMC? NAS Celerra 704G versus Windows Storage server

Hi all, Can you compare a NAS EMC? Celerra NS704G against a Windows HP storage server DL585 from a performance point of view? They told me that the WSS server is more for departemental usage. Is this true? Thanks Hans

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...

disaster recovery

hi, i have 2xSE9900. one for the Production (prod) and one for Development (dev), few clustered DB servers (some inter domain and some normal clustered) which total more than 5. the servers are running different Solaris versions, VXVM versions but all using Sun cluster. for the next phase of...

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...

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...

Moving DNS outside

We are moving DNS services outside and I would like to learn more about how to set this up. We currently have AD Integrated DNS server, Primary DNS server, and Secondary DNS servers set up in our AD domain. We have 2 Domain Controllers, one on Windows 2003 w/Exchange 2003 w/GC, and one Windows 2000...

Large-scale Veritas NetBackup Question

My company is currently merging and we are in need of several NetBackup gurus, as the organizational merger will result in an incrase of 2 Petabytes/month (500 Terabytes/month in Jan. '04, 1 Petabyte/month as of Apr. '04). This is a state-of-the art environment supporting 3,000 servers, soon to be...