Storage

Best RAID for Database Server

We have 70+ users connecting almost 125 machines to connect to an Intel 5000VSA 4dimm Board Server with 2 Xeon processors, 6 SATA (on-board RAID 0, 5 or 10), 1 IDE port. I want to put the best possible RAID with 200/250GB SATA drives, with Best Redundancy and Performance, irrespective of the cost....

Answer Question   |  May 12 2008   2:00 PM GMT   |  asked by Mkanjani
RAID configuration, Intel Xeon, Database Servers

Oracle 11g RAC on HP C3000 blade with Bl460c servers using SB40c as storage

Has anyone built a oracle 11g or 10g RAC on HP Blade C3000. A typical setup could be 4 X Bl460c blade servers using 4 X SB40c storage blade ( giving 24 X 146 GB SAS drives ). Both the blade servers and storage will fit in the same blade enclosure. OS could be oracle enterprise Linux The advantages...

Answer Question   |  May 9 2008   2:00 AM GMT   |  asked by 1014
Oracle RAC, Oracle 11g, Oracle 10g

W2k cluster node cannot take ownership of cluster resource

Hi i've encountered this issue when i try to fail over a cluster resource disk; eventhough the failover was successful the owner of the cluster resource cannot access the shared drive but there is no errors captured in the event logs and the failover was successful this only happends to one of the...

View Answer   |  May 8 2008   2:12 AM GMT   |  asked by Fartman
Microsoft Windows, Failover, Windows 2000 Server

Hardware question regarding Hard Disk..

Why we can create only a maximum of 4 primary partitions in a Hard Disk?

View Answer   |  May 7 2008   6:47 PM GMT   |  asked by Srik
Hard drives, Storage, Partitions

Storage management for beginners.

Which company's Storage Management system is good to know and which is available for download in order to start learning?

Answer Question   |  May 7 2008   11:46 AM GMT   |  asked by Antonios
Storage management

Library SAVF restore

Our backup procedure backs up our libraries to SAVFs and in the early morning copies the SAVFs to tape (with seq.#). This speeds up the backup process so that our overnight shifts are not down for a long period of time. Now my questionwhat would be the fastest way to restore a library that is...

View Answer   |  May 6 2008   1:53 PM GMT   |  asked by JAC
AS/400, Backups, SAVF

Backup SQL database with BRMS AS400

Running BRMS on i520 v5r4 LTO 4 tape library. Company just installed on seperate machines, same network: Windows2003 Server with MSSQL Database.I want to use BRMS and our robust LTO library system to get to the data on the SQL Database. Have little success with the LTO 4 being supported by...

View Answer   |  May 5 2008   3:42 PM GMT   |  asked by Vic585
AS/400 backup, BRMS, SQL Server

NDMP backups in Netbackup environment

Explain how NDMP backups work for NAS backups w/ Netbackup 6.0. using SSO. Limitations, best practice configs

Answer Question   |  May 3 2008   10:06 PM GMT   |  asked by Milesd3607
NDMP, NAS, NetBackup SSO

Backup Exec 12

What are disavantages to backing up server 2000 without remote client installed with Veritas 12?

View Answer   |  May 2 2008   3:15 PM GMT   |  asked by Admndude
Veritas Backup Exec, Backup, Backup Exec

Community Update: New Site updates and Contest Announcement. Win a Nintendo Wii!!!

Hello CommunityIf you haven't noticed we have added a few new features to the site. First we added more questions to the home page to allow you to browse the latest 200 Questions, Answers and a new tab of Unanswered questions.Also on each main topic page we have added a recent answers and...

View Answer   |  May 1 2008   3:51 PM GMT   |  asked by ITKE
VoIP, Storage, Networking

Email Size Limit - Exchange 2007

Hello,Please help me on setting up email size limit. I want to set no limit for outgoing messages and in-coming 25MB for all the users. I applied thses seetings in ServerConfiguration > Hub Transport > Transport Settings. Please explain step by step as I am quite new to Exchange 2007. Thanks...

View Answer   |  May 1 2008   6:27 AM GMT   |  asked by 273990
Email storage limit, Disk quota management, Exchange 2007

BlueArc and Backup Exec

Has anyone ever been able to install Backup Exec NDMP using BlueArc Titan systems

Answer Question   |  Apr 30 2008   9:59 PM GMT   |  asked by Cdariz
BlueArc, NDMP, Backup Exec

How to use partitioning in SQL Server database to avoid ‘timeout’ errors

We have over 300 stores, and with each store having 30gb+ databases, each server is being upgraded to at least 6gb+ memory which is being forced allocated to SQL Server. I want to start to partition the existing SQL Server database by date. How do I go about doing it, because I have absolutely no...

View Answer   |  Apr 30 2008   6:01 PM GMT   |  asked by SQL Server Ask the Experts
SQL Server performance tuning, SQL error messages, Timeout

Raid1 vs Raid5 Microsoft exchange data

We are implementing Microsoft Exchange on a EMC DMX3500 DASD Subsystem that has 146GB and 300GBs. Talked to Gartner Group Consultant Bob Passmore and he is strongly recommending RAID 1: his justification is based on the fact that RAID 1 is double the number of disk drives; therefore you cut what...

View Answer   |  Apr 30 2008   2:31 PM GMT   |  asked by Bobc
RAID 1 vs RAID 5, RAID 5, RAID 1

Transfer XP Hard Drive

How do i transfer a xp drive from one computer to another?

View Answer   |  Apr 30 2008   3:19 AM GMT   |  asked by Gypsy
Windows XP, Hard drives, Windows hardware

Want to backup the entire Small Business 2003 Server

We are running Windows SBS 2003 on 10 client computers. Current backup software provided with our Iomega REV 70 drive is impenetrable & very unuser friendly - it is ARCServe Backup Can you advise me what you would recommend as backup hardware & software we need to make the whole backup process much...

View Answer   |  Apr 29 2008   3:46 PM GMT   |  asked by ITKE
Backup, SBS 2003, Small Business Server

How to backup the emails on our Exchange Server Small Business Server 2003

Can you help me with how to backup the emails on our Exchange Server SBS 2003.I would also like to understand, how to strip out and delete old emails & attachments.

View Answer   |  Apr 29 2008   3:42 PM GMT   |  asked by ITKE
Exchange 2003, Backup, SBS 2003

Email stop working after Threshold reached on iseries

Our iSeries reached its storage threshold and since then email has stopped.I've reduced the disk usage way below the threshold. I've restarted MSF (*resume, *reset and *clear) and also started the TCP server *SMTP numerous times but to no avail.I keep getting the error message "Number of variable...

Answer Question   |  Apr 29 2008   2:56 PM GMT   |  asked by LeighRM
QTMMSNDM, Email, Outgoing email

Hard drive down

how can i retrieve information from a portable hard drive if the power source in the drive is no longer working. it shorted out. i tried to plug it into my desktop and when i do it will not let my hard drive startup.

View Answer   |  Apr 29 2008   12:10 AM GMT   |  asked by Mpbabbitt
Hard drives, Data recovery

3Par and EMC problesm

I have a Sun x4100 has two qlogix qle2460 HBAs both connected to a 3Par SAN and a EMC cx700 SAN. When both HBA's are active in non-failover mode we can see the LUNs in /proc/scsi/qla2xxx/3 and 4 - BUT fdisk does not see the devices. If we have the HBAs set in failover mode we only see the LUNs on...

View Answer   |  Apr 28 2008   4:30 PM GMT   |  asked by Mberger
SAN, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, EMC