Archiving emails
After I archive, the storage % does not decrease. How do I fix this?

Answer Question   |  March 25, 2013  6:58 PM
Email storage, Storage

Question regarding primary storage
I’m a beginner, need to know why its important to know how many system words will fit into a primary storage? I know it 32 to 64 bits, but why is this important to know for example the hard drive.

Answer Question   |  March 25, 2013  2:29 PM
Storage, Storage management

Dell Wyse T10 Thin Clients
Why do Dell Wyse T10 Thin Clients Flash chips get corrupted after a power cut or power fluctuation eg. after power a fluctuation one of the following happens: 1. Screen display will be rotated 2. last 6 digits of the MAC address will show as 123456 & Serial No. as pppppppppp What measures can one [...]

Answer Question   |  March 22, 2013  2:11 PM
Dell Wyse, Flash memory

Backup and Disaster Policies
I believe this is the best forum to ask this question. I have got 2 NetApp storage’s: One on the Head Office and another on the DR site, which is basically storage to storage Replication with snapshots enabled. At present we don’t take any kind of backups on the tapes or other drives. Is this a [...]

Answer Question   |  March 18, 2013  7:53 AM
Backup and Recovery, Disaster Recovery, NetApp

532L conference bridge commands
My machine is a Tellabs 532L narrow band dacs. I have a x-connect in my dacs. It’s built as a conference bridge. Here’s the response: conf: 363 bcst host conf 362 bcst list 491224 trsp eom Anyone know how to remove a DS-0 from a conf host? Thanks, Mike in Detroit.

Answer Question   |  March 5, 2013  1:14 PM
Procom Technologies, Tellabs

Replace failed disk
Hi guys, need your help once more. I need to replace a failed disk (RAID 5). I’m not shore how to do it, should I use navigator or DST? Need to stop RAID first? I already have the document with the steps to rebuild data on the new disk, just don’t know what to do [...]

Answer Question   |  March 1, 2013  1:16 PM
iSeries, RAID

SAN to SAN hardware level replicaiton to replicate MSSQL 2008 R2 databases
If SAN to SAN hardware level replication solution is implemented, how can we utilize this solution to transfer MSSQL 2008 R2 databases’ MDF and LDF files.

Answer Question   |  February 28, 2013  9:26 AM
MSSQL, MSSQL 2008, SAN

Antivirus for external hard disk
I have 1TB external HDD. I want to know if it is possible to install any antivirus in my external hard drive because I might plug it in another computer that doesn’t have an update and that has a virus. Which one is good antivirus for external hard drive?

Answer Question   |  February 27, 2013  1:14 PM
Antivirus, HDD, Security

Recover lost data
I lost iPhone photos, how to recover them? I’ve tried many data recovery software, does anyone know more?

Answer Question   |  February 18, 2013  12:51 PM
Data Recovery, iPhone, Mobile

Unable to delete ISCSI Target in Red Hat
Unable to delete ISCSI Target in Red Hat ———– Target Name root@rb-redhat6 iscsi]# iscsiadm -m node 192.168.0.112:3260,1 iqn.1986-03.com.ibm:2145.clusterh1.gully ————– Error Message [root@rb-redhat6 iscsi]# iscsiadm –m node -T iqn.1986-03.com.ibm:2145.clusterh1.gully –portal 192.168.0.112:3260 -u iscsiadm: No matching sessions found ———— Distro root@rb-redhat6 iscsi]# cat /etc/*issue* Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago) Thanks in advance for your [...]

Answer Question   |  February 14, 2013  3:25 AM
iSCSI, RedHat, Storage

Why do you think IT sales continue to stall?
Bad news for technology sales as The NDP Group Inc., reported IT sales through U.S. distributors and commercial resellers stalled for the third consecutive year at 58.5% billion but storage and networking products did see an increase. Why do you think IT sales continue to stand still? What area will improve the most in 2013.

Answer Question   |  February 26, 2013  8:34 PM
IT sales, Networking, Storage

Storing emails on Vista so as to save in My Book
I want to transfer a large number of old emails saved in my Inbox and my Sent mail to My Book but it looks as if first I have to find something to save them onto in my computer. I have Vista 7, and all the procedures I’m finding online are using Outlook, which is [...]

Answer Question   |  February 11, 2013  1:15 AM
Email, Microsoft Windows Vista, Storage

Do you think going private will help Dell’s storage business?
Even after Dell’s announcement that the company will go private this week, several experts are still not sure what effect it will have on its storage business. While Dell has spent billions of dollars on storage acquisitions, it still remains in a state of transition. Do you think going private will help Dell’s storage business?

Answer Question   |  February 8, 2013  3:47 PM
Dell, Storage

LUN removal with duplicate hosts set and vvol sets
Question: I have 2 LUNs ( 0 and 8) that both have the same HOSTS SET and VVol sets name. Now I want to remove LUN 8 but it shows that the LUNs are ACTIVE. What I’m worried about is if I remove 1 LUN will it affect the other LUN? Kindly advise. Thank you.

Answer Question   |  February 6, 2013  2:35 PM
LUN, LUN removal

Hard drive format
Can I reformat a WSV formatted drive to NTFS?

Answer Question   |  February 4, 2013  9:53 PM
Hard drives, NTFS

Panasas storage cluster
I have a Panasas storage cluster and I need help on installing it (home lab). I didn’t find any documentation online about how to install it. Can anyone help me or lead me to step by step installation and setup user guide? I don’t have any cable so I don’t know which cables I need to use. [...]

Answer Question   |  January 28, 2013  8:17 PM
Panasas, Storage, Storage arrays

How to create backup RAID configuration?
Hello everybody. I am studying about Hard RAID. I want to backup RAID configuration and save it to my USB or FDD, so how to do it? Is RAID configuration only in RAID card?

Answer Question   |  January 17, 2013  9:37 AM
RAID, RAID configuration

What’s your top IT priority for 2013?
In TechTarget’s annual IT Priorities Survey of IT managers, data protection was #1 on respondents’ list with over 56%. Server virtualization and network-based security take the next 2 spots. Do you agree with this list? If not, what’s your top IT priority for 2013?

Answer Question   |  February 5, 2013  8:30 PM
Data protection, IT, Server virtualization

How to reset the config of an old PowerVault MD1000
I have a MD1000 that was used before. I do not know the IP address nor the password. Is there a way to reset to factory default?

Answer Question   |  January 16, 2013  11:19 AM
Dell PowerVault MD1000

Edit BRMS tape
I have 2 tapes that were saved under my Daily file group and I would like to change them to my Weekly file group. Its mainly a retention issue and I know how to go in and change the move policy, but the tapes are still in my inventory as Daily instead of Weekly.

Answer Question   |  January 11, 2013  3:29 PM
BRMS, Tape backup