TGIF: IT Book Giveaway
Happy Friday, everyone! If you want to take a break from your hectic day at the office, you’ve come to the right place to get those competitive juices flowing. We’re giving away Embedded Linux Primer, Second Edition from the Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series. If you want this little goody mailed to you [...]

Answer Question   |  January 21, 2011  4:10 PM
Desktop virtualization, embedded Linux, Giveaways, Hyper-V, IT Books, Linux, NetApp, Open source software, VirtualBox, VRDP

NetApp Snapmanager for Exchange Backup Troubles
We use netApp snapmanager for Exchange 5.0 for exchange database backup. We observe, everyday some Storage groups are missing from the Backup, though the status says “Backups of storage groups completed succesfully”. I have checked with some fellow admins on the same, they all say, it is a common problem with the SME, Has anyone [...]

Answer Question   |  August 25, 2011  12:32 PM
Exchange, Exchange 2007, Exchange administration, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore, Exchange database, NetApp

SCSI drives suitable for setting up an array
What speed SCSI drives are suitable for CAD designers working off the server? How would you set them up in an array? We need 10 TB capacity.

Answer Question   |  January 19, 2011  5:15 PM
Array, CAD, Capacity planning, SCSI, SCSI Drives, Server management

Hard drive failing on production server
We think a hard drive is failing on a production server. I copied everything to another drive on a different array. How can we monitor the health of the hard drive/array?

Answer Question   |  January 20, 2011  5:13 PM
Array, HARD drive, Hard drive failure, Hard drive repair, Production Servers

GDG restoration from tape backup
hi, can anyone please tell me iwant to restore generation which is multi-volume (G0001V00) from tape on dasd with renameu option.and i have tried with first creation with base gdg nad without base also. i m getting this error(G0001V00 IS A MULTIVOLUME DATA SET ).can anyone share the jcl. I m trying following JCL—–> //RESTTAP2 [...]

Answer Question   |  January 17, 2011  7:57 PM
Backup and restore, GDG, Restore Database, Tape Backups

Mount windows NFS filesystem on ubuntu & ubuntu filesystem on windows
I want to mount windows nfs filesystem on ubuntu and ubuntu filesystem on windows

Answer Question   |  January 19, 2011  4:27 PM
File System, File systems, NFS, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Servers, Windows Operating System

Backup Windows Server 2003
how to take backup in windows 2003 server.&which software is helpful for taking backup.

Answer Question   |  January 19, 2011  7:36 AM
Backup and restore, Backup servers, Server Backup, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Backup, Windows Server backup

Virtualize SCO OpenServer 5.0.6
Hi, [span title=”Clique para obter traduções alternativas” class=”hps”>I [span title=”Clique para obter traduções alternativas” class=”hps”>recently inherited an old machine with [span title=”Clique para obter traduções alternativas” class=”hps”>SCO OpenServer [span title=”Clique para obter traduções alternativas” class=”hps”>5.0.6 that is working with some Informix application and DB’s for which I don’t have the sources.   Since the hardware [...]

Answer Question   |  July 12, 2011  11:13 PM
Informix, RAID 1, Server virtualization, Virtualization

Storage Area Network Configuration IOPS
I have a SAN with a RAID 10 (16 Drives) and a stripe size of 512. I want to align the disks for better SQL Server performance, the problem is that the OS is already installed on a non-aligned drive and SQL Server is running in production using non-aligned drives. My current 8 drives starting [...]

Answer Question   |  January 17, 2011  11:10 PM
IOPS, SQL 2005, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2005 performance, Storage Area Networks

Is anyone backing up to the cloud?
Is anyone using the cloud to backup the IBM i? Recently an IT auditor suggested that this is the wave of the future.

Answer Question   |  February 3, 2011  5:31 PM
Backup storage, Cloud Backup, Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Cloud storage, IBM

Entire system Backup taken through BRMS over multiple tape drives simultaneously
Can Entire system Backup be taken through BRMS over multiple tape drives simultaneously. Secondly if the expiry of such a tape has passed, will it be possible to restore contents of such a tape?

Answer Question   |  January 15, 2011  1:04 PM
AS/400, Backup, BRMS, BRMS Backup, iSeries, Tape Backups

IT Knowledge Exchange’s iPad Contest Starts Today!
Today marks a new contest around IT Knowledge Exchange. The Lowdown (i.e. The Rules**) Every member who earns 500 knowledge points in the next 4 weeks (between today and Wednesday, February 16th) will be entered into a drawing for 5 names. You must have a completed profile including a photo or avatar to be eligible [...]

Answer Question   |  January 20, 2011  4:55 PM
AS/400, Channel, CIO, Contests, CRM, Database, DataCenter, Development, Exchange, iPads, ITKE Contests, Linux, Lotus Domino, Mobile, Networking, Oracle, SAP, Security, SQL Server, Storage, Virtualization, VoIP, Windows, Windows Server

SAN certification for storage career
Do i really need to get certification for Storage Area Network in EMC if i wanted to be storage professional?

Answer Question   |  January 11, 2011  7:52 PM
EMC SAN, SAN certificate, Storage careers, Storage certifications

SQL SERVER 2005 Storage Performance
We have an IBM server xSeries 460 with a QLogic FC HBA card 4gb on the server with a PCI-X 266MHz bus speed (16 CPU 667MHz FSB, 32GB RAM). The HBA card connects to a Brocade 5000 switch then to the SAN Controller then to a Cisco 9124 Switch then to SAN Drives all through FC. [...]

Answer Question   |  January 18, 2011  6:30 PM
SQL Server, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2005 performance, SQL Server performance, Windows Server 2003, Xiotech

Removing HDD passwords
Hi, Is there a program that can be used to recover or remove SATA HDD passwords?

Answer Question   |  April 19, 2013  3:26 PM
Hard drives, HDD, Seagate, Security

RAID usage for 5 HDD
If we have 5 hdd containing 250 gb space each then how much hdd space will be available to use in RAID-5?

Answer Question   |  January 12, 2011  2:12 PM
Hard disks, HDD, RAID, RAID configuration, Storage capacity planning

Free automatic backup applications for a small Windows Network?
What are some free automatic backup applications for a windows small network? We want to back up all PST files and My Documents. We do not want the end user to have to do anything.

Answer Question   |  January 12, 2011  5:02 PM
Backup, Backup and recovery software, Backup and restore, PST folders, Windows Network Administration, Windows networking

RAID Configuration of DL 585 and DL 785 G6 Proliant servers
I just bought new set of HP proliant servers DL 585 G6 AND DL 785 G6, How would I go about the RAID 0+1 configuration of the servers.

Answer Question   |  January 10, 2011  9:31 AM
HP ProLiant, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID configuration

NFS version 4 changing export properties
Hi, can someone describe which will be the impact when i will change the NFS Export Properties to NFSv4 (see Advanced – NFS version supported for connections) and what about the security options? Should i unexport the folder before making the change? NFSv4 will impact the user’s access to shared item? Thanks for your Help.

Answer Question   |  January 10, 2011  9:30 PM
NFS, NFS Storage, NFSv4, OS/400

Freeze Active Directory users from changing passwords temporarily
Can we prevent users from changing their AD passwords temporarily? We want to create a network freeze and not change or modify anything including passwords while we do some backup/restore testing.

Answer Question   |  January 7, 2011  9:24 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory backup, Active Directory Backup and Restore, Active Directory security, Backup and restore, Network security