Fibre Channel HBAs initiator or target mode for netapp
How can you tell if the fibre channel hbas are in initiator or target mode in a NettApp SAN?

Answer Question   |  November 10, 2009  4:06 PM
Fibre channel, Fibre channel SAN, HBA, NetApp, Netapp 3140, SAN

Five t-shirts to give away: Upload those profile pictures!
I’ve been noticing a dropoff in profile pictures lately — here’s a reminder on how to upload yours if you haven’t already. If you’re participating in the community, we want to know who you are! I’ll be mailing out five t-shirts to the first five people (with eligible mailing addresses) to upload profile pictures and [...]

Answer Question   |  December 29, 2009  7:43 PM
AS/400, CIO, CRM, DataCenter, Development, Exchange, Giveaways, ITKE, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, Networking, Oracle, Profile Pictures, SAP, Security, SQL Server, Storage, Virtualization, VoIP

Backup Exec 12.5 and Windows Server 2008 R2 support
Has symatec decided to officially support windows server 2008 r2 and is there a hotfix available for backup exec 12.5 thanks

Answer Question   |  October 22, 2009  3:37 PM
Backup Exec 12.5, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2

RoundCube e-mail
How to delete folders from in-box

Answer Question   |  October 19, 2009  1:56 PM
folder options, RoundCube, Webmail

Routers and the PBX
Which port do you need on the Router to connect PBX which have E&M card in it? Can a ATA with FXO port can be connected to the PBX with E&M Card?

Answer Question   |  October 19, 2009  1:42 PM
ATA, E&M Card, PBX

flash memory progrming in microcontroler
how to flash memory progrming in microcontroler using c?

Answer Question   |  October 19, 2009  4:30 AM
C programming, Flash memory, Microcontroller

Add new hard drive in ESXi 4
I’ve installed ESXi 4 on a 40gb ATA drive.  I’ve also added two 1tb Hitachi SATA drives using the controller on an ASUS M4A785-M motherboard.  How do I format those two drive to make them available as datastores for virtual machines?

Answer Question   |  October 26, 2010  8:47 PM
ESXi 4, SATA, VMware, VMware ESXi

Display Tape Backup for i5
How do you display the data on an AS/400 System i5 backup tape?

Answer Question   |  October 20, 2009  9:14 PM
AS/400 backup, Backup to Tape

Dell PowerEdge 6400 alarm settings
My dell poweredge 6400 had a drive fail in raid 5 config. How do i disable the alarm that goes off when this happens.

Answer Question   |  October 16, 2009  4:56 PM
Dell PowerEdge, Dell PowerEdge 6400, RAID 5, Server configuration

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Answer Question   |  October 16, 2009  2:53 PM
AS/400, Channel, CIO, CRM, Database, DataCenter, DataManagement, Development, Exchange, ITKE, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, Networking, Oracle, SAP, Security, SQL Server, Storage, Virtualization, VoIP

Criteria to test performance of synchronous replication
Hi, I am working on synchronous replication implementation. Can anybody tell what are the parameters or criterias on which our synchronous replication implementation may be compared with other sync replication implementations? Also, can anybody provide us with any testbed report link?

Answer Question   |  October 22, 2009  10:01 AM
Disaster Recovery, Storage products and equipment, Synchronous replication

What are the STP cable types?
What are categories of shielded twisted pair (STP) cable?

Answer Question   |  February 18, 2011  2:43 PM
Cabling, fiber, Fibre Channel Cables, Networking

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Answer Question   |  April 3, 2012  2:32 PM
AS/400, CIO, CRM, DataCenter, Development, Exchange, Giveaways, ITKE, Knowledge Points, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, Networking, Oracle, Security, SQL Server, Storage, Virtualization, VoIP

Writing a stored procedure across two databases
I currently backup our live databases and restore them into a QA environment. This doesn’t cause a problem with our stored procedures as they have all been written without hard-coded database names.

Answer Question   |  January 12, 2010  6:46 PM
Backup & recovery, Stored Procedures

Windows Server 2003 partitioning
I have a server with 4 cpu’s on this server. One application states that for each CPU on the server, a license needs to be bought. How can I tie 1 CPU to that one particular application? How can this be done from an OS perspective or hardware configuration?

Answer Question   |  October 15, 2009  2:28 PM
Hard Partitioning, Hardware configuration management, Partitioning, Windows Server 2003

The most-watched IT questions this week: Oct. 13, 2009
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Answer Question   |  October 14, 2009  1:37 PM
AS/400, Channel, CIO, CRM, Database, DataCenter, DataManagement, Development, Exchange, ITKE, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, Networking, Oracle, SAP, Security, SQL Server, Storage, Virtualization, VoIP

Datastore on ReadyNAS NV+ disconnects
I have VMserver 2.0 running and have one of my VMs on a datastore on a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+, when ever I reboot the VMserver the server loses the connection to the NAS and the VM can’t be found. I’ve had to resort to deleting the now missing inaccessable VM, removing the datastore and then [...]

Answer Question   |  December 29, 2009  1:37 PM
datastore, NAS, ReadyNAS, VMware, VMWare Server 2.0

Robot on 2 separate SANs
I have 2 backup servers each using storage on separate Storage devices (Clariions) located on separate SANs.  I also have a tape robot that needs to be attached to both these backup servers.  Can a single tape robot host be attached and zoned to 2 different SANs? 

Answer Question   |  October 13, 2009  1:40 PM
McData, PowerVault, PowerVault 122T, SAN

Is there any way to send commands to a TS3200 Tape Drive From an AS/400
Are there any API’s that allow you to isuues coammands to a TS3200 tape library. i.e. move tapes between locations

Answer Question   |  October 12, 2009  4:45 AM
Tape Backups, Tape drives, TS3200 API

AS400 Command
How would you configure a tape drive off your production system over to test system? System is TS3200 / 3573-TL

Answer Question   |  October 13, 2009  8:00 PM
AS/400, Tape Backups, Tape drives