Requirement of a shared disk for a failover clustering solution
There are a couple of options out there software wise, but with a non-shared solution you run the risk of dataloss at failover. What application are you looking to cluster?
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| June 30, 2009 11:21 PM
Cluster management, Failover Cluster Management, Failover Clustering, Majority Node Set, NAS, SAN
There are a couple of options out there software wise, but with a non-shared solution you run the risk of dataloss at failover. What application are you looking to cluster?
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| June 30, 2009 11:21 PM
Cluster management, Failover Cluster Management, Failover Clustering, Majority Node Set, NAS, SAN
Does SRM work with vSphere vCenter server?
At the current moment, it does not support vSphere. From what I’ve read, the support (usually through an update patch) will / should be available the 2nd half of 2009.
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| June 29, 2009 5:37 PM
Disaster Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager, VMware vCenter, VMware vSphere
At the current moment, it does not support vSphere. From what I’ve read, the support (usually through an update patch) will / should be available the 2nd half of 2009.
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| June 29, 2009 5:37 PM
Disaster Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager, VMware vCenter, VMware vSphere
installing a raid controller
This is a duplicate of <a href=”http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/installing-a-raid-controller-2/”>installing-a-raid-controller-2</a>
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| June 26, 2009 11:06 PM
Raid Controller, raid controller card installation, Windows Server 2003
This is a duplicate of <a href=”http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/installing-a-raid-controller-2/”>installing-a-raid-controller-2</a>
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| June 26, 2009 11:06 PM
Raid Controller, raid controller card installation, Windows Server 2003
Software to automate backups for SQL Server 2008 databases
Let me clarify a bit on what I’ve said above. I realize a maintance plan can be created and I have tried this however upon execution of that plan I am getting the following error: TITLE: Execute Maintenance Plan —————————— Execution failed. See the maintenance plan and SQL Server Agent job history logs for details. [...]
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| June 26, 2009 6:53 PM
Automated backup, Backup & recovery, Backup software, SQL managment Studio, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server backup, SQL Server backup and restore, SQL Server Management Studio
Let me clarify a bit on what I’ve said above. I realize a maintance plan can be created and I have tried this however upon execution of that plan I am getting the following error: TITLE: Execute Maintenance Plan —————————— Execution failed. See the maintenance plan and SQL Server Agent job history logs for details. [...]
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| June 26, 2009 6:53 PM
Automated backup, Backup & recovery, Backup software, SQL managment Studio, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server backup, SQL Server backup and restore, SQL Server Management Studio
sytem tape usage
What is it you are asking exactly? Do you need to know how to see the percentage used? ————————————————————————————————————— Are you using BRMS? If so, you can find statistics on tape usage in the “reports” menu. Otherwise, maybe you can use the DSPTAP command. Regards Mike
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| June 26, 2009 6:42 AM
AS/400 backup, Tape Backups
What is it you are asking exactly? Do you need to know how to see the percentage used? ————————————————————————————————————— Are you using BRMS? If so, you can find statistics on tape usage in the “reports” menu. Otherwise, maybe you can use the DSPTAP command. Regards Mike
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| June 26, 2009 6:42 AM
AS/400 backup, Tape Backups
installing a raid controller
The only way I know of to retain your data is to back it up to tape, or off the server to a remote server. Unless you plan on keeping the current hard disk single and not having it as part of the array, it’s going to get erased when you add it with the [...]
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| June 25, 2009 7:02 PM
RAID, Raid Controller, Windows Server 2003
The only way I know of to retain your data is to back it up to tape, or off the server to a remote server. Unless you plan on keeping the current hard disk single and not having it as part of the array, it’s going to get erased when you add it with the [...]
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| June 25, 2009 7:02 PM
RAID, Raid Controller, Windows Server 2003
Deleting Nightly Database Backups (dumps)
There’s a cleanup task which you can add to the maintenance plan which will delete the older backups from the folder.
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| June 25, 2009 5:03 PM
Database Backup, Database backup and recovery, Database maintenance, SQL 2005
There’s a cleanup task which you can add to the maintenance plan which will delete the older backups from the folder.
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| June 25, 2009 5:03 PM
Database Backup, Database backup and recovery, Database maintenance, SQL 2005
x3400 ibm server linux install with raid 1
Which Linux distribution are you using? Are you certain that it supports the RAID controller (IBM uses mostly LSI Logic chipsets if I’m not mistaken)? When you said that you configured RAID1, what did you do? Did you actually create a logical volume and initialize it? Did you confirm that the disks in the LV [...]
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| June 25, 2009 3:12 PM
IBM System x3400, RAID, RAID 1, Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
Which Linux distribution are you using? Are you certain that it supports the RAID controller (IBM uses mostly LSI Logic chipsets if I’m not mistaken)? When you said that you configured RAID1, what did you do? Did you actually create a logical volume and initialize it? Did you confirm that the disks in the LV [...]
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| June 25, 2009 3:12 PM
IBM System x3400, RAID, RAID 1, Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
Backing up SQL Server 2008 databases to a tape drive
You’ll need to install the drive in the server, and configure a backup device pointing to the tape drive. Then use the BACKUP DATABASE command to backup to the backup device.
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| June 25, 2009 1:37 AM
Backup to Tape, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server backup, SQL Server database, Tape Backups
You’ll need to install the drive in the server, and configure a backup device pointing to the tape drive. Then use the BACKUP DATABASE command to backup to the backup device.
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| June 25, 2009 1:37 AM
Backup to Tape, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server backup, SQL Server database, Tape Backups
How can I reduce backup time on AS/400 with LTO2 tape drives?
Not sure about configuration changes but if you change Backup command to not save access paths will shorten backup time but will increase restore time due to the fact that access paths will be rebuilt at restore time…..Rick Not necessarily LTO2 specific, but I have those also and have changed to a backup to virtual [...]
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| June 24, 2009 3:58 PM
AS/400 backup, Backup, LTO2, Tape Backups, Tape drives
Not sure about configuration changes but if you change Backup command to not save access paths will shorten backup time but will increase restore time due to the fact that access paths will be rebuilt at restore time…..Rick Not necessarily LTO2 specific, but I have those also and have changed to a backup to virtual [...]
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| June 24, 2009 3:58 PM
AS/400 backup, Backup, LTO2, Tape Backups, Tape drives
veritas backup 9.0
I would recommend you get on the phone with Veritas support. That’s what I would do!
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| June 24, 2009 2:55 PM
Veritas Backup Exec 9
I would recommend you get on the phone with Veritas support. That’s what I would do!
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| June 24, 2009 2:55 PM
Veritas Backup Exec 9
SRC C167280A/C1F7280A
Those panel codes are normal.
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| June 24, 2009 2:20 AM
AS/400, Disaster Recovery, SAVSYS
Those panel codes are normal.
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| June 24, 2009 2:20 AM
AS/400, Disaster Recovery, SAVSYS
6prt Fiber
I usually have seen ones that come in 12 port versions which has 6 duplex connectors (12 cores in and 12 out), so a 6 port LIU will only have 3, so 6 cores in and 6 out.
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| June 23, 2009 12:25 PM
Fiber LIU, Fiber optics
I usually have seen ones that come in 12 port versions which has 6 duplex connectors (12 cores in and 12 out), so a 6 port LIU will only have 3, so 6 cores in and 6 out.
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| June 23, 2009 12:25 PM
Fiber LIU, Fiber optics
Importing BPCS files to another format?
If the data restoration company can pull the data, that means they have an AS/400, iSeries, i5, Power System or whatever it’s called now a days. I would imagine that it would take very little effort for them to output the data in a format you can use. If not, then perhaps you should find [...]
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| June 22, 2009 7:51 PM
AS/400 backup, BPCS AS/400 Data Recovery, Business Planning and Control System, Tape Backups
If the data restoration company can pull the data, that means they have an AS/400, iSeries, i5, Power System or whatever it’s called now a days. I would imagine that it would take very little effort for them to output the data in a format you can use. If not, then perhaps you should find [...]
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| June 22, 2009 7:51 PM
AS/400 backup, BPCS AS/400 Data Recovery, Business Planning and Control System, Tape Backups
Where do I find a list of SANs certified for Hyper-V R2, capable of supporting live migration?
If your cluster passed validation in Windows, then the cluster is capable of supporting live migration.
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| June 22, 2009 4:46 PM
Hyper-V, Hyper-V Live Migration, Hyper-V Migration, Hyper-V R2, Microsoft virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization Chat 5/14, SAN
If your cluster passed validation in Windows, then the cluster is capable of supporting live migration.
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| June 22, 2009 4:46 PM
Hyper-V, Hyper-V Live Migration, Hyper-V Migration, Hyper-V R2, Microsoft virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization Chat 5/14, SAN
ECC6.0 QA & Dev on SATA HDD
No reason why not. We use it for all of our development/test environments. Performance may be an issue depending on your requirements. I even have an ECC5 environment that runs under VMworkstation 5.5 on of my laptop using 3.5GB RAM and a 500GB USB disk (only really need just over 300GB). Not the fastest environment, [...]
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| June 22, 2009 1:08 PM
ECC6.0, SAP ECC 6, SATA, Virtualized Environments
No reason why not. We use it for all of our development/test environments. Performance may be an issue depending on your requirements. I even have an ECC5 environment that runs under VMworkstation 5.5 on of my laptop using 3.5GB RAM and a 500GB USB disk (only really need just over 300GB). Not the fastest environment, [...]
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| June 22, 2009 1:08 PM
ECC6.0, SAP ECC 6, SATA, Virtualized Environments
Path of a disk IO
As I understand it, here’s how it works. You write the file. The file system is set for say 4k blocks so the OS and the file system break the file into 4k chunks. Those are sent to the HBA, which passes the data through the fibre switch to the SAN array. From there it’s [...]
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| June 20, 2009 7:50 PM
Disk I/O, SAN
As I understand it, here’s how it works. You write the file. The file system is set for say 4k blocks so the OS and the file system break the file into 4k chunks. Those are sent to the HBA, which passes the data through the fibre switch to the SAN array. From there it’s [...]
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| June 20, 2009 7:50 PM
Disk I/O, SAN
Would you go with iSCSI or Fibre Channel for mass storage in this case?
When deciding your storage solution the TPS isn’t what’s important. The IO load, and the cache hit ratio are what matters. If you are running 10000 TPS and 100% of your data will be in cache, then it doesn’t matter. If you are running 2 TPS and 1% of data will be in cache then [...]
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| June 19, 2009 8:14 AM
Fibre channel, iSCSI, Oracle Benchmark Testing, Storage Channel, Storage management, Transactions Per Second
When deciding your storage solution the TPS isn’t what’s important. The IO load, and the cache hit ratio are what matters. If you are running 10000 TPS and 100% of your data will be in cache, then it doesn’t matter. If you are running 2 TPS and 1% of data will be in cache then [...]
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| June 19, 2009 8:14 AM
Fibre channel, iSCSI, Oracle Benchmark Testing, Storage Channel, Storage management, Transactions Per Second
Data backup horror stories
We once had an issue with AS/400 data backup. We do a daily tape backup on the AS/400. We have a tape for each day of the week. Unfortunately, the days of the tape got confused and we suddenly realized that Friday’s data had been “missing”. Little did we know it was sitting on Monday’s [...]
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| June 18, 2009 1:41 PM
Backup & recovery, Backup hardware, Data backup, Storage
We once had an issue with AS/400 data backup. We do a daily tape backup on the AS/400. We have a tape for each day of the week. Unfortunately, the days of the tape got confused and we suddenly realized that Friday’s data had been “missing”. Little did we know it was sitting on Monday’s [...]
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| June 18, 2009 1:41 PM
Backup & recovery, Backup hardware, Data backup, Storage
Migrating from BackupPC 2.1.2 to BackupPC 3.1
You are safe to upgrade your installation. By doing so it will update all your files and you will be able to access your old backups as well.
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| June 17, 2009 5:32 PM
Backup, BackupPC, BackupPC 2.1.2, BackupPC 3.1
You are safe to upgrade your installation. By doing so it will update all your files and you will be able to access your old backups as well.
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| June 17, 2009 5:32 PM
Backup, BackupPC, BackupPC 2.1.2, BackupPC 3.1
