Wireless connection should be fast but it is very slow
I am using a Samsung N210 with 2GB of memory in it and Windows 7 Starter.  When I use the wireless connection the “Connection Status” shows as 72Mbps, which is to be expected considering I am only a few feet from the router.  However, the speed is nothing like that in reality.  I tested the [...]

Answer Question   |  February 27, 2012  12:06 AM
NAS, Windows 7 starter

Backing up IN the cloud (not to).
Our company is exploring cloud computing and is looking for a strategy for backing up the server instances running in the cloud. We are considering a Netbackup domain, but not sure if it will function in a private cloud environment. Has anyone tried this? Has anyone used any of the products touted to backup TO [...]

Answer Question   |  February 22, 2012  11:46 PM
Cloud Backup, Cloud storage, NetBackup

NAS Share Drive Encryption
We have a need to encrypt network attached storage (NAS) share drives in a Windows Server 2008/Windows 7 environment and are looking for encryption software recommendations.  The network share drive is served up via NAS/accessed from Windows 7 and we would like all of the files encrypted at rest, but usable upon reference by specific [...]

Answer Question   |  February 28, 2012  11:49 PM
NAS software, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008

Do I need vCenter in each site with EqualLogic replication
Hello, We have 2 remote site with EqualLogic in each and we decided to implement local snapshot and replication inter site. We should be able to achieve all of this with ASM ve or ms, according to what I read those soft should be installed on the vCenter box. Therefore should we have one occurrence [...]

Answer Question   |  February 27, 2012  1:44 PM
EqualLogic, vCenter

DASD Utilization
Is there a simple way to identify which libraries are taking up the most space? Also those with the most deleted records etc. And those which have not been used for many months. I want to chase down my apps teams and prove to them they need to do house keeping and not just keep [...]

Answer Question   |  March 17, 2012  5:52 PM
DASD, iSeries V5R4M5, iSeries V6R1

Redundancy Misconfigured in iSeries-SAN
Oops..new DASD from SAN was misconfigured and loosing redundancy… There are the New Multi Path connections to the SAN for one of the IsERIES server.. note that the Redundancy connections are using the Same BUS.  This unfortunately now gives us a single point of failure down to the Fiber channel card.  What this means is [...]

Answer Question   |  March 17, 2012  3:31 AM
ASP, Fiber Ports, iSeries, SAN

iSeries NFS: Change from UDP to TCP
We are running on V5R4 and attempting to mount (via NFS) an external file system (Data Domain 530) onto the iSeries. Even though on the surface it appears that the mount was successful; you cannot execute any type of read or write operation to the mount. After running a communications trace, it was determined that [...]

Answer Question   |  March 19, 2012  10:14 PM
iseries v5r4, NFS, TCP, UDP

Bluearc and VMWare
Hi, Has anybody had any experience or looked into running vmware using a bluearc mercury 55 as storage?  Wondering if you can share any insights into design considerations or architecture? Thanks, Aldo

Answer Question   |  February 27, 2012  7:04 PM
BlueArc, VMware, vSphere

Increasing Disk space for applications on a SAN
During the process of inicialization of my SAN I choose a solution that allows me to have more performance, so I create a RAID10 volume that I attached to several LVMs. After some time, I verify that some applications needed more space but performance is not an objective. Knowing that I can’t stop my system [...]

Answer Question   |  March 19, 2012  4:24 PM
DataCenter, Infrastructure Architecture, SAN

Encryption
An idea how to add the system units tape drive to the encryption configuration. We have TS3200 tape library with 4 drives and encryption status is ON.

Answer Question   |  February 27, 2012  1:42 PM
IBM TS3200, Tape Drive

my hard disk drive can format
l bought a hard drive for my toshiba laptop but when l started the format the system, l received this message that error have been encounter and restart the computer. it happens all the times. what should l do to solve this problems? help me out. thanks

Answer Question   |  February 27, 2012  10:54 AM
Microsoft operating system, SATA Hard Drive

Transferring photos from ASUS
Can anyone explain how I transfer pictures from the ASUS tablet on to the SD card?

Answer Question   |  February 28, 2012  2:48 AM
ASUS, SD cards

Looking for Fiber optic cables manufacture?
I know Verizon offers the services, but what company actually creates/manufactures fiber optic cables. I wanna buy many fiber optic cables and some other fiber optic equipment in bulk. Can anyone help me…..?  And some company is not really maufactures, they are only the sellers. Please recommed reliable manufacturs. thanx in advance! How about Ingellen [...]

Answer Question   |  June 7, 2012  4:34 AM
Fiber Optic cables, Fiber optics, transceiver

Data recovery from Windows server 2008
I have server and windows server 2008 installed i lost my data and want to recover data. How can i recover data?  Have 2 hard disks one of 320gb and other of 500gb 320 have two partitions as c and d 500gb have two partitions as e and f i by mistake did windows on [...]

Answer Question   |  June 11, 2012  12:53 PM
Data Recovery, Windows Server 2008

Tape Restore
We just upgraded from a model 520 to a model 720. I have been using Ultrium 1 for backups on the 520. The new system uses Ultrium 4. Is there any way that I can restore the Ultrium 1 to the new system, I have some history files that I need ?

Answer Question   |  February 28, 2012  4:34 PM
Storage, Ultrium 1, Ultrium 4

SQL400 Strip non-numeric from a column
Hello everyone, Is there a way to strip non-numeric characters from a char column? Example: I have a Clients file, with column “Telephone Number” (CLPhone, 20, A). The thing is, phone number for many clients is filled with different formats. Example1: (123-12345) Example2: 123 12345 Example3: 123/12345 And even worse . Is there a way to select [...]

Answer Question   |  March 17, 2012  6:54 AM
AS/400, non-numeric, SQL/400, Striping

Tape Catridges AS400
Hi I need to share Tape Volumes between two iSeries systems,Both systems were connected through BRMS Network.How od i accompalish this ?

Answer Question   |  March 19, 2012  5:36 PM
AS/400, backups, BRMS, Tapes

iSeries : Current Un Protected Usage.
Hello I see now a days my Current Unprotected Usage is keep touching the threshold value and coming back after some time. I’m not sure which job/jobs are causing the job in doing hike? Is there any way that we can track this?

Answer Question   |  February 28, 2012  2:08 PM
ASP, DASD, Memory, RAM

iSeries HBA Cards WWPN
Can anybody help me to get WWPN of HBA cards installed on my system?

Answer Question   |  March 17, 2012  9:12 PM
HBA, iSeries, SAN, Storage

Work flow between the linux server machine and SAN machine
I m new to the SAN storage. I m unable to get the knowledge in the SAN regarding the luns and HBA cards. And also how to access the lun in the linux machine. Can anyone explain the work flow between the linux server machine and SAN machine.

Answer Question   |  April 19, 2012  10:34 AM
Linux, SAN