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All LUN IDs used in igroup
Hi, How does a situation handled or solution suggested when a situation arose like that all the 255 LUN IDs are assigned and we need to assign more LUNs to my UNIX host or Windows host or ESX Farm?

Answer Question   |  May 2, 2013  2:37 AM
LUN, NetApp, SAN storage
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20 pts.

Share access
How to set share level permissions on FAS2020 (NetApp)?

Answer Question   |  April 18, 2013  12:28 PM
NetApp, Netapp FAS 2020
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10 pts.

Problem reaching FTP server from Internet (but not from computers on the LAN)
I have set up a FTP server. It is set up on a NAS drive (dlink dns-323), sitting on 192.168.1.103. It works whenever I try to connect to it from computers on my local network. But whenever I try to connect to it from the internet (by trying to connect to the external ip (from [...]

Answer Question   |  March 25, 2013  5:33 PM
FTP, FTP Server, NAS
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5 pts.

Backup and Disaster Policies
I believe this is the best forum to ask this question. I have got 2 NetAppĀ 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
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10 pts.

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
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5 pts.

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
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285 pts.

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

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

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
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5 pts.

Repurposed Disk In Raid
Hi All, We have a very old Dell 2950 (RAID 5) that is of course out of warranty. We are planning on replacing that server next month but in the mean time we have a failed drive we want to replace but we want to repurpose a drive of the same size and speed from [...]

Answer Question   |  December 10, 2012  4:32 PM
RAID 5, raid 5 failure
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5 pts.

Does a RAID 5 rebuild include deleted data?
I understand that common data deletion removes the header and leaves the data. Also most disk mirroring software will include the deleted data. The only real way to normally get rid of deleted data is to copy the existing data to a new drive. If I choose to replace the drives in my array, would [...]

Answer Question   |  November 29, 2012  9:42 PM
RAID 5, RAID rebuild
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15 pts.

AS/400 plus NetApp (NAS)
Is there any relationship between AS/400 and NetApp (NAS storage). Will it be helpful at any point in having knowledge on these two technologies?

Answer Question   |  November 27, 2012  5:27 PM
AS/400, NetApp, Storage
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760 pts.

RAID Benefits
What are the benefits of implementing RAID?

Answer Question   |  October 24, 2012  5:31 PM
RAID
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20 pts.

Windows server not boot
Added two more drives to the existing RAID5 array as logical drives. But after adding the Windows failed to boot. Physically removed the disks but Windows failed again. Any solution to this problem to boot Windows again? Kindly help.

Answer Question   |  October 24, 2012  4:03 PM
RAID 5, Windows Server 2003
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5 pts.

Windows Server 2003 system state.
Hi guys. This is my first post but I have read lots on the site which has helped loads so thank you!!  I have a Windows 2003 Small Business Edition server which was running a Raid5 up until a few days ago. Unfortunately it suffered 2hdd failures over a weekend and so I could not [...]

Answer Question   |  October 21, 2012  12:14 PM
RAID 5, RAID failure, system state, Windows Server 2003 32-bit
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5 pts.

WINDOWS SYSTEMS
What is the difference between FAT and NTFS?

Answer Question   |  September 6, 2012  9:11 AM
FAT, NTFS, Windows
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10 pts.

mounting an AS/400 shared folder to linux
I am trying to find how to mount an i-series shared folder to my linux machine. I would ideally like to be able to use the cpy command on the i-series to copy files directly to the linux shared folder (it is currently shared on a windows machine). I have a program which selects the [...]

Answer Question   |  August 28, 2012  9:45 PM
Connectivity, iSeries, Linux, NFS
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25 pts.

Random Storage Question
Question 01 – like netapp operating system is DATAONTAP and it’s file system is WAFL what about EMC products? and what about oracle ZFS uses which file system Question 02 – What are command set for fiber channel and fibber channel over Ethernet ? Question 03 – if someone talks about lost frame in a [...]

Answer Question   |  August 1, 2012  6:38 PM
EMC, iSCSI and FC Network, NetApp, Storage, Storage Channel, ZFS Filesystem
20 pts.

doubts about raid
Can we use two raid groups at a time in a storage system? ie can we use both raid 10 and raid 6 on the same set of drives?

Answer Question   |  July 12, 2012  5:40 PM
RAID, Storage
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150 pts.

Raid 10
I have a raid 10 4 drive array. Can I add more drives to this setup?

Answer Question   |  July 7, 2012  5:19 PM
RAID
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0 pts.

Who is your primary storage provider? (Sponsored)
Who is your primary storage provider? Dell, EMC, HDS, NetApp? Someone else?

Answer Question   |  May 29, 2012  3:47 PM
HDS, NetApp, Silver Peak, Silver Peak Expert Advice, Storage
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25 pts.