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I have a FAS 2040 with 12 - 1TB SATA drives and a DS4243 with 24 - 450GB SAS drives. I am new to NetApp. How can I cable these? I will be using iSCSI. I plan to use the SATA drives as CIFS for Windows users. For the SAS shelf I plan to connect...

Hi All,

I need some advice regarding a HP SmartArray P800 RAID 5 array the doesn't rebuild.

A little while ago one of the array drives failed in a RAID 5 array.  The server is out of HP warranty but is under hardware support so we contacted...

I'm running GhettoVCB to take snapshots of my VMs on ESXi 5.0 free version.  I'd like to put them on a USB drive for backups.  I found one article online that says to use the mount command just like I would any other LInux version, but mount...

We have a Proliant ML150 generation 6 tower server.  It is already running Win2008 R2 server with one HD.  This server has an embedded B110i SATA RAID controller which supports Raid 0, 1 and 1+0.  We wish to reconfigure this server with 3 SATA...

We recently built a NAS server to use for backups in our art department which consists of 3 Macs and 2 PCs. We are running FreeNAS version 8.0.3-RELEASE-p1-x64 (9591). We currently  have both CIFS and AFP shares enabled. Our PCs connect using...

Hello Experts,

I am looking for a good documentation to learn how to install and configure a storage netapp FAS2240

Ok, I was just puttering around with some hardware today... and noticed that one of my  old 160GB hard drives was 5400RPM (so SLOW), but that it was also SATA 3GB/s...

OK, so what is the point of having insane throughput on a HD with  the...

Hello, Im trying to provide a backup solution to my remote office.  Not sure what they telling me that EMC having a limit of 8 snapshots?
>>you just need to be aware that EMC can hold only 8 snapshots in total. Therefore we can decide to...

Can someone advise or post a link on best practise for adding disks to an HP P2000 FC G3.

Currently we have 8 x 1TB HDDs configured in RAID6 and would like to add 4 more 1TB to this.

Thanks

I got a Western Digital Pasport from a customer expecting that it would be easy to transfer files. I connected this to a laptop running Vista. The drive does not appear in Computer, yet I can see it in Disk Manager. I have rescanned.
...

I am trying to install AHCI driver at windows xp installation.

How can i do that?

because all the sites i see on the internet only show options to install the driver after installing windows or integrating the AHCI driver into the the...

Hi,

HP ML350 G5

I want to replace my 146GB spare number : 418399-001

I want to install sata2 Corsair GT SSD Drive in the server with 2.5 HP Hard drive caddy.  

This should be "Plug and play" or I need to order a connector for the SSD...

Can someone please explain what is mean by the snapshot being 96% full on the aggregate?  The aggregate snapshot reserver is almost full.  Does this further snapshots may not be able to be captured?  

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We are running two ESXi 5.0 hosts, connected via iSCSI to an HP P2000 G3 SAN. One of the VMs, a Windows Server 2000 machine has it's C: drive on a VMFS LUN and it's D: drive is an RDM LUN.

That LUN gets hourly snapshots at the SAN level.

We...

Hi Guys,

Is it possible to use hardware raid on an external array enclosure?  The external enclosure will be connected by fibre channel adapters to the server.  The server is an IBM x3650.  There will be two fibre adapters that will be...

greetings,

I have (8) disks in a RAID 10 on an HP p2000 G3. I have 1.8 TB available. Current owner is controller A. Will that automatically fail over to controller B if A goes down?

two other things, the smallest vDisk I can create is...

Hi All,

We are a SMB and in the process of purchasing a SAN Solution.

Some considerations are that I plan on implementing VMWare Essentials Plus Kit as I believe that 3 hosts will provide appropriate redundancy for our operation. Initially,...

Our VNX5300 pool is RAID5, and from what I recall it had to be that way because it was the first pool?  The first 4 disks are RAID5 for the ISO image storage only.  The last disk is a hot spare but the rest we are using also are RAID5 and from...

I have two HP ProLiant DL380 G7 servers with the optional second drive cage installed and connected to the HP SAS Expander Card. On both servers when I go to configure the raid by booting off the CD that came with the server I do not see any of...

We are trying to take our system to the next step and I need some advice on the best solution or path to go down to achieve our goals.

We are currently running on Fedora Core 14 64 bit. I have 15 X 11TB RAID 5 drives connected through a Dell...

Hi I am new to SAN storage and its allocation to windows servers, i have got to add LUN space to win 2k8 r2 servers and have given Qlogic HBA info from the win 2k8 server storage explorer interface to SAN team to assign the LUN space to this...

I have two phyiscally Dell R610 Xenservers both connected to a Dell Powervault MD3220i  ISCSI San.    There are several virtual Windows servers running on the two Xenservers.  There are about 35 users that use XENAPP 6 to view a virtual desktop...

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I currently have a Netapp 2020 box that I may look to upgrade later this year, my reseller has given me a price and recommended a 2040A. My only concern is I dont wont to upgrade that and find out thats going to get phrased out/EOL and...

When the Server is turned on from scratch & the post reaches the perc 5/i screen it then initializes the drives but they take longer to spin up than the raid card allows so it thinks there is a problem but if you then CTRL/ALT/DELETE at that...

We are evaluating between 2 systems
1.ISCSI (10GB) Equallogic 4810
2. EMC Clarion Cx4 (or VNX 5300) - 8gb fiber

having a mixture of SS drives and 15k sas.

We need the most out of IOPS - Reads, we have one very heavily used financial SQL...

Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to add a standalone drive (raid 0) to a perc 6i without losing the data thats on the drive (without formatting, etc.). In OMSA, the create virtual drive wizard seems to nuke the drive, and then requires formatting in...

Have 8x HDD's at present, looking at the cage and sas expander.  Will this give me a 16x HDD single array or an additional/second array?

Any performance issues to worry about?

Thanks

I have 3 ESXi hosts that connect to 3 different LUNS on a Equalogic.  

Today I logged into vcenter and noticed some errors for one of the hosts.  It seems it was diconnected from the datastores.

So I tried to reconnect it without any luck. ...

Hi,

We are currently running a NetApp filer in a PCI environment. Due to policy, we are required to scan server systems for vulnerabilites using Nessus, and must resolve all medium or higher.

Unfortunately, we were presented with the...

Experts,

I need to find a hard disk drive that I can purchase to secure the information of my Desktop.
I read somewhere that there are hard disk drives with physical encryption.  I.E. if someone steals my Computer   (NOT a laptop), and takes...

Hello,

I have configured my SAN using iSCSI and have 3 ESXi servers connected to it.
I have as my data store 10 luns of 1.8 TB combined together to make 18 TB of storage for my Host (ESXi) servers. My host machines have 48 Gig RAM  and two 6...

Hi Experts,   if we are talking about hardware hba setup is it a requirement to have a SAN?

Hello experts,

I am looking for a procedure to learn how to configure a  Sun StorEdge 3300 (create array, volume, present volume to a host). I would defintaley appreciate a procedure with screenshots.

I just got a used Clariion and I have reconfigured it. I disocovered the issue i am having when i went to connect to my Windows 2008 Backup server using iSCSI. I have registered the host in the Navisphere software, Created the Raid Groups, Luns...

I have an ML350 G6 with the P410i RAID controller currently setup in RAID-5 using 3 SAS drives.  I loaded the OS and then found out the current configuration isn't going to provide enough storage so I added 3 more SAS drives but cannot expand the...

Much to my chagrin, I have an LSI SAS6160 SAS Switch in house.  I've connected to an Areca 8026 expander and an LSI MegaRAID 9280-24i4e controller card.  I simply want to zone a set of disks attached to the Areca Expander to the controller card...

Hello,

I have a PE R300 Server that I just replaced two hard drives. It was initially setup for a RAID 1 with two 73 GB HD. Now, I have two 300 GB HD, however when I insert them and run a new Windows Server 2008 R2 installation I see two 300...

Hello,
We just received our dual controller NetApp FAS2040 (12x600GB SAS drives) with DS4243 shelf (12x2TB SATA). We have 2 dedicated switches, not stacked. So, I've got 8 Ethernet data ports to utilize across 2 controllers. My desire is to...

Since 2007 I've been running SBS 2003 on a Dell Poweredge 840 using a RAID 1 array on a SAS 5/ir controller, which is imaged up nightly using Acronis True Image Server. Initially, the RAID 1 array was comprised of two 300mb drives. On running out...

•      Currently we have our drives split into Pools and RAID groups. I’m trying to figure out why we would need both. It seems that with FAST, we should be able to have a RAID 6 pool, and maybe a RAID 10 pool, and that’s it. This goes back to the...

We had a major drive failure on our SBS 2003 Dell server.   Server was powered down normally.  Next morning, server failed to boot.  Local tech says the RAID card failed and that the 2 mirrored drives have no data.  Unfortunately, the backup...

I am shopping for an HHD to build my own external.  The drive I want is definitely a Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB, but I found some variations the leave me questioning my decision.

The two types that I found:

==>...

Dear support,

We have three windows server 2003, connected to (HP StorageWork, Ultrium 448 SAS), they were all working perfectly. Recently we had to disconnect the servers and move them to another location. From that day after reconnecting the...

I just installed Fedora 16 on my computer but i can't access network shares on a windows server.

I can RDP to that server just fine.

I open file > Connect to Server

I change the type to windows share and put the IP of that server along...

Hey Experts,
I have a fairly large setup but i will try to explain it as simple as i can.

"Main Location"
2 HP VMware 5.0 servers.  Setup with HA.
HP P4000 LeftHand SAN.  (Mirrored SANs with 3TB storage)

"DR Location"
1 HP Vmware 5.0...

I have a WD Elements USB drive I can see in "My Computer" (Windows Server 2008 R2), but is not listed in "Disk Management". Not a big deal normally, but I need to attach it to a Hyper-V virtual machine and can't do that if its not mounted and...

Can you defrag a virtual servers disks like with a physical server?
If I run a defrag on a virtual server, It only analyses the disc and the defrag finishes instantly.

We have several Equallogic SAN's which host the volumes for each virtual...

I have a two head setup on our FAS2040 setup with iSCSI. The unit is fully populated with 15K drives. My Maximum sustainable transfer speed off each head is roughly 320Mb/s. I have a new shelf coming which will also have 15K drives. I'm going to...

Hello Team,

I have a silly yet very puzzling question.
I've done a reasonable amount of research on the subject but I cant seem to get my head round it. Since most of the research is coming from forums, alot of the questions are situation...

Hello,

We've recently added a few Windows 7 64-bit workstations in a Windows 2003 SBS environment.

There are odd issues when trying to use the Fax feature that is part of the SBS 2003 suite.
I was able to use the findings from other posts...

Hi experts

I plan to use Sata SSD in HP server in Raid1 for a ts server and a MS db server.
Do you know if there any compatibility issues with third party SSD (ex, intel,kingston..)
with those servers.
I know there's HP ssd but those are...

Hi Experts,

In XenServer, what does IntelliCache means?

saw on the net there are a few ways to burn the ISO file to USB. Is there any user friendly free utility that is recommended?

I need to create a raid array to an existing disk on my hp proliant DL380 G7 win2008 server. I grid by the array utility with no luck. I Know this can be done on Bios. The scenario:
One disk with WIN 2008 installed
Added one disk

Now i need...

I have two netapp devices for which are configured synchronous  replication( snapmirror) on all volumes.
I am planning to change the replication for some of the volumes to asynchronous. Every Volume has one or two LUNs.
My question is how I...

I just got a 3TB drive trying to get it work with a HP XW6400 workstation
anyone got a clue ?
I already upgraded the bios and the drive shows up as 801GB :(

helpppp

I recently purchased a Poweredge T410 from Dell with a SAS 6/iR RAID controller. Because of the hard-drive shortage, Dell did not offer the drives that I was looking for and the higher-end drives offered in their place were extremely expensive...

Dear Experts:

We are having 02 servers, 1. HP  DL380 G5 Server 2. Dell power edge 710 Rack server. Installed ESXi 5.0 on the bare metal and running with few VM's on each of the ESXi host.
On each ESXi host 04 nic were available and 02 are...

This GFS Strategy is bugging me as there is no defintive answer to how many tapes to buy. So how many does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop? So many different numbers for a GFS Routine it is nuts. I have read anywhere from 12 to 19...

I need the URL to download the driver for IBM ServeRAID 7T SATA Controller. It's part number is 71P8648. I need the driver for Server 2008 R2.

Please provide me with the exact URL hyperlink of where I can download this driver from.

Is it possible for 2 servers to share a SQL 2008 R2 database located on a SAN for transactional purposes.  The  servers will have separate internet connections (origins of the transactions) and there is no chance of conflicting transactions...

I have a Dell 2950 server with a Perc 5/i RAID card installed. Recently, I have been getting a warning that the BBU is no longer providing sufficient charge for it to function properly. This was not a terribly serious concern until we had a...

We have two seperate vmware farms located within the same network segment. We have our old esx 3.5 farm and a new esxi 5 farm. We are currently in the process of building the new farm in preparation of migrating the vms off the old farm and onto...

Hello,

We are currently using Symantec System Recovery to backup our physical servers and Veeam to backup my virtual servers. What happens is we use these two applications to backup of our servers multiple times during the day and then we use...

Hi.
Have a HP ML 350G6 with a P410i Raid controller and 3 x 146 GB hotswap SAS drives.
One is defect.

Have swap theese drives many times  (have many customers with this server type)
Some times hot-swapped while server is running and checked...

On my EMC Clariion I noticed a sticker on the FC drives 0-4 that says those drives have the array software on them. Can i still use them in my raid array for production. I have noticed most people still use those drives in their raid array's so i...

Dear all,
I want to purchase 2 SSDs for Raid 0 and ultimate performance for my gaming PC.
Which one do u suggest?
Note: I found that Corsair Force Series GT 120 GB SATA 2.5-Inch SATA III Solid State Drive (CSSD-F120GBGT-BK)
 have the best...

Not sure the difference of fixmbr and fixboot. From my understanding, FIXBOOT writes a new boot sector onto the system partition; The FIXMBR command lets you repair a master boot record (MBR)

MBR is not located in boot sector? if I run...

We are currently using NetApp SnapManager for VI (VSC.2.1.2) for our backups. Is there any way to determine what each VM contributes in regards to sizing on the backups?

In other words, we have 10 VMs in a datastore. Datastore backup kicks off...

I'm looking at
a) Oracle StorageTek SL500
b) Oracle L700
c) IBM TS3310
d) IBM TS3200

tape libraries.


Which of the above four would allow me to read+write to LTO5 tapes
(I suppose this is called Ultrium 5) as well as read from...

Hi,

I am looking for a very good powerpoint presentation about storage area network technologies.

Can you please help?

Hi all,

I am just trying to understand why CRC errors would affect performance in SAN and why would they cause long I/O times?

Thanks

I have a FAS2040 and a DS4243. I created a vif on the FAS2040 for e0a and e0b and created an etherchannel port on my Cisco switch. I can access the FAS2040 through the web interface and the System Manager. I then connected to the console of the...

Hello, I have an SBS 2003 server that is running a RAID5 array with four 160gb Western Digital WD1600JS hard drives (one is a global hot spare).  I would like to purchase another Western Digital hard drive to have on site in the instance a hard...

Hello,

I'd like some professional opinions regarding 2 tech specs, which one would you choose and why.

Thanks.

I recently added users to a new SBS 2011 domain, and in doing so lost user settings and data. One of the things I lost for users is their Norton 360 Identity Safe data. Where is the file located? Is it possible to recover this? Thanks!

Is it possible to fake an enterprise 15K SAS disk by getting some other slower or less reliable disk and rewriting firmware or codepages so that it's going to report to diagnostics that it is not only got a Dell/HP/EMC/IBM part number but that it...

Hi

I was wondering if anyone with any experience with a HP P410i smart array controller can help me? yesterday around 10am I tried to expand of of my logical disks from around 450 Gb to 750 Gb (RAID 1+0). there are two issues one is ACU is...

Hi all,
I purchased a 2TB Seagate GoFlex Home networked hard drive so I could put it in another location and backup my important files to it.

The problem is, it is designed for this... except without the remote part. It is designed for you to...

I am trying to install ESXi V 4.1 on LSI 3WARE 9650SE-2LP.
Before buying the LSI 3WARE 9650SE-2LP, I confirmed with a 3Ware tech support that the controller card would be compatible with DELL T105 amd ESXi,  But when I just installed it, at the...

Dell PowerEdge 6850 with PERC 4/DC /Dell Power Vault 220s in split mode/ Server 2003 Enterprise x64 SP2

Using  Dell Server Administrator to create the virtual disks raid 1. Create 3 virtual disks all raid 1 136Gb but all show as windows disk 0...

Hey experts,
I got a general setup question.  I dont know if there is a best way to do this.  So i am just looking for the best advice on which way to set up the volumes.

What i have is a HP Left Hand san with around 3TB of storage.
2 VMware...

Hello,

I am trying to decide on the best way to add 2TB of storage to my network.  This storage will be used to backup my server as well as backup my digital photos.  All in all, I currently have about 100,000 total files and 750 GB of...

Dear Experts:

Presently having two servers installed with Vsphere 5 i,e  Esxihost 1( built in 04 nic ports) and Esxihost2 (built in 04 nic ports) on each of the server.  04 VM’s  of ubuntu server , windows 2003 server’s and suse enterprise...

I'm going to roll out a VsPhere5 enviornment using 3 ESX hosts with about 4 VM's each.  The budget is tight and the SAN is a huge part of the cost, and so I was looking at the Equallogic 4100e iSCSI SATA SAN (2x 1Gbps controllers) but I...

Looking for some expert advice.

If I'm looking for a free way of storing some files (less than 200mb) online somewhere, what would you suggest as the best solution.

I remember when GMAIL was first launched someone made an application that...

We have one Dell Optiplex 780, I need to replace the data drive as only 300Gb and it is full.  Dell told me that the largest hard drive I can put into this machine is a 500Gb drive.  This sounds ridiculous.

Can't I simply purhcase a SATA 300...

I have a PowerEdge T110 server with a PERC H200 card.  The system is currently configured with one SAS drive and two SATA drives in JBOD (all drives connected to H200 card).  I'm looking to expand storage capacity by adding a 3TB Seagate SATA...

Hi,

I have a customer's Macbook Pro 13 in at the moment and they tell me that the computer just froze up on them, forcing them to do a hard shutdown (holding the power button). When they switched back on it had a flashing question mark (i.e....

Hi to all... :)

I have one, should I say, doubt that I want to clarify...
We upgraded our Active Directory domain to Windows server 2008 R2; all of our domain controllers are Windows server 2008 R2...

Now, one of most important things is...

Hi Everyone,
In our old system, people accessed their files on the SAN by connecting to files servers, which had LUNS attached to them.  These LUNS had the folders shared, etc.  We backed up the files with Backup Exec with agents on the files...

After deleting a virtual disk from a disk pool on my AX4-5 SAN NaviSphere Express is telling me the state of that pool is Fragmented.  The remaining virtual disk in that pool contains all of my SQL databases.  
There is a Defragment button...

Pls refer to the two attached pictures.

Q1:
I have this Emulex card but I'm not sure if it's meant for
connection to SAN or for LAN connection.  So what is it
meant for?

Q2:
From the photos, can anyone tell the specific model of
this...

I noticed recently that I noly had one path to my SAN volumes from each of my ESX hosts.
Equallogic is PS4000.
I went through hancocka's guid here for setting up the multiple paths:...

I am using VMWare ESXi to host virtual machines that are running Debian squeeze. I am also using the Open-iSCSI package to manage the connections to the iSCSI targets. With this setup, I am bypassing VMWare's 2TB limit for a LUN. Is this a viable...

When you delete a VM snapshot (we are on VMWare 4 and have Netapp iscsi storage) - is that a write intensive operation?  Or is it just a matter of removing a pointer?

Hi,

I'm adding a second Symantec Enterprise Vault server to our environment, but I'm struggling to find a decent guide which would explain the multiserver environment.

I'm trying to scale up the current setup of a single EV 9 server and...

Hi there,

I have a Windows 2003 Server and I changed the drive letter of an attached disk
(actually the “disk” is a partition of a Network Storage connected with SAS cable to my server)

After applying the new letter a pop-up message...