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   We have a electrical issue in the building and all power needs to be cut to the server room.
  What is the best way to shutdown a Clariion? Is there a specific sequence that needs to be followed?

   What is the best way to bring a...

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We are going to replace our EMC Clarion SAN. We are looking at IBM v7000 and EMC VNX

We have found the following matrix that compares the two solutions.
...

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I got a Preserio 2100

I got the following error message when i boot the machine as normal...I backup my files and run hdd self test...Nothing happens after the test...I go to system defaults of bios...again no joy...

How to...

I'm getting a Warning in my System log regarding a failed drive array accelerator battery.
Here's the info:
Event Type:      Warning
Event Source:      Storage Agents
Event Category:      Events
Event ID:      1206
Date:            7/10/2008
Time:            6:12:53 AM
User:      ...

I am planning the purchase of a 12 TB raw SAN that will be used with vSphere 5 and two DEll R710 servers for aq virtual implementation. I will be running 6 VM's at first to start and then I will virtualize Exchange 2007 for 150 users (by that...

 have a [Compaq] storage array to our HP DL380 G2 server (running Microsoft 2K Advanced Server with Cluster Services which has a Smart Array 5i Embedded controller . In the array there are (3) existing 72.8GB 15k rpm SCSI Ultra 320 drives that...

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I backed up my system using Norton Ghost 3.0 and had an MP3 file on the hard disk that was corrupt.  Now I can not uncompress or read my ghost images.  I always get a CRC error.  Here's the most pertinent information I've found so far,...

I am trying to run a fitness test/analysis on a Toshiba MK6021GAS. I know there are problems with the drive. I thought Hitachi was the hard drive manufacturer, so I downloaded their fitness test program. The drive has errors, but Hitachi's...

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HDD in question: External 160GB firewire drive from Maxtor.
O/S: Windows 2000 Advanced Server

Windows stopped recognizing the data on the disk suddenly while I was trying to fix a sound card resource conflict issue. Prior to this, I...

I have a SQL Server 2005 database, and it's data and log files reside on drive E:\

Hey is there an easy way to move the database (mdf, ldf) files from one drive to another?

What would be the steps?

Thanks.

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I have recently purchased an IBM X3500 M3 server with an M5015 raid card.
I have just finished setting up a RAID 1 and RAID5 within the LSI MegaRAID BIOS Config Utility and would like some feedback on whether I have completed my...

Can any one help me on san storage interview question with answers

I have a HDD out of a Dell laptop (toshiba brand drive 30Gig)  The drive was given to me because it is password protected and no one knows the password (dell laptop came from ebay in this condition).  I put the HDD in my toshiba laptop and get a...

Recently purchased a new IBM server x3650 am I am unsure the best way to setup the RAID. I want to do RAID 5 but I have read that the OS cannot/shouldn't be put on the same array.

We bought a new Dell MD3200 DAS (NOT iSCSI) This is connected with the MiniSAS cables.
http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/powervault-md3200/pd

I have 2 Windows 2008 R2 servers which I would like to Cluster SQL on, I already have some good...

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Have a major issue seeing an existing iscsi san from a pair of ESX 4 hosts.
When I first set these up I had a fair bit of difficulty in getting it to connect but eventualy I did.
Now I have (though I should have done before, doh)...

Our netbackup server is running Windows 2003 which has two Qlogic 2300 Fibre cards installed.  The fibre cards are attached to ADIC Scalar i2k Library which produces the following error:

1/9/2006 3:02:51 PM ql2300 Error None 11 N/A BACKUP-SRV...

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I've got an old CX500 that I've disconnected from an ESX host, but I left the FC HBA's in.  The ESX host still expects to see the the multiple paths to the CX500 SAN, but, since it's gone... that's not going to happen.

How do I kill the...

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I have an MSA60 drive array attached to a Windows 2003 server by a P800 Smart Controller and SAS cable.

Yesterday one of the 12 drives on the MSA60 (bay 11) failed.  This was no problem due to the RAID 5 set up on the controller, so...

In the PERC/CERC BIOS configuration utility if I clear the adapter configuration will it affect the RAID configuration?

Im getting the Configuration of NVRAM and drives mismatch (Normal mismatch) error. Im curious if I clear the config if...

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I have tried to extend my c drive on one of my 2003 ts partitions. This has usually worked excellent for me in the past with no issues with other servers, however no matter what I do extpart wont extend the c drive. I keep getting...

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I got this P2000 G3 SAN (FC) which we generally use for backups (2 Drive Enclosures) but we are planning to extend this SAN to also host our main file servers+DFS replicas about (10TB + 500 users). According to disk I.O calculations...

I am having a problem that has stumped me. I have a  33GB backup file (Friday.bks) on a 1TB network hard drive with embedded XP. I am trying to copy it to a 250GB Iomega network drive. When I do, I get the following error: "Cannot copy Friday:...

Dear experts.
I have recently updated my computer to windows 7 and i have problems finding a driver for my Tv Card. It has a conexant bt878 chipset. If anyone can help me i would be very pleased.
Thanx

I recently installed an HP Proliant Server running SBS 2003, it has two hard drives (one drive and a mirror)
Both are showing as healthy in "disk management" The system seems to run OK but we are plagued by the same message coming up over and...

My company has given me the responsibility to pick a vendor for our share storage.  I have used EMC before and like the products.  I have also read a lot of great things about Netapp and the FAS2040.  I need someone in the industry that could...

i have a hard disk with many bad sectors in it, assuming i have ran scandisk thoroughly, i want those bad sectors repaired and be on its good condition again, what freeware will i must have and where to have it? does Norton Disk Doctor do the...

Hi,

I'm looking for a way to
a) Convert a 2 TB NTFS MBR partition to a GPT partition without having to empty the partition first (as I understand, Windows can only perform the conversion if the partition is empty)
b) Resize a 2 TB GPT...

I need to get a copy of IBM ServeRaid Manager 7.1 so that I can set up a Raid array on a Netfinity 4500R and an IBM 3520 (10) HD chassis that I just purchased. Is there somewhere that it can be downloaded at no cost?

Thanks,

Wallace

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Every night I do a full file backup and also backup the catalog.

In HP Data Protector Express how do you import a catalog from a tape as I need to restore a folder asap but its not listed in the folder list when I browse. I assume if I...

Hiya Everyone,

Just looking for some advice.  Its been an issue for a while, and although i have a workaround, i want to know the opinion of someone who knows a little more about this.

I have some HS22 Blades, in a BladeCenter E Chasis,...

We have a problem with HP Omniback / Data Protector.  We are able to reliably backup 700 GB  ( confirming seven hundred gigabytes )  of data on a regular basis.

We are able to restore selected individual files from this backup without any...

I have a TS-219P+ NAS drive with two 2 TB hard drives in RAID mirroring mode.  Around 700 GB of disc space is used, accross 5 or 6 shared folders - all set up using the QNAP web administration and accessed via the Samba sharing by three Windows 7...

We need to provision a SAN array. We went to Netapps, EMC and dell and got quotes from each. Now I believe Dell is out of the running as their compellent series appears to be (from what Ive read) inferior to both NetApps and EMC Vnx series.
...

I am setting up a windows XP system that I will use for editing large digital pictures and video.  I have set up a 36 Gb drive with two partitions.  The first is the system partition and it is 14 Gb and formated NTFS with default options (auto...

What is the easiest way to copy the contents of a vhd file to a physical disk?

We have a Dell PowerEdge 2800 server running Win Server 2003 with the following embedded RAID controller: PERC 4e/Di. Here are a few of its specs:

RAID BIOS H435 Build April 23, 2008
PERC/CERC BIOS Configuration utility U827
RAID 5

I have...

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I have a Windows 2003 Server box which HP Data Protector is not backing up.
The server is our centralised Monitoring Server and will soon be hosting our Helpdesk Management applications.

HP Data Protector Manager is unable to...

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I am trying to make a P2V using VMWare Converter Standalone 5.0. The Physical server is running Windows Server 2003 with SP2 installed.

The Converter creates the VM in vCenter and it fails at 1% when trying to convert. The error is...

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We have a HP ProLiant DL380 G7 server that has 4x 1TB hard drives and was defaulted to a RAID 5 setup which is what we wanted. We then proceeded with creating a 100GB partition using the HP software tools to install Windows Server 2008 R2...

I want to migrate our RAID 1 to RAID 5.
1. We've got a smart array P410i Controller. In the manual under migrating a logical drive is explained that this will need a battery buffered write cache.
How can I check if I have one in this server?...

What SANs would you recommend for the following

- 20Tb Usable data
- VM infrastructure / integration
- HP Blade server / chassis (current)
- Commvault backup
- replication in real time to 2nd SAN at DR site on dark fibre
- NFS / CIFS...

Hello, I have a new server I am setting up for a client. The server is a SuperMicro super server 7046T-H6R. It has an X8DTH-6 motherboard. I have 5 Seagate 6gb/s SAS2, 7200rpm, 500gb Constellation ES hard drives, model# ST3500414SS drives.

I...

Need to add a san to the existing environment.
received quotes for the following.
HP P4000 G2 with 60 7.2k disks
EMC NS-120
Netapp DS4243
Dell EqualLogic PS6500E 48 7.2K disks.

I know it's a wild mix but within a tight budget and looking...

Ok, I have a new client that has a Dell Poweredge 2600 server with a Dell PERC 3/DC RAID Controller w/128MB Cache.  I noticed that his RAID card doesn't have a battery.  I did some research and found that a battery is optional on this card.  This...

Hi Experts,

I am confused. I have similar problem to what is in http://www.experts-exchange.com/Storage/Misc/Q_24230925.html

But I have 1+0 5raid array. Basically 0 and 1 working together as one logical drive and 2 other drives 2 and 3 are...

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I have a Dell PowerEdge R710 with a PERC H700 SAS Raid Controller. I have serveral volumes configured on this array and need to disable Write-caching within the Operating System (Server 2000R2) as this server is contantly writing important...

I just installed Backup Exece 10d/10.1 for SBS2003.

All my backup runs have errors that I cannot figure out.  My most recent test run of an Exchange backup, ended with an error "Capacity check status    : Failed" but the disk we are backing up...

Hello experts.

Recently, we had a few power outages that really wrecked a lot of equipment where our backup generator didn't kick over and the UPS solution we have simply ran out of juice which caused our 3 VM hosts to hard down.

For the...

Hello,
We have a Windows XP Home laptop that failed to boot, showing a blinking cursor after POST.  I plugged the HD into a USB-PATA adapter and my Windows 7 desktop initially recognized it OK and I could see all the files.

I had to move the...

Just installed this (2.1XX) version for x86_64. It's running and I can connect to it via port 34572, but it's asking me for a username/password combination. I have tried some system user/pass combos, some usual defaults but nothing. I can't find...

I have HP DL360 G3  (1U 2 Drives)

I have drive from old server installed and working single drive
in Interim Recovery mode.

I can not get it out of Interim Recovery mode.
I have the old drive running and want to get the array going...

2 hosts ESX(i) 4.1 which shares the same LUN on MD3200i.
The error recieved on the storage array is below.

Each host is connected in w/ 2 NIC's directly to the iSCSi network.
Here's the layout of one of them.

What is the best way to solve...

Hi - I recently inherited the support of 3 IBM x3400 Servers in an educational environment. These servers are currently online and active. Each of these servers have IBM ServeRAID 8k - l controllers. 2 of the servers have 2 identical SATA drives...

Hi Experts,

I Need to Change the Cache Battery on one of the Controllers for AN IBM DS3000. There is probably nothing wrong with the battery, but its two years old and an Alert shows up saying that it needs to be replaced. Ive ordered a...

I have purchased a USB Mass Storage device which utalizes a standard 2.5" laptop hard drive. The hard drive is full functional and works fine when I plug it into a motherboard directly. The USB adaptor case I purchased came with drivers for Win...

I absolutely CAN NOT get my "T" series' Lenovo ThinkPad's to Ghost properly.  I ALWAYS end up with a blinking cursor after dropping the image onto another drive.  I've been using Ghost for many years and have tried all the tricks I've found so -...

Hi everyone please please help me

Ive just copied all the information i could from my external hard drive to the c drive using a program called getdataback for ntfs which was recommeneded by this website.

The information i have is now on...

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For a while now I have thought that our backups have been taking too long to complete and requring too many tapes. We run a full backup (resetting archive bit) on a Sunday and differential backups Monday to Friday. We have separate...

Hi all,

I am looking to get a Netapps, or EMC solution for our SAN, I understand the cost is greater then Dell Equalogic, and HP's Lefthand P4000.

High availability, co-lo of second stack to DR site important considerations. value for...

I am having Transcend USB Flash Drive 2GB ( TS2GJFV30 ).

I am not able to format it on my personal computer. It is giving below error

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and...

I Have 3 vsphere servers, vcenter 1 live production SAN (Hitachi) & a development network storage setup using an iScsi Cake server.
I previously added the iscsi storage to each Vsphere server and could use it however due to setting the block...

I’ve setup a VM cluster with 3 hosts and Lefthand nodes. All worked well (including veeam backup over network) until I let Veeam do a backup over iSCSI. Some VM’s completely crashed some VM’s did backup (small ones) and a number of VM where...

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We made a choice to test a HP DL370 with 24 SSD’s.

Since the original HP SSD’s costs 15x more than 3. party disks. We chose the NON HP disks.
One might want to argue that that is the issue.  It might also be, but we want to make...

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I several users currently using Wyse SX10 Thin Clients with RDP to Windows 2003 TS. The users need to be able to download photos from either a camera or usb card reader from the thin client to the file server (also Windows 2003).
I have had...

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I am trying to attach a san disk to a windows 2008 however I do not have the option to initialise it, it is un highlighted.

However the option to initialise was there before but I was getting the following error

 

But now I am...

Just this weekend this has happened, that my full backup is stuck at Snapshot Processing, any ideas how to resolve that?

I'm using Backup Exec 10d SP3 on Windows 2000 Server SP4, fully updated.  Everything was working fine, nothing has...

Help, I have lost my logic drivers!  All of them...
I returned to the office Monday morning to find my server starting over and over trying to find the OS.   Nothing was updated.  The light path diagnostics shows no hardware error.  The Raid...

Recentely I bought a dell laptop from ebay, the laptop has a hard drive that is asking for a password right in the beginning after it boots up (not when the os boots up). I think the password is being stored on the software part of the hard drive...

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I removed a laptop hd (Dell Lattitude D630) froma  system that was in hibernate mode without realizing it was hibernated. Once i realized what I had done I hard shut the system, put the drive back in, and upon restart I get "Internal Hard...

Hi ,
we are running robocopy script for backing up data from one server to other server.
It looks like it is doing full backup at scheduled time and it is taking very long time and not getting finished till work hours in morning.
The robocopy...

Hi,
I am working on a clients HDD (Vista Home Premium) and running HDD Regenerator.
I have backed up all his data and run HDD regen and have gotten to the point where regen tell me to restart the computer and also "Your hard drive is not fixed...

The alarm in my Dell Poweredge 2850 has been beeping non stop for hours. One of the three hard drives on my RAID 5 array was removed (don't ask) while the system was live. The drive was immediately replaced. Dell's OPENManage software tells me...

I have a HP Proliant DL185G5 storage server running Windows Storage Server 2003. It's a 12TB drive, running RAID 1 on one array and RAID 6 on the other. The first array has the OS, the second array is used as a secondary drive for backups.
...

Hi,
   I have a Clariion cx700. PowerPath on my exchange server reported the errors below. We have a single port HBA and configured for failover. PowerPath Monitor reports pathname "c4t0d1" as failed, "c4t0d0" as optimal. Under "disk's", it...

Hi all,

It's a Windows SBS 2008, and I was dumb enough to install the system on a raid 5 (four disks). Now one disk has failed. What would you do knowing that this is of course extremely urgent :

- The disks are 3 years old, it might take a...

Dell Open Manage shows PowerEdge 2900 PERC 5/i firmware and driver out of date, is there a specific order they need to be updated?

How long does it take to erase a tape using veritas backupexec?

Does erasing a tape refer to formatting a tape in backup language? If not, how do i format a tape?

I have recently had a drive fail in my ML370 G3.

This was replaced with a new drive from HP of the same spec and size. (146.8 GB, Ultra 320 SCSI Hot-Swap)

On installation the drive appeared to start to rebuild.

Upon inspection of the...

I am running Windows SBS 2003 with Symantec Backup Exec 11 and I am getting the following error:
***********************
Job Completion Status
Job ended: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 at 3:21:51 AM
Completed status: Failed
Final error:...

New to this but under the gun for quick setup. Can fine-tune later. I have hardware powered and cabled but need to initialize with CLI setup. I see  RJ45 connectors 2 are regular Ethernet the others are for service. How do i know the ip address...

I was going with Compellent when neapp vendor dropped a price in half.   I wonder if I am looking apple2apple now or something drastically changed.
Can you guys take a peek and let me know what you think?

Thank you!!  

Hello,

Can anyone let me know how can I format my Seagate 3TB External Hard Drive with 512K per sector. I tried Paragon home edition, but it won't let me specify bytes per sector. I also tried Western Digital tool, but it won't detect any...

Hi Experts,

I have a situation. I using ESXi 4.1 and I have a VM where Exchange 2003 is running. There are daily vDR backups taking place and the same time we are testing some file level backups using a different product. We use a agent in the...

Hi,

Currently have an EMC Fibre Channel SAN (CX4-120) that consists of many LUNS of VMFS storage for our VMware environment. We are in the process of implementing a Commvault Backup and DR solution for our Virtual environment. Part of this...

The event viewer shows "The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.".  I've run a SCANDISK on both disk partitions with the goal of flagging the bad block but this event still occurs about once a day.
I'm running Windows VISTA Ultimate. ...

We are looking at both products NetApp and EMC specifically the FAS2240 and the VNX5300

We currently run a FAS2020 and we are hitting the breaking point in regards to CPU, and storage allocation will be critical within the next year or two.
...

Hi Guys,

This is abit of an urgent call for help, I've got a IBM X226 (86485BM) Tower Server at a client site,
and one of the disks which belongs to a 3disk raid 5 has become deflunct, I've called IBM, and the
warrenty on the machine is...

I have Backup Exec 9.1 running on a Windows 2003 Server. I have a job stuck in the Cancel Pending state. How can I get this job to complete canceling? The nighly jobs will not que up until this one completes! Thanks.

I can't seem to get rid of several old hosts that show up in Navisphere Manager with Host Agent not reachable next to them.  Does anyone know how to delete these?

Thanks!

I have a server on a Raid 5 with 3 146GB drives (in the 1st 3 slots)and 1 hot spare in slot 4.  
We're running out of server space and purchased another 146GB Drive.
I believe the HP's windows Raid Utility allows me to expand the RAID while...

I'm trying to figure out how I can reset or clear out the SMART data stored on my Hard Drive.  This hard drive was formatted incorrectly with a restore utility, and now the SMART thinks it's a bad drive.  I've low-leveled the drive and formatted...

Under device manager I have an unknown HID device.  I also happen to have an external harddrive thats not working.  The harddrive is detected when I plug it in, but its not under disk management.

Property      Value
Device ID     ...

Win 2000 Server with BrightStor/ArcServe v9.0
Latets patches for CA-BrightStor and WinUpdate applied

The last couple of days the tape engine has started to fail.
It stops unexpectedly.

First time I noticed the problem was when I in...

I got the Brocade Silkworm 2402 from eBay and it does not have the admin login and password. Is there away to reset the switch to its manufacturer's default admin username and password (admin/password)?

Currently I am able to connect to the...

The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\D

the above error are some times shown in the winxp sp2 event viewer. when the error occurs the system hangs.

what is the solution to remove this error?

system

windows xp sp2...

Does anyone know of a command or utility that can be used to output the target and lun id's for mounted SAN disks on a Windows 2003 server?  

I can retrieve this information by opening Computer Management, Disk Manager, right-clicking on the...

What's the latest storport driver for Windows 2003 x64?  My minimum requirement is 5.2.3790.4173 which I have found.  Wondering if there is a site that has all the versions listed, instead of going through Microsoft KBs per issue.