my company just bought 1 unit used HP MSA 1000 with intergrated storageworks san switch 2/8. The previous user never release their san switch login password.
Just to check any of you guys hav...
We have a dual-controller DS4700 contained in a single enclosure. We successfully upgraded firmware from 06.16.92.00 to 06.60.22.00 with no difficulty. However, when we attempt to load 07.36.1...
Does anyone know of a way to factory reset this drive as I don't have the admin password. I don't care about the existing data on the drive but need to reset the password to be able to configu...
I will be astonished if anyone has the time to read this book and help, but I do desperately need assistance. Believe it or not, I have actually tried to abbreviate this question. If you have ...
Hey guys, I'm new to Navisphere, Clariion and EMC in general. So I've pretty much been self teaching the "proper" way to do things. The question I have is what are the downsides to expanding...
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I have an MSA2012sa with dual controllers. Controller A is the owner of 2 volumes and B is the owner of another 2. I have MPIO round robin on the server. I have 2 HBAs in the DL380, one...
Hi Guys, may I know how to setup 2 physical hosts connected to a SAN for high availability? I shall list down what I know and maybe you can correct me. I will not try to boot from SAN to reduc...
Were looking at replacing our current SAN solution and just wanted (if possible) unbiased opinions regarding what were looking at.
Currently we're a Dell Shop 95% virtualized using a EMC (D...
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my issue is this i'm running exchange 2007 on blade servers and I'm having I/O problems. Everythign is pointing to the SAN.
Basically I'm told that the Fiber Channel drives in the...
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Our vendors quoted SAS disks for Sun Sparc T5240 & HP-UX RX3660 & I found that:
a) for 300GB SAS disks, it's indicated as 10000 rpm
b) for 146GB & 75GB SAS disks, it's indicated as 15...
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I´m having real trouble getting this configuration to work. I have this setup according to the manuals:
1 C3000.
2 3G SAS Blade Swithes in bay3 and 4.
1 MSA2324 with dual io.
2...
I have a quad core IBM x-server I am going to virtualize with MS Hyper-V. It will run exchange server 2003 as one of the guest OS. Our environment has 45 people with e-mail accounts and my s...
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I'm working with a IBM N3300 (NetApp FAS2020) and I have a volume created and a lun inside said volume. Regularly when the space allocated inside the volume for Snapshots fills up, ...
Several questions here:
I have an Adaptec 2410SA in a server with 4 drives in a RAID 10. For a while, I have thought that one of the drives is on it's way out as there has been high-pitch...
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I'm just putting together my first SAN and am confused as to how I configure the system.
Topology is:
RAID array connected to switch via 2 FC channels
Server 2003 (DL380) con...
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We have ESX C Class Balde in our enviornment, Installed Windows 2003 64 Bit OS on it,. We want to install the Dataprotector agent, trying to install the software. But we are getting th...
I need to put together two servers and some shared storage for a 2 node active-passive SQL cluster. I'm a longtime Dell customer and currently have an older cluster (2007) based on Dell 2950...
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i have a ds3400
inside got 12 X 300 GB HD
i need to configure it to work in raid 5 with 3TB capacity
do any one knows why in the calculate i get 3TB but when i kclick nect to ...
When connecting to a buffalo linkstation drive, i am getting the following error: The specified network name is no longer available.
I am connecting via IP address.
I have updated the fi...
Hi guys, I have some questions regarding SAN. Although I know the basic of how to go about configuring it, I do not have an really understand some components. We're using IBM DS3400 for storag...
Ok, We are going to be virtualizing our entire system here over the next year and we obviously need a SAN. I engaged Dell (equalogic) and IBM (DS4700) to provide me with solutions. Now i hav...
Want to know more about the changes in the file system structures like volume identifier,path table etc. how i can recognize that cd have 2 session or 3 session or have not any multi-session. ...
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I've set storage processor A with an ip address of 10.0.0.200 and created a NAT on the firewall to an external IP address (44.44.44.44 for this example). However, when i browse to this ...
I recently purchased several LG GH22LS50 DVDRW Drive - DVD+R 22X, DVD+RW 8X, DVD-RW 6X, DVD-RAM 12X, CD-R 48X, CD-RW 32X, SATA, Lightscribe (OEM)'s.
I wanted two in one machine for backup p...
I have a Windows 2003 R2 VM that connects to our SAN (EMC CLARiiON CX3-10) via iSCSI. The server connects to 3 LUNS. When the VM reboots, the iSCSI target reconnects automatically to its tar...
