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COMSTAR Tutorial: Convert a Sun Server into a Fibre Channel Storage Array

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:29:27 +0000

Screencast: Sumit Gupta demonstrates steps to start from a fresh install to converting a Sun server into a fibre channel storage array.

Duration : 0:8:57

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Can upgrade the storage on my RAID 0+1 Array?

admin — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:28:44 +0000

I have a RAID 0+1 (4 drives) each 250 GB, my usable space is 500 GB (250GB+250GB) …

Id like to get 500 GB drives (x4). I understand that if i do insert a 500 GB drive into the array it will act as a 250 GB drive max.

My question is if i replace all drives will it then bump me up to my desired size, in this case (500GB + 500GB) ?

Best bet:
Put in two 500GB drives as a RAID0 element.
Let them synch, they will show up as 250GB drives
remove the two remaining 250GB drives
Use a partition editor to resize the 500s
Add the second pair of 500s

EMC Storage Array Solution in Chicago from IDS, Data Solutions Integrator

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:18:27 +0000

Integrated Data Storage, a data center technology integrator based in Chicago, implemented an EMC storage array for a local business, helping the company effectively and efficiently manage its growing IT needs. To learn more about the engineered solutions architected by IDS–including backup, replication, virtualization, and deduplication, among others–please visit http://www.integrateddatastorage.com

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My boss bought a netapp fas940 and 4 storage arrays and said here put them together. Where is a manual? Help!!

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:29:43 +0000

I have been to netapp and am still waiting for approval to gain access but I need info sooner. Yes I am a newbie to these systems and just want to know how to connect the wiring and set it up.

If you are doing this as part of your job, you would have been better to tell him no. I have seen people take on something beyond their current understanding an have it totally fail, or worse create a problem later and cause a serious data loss. It is OK playing like this when it is your own equipment and you have time to experiment, not for a commercial purpose. you are putting your job and future employment record on the line.

SGI TP9500 Storage Array Booting up

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:36:15 +0000

This storage arry is available on Ebay!

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In PERL, I want to store lines read in by a config file. What is the best storage device, an array?

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:34:42 +0000

I will be reading in lines such as:

/home/data/myfile1:go_back=2:/home/dat…
/home/data/myfile2:go_back=1:/home/dat…
…

basically each line will have about 3 seperate configuration paramaters that I will parse at a later time. For now, I just need the best storage device to hold these lines. Thanks in advance!

If there are only a few lines;
if order is important;
an array, @data
if order is not important
a hash, %data
if there are a lot of lines, you don’t want to store them all in memory. work on each line inside the while($line = ) loop. If readability is the reason you want to read these all in memory, consider using subroutines to keep your while loop neat and readable.

Data Robotics DRO4DD10 Drobo 4 SATA Bay FW800 & USB 2.0 Storage Array Enclosure

admin — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:54:15 +0000

http://www.jr.com/data-robotics/pe/DRT_DRO4DD10/?JRSource=yt
As rich media (photos, video, movies, music) continues to devour your storage capacity, you need a solution that allows you to easily manage, protect, and scale storage for your PC or Mac. For you, there’s Drobo, the first fully automated storage robot to take the pain out of keeping your important Digital content safe. This Data Robotics DR04DD10 Drobo enclosure accepts up to 4 internal storage SATA hard-drives (drives are not included) that you set up as an array for both primary and backup storage. Add Drobo, get 4 drives and download at will.

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compaq storage works raid array 3000?

admin — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 08:58:38 +0000

my company is using this as a storage device … and iti s highly unstable … the drives crash down a ot .. what can i do to manage it as i am new and my senior dba is on leave … is there any way i can keep it stable.
i forgot to mention that it is running TRUUNIX 64

Check the Event Viewer located in the Administrative Tools under the control panel. Look for error messages. Right click on the error message and select Properties to locate the problem.

Data Robotics Drobo 4-Bay USB 2.0/FireWire 800 SATA Storage Array DR04DD10 Video

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:36:24 +0000

More detail at http://electronics.wowwowmoney.com/2009/10/27/best-buy-cheap-data-robotics-drobo-4-bay-usb-20firewire-800-sata-storage-array-dr04dd10-other-products-by-data-robotics/

The safe, expandable Drobo storage solution protects your data against a hard drive crash, yet can expand dynamically at any time in just seconds. With nothing to configure or manage, Drobo is now the ideal solution for primary storage as well as backup.

Duration : 0:4:35

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Is there a system within windows where you can "mount" a storage array to a server (2003 / 2008 etc)?

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:55:53 +0000

And have it appear as a drive on the "my computer" area of windows ??

i.e if i had a windows 2008 server, could i mount a dell powervault md 3000 ( http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pvaul_md3000?c=uk&cs=ukbsdt1&l=en&s=bsd ) and have it appear under "my computer" as a new drive or would i need linux to achieve the same effect.

I’m not sure how the Dell Powervault works specifically, but if it runs standard SMB, it should be simple enough to map as a network drive, and have it appear in my computer as F: or G: or whatever drive you assign it. Or, if it connects directly to the server via USB/iSCSI you might be able to add it to the Windows file system as a mount point (as long as you are running NTFS, and its not clustered).

Go to Computer Management > Disk Management > Initialize Disk if the disk is not already initialized > Highlight the disk and select ‘Change drive letters & paths’ > Add > ‘Mount in the following empty NTFS folder’. The new drive will now appear as a folder in your file system. Volume mount points are transparent to programs!