Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop or switched disk?
Storage expert Greg Schulz offers advice to a reader considering buying high-end storage from two different vendors -- one uses Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop technology and one uses a switched-disk...
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NICs in NAS systems
NAS expert Randy Kerns answers the question: "Is it typical, when using a NAS appliance, that a host/server would have 2xNICs installed?"
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NAS: How does a client access files?
NAS expert Randy Kerns offers advice to a reader who asked: "How does NAS appear to machines accessing files from it?"
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Remote backup: What are the alternatives to tape?
Archiving expert Bill Tolson offers advice to a reader looking for alternatives to shipping tape offsite, including a graphical representation of the remote replication backup process.
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Performance monitoring on boot from SAN
Networking expert Greg Schulz offers advice to a reader concerned with I/O rates when booting from a SAN
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HBAs: Are dual HBAs worth the investment?
Storage networking expert Greg Schulz offers advice to a reader debating whether to invest in dual HBAs for their SAN.
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Fiber optics over distance
Networking expert Greg Schulz offers advice to a reader that asked about using fiber-optic cabling over long distances.
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NAS vs. DAS
NAS expert Randy Kerns offers advice to a SearchStorage.com reader who is considering whether to use NAS or DAS.
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Mirroring HP EVA4000 data
Business continuity expert Pierre Dorion offers advice to a reader seeking information about mirroring HP EVA4000 data.
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FATA vs. FC disk drives
Storage expert Greg Schulz compares FATA and FC disk drives.
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iSCSI, iFCP and FCIP: How do they stack up?
iSCSI, iFCP and FCIP are compared in this Q&A.
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Creating NAS partitions
NAS expert Randy Kerns offers important advice about creating partitions in a NetApp NAS system.
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NAS permissions
NAS expert Randy Kerns offers advice to a reader who asked: "How are permissions controlled on NAS?"
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NAS appliance vs. homegrown file server
NAS expert Randy Kerns outlines why he believes purchasing a vendor offering of a NAS product has advantages over rolling your own file server.
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NAS checkpoints for NFS and CIFS file systems
NAS expert Randy Kerns discusses NAS checkpoint best practices for NFS and CIFS file systems.
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NAS: Can you add capacity non-disruptively?
Storage expert Randy Kerns offers advice about adding capacity to a NAS system non-disruptively in this Q&A.
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NFS vs. CIFS for Red Hat Enterprise 4
NAS expert Randy Kerns offers advice about using NFS or CIFS for Red Hat Enterprise 4.
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Decreasing I/O latency in RAID array
Greg Schulz offers troubleshooting advice for a reader looking to decrease I/O latency in a RAID-5 array.
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SATA port: Can you run multiple drives off of one?
Storage networking expert Greg Schulz discusses how to run multiple drives off a SATA port.
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Cannot retrieve data from RAID
Storage expert Greg Schulz offers troubleshooting suggestions for a user whose RAID array can't communicate with four units of PowerMac G5 Quad Core.
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Can storage hypervisors bring HA to the cloud?
Learn how the advanced functionality of a storage hypervisor provides a cloud infrastructure with high availability.
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What software allows the sharing of PCIe SSD cards?
Learn the different methods to share PCIe SSD cards among multiple servers to improve performance and still keep costs down.
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Can file-based apps be used with object storage?
Learn how to use applications such as Microsoft Exchange or SQL Server with object storage systems on the back end.
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