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• What are the pros and cons of micro-zoning?
• Advantages of ATA and SATA disk drives
• Setting up an SQL server on a four-node SAN cluster
• What type of switches should I use for a pure iSCSI SAN?
• How many Fibre Channel connections do I need for high availability?
• FCIP vs. iFCP
• What can iSCSI do that FC can't?
• Is NAS a low-end technology?
• How can we reach 9K IOPs for our 14 disk system?
• Three kinds of storage virtualization
• Managing iSCSI/FCIP SANs with SRM/HSM products
• Are there any reasons to migrate from NAS to iSCSI?
• The difference between IP storage and iSCSI
• What is a high availability VPN?
• High availability and disaster recovery
• The leading vendors of storage disk subsystems
• Pierre's top five backup products
• Evaluating vendors for stability and quality
• Keeping track of customers' current hardware
• Counterpoint: Which comes first, the SAN or the backup solution?
• Point: Which comes first, the SAN or the backup solution?
• Automatic bare metal recoveries
• What is the fastest SAN on the market?
• What is HiCopy?
• Accessing the IQ store from read nodes
• What is the difference between FCP, FCIP and iFCP?
• Configuring master and slave drives
• Configuring your first SAN: Usable versus raw storage
• Configuring your first SAN: Creating your LUNs
• Making it a simple transition from NAS to SAN
• Preparing for SNIA's certification exam
• How to assign LUNs in a SAN
• How WWNs are associated with LUNs
• Servers and SANs, how they work
• Still searching for the Holy Grail of management software
• How do I know if I'm ready for a SAN?
• Does each server require a separate OS?
• Is SAN implementation more expensive than NAS?
• Clustering products for Windows
• What will it be, iSCSI or iFCP?
• Switched fabric topology
• Helpful hints when expanding or moving your data
• Calculating parallel availability
• Serverless backup isn't the only solution for a SAN
• What to consider when calculating availability
• Where to find testing tools
• Where to focus your compliance efforts
• iFCP networking best practices
• NAS vs. Windows file server
• Discussing the pros and cons of SAN vs. NAS
• Who's supporting Exchange 2000?
• Making DMZ isolated networks safe
• Centralizing backups the right way
• Failing drives and what to do about them
• CD-ROM vs. DVD for long term storage
• Will compliance spell the end of optical storage?
• Compliance tools you should be requesting from vendors
• What compliance means for peripheral storage
• Who's going to be responsible for compliance -- vendors or end users?
• Name servers in a multi-switch SAN fabric
• A good strategy for disaster recovery
• Is it possible to SAN boot using an iSCSI adapter?
• Choosing the right replication method
• Suitable methods for attaching NAS
• Making a case for high-quality failover management software
• How to convert an EMC SAN to an HDS SAN
• Evaluating clustering software products
• Increasing uptime in the data center with a SAN
• Creating an iSCSI SAN using only Ethernet switches
• Drives with higher MTBF specs tend to last longer
• Configuring for faster read/write performance
• The best way to connect a NAS to a SAN
• How can I set up persistent binding?
• What is write order fidelity?
• What is the format of WWN?
• RAID-2 isn't being used much anymore
• Sarbanes-Oxley and how it applies to e-mail archiving
• Its NAS gateways over filer servers
• Disk servers, are they a viable management solution?
• How is FC-AL implemented in loop switch?
• What's the basic difference between a fabric and a loop switch?
• Consolidate with NAS gateways
• Load balancing with Fibre Channel
• Stretch clustering with host-based mirroring
• Automating site-to-site failover
• Migrating Netware
• What value does NAS add to an organization?
• Multiple file access
• What is masking?
• Why port zoning is more important
• How to change a core switch to a principle switch
• Will application functionality move to the switch?
• Who's winning the SATA/ATA race?
• How LUN zoning comes into play
• The difference between volume and a LUN
• Using NetBackup to backup Serial ATA
• How to build a backup solution from scratch
• The difference between Veritas Volume Replicator and Storage Replicator
• What hard and soft port zoning means
• Building a four-node SAN cluster



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