Ask the Experts
Ask the Experts
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The price per managed GB/month for a SAN
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Looking at the cost of purchasing SAN/NAS storage
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No easy formula to calculate storage capacity
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What is NAS and why would it be implemented in a SAN environment?
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Different types of disasters and how to protect your data
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Appliance wars -- In-band or out-of-band
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What's the purpose of gatekeeper volumes in EMC Symmetrix?
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Looking at two-way replication methods
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The best way to identify SAN partition settings
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How many HBA adapters are required in a SAN environment for backup and restore policies?
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How to split a single fabric SAN and provide a fully redundant solution
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How to calculate the availability of an entire network?
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What's a native Fibre Channel and it's benefits?
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Figuring the number of IP addresses for a two-node cluster
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Five backup options to consider when implementing a SAN/NAS solution - Part 1
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How many TBs can be managed per FTE?
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Connecting an IBM mainframe to a SAN
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The real world difference between F_port and FL_port protocols, Part 1
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What's the best way to do a server availability calculation?
A discussion on the efficacy of predicting site/environment availability. Continue Reading
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How does RAID5/parity really work?
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Reactive/proactive intrusion detection measures
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Can you use normal LAN IP switches as the SAN layer using iSCSI?
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Some of the benefits of data consolidation
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FC/iSCSI differences
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Storage subsystem failure
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How does a hard disk organize data?
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Single vs. dual SAN fabrics
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What is the architecture of a SAN network?
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Advantages, disadvantages of servers and mainframes
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Evaluating hard disk drives
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SCSI and IDE differences
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DSS drives
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RAID reliability
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Setting policies/procedures into business goals
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Looking for an alternative to clustering
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Who are the key players?
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Using hard zoning
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Fibre Channel advantages
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File server policies
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Using SAN or NAS for data warehousing
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Point-to-point connections
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Configuring a Fibre Channel SAN for RAID5
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Comparing bandwidth with capacity - Part I
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The different NFS versions
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Block and file I/O
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RAID 1 requirements
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Common tasks for a storage administrator
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What's the difference between a bridge and a gateway?
Explore the differences between a gateway and a bridge, and get advice from storage expert Marc Farley. Continue Reading
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Ports and ASIC on switches
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CD/DVD jukebox
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Explaining a NAS gateway and SAN appliance
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Differential and single ended
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NAS and DFS
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Have you heard of RAID-C?
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Connecting storage boxes and servers
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Calculating concurrent access
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Shared storage and SAN differences
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What does a terabyte look like?
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DR and automatic failover
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Tape, disk or both in a SAN environment?
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Discussing dictionary-based compression algorithms
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What are the latest storage trends?
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Who uses object-oriented databases?
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What is concurrent access?
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SCSI and IDE hard drive differences
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Node and port WWNs
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NAS protocols
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Hubs, switches and director differences
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SAN/NAS security considerations
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What's needed to become a storage engineer?
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NAS security
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Measuring SAN performance
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SW/HW acronyms
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Relational/hierarchical/object-oriented differences
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How SCSI works
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Storing a large number of image files
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Hot Swap and Hot Plug
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Switch vs. director, Part 1
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Block I/O and I/O transfer
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NTFS filer and UNIX
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Performance and compatibility concerns
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SAN gateway
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Redundant vs. single fabric
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Multiple HBAs
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FalconStor's IPStor
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WWNs and SANs
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NAS and NFS
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Importing disks and VxVM v 3.1
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KB, Kb, MB, Mb, GB, Gb what's what