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Comparing SCSI and ATA drives
Bits & Bytes: Author of "The Backup Book" continues his comparision series by looking at SCSI vs. ATA drives. Continue Reading
The advantages of serial ATA over parallel ATA
Bits & Bytes: Author of "The Backup Book" Dorian Cougias breaks down the benefits of serial ATA as the storage industry transitions off of parallel ATA. Continue Reading
Five rules for migrating from DAS to SAN
Migrating your data from a DAS storage environment to a SAN can be a difficult process. Here are five rules every storage manager should follow. Continue Reading
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Prepare a tech-support checklist
What should be on that list. Continue Reading
Disk and tape on the same HBA? Think again.
Don't connect tape and disk to the same HBA in a SAN. Continue Reading
Shared file systems: An overview
At their core, shared file systems let multiple users access the same files at the same time. Learn about the different products in this space and the categories they fall into.Continue Reading
The pros and cons of a single vendor environment
Storage assessment tools
What to consider when evaluating file systems
Looking to file systems to provide better file management and heterogeneous support for your networked storage resources? Analyst Jamie Gruener shares how to go about your search.Continue Reading
Simplify your storage management process
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Using IDE architecture
Calculating costs of SAN and NAS
Dos and don'ts of SAN cabling
Fiber optic cable is one of the simplest parts of a SAN and one of the most time-consuming to troubleshoot. Here's how to insall and troubleshoot it.Continue Reading
Backup basics: Three backup plans -- ten tape backup
Backup basics: Three backup plans -- ten tape backupContinue Reading
Direct access storage device (DASD) maximum speed
The primary role of an HBA
How to set up a poor man's SAN
Problems with dynamic disk information under Windows
SAN booting tricks
What you need to know to set up a SAN -- Part 1
SAN disk sharing and server access
SAN speed and server accommodation
SD2003: The pros and cons of content-addressed storage (CAS)
File location independence, authenticity of your files, and the elimination of redundancy are just a few of the benefits of content-addressed storage (CAS) as cited by Arun Taneja.Continue Reading
Business-critical and commercial applications defined by business
How to build a storage management practice
Storage managers are responsible for aligning digital storage with the business requirements at the lowest cost. Expert Norbert Haag discusses how to accomplish these tasks.Continue Reading
Using SRM for backup
Storage managers aren't just looking for storage resource management (SRM) tools to help with primary storage allocation anymore -- but also for secondary storage purposes.Continue Reading
The myth of the nines
The nines of reliability is a theory that refers to the percentage of time a system is running. But the theory's flaw is that it doesn't consider the timing of a system outage.Continue Reading
What do you need to consider when selecting a transmission medium?
SAN traffic and trunking
How data centers protect against power outages
In the wake of Thursday's blackouts -- data center maven and SearchStorage.com contributor John Weinhoeft tells us how data centers can effectively protect against power outages.Continue Reading
How do I document my SAN, Part 1
How to calculate availability
DR planning phase three: Implementation
This is the third of four parts of a mini-tutorial covering the disaster recovery planning process, covering the final phase, which you can refer to as Plan Implementation.Continue Reading
The guidelines of data retention
Bits & Bytes: Have you ever wondered how long you need to keep your data? Bill Oliver goes over the rules of data retention.Continue Reading
Audit your SAN's security risks
This tip describes checklists for auditing the security of your storage area networks (SANs).Continue Reading
The benefits of WORM disk
New read-once write-many (WORM) disk is gaining regulatory acceptance. Read about the two WORM disk leaders, EMC's Centera and Net App's SnapLock here.Continue Reading
What to do when HDLM creates an error
Which is better for HA, shared storage or disk data replication?
Questions to ask when making storage purchase decisions, part 2
Sharing tapes and disks over the same HBA not a best practice
Questions to ask when making storage purchase decisions, part 1
A handy list of data transfer rates
A beginners guide to iSCSI
SearchStorage.com contributor Simon Gordon answers FAQs about iSCSI.Continue Reading
Outsourcing storage management
Is it SMB or CIFS for NAS
SANs and controller failover
Configuring the SAN: Zoning, HBAs and switches
Bits & Bytes: SearchStorage.com's newest contributor Arthur Scrimo offers expert advice on working with switches, HBAs and zoning in a SAN.Continue Reading
Deal with those saturated links
This tip explains what saturated links are, how they affect performance and how you can handle them.Continue Reading
Replication between different vendors' arrays
The benefits of SAN attached storage
DAS, NAS and SAN replication solution
SAN or NAS to consolidate storage in SAP?
MB/s or IO/s: Which to measure?
There are two common methods of measuring performance in a storage network, but which do you measure? According to this tip, it depends on what you're doing.Continue Reading
The importance of medium access control
Servers and switches 101
So you wanna be a storage architect?
What are the pros/cons of implementing storage management in an online services industry company?
The difference between SCSI and FC protocols
Get the most from a storage RFP
Considerations for a good RFP.Continue Reading
How much storage is utilized with RAID-5?
Fibre Channel, part 2: Calculating data speed over distance
An overview of the basic components of Fibre Channel, how it works and some basic math for running FC over long distances.Continue Reading
Know the performance impacts of replication
Bits & Bytes: Availability Maven Evan Marcus describes three replication techniques and the level of protection and performance impacts you can expect from each.Continue Reading
Fibre Channel, part 1: Going the distance with SANs
Techniques for establishing fast, long-distance storage area networks.Continue Reading
Best principles for storage security
Best principles for storage securityContinue Reading
The price per managed GB/month for a SAN
Looking at the cost of purchasing SAN/NAS storage
Hard zoning vs. soft zoning explained
What is hard zoning and soft zoning? In this tip, learn about hard zoning vs. soft zoning and get the definition for each.Continue Reading
Storage zoning and zoning schemas
Our expert identifies common SAN zoning schemas -- including common host, single target multiple initiator, single initiator multiple target and single initiator single target -- and discusses when to use each.Continue Reading
How to save money on SAN backup
How to efficiently back up your SANContinue Reading
Brocade vs. McData: Who's really winning in switch technology?
Brocade vs. McData: Who's really winning in switch technology?Continue Reading
No easy formula to calculate storage capacity
What is NAS and why would it be implemented in a SAN environment?
Next-generation NAS
Next-generation NASContinue Reading
Choosing your storage networking protocol
Bits & Bytes: This tip offers an overview of current storage networking protocols, SCSI, iSCSI and Fibre Channel.Continue Reading
Different types of disasters and how to protect your data
SAN topologies, part 2: How to design your SAN
How to build a SAN using various topologies.Continue Reading
Steps to take to evaluate and prioritize data you are managing
Six questions to ask about future and existing security plans
Seven steps to data replication
Seven steps to data replicationContinue Reading
The truth about synchronous replication
The obvious and not-so-obvious issues with synchronous replication.Continue Reading
What's the purpose of gatekeeper volumes in EMC Symmetrix?
SAN topologies, part 1: Know your switch options
What size switch to use when designing a SAN.Continue Reading
Looking at two-way replication methods
The best way to identify SAN partition settings
How many HBA adapters are required in a SAN environment for backup and restore policies?
How to split a single fabric SAN and provide a fully redundant solution
Using an Oracle DB in a SAN environment
Reap the benefits of intelligent storage
Defines intelligent operating environments, business benefits they will deliver and key features to look for.Continue Reading
How to calculate the availability of an entire network?
What's a native Fibre Channel and it's benefits?
Figuring the number of IP addresses for a two-node cluster
Five backup options to consider when implementing a SAN/NAS solution - Part 1
Sorting out the OEM SAN switch market
Sorting out the OEM SAN switch marketContinue Reading
SLAs, SLOs and policies
Understand the differences.Continue Reading
How do you manage your SAN?
Centralize for better management.Continue Reading
How many TBs can be managed per FTE?
The big three of SAN QoS
Description of the components of QoS for SANs.Continue Reading
Connecting an IBM mainframe to a SAN
The real world difference between F_port and FL_port protocols, Part 1
The meaning of interoperability