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Get help with specific problems with your technologies, process and projects.
Have you heard of RAID-C?
Connecting storage boxes and servers
Calculating concurrent access
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Clustering in a SAN environment for high availability
How to increase availability by implemeting a SAN in a clustered environent. Continue Reading
Guidelines for carrying out a network storage policy
Guidelines for carrying out a network storage policy. Continue Reading
Shared storage and SAN differences
What does a terabyte look like?
DR and automatic failover
Tape, disk or both in a SAN environment?
Use a NAS server for bare-metal restore
How you can speed restore after a disaster by backing up on a NAS server.Continue Reading
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Why have storage policies?
Expert advice on why and how to establish a solid storage management policy.Continue Reading
Discussing dictionary-based compression algorithms
What are the latest storage trends?
Who uses object-oriented databases?
Certification for SAN professionals
Which SAN certification is best to help you meet your goals?Continue Reading
What is concurrent access?
SCSI and IDE hard drive differences
Node and port WWNs
NAS protocols
Integrating SAN and NAS
A guide to where to find info on current storage architectures.Continue Reading
Hubs, switches and director differences
SAN/NAS security considerations
What's needed to become a storage engineer?
Considerations for SAN extension
Extending SAN connections over long distances is getting easier with new IP storage products, but look before you leap.Continue Reading
Ping to test your SAN
Proactive testing is the ticket for optimum SAN performance.Continue Reading
SAN switch design considerations
Do you need a large number of ISLs in order to build a single FC fabric? This user suggests probably not.Continue Reading
DWDM for long-distance SANs
Discussion of optical multiplexing technique that allows for SANs over greater distances.Continue Reading
Retain your staff if you outsource
Ideas to follow when your are considering outsourcing some or all of your storage.Continue Reading
Rewind? Non-Rewind?
Keep track in Linux of backup devices that rewind and those that don't.Continue Reading
Terabytes per storage manager: An important metric
An important metric for testing efficiency is the amount of data stored per storage management employee.Continue Reading
Core-edge SAN switch architecture
A discussion of the most scalable and fastest of the popular SAN switch architectures.Continue Reading
SSD solves bank's traffic jam
Texas State Bank switched to solid-state disk when slow transaction processing caused customer service problems.Continue Reading
NAS security
Cascaded SAN switch architectures
A discussion of the simplest of the SAN switch connection schemesContinue Reading
Test your SAN aggressively
Storage consulting company Imation's Storage Professional Services Group relates their experiences with building SANs.Continue Reading
Measuring SAN performance
Use a Linux logical volume manager
Discusses why you should use the Linux logical volume manager for better storage administration.Continue Reading
SW/HW acronyms
Relational/hierarchical/object-oriented differences
How SCSI works
Storing a large number of image files
Hot Swap and Hot Plug
Switch vs. director, Part 1
Block I/O and I/O transfer
How to tell your NAS from your SAN
Many server and storage vendors from Sun to Compaq are offering more SAN and NAS choices for their customers.Continue Reading
Three types of restore on Windows 2000
Rick Cook examines the three different ways of restoring replicated data in Windows 2000.Continue Reading
NTFS filer and UNIX
Sun Microsystems' N8400 and N8600 NAS products offer higher capacity and performance
Sun Microsystems announce two new models of the scalable NAS storage family called the Sun StorEdge N8000 Filers.Continue Reading
Performance and compatibility concerns
SAN gateway
Names in NAS
Rick Cook gives some 'gotchas' you should be aware of when it comes to installing a NAS device.Continue Reading
Copper for Fibre Channel SANs
How copper cable can be used for Fibre Channel connections.Continue Reading
Redundant vs. single fabric
TSM weekday schedule alterations
IP SANs: Two standards too many?
Here's a no-nonsense look at the "big three" contenders for IP storage.Continue Reading
Multiple HBAs
FalconStor's IPStor
WWNs and SANs
NAS and NFS
iostat and sar disk analysis
This tip provides specific examples of high disk usage analysis with iostate and sar.Continue Reading
Importing disks and VxVM v 3.1
KB, Kb, MB, Mb, GB, Gb what's what
Block level vs. file level
Storage over IP and TCP/IP offload
Aggregate I/O rates and their affect on SAN performance
Windows 2000 -- a file system for everyone
Fault tolerance for network-attached storage
Picking the right data-access protocol
iSCSI will allow backups to stream efficiently across IP networks, but it is not a solution for small storage jobs.Continue Reading
Using RAID 10 for OLTP databases
One user shares his experiences with RAID and OLTP.Continue Reading
Choosing a class of SAN service: Class 3
Controlling cluster sizes to get more disk space in Windows
Testing I/O performance
This tip links to Intel's free Iometer program, allowing you to test storage products on NT 4.0/Solaris operating systems.Continue Reading
Choosing a class of SAN service: Class 1
Redundancy means security in SAN fabrics
Service classes in Fibre Channel SANs
What's the difference: Fibre Channel Fabric vs. Arbitrated Loop
Cable lengths for Fibre Channel SANs
Detecting Disk I/O Problems
Hard Quotas vs. Soft Quotas - How to Choose a Disk Management Utility
Discover the differences between hard quotas and soft quotas, and what you need in a quota management utility.Continue Reading
Storage pros need more than technical skills
NT Recovery Options
NT Recovery OptionsContinue Reading
Optimizing Disk Performance