Tips
Tips
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Why have storage policies?
Expert advice on why and how to establish a solid storage management policy. Continue Reading
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Certification for SAN professionals
Which SAN certification is best to help you meet your goals? Continue Reading
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Integrating SAN and NAS
A guide to where to find info on current storage architectures. Continue Reading
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Know your underutilization
Before you can manage your growth, you have to know how much space you aren?t using. Continue Reading
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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
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Ping to test your SAN
Proactive testing is the ticket for optimum SAN performance. Continue Reading
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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
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DWDM for long-distance SANs
Discussion of optical multiplexing technique that allows for SANs over greater distances. Continue Reading
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Retain your staff if you outsource
Ideas to follow when your are considering outsourcing some or all of your storage. Continue Reading
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Rewind? Non-Rewind?
Keep track in Linux of backup devices that rewind and those that don't. Continue Reading
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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
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Core-edge SAN switch architecture
A discussion of the most scalable and fastest of the popular SAN switch architectures. Continue Reading
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SSD solves bank's traffic jam
Texas State Bank switched to solid-state disk when slow transaction processing caused customer service problems. Continue Reading
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Cascaded SAN switch architectures
A discussion of the simplest of the SAN switch connection schemes Continue Reading
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Test your SAN aggressively
Storage consulting company Imation's Storage Professional Services Group relates their experiences with building SANs. Continue Reading
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Use a Linux logical volume manager
Discusses why you should use the Linux logical volume manager for better storage administration. Continue Reading
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Managing RAID volumes for failure tolerance in Windows 2000
Watch out for physical disk space and fault tolerance in Windows 2000. Continue Reading
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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
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Three types of restore on Windows 2000
Rick Cook examines the three different ways of restoring replicated data in Windows 2000. Continue Reading
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RAID versus JBOD in storage-intensive SANs
RAID or JBOD? One expert says RAID, hands down. Continue Reading
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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
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Names in NAS
Rick Cook gives some 'gotchas' you should be aware of when it comes to installing a NAS device. Continue Reading
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Copper for Fibre Channel SANs
How copper cable can be used for Fibre Channel connections. Continue Reading
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TSM weekday schedule alterations
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IP SANs: Two standards too many?
Here's a no-nonsense look at the "big three" contenders for IP storage. Continue Reading
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iostat and sar disk analysis
This tip provides specific examples of high disk usage analysis with iostate and sar. Continue Reading
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Windows 2000 -- a file system for everyone
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Fault tolerance for network-attached storage
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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
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Using RAID 10 for OLTP databases
One user shares his experiences with RAID and OLTP. Continue Reading
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Choosing a class of SAN service: Class 3
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Controlling cluster sizes to get more disk space in Windows
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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
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Choosing a class of SAN service: Class 1
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Redundancy means security in SAN fabrics
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Service classes in Fibre Channel SANs
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RAID benchmarks
One way to measure RAID systems is by their I/O performance. Mentioned here are tools like Iozone, Disktest, and many others. Continue Reading
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What's the difference: Fibre Channel Fabric vs. Arbitrated Loop
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Cable lengths for Fibre Channel SANs
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Detecting Disk I/O Problems
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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
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Storage pros need more than technical skills
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Is data modeling a career path for you?
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NT Recovery Options
NT Recovery Options Continue Reading
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Optimizing Disk Performance