I got it from two very reliable sources that MS is recommending that best prcatice for Exchange 2007 is that it should be on RAID 1+0 (fair enough), but that it should also only be hosted on DAS. What is the your (and the SAN community’s) perspective on this? Is this only for very large …
May 2007 archive
May 19
Bulletproof storage
You know – I’ve worked with EMC hardware for a long time (in technology terms, eons.) in my going on 10 years experience working with EMC hardware, I’ve seen ONE symm completely fail. an *OLD* Symmetrix 3530 failed during a 9 month project I was working to decomission 4 of them and migrate them to …
May 13
How many copies of static data are you backing up?
So I’m going through my MP3 library and the backups, and got to thinking. How many times do you need to back up static content?f I’ve got about 100G, but an MP3 library, like a lot of static storage, it doesn’t change much. This means that every time i run a full backup of the …
May 11
Welcome back!
Ok, welcome back to the new and improved SanGod.Com. Of the improvements I’ve added – * Less griping about co-workers * Less specific information about what I do from day-to-day * Less of me personally. 😉 What I’m going to try is this – To fill in the void that will no-doubt be left behind, …
May 08
Network woes….
Got the new firewall in – Bought a used Juniper Netscreen 5XP of Ebay for $139., and it is working WONDERFULLY. It only took about 4 hours to set it up, but as I’m a storage wonk and not a network wonk, I consider that to be a success in the grand scheme of things. …
May 04
Another six hours of down-time….
Ok, this one was my fault. I messed with the cable companies careful organizational system. I paid my bill. I went in there today to pay my bill. While I was in there I asked them for an adjustment, because when they set up the business service, they neglected to stop charging me for the …
May 02
Veritas
Just a warning – keep an eye on the install drive for Veritas.  Letting the drive fill can result in a corrputed EMM database and Veritas forgetting things like the last year’s worth of backups. So I ended up rebuilding both the master server and one of the media servers. One thing that might come in handy. …
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