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High speed storage drive (over 8 GByte/s) [closed]
Looking for a windows based solution to create a high performance, 8 GB/s storage array.
Either by striping together dozens of SSDs, or by create multiple RAID arrays and somehow pooling them ...
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NTFS Allocation Unit Size and RAID Stripe Sizes [closed]
When would you want to change the Allocation Unit Sizes of a volume from the default on server 2008? The default I believe is 4012 Bytes (4K). When would you want to change the RAID stripe size? Do ...
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Hard disk write-once mode on Windows
Is it possible to force a hard disk into 'write-once' mode in Windows?
I want to securely store logs so they can't be changed, but I can't use tapes or optical media due to performance reasons.
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Access files from internet to internal server [closed]
I have an external IP pointing to it and I can mstsc (access via RDP) to it but I can't access it via
\\IPADDRESS
Any ideas?
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Windows Storage Server… Just a single Administrator session?
I have a server with "Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Standard" operating system.
My problem is that I cannot access the server with Administrator account with two users at the same time... Just one ...
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what do you use for storage discovery / storage management? [closed]
I am looking for some ideas on what would be the best way to discover and manage network storage.
Discovery: Any good tools that will scan hosts and storage devices and report back their findings? ...
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1answer
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Windows Storage Server 2008 Single Instance Storage
Should I be enabling this feature on a file server?
What type of performance hit is involved with this?
I ask as its not something I can easily turn off once on.
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1answer
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Shared Storage [closed]
I just tried to create a shared disk with fiber cable on a storage (rorke 22tb with 2 lun. One of them will go to one workstation(WIN7), the other one wil lgo to another workstation(WIN7)).
However I ...
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1answer
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VirtualBox Fedora Host Windows Guest Networking and Folder Aliases
I'm new to running virtual machines and I have a couple questions.
I have a Fedora 14 box with an 8 core Bulldozer processor that is running VirtualBox with Windows. This machine has several ...
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Maximum Size Limit for CIFS Share Accessed by Windows Server 2003 (32 bit) Client?
We have a CIFS share being served out by a NETAPP appliance. The CIFS share has grown to over 2 TB in size. A Windows Server 2003 32 bit-client accesses the share.
Lets say, for example, the ...
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1answer
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Using Windows Storage Server for other things
Are there any reasons not to use Windows Storage Server for other minor things such as running a 3rd party service or application that requires a lot of storage? The reason I ask is because I have a ...
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Dell Poweredge Disk Issue
System will boot with no errors, but will only get so far into Windows (safe mode, normal) before it locks up (but still accepts mouse input).
Tried a live disk to boot from, and I can copy just ...
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Network-Attached Storage Advice
The company I work for utilizes an old, clunky Window SBS as a file server and Domain Controller. They're looking to reorganize their storage infrastructure to deal with data demands. I'm thinking a ...
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3answers
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Adding Hard Drive to Production Server - Best Practices
I've got a Dell Poweredge 2850 up and running as our production Web Server. Its got a RAID 1 array for the OS, and a RAID 5 for data. I would like to add an additional drive on it's own (not a ...
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Windows Storage Server 2008 & Windows 7 sharing acting unpredictably
Configuration:
Windows Server 2008 r2 ADUC,
Windows Storage Server 2008,
Windows 7 Professional x86 & x64
Scenario:
We've been using Windows Storage Server on a NAS device for the last year or ...
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1answer
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DFSR - What happens when one server gets maxed out?
What happens when one server in a DFSR pool maxes out its disk space?
I am at the very beginning of my research in DFS/R and this struck me. I plan on implementing this on one server with RAID1 ...
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2answers
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Cost of storing many files on a fileserver
I need to store a lot of data contained in SQLite databases on a file server. I have the opportunity to split the data up into many files. This means that there is less risk of a large part of the ...
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1answer
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How to design high performance CIFS/SMB
Would it make sense to virtualize windows using Xen or VMware ESX and expose storage on a JBOD as NFS, instead of exposing storage as CIFS/SMB for better I/O throughput?
Is it true that the below can ...
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2answers
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most efficient way to expose storage to windows on network?
using Nexenta or Opensolaris...on server grade h/w: SAS disks + 1GB layer3 switch:
CIFS would only do 10 MB/s. Adding more servers would bump this to 10 MB/sec per server?
dont know about NFS ...
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2answers
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Adding redundant storage to a SMB Server
I run a small business server with about 500gb in total drive space in a RAID5 array. We are design oriented though so this has filled up quickly!
We have a NAS (Qnap) that we use for backups and it ...
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1answer
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making the share read only
I 'm sorry to come over again,
I was thinking of making the share read only from celerra manager( CIFS only) by R clicking on file system.
"the NAS share (\nas12\termemployee$) to read-only to ...
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1answer
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Can i automate a script to get EMC grab reports from different servers
Here is my issue, we have 170 unix servers , 80 ESX servers and many Windows (2003/2008)s pread across 3 EMC Clariions and 2 VMAX in which I want to perform host grabs on all the servers prior to ...
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General question about RAID configurations, specifically nested RAID 50
I understand about the different types of RAID configurations:
RAID 1 -- Mirror [Redundant]
RAID 0 -- Stripe [Performant]
RAID 5 -- Hot Spare [Redundant]
From what I understand, RAID 1 gives you ...
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1answer
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what NAS cellera services to be monitered?
We have a monitoring tool called SCOM which mainly monitors different OS related services .However, we being part of storage team would also like some of our services to be monitored.
We have HP NAS ...
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Adding new virtual disks to a Windows host in ESX “live”
Building on my previous question about RHEL, how do you add get the guest OS to recognize that you've added new drives to it without a reboot?
I have Windows 2003, XP, and 2008 guests running on ESX ...
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3answers
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SMB Backup Solution
I'm currently running a small to medium sized network consisting of approx. 40 workstations and 30 servers (both physical and virtual) consisting of various versions of Windows 2000, XP, 2003, and a ...
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2answers
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Dynamic disks import to a new server
One of our servers has died recently. So I've took those disks from it and installed them all to the new server running Windows Server 2008. Along with disks I've moved two simple two-port controllers ...
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Best places to free space on Windows? [closed]
Prompted by Adam..
I would like your suggestions as to freeing up space on a Windows machine. Yes, yes, I know disk space is cheap but sometimes, you have older machines that just need more space and ...
