I’ve had the pleasure of playing with Ontap Simulator. This is a marvelous tool, designed to simulate a real NetApp appliance, in an easy and affordable manner. I’ve noticed a link to this simulator, in Oracle’s web site. I’m posting it here so you’ll get to know what I’m talking about. I’m playing with it…
I’m not going to disclose now the method to do so, but I want to show off, so here’s a (real) screen-shot taken from my Cisco Fabric Manager. I have three MDS 9212, two Brocade SilkWorm 2800 and one Brocade SilkWorm 2400. All later three are old and slow, which is why I’ve used the…
Lets assume you have a method of point-in-time copy of Microsoft Exchange DB and logs, while the system is running, to an alternate server. Let’s assume, if we’re at that, that this point-in-time is consistent, and that you can mount this store (depending on using the similar directory structure, etc.), on an alternate server, and…
Not too long ago I have purchased a brand new Hitachi HW100 Workgroup Storage. 14+1 400GB SATA disks, dual-interface, each holding two fiber ports (2Gb/s LC). A nice machine. However, two limitations I have discovered are clouding my day: 1. It supports only Raid0 and Raid5. It will not allow me no-parity Raid, aka, Raid1….
Here’s a little issue. If you were to replicate MS Exchange DB from one machine to another, how/what would you have done? The scenario goes as follows: You have your own domain, and you use, for your own core services AD and MS Exchange for the whole organization. While AD supports some built-in replication, so…
