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  1. RMGBELGIUM

    Setting up an iscsi target that connects through Nat Routing

    translation is done at router level, so synology will allways report its own ip address. Only possible way I see, is to configure some kind of virtual server on your router if it allows you to do that NetApp Certified NCDA/NCIE-SAN
  2. RMGBELGIUM

    ICYBOX NAS on Mac- Veery slow. Normal?

    just wondering,what kind of data are you backing up ? Small files , big files ? I would test by linking the Mac and the icy box with a cross cable if I were you, this would provide the most optimal situation. What speeds are you obtaining when copying a large file from your mac to the icy box...
  3. RMGBELGIUM

    FAS2020 and DS14MK4 - Advice Needed

    nopes, right approach. Just use snapmirror to move volumes, so you keep your snapshots as well.Target volume will have to be just a little bigger in size for snapmirror. It will mean downtime for all your servers indeed, but you should be able to do all the work in 1 big cutover,did it several...
  4. RMGBELGIUM

    Update from EMC SAN to Eqallogic iSCSI SAn questions

    best advice would to ask for a proof of concept. Try before you buy. This way you will see the impact on the performance. And be sure to make a good test plan, so you can clearly compare the performance results with your existing cx3. Make the tests relevant to the load of your production...
  5. RMGBELGIUM

    License additional SAN ports or upgrade SAN?

    Taking into account it is "only" a DR site, I would go for the additional ports on existing switches. The 5300 are already considered as quite high-end switches that can be put as core switches of your SAN (redundant fans,PSU's, and ability to load and apply microcode without application...
  6. RMGBELGIUM

    Newbie: NetApp FAS920C Filer and DS14MK2 Shelves

    No need to add second loop if you don't experience loop saturation. For the copper cables, perhaps have a look on ebay With regards to licenses, you're screwed indeed if you don't get any licenses, as by default nothing is licensed after an clean setup. rgds, R. NetApp Certified NCDA/NCIE-SAN
  7. RMGBELGIUM

    Powervault MD3220i vs Equallogic PS4000E

    If you are looking at NetApp stuff, consider the fas2040 series with SAS drives. clustered solution, deduplication, thin provisioning,snapshotting.replication to a DR netapp is possible as well, snapdrive/snapmanager software provides application consistent backups of you SQL DB's...
  8. RMGBELGIUM

    Broken Drive in Raid 1

    With a normal raid controller, at boottime, you will see the raid controller initialize itself, you should see the bios blabla on the screen, and usually U need to enter a key combination to enter the RAID's card bios (ctrl+ something (usually ctrl+I) ), or if it is in the regular bios ( if the...
  9. RMGBELGIUM

    SAN Question - PowerVault 660F

    qlogic hba's are very commonly used, and can be put into all server types ( if the bus type matches of course ( pci-x, pci-e,...). With regards to the disk array, you will need to export the luns to the new servers (if you move the hba's, the wwpn's will remain the same normally, so no work...
  10. RMGBELGIUM

    How to evaluate a NetApp server?

    there is no convention to the naming, you can name the virtual interface as you like, but good practice is to give it a meanful name like vif_nfs or vif_iscsi or sth, so you know for what the interface is mainly used.If you can provide me the serial number of one of the controllers, I can have a...
  11. RMGBELGIUM

    HP MSA 2012 drive trays

    I'd try my luck on e-bay NetApp Certified NCDA/NCIE-SAN
  12. RMGBELGIUM

    How to evaluate a NetApp server?

    over which protocol will you be serving storage ? cifs, iscsi or fc ? - if over iscsi or fc, check that the lun type is windows_2008 or windows ( win2003 server ), - igroup type should be windows as well - check if IP is configured redundantly ( multiple links, using a vif ( virtual...
  13. RMGBELGIUM

    Changing SMTP smarthost on NetApp filer

    on the commandline of the filer, issue the command options autosupport this will show you a list of the autosupport options as they are configured right now. Then it's a matter to change what you need (e.g. options autosupport.from blabla@domain.com) rgds, R. NetApp Certified NCDA/NCIE-SAN
  14. RMGBELGIUM

    Geenbytes SAN

    looks indeed quite promising, but I would ask them to perform a proof of concept in your environment.Make sure the product performs as expected.Make sure you test usermappings, security, performance ( large sequential, smal random IO, how it handles large files ( 2 TB files, or directories with...
  15. RMGBELGIUM

    HTTP License Netapp FAS960 or FAS270

    a small http server should normally already be present without a license required for that.The license adds more advanced http features.So software install http://blablabla should work rgds, R. NetApp Certified NCDA/NCIE-SAN
  16. RMGBELGIUM

    SAN Storage selection parameters

    I think you can divide this into capacity - performance - connectivity First of all, you will need to know what your current used capacity is of the systems you want to migrate to the san. Next, what is the expected grow of the data? Are there new projects that will need to be deployed onto the...
  17. RMGBELGIUM

    MPIO on win 2003 and shared SAN volumes

    You need indeed a clustered filesystem to make this work. NetApp Certified NCDA/NCIE-SAN
  18. RMGBELGIUM

    Disk zero spares

    The disk is overwritten by zero's. They do this for parity reasons. When a spare is introduced into a raid array, and all bits are at 0, when parity is calculated in the array, there will never be an impact: 1+0=1 0+0=0 Disk sanitization, this is a different story. The disk is overwritten...
  19. RMGBELGIUM

    Clariion CX300 question

    In general, on any san, you cannot share a lun on the same time to 2 different servers ( and actively write to the lun ), that's all about scsi reservations.In an mscs you can share a lun ( for quota for example), where each node takes turns in doing a write, never simultanuous( the MS cluster...
  20. RMGBELGIUM

    Creating Snapshots of User Data upto 60 days

    Buy a netapp storage box. You can have 255 snapshots per volume, allowing you to keep 60 days of snapshots, taking a snapshot every 6 hours... If you only take 1 snapshot per day, this gives you a retention of 255 days.And the taking of the snapshot has no performance hit. rgds, R. NetApp...

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