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Global Survey Consulting Firm Reduces Server Deployment Time to 45 Minutes With Server Virtualization
White Paper Gallup deployed a virtual server farm using VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge 2900 servers and an Internet SCSI (iSCSI) Storage Area Network (SAN) using Dell EqualLogic PS3900 and PS-84E devices was designed to eliminate downtime and... [09 Jul 2008]
HP NAS Gives Holmbergs Fast File Share on a Mixed Platform
White Paper The solution also includes HP's MSA (Modular Smart Array) 30 SCSI disk drive storage enclosure. Based in Malmo and the nearby university town of Lund, Holmbergs is one of Sweden's most respected print companies with a history that goes back 100 years. [09 Jul 2008]
Dell iSCSI Solution Simplifies Storage Management for MisterArt.com, Supporting 80 Percent Business Growth and Nearly Two Times Better Performance
White Paper After testing the performance of several storage systems, MisterArt.com IT team selected a Dell PowerVault MD3000i Internet SCSI (iSCSI) - based Storage Area Network (SAN) array with a PowerVault MD1000 disk expansion enclosure. [05 Jul 2008]
Hitachi Storage at Work Case Study: NorgesGruppen
White Paper The new Hitachi Data Systems Lightning 9980V will support Iscsi (Scsi over IP) later this year, which is becoming increasingly important. NorgesGruppen is the largest food retailer in Norway. The company recently implemented a new computer system... [10 Apr 2008]
Fibre Channel Protocol for Linux and z/VM on IBM System z
White Paper System z FCP support enables z/VM and Linux running on System z to access industry-standard SCSI devices. This paper discusses Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) concepts and explains some major hardware and software requirements. [28 Mar 2008]
Inside the Equallogic PS Series iSCSI Storage Arrays
White Paper The EqualLogic PS Series of Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage arrays offers a fundamental change in the way enterprises think about purchasing and managing storage. Storage management is at the center of an increasingly complex IT problem. [28 Mar 2008]
Using Wasabi Storage Builder for IP-SAN With Microsoft Windows Server Cluster
White Paper Wasabi Systems Storage Builder for IP-SAN is a complete turnkey software solution pre-installed on a bootable Compact Flash disk that enables OEMs, systems integrators, and value-added resellers to create cost-effective iSCSI storage using... [11 Mar 2008]
WasabiRAID
White Paper It is compatible with any type of hard drive - including SATA, SATA II, SAS, SCSI, and Fibre Channel. WasabiRAID from Wasabi Systems is a kernel level RAID driver optimized for Wasabi Certified BSD. WasabiRAID is powerful, secure, and flexible... [11 Mar 2008]
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003: Storage Performance Characterization of HP Smart Array P600 SAS Vs. HP SA6402 Ultra3 SCSI Controllers
White Paper This paper provides a performance comparison between an HP Smart Array P600 controller with 10K RPM SAS drives and an HP Smart Array 6402 (SA6402) controller configured with 10K RPM Ultra 3 SCSI drives and with 15K RPM Ultra320 SCSI drives. [19 Feb 2008]
Microsoft Exchange 2007: Changing the Storage Landscape for Messaging
White Paper At the same time, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)-based storage systems are delivering high performance and high capacity at a low cost. Microsoft Exchange 2007 includes new features and capabilities that are beginning to help reduce the costs... [19 Feb 2008]
RAID 6 Principles: A Deep-Dive Tutorial
White Paper While a hard disk's expected useful life is largely independent of its host controller interface (SATA, FC-AL, SCSI, SAS, etc,), the present conventional perspective is that desktop hard drives have SATA interfaces and enterprise disks have FC-AL... [11 Jan 2008]
SAN Fundamentals: How Fibre Channel SANs Are Built, Secured and Managed
White Paper The most common Upper Level Protocols are SCSI and TCP/IP. In this paper, the term Storage Area Network (SAN) is used to describe a Fibre Channel network over which SCSI-FCP (SCSI over Fibre Channel) Protocols run. [07 Jan 2008]
An Introduction to Enterprise-Class SATA Disk Drives
White Paper It looks at large-enterprise disk performance requirements and debunks the myth that SCSI drives are faster and more reliable than their SATA counterparts. The paper concludes with a prediction of what the latest advances in SATA disks will mean... [12 Dec 2007]
Evaluating Availability of Networked Storages Using Commercial Workloads
White Paper Two specific SAN systems are considered in this paper: iSCSI-based SAN and STICS (SCSI-To-IP Cache Storage) based SAN. This paper presents an availability study of Storage Area Network (SAN) systems built on TCP/IP networks. [05 Dec 2007]
Sun Datapath Policies for Disks and Disk Arrays
White Paper The software considered includes drivers for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) version 9 and later, and management applications that issue SCSI, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI commands. This paper contains policies for disk and disk array... [01 Oct 2007]
