I have a single switch brocade 4100 "have already configured some
zone"
I bought a new one and i'm looking for procedure to connect this
switch with the existing to create a Fabric with 2 switch.

We've recently upgraded the hard disks in our development server replacing 2
x 300GB & 2 x 400GB SATA drives with 4 x 750GB. Wow, what a lot of storage
for virtual machines...
But we're left with those original drives and wondered what to do with them.

Hopefully someone here can help this nearly-geezer.
I'm running an XP SP2 machine that until recently has been well behaved.
Seemingly, after installing software for my wife's new Sony camera, drive
"H" has vanished.

For the experts:
Two removeable Hard disk trays one with XP, the other with Vista?
What software would I need to be able to keep BOTH removeable trays in the
PC and be able to choose either at boot?

This is about a six month old 80gb Seagate Barracuda Hard disk that
failed and I asked here for suggestions about recovering the data.
This hard disk is a 'Product of China' as indicated on the label. I
bought an exactly same hard disk with the idea of swapping the circuit

Purchased a EMC DS-16B2 off Ebay. Everything works fine i.e., system
tests etc.. However before  it performs its POST the switch loads
VxWorks then proceeds to Fabric OS v3.2.0a for which the "typical"
login: admin; passwd: password fails. Does anyone know a method of

I'm looking for a small 2-disk mirrored remote storage with embedded OS for
my ESX test setup.
According to the VMware forums, NFS has to be v3 and TCP-based - not UDP.
I have found Adaptec Snap Server 210, with the advantage of optional iSCSI,

Just wondering if anyone has used or seen this so-called "raid alternative."
They call it a "storage robot."  No, I am not spamming for this company, I
actually just read about them in PC Photo's enewsletter, and was wondering
if anyone out there has heard anything about this ...

I have not worked with RAID before so I hope someone can explain what
happened to cause the events I observed today in the office.  
The computer is running Windows Server 2003.  On startup, the system
showed that the mirror was valid.  It successfully completed POST then

I am looking for a NAS (Network Attached Storage) to use with my home
LAN (using a Linksys router).  Examples are the Maxtor Shared Storage,
WD MyBook World Edition and Linksys NAS200.
Being the paranoid type, I am wondering how I would access my data if

I have an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard, and I want to create
3TB of, let's call it temporary space, on a single NTFS partition.
(By temporary, I mean the contents are replaceable from the source
data in the event of a disk crash, and the source data is safely

I purchased a Seagate Freeagent Desktop in Europe (Sweden), a 250 gb,
and I would
like to safely access the data already stored on the drive in North
America, specifically

    Ok, customer has a Clariion without replication manager or
snapview.  We need to back up a couple of terabytes.  What I want
to do is mount the vxfs filesystems read-only on another Sun and backup
directly from that host via a couple of directly attached scsi LTO drives.

A friend of mine has a Dell Poweredge server which originally had two
disks in mirrored raid config.  Due to a disk error it has run with only
one disk for a few months now.  Lately he reformatted that disk and when
I asked if he had put in a second disk to have the raid ...

I've just setup 4 scsi 10g disk on a LVM volume, and created one
partition which comes up to be 36g. My question is, what happens if
one of the hard drives fail? what does LVM do? does the entire group
die?