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How should I set up my Fibre Channel (FC) network?
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RAID-5: Two disks failed simultaneously?
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Checking fiber cables for light without risking my eyes
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When does colocation become more cost effective than renting dedicated servers?
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What are the advantages of tape drives?
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How do you handle co-workers that want to converse with you in the bathroom?
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How can I safely use storage thin provisioning?
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Can NetApp Snapshots be used as Backups?
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Choosing a SAN technology for 100s of VM Web Servers
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How to choose the most optimal RAID settings on PE2950
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Would using SAS disks instead of SATA disks make sense over NFS for a VMWare datastore?
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Is there a performance advantage to isolating database logs and data on different volumes (same RAID array) across a SAN?
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Disk Speed Performance in a SAN
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How to set up Development, Staging, Production, and QA environments
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What is the use-case for NAS on a mid-to-high end storage array?
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With 200TB of needed storage, is a SAN a good idea?
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RAID 10: Does it impact performance if I have 24 small drives in Raid10 vs. 4 larger drives?
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How do you properly do Disaster Recovery for a file server?
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RAID 10 vs RAID 1 SSDs
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Best practice for 24 Disk Array
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Difference between LTO half-height and full-height drives?
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How good is failover of the iSCSI target on a two-node linux san?
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In what use case is a RAID 1E preferable to a RAID 5 array on a 3 disk array?
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How to best tune Dell PowerVault MD3600i SAN/Initiators for best performance?
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Can someone explain the important differences between fabric, point to point, and loop on a fibre san?
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What are storage consistency groups?
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iSeries survival guide for a Unix/Windows techie
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vmware esx 4.1 cant see existing SAN storage
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What would cause IO Wait on a SAN?
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What could be the best practice while allocating so that I/O performance is high
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