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SAN Storage Design for Xen Virtualization Based on Block Devices

This document solely focuses on a design where virtual machines are manually managed/migrated by the administrator (xm interface) and running on block devices. (logically managed hard drive...

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VBScript to Check Disk Space Availability

I have a requirement to check the disk space on our servers on a regular basis. This is obviously quite time consuming. I tried to find a cheap (free) method of saving the volumes sizes and free space...

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Using FreeNAS as a NetWare iSCSI Target. AKA: Cheap Mass Storage

Using FreeNAS as an iSCSI target for NetWare provides several benefits:FreeNAS is free (and BSD) Works on almost all standard hardwareWorks on older hardware (low system/RAM requirement)FreeNAS...

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Dynamic Storage Technology

license:  Free This tool will help you understand and use DST (Dynamic Storage Technology). Using this tool the user can get most of the benefits in Dynamic Storage Technologies and avoid the use of...

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Fibre Channel Multipathing using SLES 10 SP1 w/XEN and IBM Storage Systems

Date Created: 13 March 2008 Last Updated: 04 June 2008Author: Sam Prior Version: 1 Architecture: IBM BladeCenter E with LS41 double wide blades. Connected to an IBM DS3400 storage system via two Cisco...

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On Contract in Nottingham!

I am currently working on contract in Nottingham. I am involved in a number of projects, the most interesting of which recently was implementing Novell Storage Manager. It’s one of those Niche products...

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FSF/NSM User Storage Service Driver

license:  Free This IDM driver config template uses the loopback driver to assign File System Factory/Novell Storage Manager policies to users based on the "L" (location) attribute.Basically, the...

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GroupWise maintenance

We are running GroupWise 7 on Windows 2003 server in a cluster environment. It has been working as expected for more than two years. We do not have any issues other than, disk space is keep on growing....

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OverDisk - Disk Usage

license:  Freeware home page url:  http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/programs/overdisk.html Recently I needed to identify where all the space was going on our server. I initially used the Novell...

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SAN Migration of OES 1 Linux Cluster

ScenarioIn this article I shall discuss about the migration of a OES cluster from one storage area network (SAN) to a new SAN.In a customer's environment, they are using a OES1-Linux two-node cluster...

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Storage Costs and Dynamic Storage Technology

All storage costs money. As anyone who has worked in the industry for very long knows, that 1TB drive for $110 at NewEgg is not what we use at work. Or if it is, we use a lot of them and throw RAID...

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IDC publishes Technology Assessment paper on Novell Storage Manager

Following four interviews over the summer with IDC analyst Noemi Greyzdorf and some of her peers, the research organization published a very favorable Technology Assessment of Novell Storage Manager...

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Where did all of that free disk space go on my GroupWise server?

Back Ground information on the problem:We had an older NetWare server, with Traditional Volumes, that was running low on disk space. Its entire purpose in life is to be a GroupWise Post Office. So I...

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NetWare clusters-in-a-box

We've had a 6 node NetWare cluster since 2003. This cluster hosted both file and print services, as well as ftp and NetStorage. Since then we've grown from about 2TB of used space to about 8TB of...

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Sentinel DB Sizing Estimator

download url:  http://www.pivotpointsecurity.com/tools/Sentinel_Sizing.zip license:  GPL home page url:  http://www.pivotpointsecurity.com Quick perl script you may find useful for Database sizing a...

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CNS 2009 Customized for Collaboration

The 2009 Certified Novell Salesperson course has been customized for those selling Novell collaboration solutions. If your customers need e-mail and calendaring, team collaborative applications,...

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In-depth interview with David Condrey results in two excellent Novell Storage...

The Novell OpenAudio group recently produced two very good podcasts featuring interviews with David Condrey and they are now up on the Novell OpenAudio website at:...

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Three New Videos Posted on Novell Storage Manager Product Website

We recently finished up some videos highlighting some of the features and benefits of Novell Storage Manager 2.5. All are now listed under "News & Events" on the product website at...

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LJDT: iSCSI for Shared Storage

So first let's cover the basics. Shared storage, as its names implies, is storage shared among multiple machines. You can probably lump Network-Attached Storage (NAS) into this but the typical...

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A New Storage Approach

Today, the files of the file systems often has become the data itself.A typical program stores these files as BLOBs or CLOBs in the DBMS that itself only stores a reference to an entry in the...

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