http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/m/miller40 Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:33:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We've worked with Symantec to develop a migration strategy and finalize the SOW for our engagement. We resolved an issue with a failed volume group on the BlueArc.  Due to a drive having communication issues on the fiber channel loops, two drives were marked as "failed" by the controller resulting in ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/m/miller40/?p=46 Exchange 2007: The DR storage array a Clariion CX4-240 was configured and brought online this month.  The storage groups have all been configured and the dedicated SAN switches have been configured as well.  All that is left is for the Exchange host to be brought online and connected to the dedicated ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/m/miller40/?p=44 We installed two new SAN blades into our existing Cisco 9509 directors.  This expanded our capacity by 24 ports and provided high bandwidth ports for the new CX4-480 storage array and Exchange 2007 mail stores. We deployed a CX4-480 storage array for the purposes of supporting Exchange 2007 and e-mail archive.  ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/m/miller40/?p=42 This month we worked primarily on storage infrastructure that will facilitate the Exchange 2007 deployment and merger. We added 66 TB of storage to our EMC EDL.  We had to upgrade the code on the array and the EDL engines in order to successfully install the new capacity. We ordered and received ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/m/miller40/?p=40 This month has been mainly spent working on finishing the details associated with the E-mail Archive project.  In addition to that, there has been a lot of work around the Exchange 2007  storage backend. We installed 3 new DAE's of storage into the BlueArc high performance NAS environment.  We are already ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/m/miller40/?p=38 This month has seen a lot of work around e-mail archive and Exchange 2007 storage planning. We are currently evaluating 4 different vendor archive solutions and we are in the process of putting together our final technical recommendation to ITS management. Operationally our backup environment continues to run smoothly and we are ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/m/miller40/?p=36 This month has been a lot of work around the BlueArc, backing up the BlueArc, and e-mail archive. I have architected a backup solution for the possible expanded BlueArc environment.  The environment will include two dedicated tape libraries, a SAN switch, two storage nodes, 36 LTO-4 drives, and 6800 LTO-4 media.  ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/m/miller40/?p=33 This month has been mainly operational events though we have made major progress in the improvement of backup reliability.  Several CO-LO servers have been moved to a dedicated CO-LO network and we have seen the number of backup failures in our environment fall dramatically. One of our Co-lo customers of the ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/m/miller40/?p=31 This month I continued to produce information for the VUspace users environment, this information is being analyzed to determine the usage pattern of the VUspace users service. I worked extensively on the backup environment this month in an attempt to reduce the number of backup failures in our environment.  We have ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/m/miller40/?p=29 We upgraded the backup environment to Networker 7.5 to address a variety of issues.  So far the software seems to be a decent improvement from the prior version as far as bugs and instability are concerned.  We had some minor licensing issues at first, but with the assistance of EMC ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/m/miller40/?p=28