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Data and Technology

Posted on September 21st, 2005

Written by cliff

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big admin, cliff pearson, dell, dell servers, disk, drivers, firmware, hardware raid, information technology, mylex, raid, raid controller, server, servers, solaris, solaris 10, solaris 9, storage, sun, sun microsystems, system administration, technology, x86 solaris

Solaris X86 Compatible RAID Controller

Every time I have to spec a solution using Solaris, I always have to answer a bunch of questions in meetings about why Sun is so costly compared to Dell servers. Usually the reason for the higher price is not the servers (especially with X86 sun), but rather the storage. Since Sun does not offer [...]
Data and Technology

Posted on July 19th, 2005

Written by cliff

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block size, computing, HowTo, kernel, lto2, media, netbackup, number_data_buffers, shared memory, size_data_buffers, solaris, solaris 9, storage, system administration, technology, veritas

NetBackup, Solaris 9, and LTO2 drives

If you are using Veritas NetBackup on Solaris 9 with LTO Ultrium-2 tape drives, you will be constantly annoyed by slow tape write performance unless you use blocks of at least 256KB.
To resolve this, the first thing you’ll want to do is increase both the number of buffers and the buffer size on the [...]