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DD Boost over Fibre Channel

Updated 18 Feb 2014 Read time 1 min 4 sec(s) (3114 visits).

This post provides the steps needed to configure DD Boost over Fibre Channel via the System Manager and/or via command line.

Updated 16 Feb 2014 Read time 3 min(s) 52 sec(s) (3886 visits).

This article describes how to collect and use network throughput measurements which are used for evaluating the performance of specific services

Updated 18 Jan 2014 Read time 54 sec(s) (2435 visits).

When disks are added to an existing mirrored or RAID Z pool, the ZFS is resilvered to redistribute the data.

Updated 9 Dec 2013 Read time 1 min 24 sec(s) (2433 visits).

Included with the data domain appliance are CIFS, NFS, global compression, local compression, MTrees, Snapshots and Fastcopy support

Updated 9 Dec 2013 Read time 2 min(s) 9 sec(s) (3060 visits).

Benefits of integrating an Avamar system with Data Domain on the backend would be a flexible architecture and lots of plugins for applications

Updated 21 Nov 2013 Read time 48 sec(s) (7296 visits).

This article provides a list of default passwords for an Avamar grid. If you have not already, consider changing the defaults for security reasons.

Updated 19 Nov 2013 Read time 1 min 14 sec(s) (4579 visits).

The methods listed in this article are for obtaining the serial numbers from Avamar DataStore Gen2, Gen3 and Gen4 hardware

Updated 19 Nov 2013 Read time 33 sec(s) (4605 visits).

To retrieve an Avamar system id, you must login as either the root user or admin on your Avamar utility node, and execute the mccli command

Updated 1 Nov 2013 Read time 1 min 20 sec(s) (2908 visits).

This article simple ist the license optinos avilable for the EMC Data Domain product.

Updated 27 Oct 2013 Read time 3 min(s) 3 sec(s) (2394 visits).

The basics is that we are eliminating redundant data, storing only one instance of each segment and using pointers to take the place of duplicates.