Storage articles - church1e's blog

Adding a node to an active VCS cluster

Updated 8 Oct 2013 Read time 3 min(s) 9 sec(s) (2391 visits).

In this article we look at the requirement to add a new noode to an existing VCS cluster to increase the cluster capacity

Updated 30 Jul 2013 Read time 38 sec(s) (2406 visits).

On Windows 2003 AVAMAR client uses the NTBackup Utility to create a backup of the system state.

Updated 14 Apr 2014 Read time 3 min(s) 9 sec(s) (675 visits).

With ZFS filesystem, RAIDZ is very popular as it gives the best tradeoff of hardware failure protection versus storage.

Updated 23 Feb 2013 Read time 25 sec(s) (2567 visits).

This document provides a quick and simple reference guide to various EMC PowerPath commands

Updated 5 Feb 2013 Read time 49 sec(s) (4692 visits).

The Avamar Management Console Server provides centralized management including scheduling of backups, restore of backups, monitoring and reporting.

Updated 20 Oct 2012 Read time 3 min(s) 2 sec(s) (2446 visits).

RAID is a method of combining several hard drives into one unit. Offering fault tolerance and higher throughput levels than a group of drives.

Updated 30 Jul 2012 Read time 46 sec(s) (5019 visits).

Changing only the passwords for the operating system users does not sufficiently prevent someone from logging in to Avamar server nodes.

Updated 22 Mar 2014 Read time 2 min(s) 17 sec(s) (2652 visits).

This post provides a quick guide to the steps needed to shutdown an Avamar system.

Updated 11 Jul 2012 Read time 30 sec(s) (1794 visits).

Use the following steps to quickly change the time and ntp settings.

Updated 25 Mar 2015 Read time 2 min(s) 31 sec(s) (637 visits).

Simple steps to setup a Sun ZFS Storage Applicance as an iSCSI device.