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Ok, that makes sense. What if the backup server were a Linux box with CIFS drivers installed? What I am trying (perhaps in vain) to accomplish is a backup solution where only one server controls the tape library, but also one where I am not sending all this data over the LAN. Any other...

I am brand new to SANs aside from some work with XSAN, so go easy on me. I have a 60TB AX4-5i with LUNs for both windows and linux hosts. I am trying to devise a backup system. One thought I had was creating snapshots of all the LUNs and presenting them to one server for backup. I can't...

Thank you- knowing what I don't know is actually very helpful in moving forward.

Ok that was probably not a good way to make my debut here. Let me go into a little more detail about what I'm trying to do. I have an ax4-5i maxed out with 4 expansion chassis all loaded with 1TB SATA drives. This SAN is supposed to be the storage for all or at least most of the servers in a...

Hello, I'm relatively new to the SAN world, aside from having set up a couple of XSANs. Those I did 'by the book', but now I have an EMC ax4-5i to work with and I'm not really sure how much of my XSAN knowledge applies here. Is it normal to set up lots of LUNs of the same size and combine them...