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MegaRAID Management Suite: MegaRAID Storage Manager, MegaCLI, WebBIOS

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Overview The MegaRAID Management Suite provides the must-have software components to efficiently manage MegaRAID products, whether deployed in an enterprise or small business. The collection of applications and tools includes a pre-boot setup utility as well a full spectrum of online RAID management utilities. This new suite of applications allow administrators to adjust SAS topology views from the system host, controller and disk enclosure down to the logical and physical drive level. Extending to enterprise deployments, the powerful tools easily scale to efficiently configure, monitor and manage RAID volumes locally or over the LAN network.

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Publisher	LSI	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2006	Downloads	19
Format	White Papers
Topics	RAID, Removable Storage

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Power Solutions Article: High-Availability Virtualization with Dell EqualLogic Arrays and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

The Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Release 2 (R2) Hyper-V™ platform introduces capabilities designed to deliver high availability for virtualized data centers. Integrating a Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series storage area network...

Publisher:
Dell EqualLogic

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infrastructure management

Whitepaper:Â EqualLogic TCO Analysis by ESG Lab

This ESG Lab report examines the economic excellence of highly scalable EqualLogic iSCSI storage solutions compared to traditional direct attached storage (DAS), Fibre Channel storage area network (FC SAN), and...

Publisher:
Dell EqualLogic

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raid

Dell EqualLogic TCO Analysis by ESG

Organizations of all sizes are struggling to meet the conflicting challenges associated with macro-level global financial uncertainty and micro-level information storage growth and complexity. A growing number of IT managers...

Publisher:
Dell EqualLogic

Tags:
infrastructure management

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Businesses of all sizes should look to implementing storage solutions that offer growth and expansion capabilities as their organization grow. Growing offices, can plan for the future by using any...

Publisher:
Synology

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raid

Comprehending the Tradeoffs Between Deploying Oracle Database on RAID 5 and RAID 10 Storage Configurations

Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) technology is used to improve performance and availability of the underlying storage arrays for any application. With RAID implementations, performance is improved by distributing...

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Dell

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raid

Sun fleshes out its N1 push

What we're seeing is one-third of administrators' time is spent on server deployments, updates and patches," Humphreys said, so a few hours saved rapidly pays off. N1 is the latest incarnation of Sun's effort to convince customers that it is better...

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Servers

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Intelligent machines

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Quocirca's Straight Talking: The ASPs that won

The hosted model supported by all these vendors has been most successful in the mid-market and for departmental deployments in enterprises. NetSuite, Salesforce.com and RightNow all host out of the US but do not see a problem with selling their...

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Applications
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hosted apps,
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Clash over net phone legislation looms in US

States are also bound by the law to make such moves, points out Brad Ramsay, executive director of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, a trade organization representing state utility commissions.

Can open source crack business intelligence?

JasperSoft, which estimates about 10,000 deployments of its software, intends to make money by charging for high-end versions of its open source tools and by offering support services. One such company, JasperSoft, is set to detail its plans to...

Virtualisation gets trendy

An example of the first kind of virtualisation is partitioning a PC disk into smaller virtual drives, while an example of the second is combining a number of separate disks to make them appear as one physical disk (as in a storage network).

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Servers
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grid,
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