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• THolley

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  May 8, 2006 at 1:00 pm

  #172433

  We currently have a MSA1000 of which half of it is RAID (D: Drive) and there other half non-RAIN (E: Drive).  We are using the D: drive for the Database storage area and the E: drive for our backuping up of the DB.

  We would like to use the entire MSA1000 as our Database Storage unit and then move our backup to a SAN or something.

  I need a diagram of what this would look like so I could show my boss? 

  Also, I would assume that the MSA1000 would act as a D drive and the new SAN would act as the E drive?  So the SQL box would have to talk to both the D and E Drive?

  Thanks in advance for your time in answering my questions.

  Tim

• K. Brian Kelley

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  May 8, 2006 at 2:21 pm

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  You can probably create the diagram using Visio. HP does have stencils available if you want to show the physical back-end. If that's useful to your boss... that is. Depending on how your fabric is designed, you may need additional HBAs, etc. Without knowing your physical hardware setup, I can't answer that. You should be able to contact your HP reps, though, and they can get an engineer to help you with your configuration... the reason I suggest this is because you want to make sure you do the capacity and recovery planning for your SAN correctly.

  Yes, the SQL box would have to talk to both D and E.

  K. Brian Kelley
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