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OK I'm stuck at work for a few more minutes waiting for a job to finish so I'll throw out a bit of info regarding my newly built Nexenta storage platform. Based in part from sticker shock looking at Dell or HP low end storage devices as well as on the advice from Mike from over at IPHouse.net, I bought some Super Micro parts and built the storage cluster myself. I started with a 836E2-R800B 3U chassis just for housing the disks. I wonder if there is some kind of cheat sheet for Super Micro products because it seems confusing as hell. I will clue you in that the E2 on the end signifies dual input/output SAS connections. The SAS connections plug into a Super Micro 6016T-NTRF4+ 1U Server. I'm sad to say that I have absolutely no idea what all those letters signify. I just picked the one Mike picked (although I've since ordered another server with a different config so I can start to compare). I stuck 2 Intel E5620 processors in it, 12GB of DDR3 RAM and a coupl...

We are in the process of migrating our backup solution over to Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010 and ran into an issue that other might find useful. Although it's early days, overall I'm very pleased with the product. We are a MS only shop so it's a good logical fit for us. We are using an IBM TS3200 tape library for our tape storage connected via FC. I installed DPM, configured the FC switch fabric and then I just went into Management/Libraries and hit Rescan. DPM found the library but just identified it as a single tape drive, not the library. Off to the IBM support website for their usual cryptic search led to proper drivers (IBMTape.x64_w08_6209.zip). Installed the drivers and hit Rescan in DMP and just like that DPM recognized the library. So far so good. The Inventory library option worked like a charm discovering all the tapes in the library, however when we tried to do any other option such as erase or identify unknown tape the entire DPM console wo...