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Hp Storage interview at IBM-please help

krishnan sukumaran — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:33:26 GMT

Hi Gurus,

Tomr i having a face to face interview in ibm for hp storage, request you to provide some interview questions. I am new to Storage and this is my first interview i am going to face, please help.

Re: Hp Storage interview at IBM-please help

Avinash Agarkar — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:25:15 GMT

Hi Krishnan,

If you are new in storage please track the basics of storage like -

1. how it works
2. what is the chache.
3. how may disks.
4. what is the min and max disk capacity
5. what is lun.
6. how to allocate luns to a server.
7. how amy controlers are their in storage.
8. how to check the performance.
9. how to check the failure logs in SIM.
10. some question on brocade switch also.

Thanks,
Avinash

Re: Hp Storage interview at IBM-please help

krishnan sukumaran — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:59:10 GMT

Thanks Avinash it was helpful.

Re: Hp Storage interview at IBM-please help

krishnan sukumaran — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:11:54 GMT

To my understanding flogi is any fabric devices which connects to fabric switch will make a fabric login and
plogi is fabric HBA which connects to fabric switch is called plogi.

My question is this fair enough for me to knew about this definition alone. can you please explain me in detail or give me a link where i can get information about this, thanks in advance.

Re: Hp Storage interview at IBM-please help

Torsten. — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:06:49 GMT

A device need to do a fabric login and a port login to get connected to the SAN (flogi and plogi) - but these are only some details out of many regarding a SAN in general.

IMHO, if you want to do some storage administration, you need to know about the theory of operation first. In addition, you need to know about specific device, e.g. HP storage MSA, EVA, XP ...

Re: Hp Storage interview at IBM-please help

krishnan sukumaran — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:02:31 GMT

Thanks Torsten,

I am new to Storage and done by Hp Eva course. My target is to become a storage
admin like you gurus, please give me some tips how i can develop knowledge on Storage, i don't knew from where i need to start and where to complete.Once i get strong i can try for a job. you can also mail me on
Indiahitag@gmail.com.

Thanks,
Krishnan.S

Re: Hp Storage interview at IBM-please help

McCready — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:28:16 GMT

Try the searchstorage.com web site, which has lots of articles on many areas of storage. To begin, click on the "learning", then "data storage handbooks" to get a start.

Re: Hp Storage interview at IBM-please help

krishnan sukumaran — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:37:04 GMT

Thanks to all.

Regards,
Krishnan