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[sudhapage]

Hi

I am Junior Administrator in HPUX. In System administration side, OS level I have such a strong foundation. But I want to learn fundamentals of storage in hpunix? what are all the storages is available? which one i have to study first?

And also I need a suggestion from u, which field will be good in Unix? storage or scripts or security, etc...?

Please suggest

Regards,
Sudhakaran.K

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi,

It depends on your interest. Storage is a very good technology and pay. For HP relates storage, here is a link : http://www.hp.com/country/us/en/prodserv/storage.html

Also, you can take a look at EMC's storage offerings, http://www.emc.com/products/platforms.jsp

-Arun

[freddy_21 · Accepted solution]

every storage have different command.
I think you must know basic for storage. if you know basic i think whatever your storage it will be same.
the basic knowledge are:
1. Raid level ex. mirror, striping, etc etc.
2. san configuration like zoning, topology 3. LVM, or veritas volume manager.
4. troubleshooting problem.

HP Have storage from low end ( MSA30, MSA 1000 , etc etc ) until high end ( XP12000).


thanks
Freddy

[Victor Fridyev]

Hi,

HP has a good set of disk storages from low to high end (MS -> XP )and the exact storage level and type strongly depends upon your site or customer needs. If you (and your bosses) prefer HP, you can take an HP storage course.
According to my personal impressioin HP storages are not the best ones in high scalable systems. I persomally prefer NetApp. For volumes from handres GB until up some TBytes they are very easy to use.

HTH

[sudhapage]

Freddy,

can you provide me the documents for san configuration like zoning, topology ,etc...

Regards,
Sudhakaran.K

[freddy_21]

maybe you can read this. actually i am not storage guy... ;p

maybe this doc can help you

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/storage.html#SAN%20Infrastructure

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

Sudhapage,

Storage is always an area to learn, if you want to specialized then I recommended you think twice, you really have to like hardware side to get deep into storage, really nice area, but specializing in an area that does not really create a passion might not be the right approach.

This link will guide you to everything in storage http://www.hp.com/sbso/busproducts_storage.html
Also if you have a product that you want to learn go to docs.hp.com and do a search on the product and will get completed documentation on it.

Regards,

Jaime.

[Anand Sreenivasan]

If you are looking in to particular examples on how to do zoning and mapping disks to the servers, go to mcdata or brocade websites and browse through their prodcut manuals. We have their switches and their online manuals are good enough to give you the start you are looking for ...