They also have what they call a Clariion Procedure Generator. Input what you want to do and the system you have and it will creature a procedure, step by step, on how to do it. The downside is you have to know something about how the SAN works before the procedure makes any sense. You didn't say mention what type of SAN you have. My setup is rather small: 1 CX500 for production and 1 CX500 for disk-to-disk backup. About the only thing I really get involved in now is to assign disk space to various servers; which is pretty simple. The only complex thing I did in recent years was to create a new zone as we replaced a SQL server with a newer server.
Paul Chinnery Network Administrator Memorial Medical Center 231-845-2319 _____ From: Michael Pears [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 6:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How to become a storage admin? Go to EMC's Powerlink website https://powerlink.emc.com and sign up as a customer. They have a good selection of resources regarding technologies and SANs Have a look at the Brocade stuff as well. These both have online (and free) intro courses to SAN technology and FC fabric technologies. There is also a Navisphere simulator out there that you can use to poke about under the hood and try creating LUNs, RAID groups etc without risking your prod system. Drop me a line I have some reference docs if you like. Cheers Michael From: RM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 30 November 2008 1:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: How to become a storage admin? One way (not recommended) is to have your company run out of money to pay for the contractor doing it today. My boss approached me about this and essentially gave me until the end of the year to get up to speed on our EMC CLARiiON arrays and our FC network. I'm a seasoned Windows infrastructure and server admin. Where does one begin? RM No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.11/1820 - Release Date: 29/11/2008 6:52 PM ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
