As I might have said already, I’m no programmer, still I’m curious about programming languages and like to try things. This post, as the title suggests, is about how to implement a linked list and a set of functions which might help to work on a recursive scenario (being these recursive functions, recursive trees, recursive structures …
While working on something (you’ll see on a later post), and since not being an experienced programmer, I faced this question, ‘how do I sort a linked list?’. I wasn’t in the mood to develop the algorithm from scratch so I started to look on the internet if there was any already written one, found some, but many …
As an Storage administrator, one of my biggest nightmares in the day to day administration is dealing with CIFS shares and file copies, huge shares, with millions of files, tons of subfolders, orphan folders no one has access to and UNC paths that go further than 256 characters. Copying data at file level in these …
Some time ago I was asked to start auditing a file share hosted within a Virtual Data Mover in an EMC VNX 5700. Actually this article is not on how to configure auditing, but on a specific step that it’s recommended to accomplish if you need to audit a share. As you might already know, …
Hi everyone, welcome again, today I’m writing a quick post on an issue I’ve already seen couple of times. When you remove a disk coming from a SAN from a cluster group in a Windows 2008 (not R2) cluster you are not able to put the resource offline in order to be able to unmap …
Today I have decided to do some writing on Netbackup… one of the famous backup tool in the corporative world. As you might already know, Netbackup is not so friendly but it is so scalable, that is why so many companies chose Symantec for backup purposes. Netbackup has many, MANY processes and commands, and the …
In this post we will review some of the NetApp backend connectivity and hardware basics, like disk ownership, single path and multipath, partner cabling, etc. I decided to write this article since I’ve been working with NetApp for some time, but always managing them remotely, never had the chance to stand in front of one …
If you are reaching here it is because you are trying to use cURL to submit an ASP.NET web form and you have found it is not as easy as it is in PHP forms. This is because of the nature of ASP.NET, how it handles HTTP requests and some tools it brings to help …
Some time ago, when I started working in IT (around 2004), companies started moving from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003, there where still some NT4.0 around…. but mainly there where 2000 and 2003 Windows Servers, during this time, I remember we faced some issues involving disk expansions, and other disk related issues… Also some time …
Hello everyone! I wanted to share with you a very funny video about IBM’s disk system after 50 years on the road, I’m not so fan of IBM storage but the video is worth watching.