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Storage 911: How to troubleshoot your storage
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An ounce of prevention may be worth a pound of cure, but pithy aphorisms aren't much use once your SAN has ground to a halt. Our emergency guide takes you through the steps you can take to prevent disaster, and then, more importantly, offers an organized list of usual suspects, from the complex to the deceptively simple. Wondering what ails your storage? We've got the Rx. Take a moment to e-mail us to let us know what other guides you'd like to see on SearchStorage.com.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Avoiding disaster: Documentation and Planning Avoiding disaster: Monitoring Tools After the disaster: Identifying Bottlenecks After the disaster: Switches After the disaster: Host Bus Adapters After the disaster: Hardware After the disaster: Backups After the disaster: Cabling Goofups and other Snafus More Information |
 Documentation |
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- Tip: How to document a SAN
- Expert Advice: More on SAN documentation
- Checklist: How to set up HBAs
- Tip: Keep your SANs from crashing
- Tip: Think small to avert big disasters
- Checklist: How to design a scalable SAN
| Monitoring Tools |
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- Tip: How to select storage management tools
- Tip: Expand your SAN: No-sweat SAN design tools
- Tip: How to select an SRM suite
- Tip: Test your SAN cool with an infrared scanner
- Expert Advice: The five most important backup and restore reports
- Expert Advice: Web-based reporting tools for tape libraries
| Identifying Bottlenecks |
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- Tip: How to isolate and solve performance bottlenecks
- Tip: How to scan your SAN
- Checklist: Fight these storage fires – automatically
- Checklist: Ten steps to troubleshooting SAN/NAS performance problems
- Tip: Troubleshoot SANs from the center out
- Tip: Troubleshooting your SAN (more or less) painlessly
| Switches |
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- Tip: Know your port errors when troubleshooting SANs
- Tip: How to troubleshoot SANs using WWN zoning
- Expert Advice: Trouble with linking across a DWDM
| Host Bus Adapters |
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- Tip: Get your latest firmware here
- Tip: Troubleshooting Fibre Channel host bus adapters in PCs
- Checklist: How to troubleshoot your LUN
| Hardware |
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- Expert Advice: SATA connectivity issues
- Expert Advice: SANS and controller failover
- Tip: Troubleshooting drive detection problems
- Expert Advice: Troubleshooting IDE drives
| Backups |
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- Tip: Troubleshooting remote backups for Microsoft Exchange Server
- Expert Advice: When to start troubleshooting tape equipment
- SearchStorage.com School: Advanced Backup School
| Cabling Goofups and other Snafus |
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- Tip: Tame SAN cable trouble
- Tip: Dos and don'ts of SAN cabling
- Tip: How to prevent common problems in SATA drives
| For More Information |
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- How to: Solve your top storage headaches
- Learning Guide: SAN
- Topics: SAN troubleshooting
- SAN School: What makes a SAN stop
05 Jun 2005