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NetApp System Manager is a Microsoft Management Console based snap-in to manage your NetApp/IBM filers. It gives a great overview of your filers, including the partner setup. It can also be used to setup new filers. In order to connect to your filers, you have to enable (or setup) ssl. These are the steps to [...]

I recently enabled data dedup (previously called a-sis) on our storage boxes for the volumes that contained the vmware guests. Data dedup is a free option as from march 10, 2008, however it is not enabled by default and you should ask your distributor for the licenses. You will get 2 license keys, one for [...]