To get rid of that unwanted driver, device, or service:
1) Open the “Start” menu and choose “Run…”
2) Type in “cmd” (without the quotes) and click “ok”.
3) At the cmd prompt, type in “set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1″ (without the quotes) and press enter. (Note that nothing seems to happen–this is ok. We are actually setting an environment variable which is going to help us to see hidden devices)
4) On the next cmd prompt line, type in “devmgmt.msc” (without the quotes) and press enter. This will launch the Windows Device Manager Console.
5) In the Device Manager Console, from the “View” menu, select “Show Hidden Devices”.

Overview Summary of Extending RAID Arrays in Dell MD1000

MD1000 Extend RAID Array

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To suffer or not to suffer?  That is the questions.

RAID Features
Write Through Cache

With Write Through Cache the data is written to both the cache and drive once the data is retrieved. As the data is written to both places, should the information be required it can be retrieved from the cache for faster access. The downside of this method is that the time to carry out a Write operation is greater the time to do a Write to a non cache device. The total Write time is the time to write to the cache plus the time to Write the disk.

Backup Exec, Windows 2000, and Red Hat ES3

Six months of Veritas 10 and now Symantec 10d backups. I am running under Linux RHES3 as a host with the guess as Server 2000. Like all backups I had some issue but non related to the virtual server.

RAID (Which one is best)
RAID.pdf

Note:
RAID 0 is great for performance but if one drive fails all the data is lost.