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September 2014 |
You can set up maxView Storage Manager to send email messages (or notifications) to one or more email addresses when an event occurs on a system, such as the creation of a logical drive or the failure of a disk drive. Email notifications can help you monitor activity on your entire storage space from any location, and are especially useful in storage spaces that include multiple systems running the maxView Storage Manager Agent only.
Only the users you specify receive email notifications. You can specify which types of events generate email messages (Error, Informational, Warning). You can also specify if you want to be notified instantly when an event occurs to ensure that urgent issues receive immediate attention from the right people.
Setting Up Email Notifications
- In the Enterprise View, select a system.
- On the ribbon, in the System group, click System Settings.
- When the System settings window opens, click the SMTP tab.
- Select Enable Email Notifications.
- Enter the IP address of your SMTP server and the server's port number (or use the default port). Then, enter the “From” address that you want to appear in your email notifications.
- If authentication is enabled on your SMTP server select Use Secure Mail Server, then enter the SMTP server's login credentials (username/password) in the space provided.
- On the System settings window, click the Email tab. The Email Notifications Manager opens.
- Click Add Email. When the Add Email window opens, enter the recipient's email address, select the level of events that will trigger an email notification for that recipient (Error, Error/Warning,
Error/Warning/Informational), select the notification type—Instant or Coalesced—then click Add. Repeat this step to add more email recipients.
- When you're done adding email recipients, click OK. The email recipients and your SMTP server settings are saved.
- Repeat the steps in this section for each system you want to monitor with email notifications, then continue by sending test messages to all recipients.
Sending a Test Message
To ensure that an email recipient is receiving event notifications, you can send them a test message. To send a test message:
- In the Enterprise View, select the system you want.
- On the ribbon, in the System group, click System Settings.
- When the System settings window opens, click the Email tab. The Email Notifications Manager opens.
- Select one or more email addresses to send a test message to.
- Click Send Test Email. If the test is successful, the email recipient(s) receive the test message. If the test fails:
- Ensure that the recipient's email address is correct.
- Ensure that your SMTP server address is correct.
See the full User Guide for MSM for more details: http://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/user_guides/msm_v1_06_21062_users_guide_for_das.pdf
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September 2014 |
The following Windows 7 products will reach End of License (EOL) on 31 October 2014:
- Windows 7 Ultimate
- Windows 7 Home Premium
- Windows 7 Home Basic
After this date the above editions of Windows 7 may no longer be available.
Windows 7 Professional will continue to be available. Its EOL date has not yet been announced; any announcement will have a minimum of one year's notice as of today.
For further details please see Microsoft's website:
http://www.microsoft.com/OEM/en/products/windows/Pages/windows_7_overview.aspx
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September 2014 |
This article introduces caching and tiering technologies to further enhance storage performance or to reduce overall storage costs.
Our first generation of storage systems employed RAID levels 1, 10, 5, 6, 50, and 60 - all of which are capable techniques to achieve data redundancy and performance using multiple disks. The underlying performance is still restricted by the individual disk members that make up the arrays. Disks come in different types, sizes, performance capabilities and prices; at present we have affordable 6TB SATA disks for bulk storage that are slow and cheap, 1.2TB SAS disks for mainstream storage that are faster and still affordable, or 800GB SSD disks that are extremely fast but also rather expensive.
Figure 1: Three individual RAID volumes (800GB, 2.4TB, 12TB) with varying levels of performance
How do we build and manage storage to achieve an optimum level of
performance, capacity and cost with these disks? Enter a new generation
of storage systems with caching and tiering technology. While our first generation of systems employed RAID only, our second-generation of storage allowed solid state drives (SSDs) to be configured as cache. Caching stores the most frequently-accessed data in the cache pool. This "hot" data is then read from the cache instead of from spinning hard disk drives, thus improving read performance many fold.
Figure 2: Single RAID volume of 12TB with Caching for acceleration
Our latest generation of storage introduces fully redundant write caching support, hybrid SSD cache, and tiering functionality. Write caching support introduces the performance enhancing caching technique to a much broader set of application workloads. Hybrid SSD caching allows SSDs to be partitioned into both a cache and a storage device for an OS or data that requires continuous, fast, and low-latency access - thus allowing finer control or configurability. Last but not least, the tiering functionality provides optimised use of disk performance and capacity by assigning disks and data into different tiers of performance - Tier 0 can be fast SSD only storage, while Tier 1 is bulk storage for infrequently accessed data.
Figure 3: Single Tiered volume of 15.2TB for optimal performance
Essentially tiering offers an optimised structure of storage by allowing us the ability to assign performance to the data that matters most (automatically without user intervention). The system, with an intelligent policy engine, will gather statistical I/O information to make decisions on data priority. "Hot" data will be placed on the fastest storage media while "Cold" data will be placed on slower media.
Contact our team for further information or assistance with your next storage solution.
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August 2014 |
Kamo High / Compucon Open Technology Seminar
Wed 24 September 2014
Kamo High School, Whangarei
2:10pm Reception in Music Studio (Block A)
2:20pm New Zealand Citizen Scientists in High Performance Computing (TN)
4:00pm Peer Review (Haggis Henderson, Colin Dyer)
4:20pm Muffin Break in Staff Room
• This seminar is designed for professionals, teachers, IT industry people, and 10 selected senior students of the school. The audience has a range of backgrounds and intellectual abilities. To keep all engaged in the seminar, we will keep the presentation at a layman level and show some technical info to illustrate key messages. The content is designed to be educational and inspirational. It is not for hands-on skill training. Participants will be invited to join a new community of New Zealand HPC Citizen Scientists.
• We will start the seminar by showing a short video on the current frontiers of mankind. It is real and more spectacular and emotional than the first step on the moon in 1969. What is and why do we need NZ HPC Citizen Scientists? We will explain the iceberg metaphor, what top universities in advanced countries are doing at present, the difference between information engineering and computer science, and how to improve NZ technology and economic prowess on the world stage through citizen level participation. (10 slides = 20 min)
• What is HPC and how does it differ to our traditional computing approach? The space-time concept is at play here! We will provide useful and impressive information from or on the following sources. (20 slides = 40 min)
o Argonne National Laboratory
o Microsoft Catching Up Vigorously
o SKA Radio Astronomy Central Signal Processing
o New Zealand university project(s) on application of HPC
• We will disclose a long term project led by 5 curators. The project has 2 dimensions: (a) Commercially sellable HPC systems, (b) HPC ecosystem in the country. The ecosystem is the first attempt in the history of IT or PC industry in New Zealand, and it will develop to a national level not owned by Compucon. As of the end of August 2014, the web forums have about 40 topics and provide enough info for members to place oneself in this ecosystem for interactions. Members will benefit from the interactions, and the total amount of benefits of individual members will propel New Zealand forward. (10 slides = 20 min)
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August 2014 |
Compucon CPD Seminar
17 September 2014 Wed
Compucon House Albany
4:00-4:40pm New Zealand Citizen Scientists (TN)
4:40-5:20pm IPVS Technology and Industry Update (TN)
5:20-6:00pm Research Report on Computer Detection of Human (Xu He)
6:00-7:30pm Wine and Cheese
-- New Zealand Citizen Scientists --
The website for citizen scientists was set up as recent as mid-July 2014. By the end of August, 20 citizen scientists have registered and they have posted over 100 discussions on close to 40 topics which collectively attracted well over 1000 views. This position is encouraging for this new attempt in the IT/PC industry in New Zealand and it does indicate some traction towards a major community or even a national one over time. Discussions so far have not penetrated into the heart of high performance or parallel computing yet. Nevertheless, the professional experience and intellectual abilities of our peers are showing up and these aspects will surely help whatever agenda the community may have or develop. We will pick 3 topics with high readership and 1 topic attached with a bottle of wine for review in this seminar session. It is a showcase of how we mix intelligence, productivity, friendship, and fun together.
-- IPVS Technology and Industry Update --
We will disclose the agenda of entering the IPVS business 6 years ago and how findings obtained in the sailing journey led us to the present business plan. This is really a business and an industry background story and is rich with hidden info that would otherwise remain a secret. Along this agenda, we will discuss some IPVS industry statistics in 2014, the impact of an IPVS camera standard called ONVIF, Google entering IPVS industry, and how to appraise camera resolutions on paper and in real life. We will also explain how we keep the end user customers happy with our mastery of IPVS technologies, especially the one site that was installed as early as 2008, to augment the on-site service provided by our peers.
-- Computer Detection of Human --
This is a University of Auckland Bachelor of Technology project report carrying a weight of 3 semester papers sponsored by Compucon in 2014. Xu He is the research student and Professor Reinhard Klette from the department of Computer Science is the research supervisor. The theme is in computer vision which is an application of artificial intelligence on pattern recognition. Xu will provide an overview of what he has done so far with success and this includes the removal of static background objects to provide a sharp silhouette of the moving object under surveillance for analysis. Xu is working on matching the silhouette with human postures and this requires training the computer to learn first. Xu will mention a few algorithms to substantiate the width and depth of his work. We will make sure that the presentation is easy to follow and we will all become computer scientists in 40 minutes.
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