SCSI drives suitable for setting up an array
What speed SCSI drives are suitable for CAD designers working off the server? How would you set them up in an array? We need 10 TB capacity.

Answer Question   |  January 19, 2011  5:15 PM
Array, CAD, Capacity planning, SCSI, SCSI Drives, Server management

Maximum memory on a 64-bit operating system?
I need to install a new SQL server and we are buying a 64-bit OS. What’s the maximum amount of memory that the operating system can hold/support/make use of?

Answer Question   |  July 13, 2010  6:01 PM
64-bit (x64), Capacity planning, Memory management, Operating systems, SQL Server administration, SQL Server memory

Capacity information on Altosoft Insight
Does anyone have capacity information on Altosoft Insight?  Any expreiences or hard data would be greatly appreciated.

Answer Question   |  January 6, 2010  6:06 PM
Altosoft Insight, Business Intelligence, Capacity planning

TPC Capabilities
As we implement SVC and migrate servers, we are trying to learn how to best use TPC reporting capabilities to get in front of capacity planning and trending. The vendor has not been able to produce a TPC SME and we don’t yet have access to the TPC shadow server the vendor is providing for [...]

Answer Question   |  July 14, 2009  5:18 PM
Capacity planning, IBM TotalStorage, TotalStorage Productivity Center, TPC, TPC Reporting

Server sizing tools and approaches
what is an effective server sizing tool/approach that will enable my company to buy Hardware that will host future applications which are not yet procured with great deal of accuracy?

Answer Question   |  January 27, 2009  9:23 AM
Capacity planning, Data center planning, Network design, Server administration, Server management, Server sizing, Server Sizing tools

capacity management planning for 30+ servers
Hi all, I have to do capacity planning for each server in our envr. about 30 server, i need an experts help, do u have any tremplate, any tools that can estimate how much storage each server needs for the future “next two years for example” i need it too urgent , any template help [...]

Answer Question   |  October 29, 2008  6:10 PM
Capacity planning, Dell Storage, Server management, Storage, Storage management

Follow Up to How Much Bandwidth
We are a small organization (15+/- full time employees). We currently have a T-1 line, no VPN. Last week, we experienced 100% usage of our T-1 line – first time ever. I’ve explored every alternative including bonded T-1, ADSL, SDSL, Ethernet (10 Mbps up and down). The Ethernet solution would be great but is costly [...]

Answer Question   |  July 22, 2009  12:56 PM
ADSL, Bandwidth, Bandwidth management, Capacity planning, Ethernet, Internet, Network design, SDSL

How many servers i required to maintain 1500 concurrent users for my web portal ?
How many servers i required to maintain 1500 concurrent users for my web portal ?

Answer Question   |  June 23, 2008  6:06 AM
Capacity planning, Network design, Network performance

Bandwidth on Transmission facility
If I have a OC3 (155 MB/s) facility, pracitically do I have 155MB/s of bandwidth on the send and receive side simulatneously. So in short my question is this: Is the total BW available=2*155 MB less whatever overhead there may be?

Answer Question   |  February 20, 2008  7:58 PM
Bandwidth, Capacity planning, Capacity utilization rate

Application server SW and HD in SOHO
I am looking for advice and guidance. What kind of hardware I will need? What kind of software technologies should I start looking in to? What software packages are most relevant to what I am looking for? (I am not an IT professional and not in IT related business! ) I am looking to learn [...]

Answer Question   |  September 8, 2008  1:26 PM
Capacity planning, Network design, Network hardware, Open source, RAID 5, Routers, VMware

Setup Remote printer in zOS
We have zOS v1R4 in a z900 mainframe server. I am a newly joined MVS system programmer here in this Datacenter. My requirement is as follows: 1) Currently we use TCP/IP to connect to LPARs in the mainframe 2) There is a remote laser printer in the client place(which is already networked) 3) We would [...]

Answer Question   |  June 18, 2005  3:46 PM
Capacity planning, Hardware, Integration with other platforms, Logical partitions, Mainframe, MVS, z/OS, z/OS configuration

New to AS400 administration and need some help.
I have two questions here if someone can help. I will appreciate anything you can give. First, I am trying to configure a network printer on the AS400. I did wrkcfgsts, work with description, and copied the printer devices description and modified the printer device with the new info. All I changed was the IP [...]

Answer Question   |  April 6, 2009  12:04 PM
Auditing, Availability, Backup & recovery, Capacity planning, DataCenter, Hardware, Help Desk, i5, IBM, Installation, Integration with other platforms, Integration/Connectivity, iSeries, Logical partitions, Mainframe, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Operating systems, OS/400, PC/Windows Connectivity, Performance/Tuning, Printing, PTFs, Remote access, Reporting, Security, Security management, Server consolidation, Servers, System monitoring, Tech support, Technical support, tips and tricks, Tools

Best rules of thumb?
What are five best rules of thumb when reviewing output from system monitors for preventing future problems. The system monitors could be any SMF/RMF MICS TSO/MON MXG OMEGAMON system monitor type report for reporting on the mainframe. Example might be 1. sustained CPU utilization over 85% 2. Long I/O ques 3. large variation in on-line [...]

Answer Question   |  August 6, 2009  5:39 PM
Availability, Capacity planning, EMC, Hardware, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, Integration with other platforms, Mainframe, Storage products and equipment, Tech support, Third-party services, Vendor support