I have worked in the Windows server administration field for 10 ten years. I have recently moved to the asset management team. My main task is to review about 3,000 server leases. When the lease is time to expire, I look at the utilization stats and determine if they could be moved to a VM or...
Physical Server, Asset management, Windows server administration
I was reading the answer to the question “What is the appropriate design for a project management office (PMO) for maximum effectiveness in the short-, mid- and long-term?” at: http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/eac/expertAnswer/0,295208,sid63_gci1157387,00.html The slides seem to be...
Thinking on which vendor is most likelty to benefit form such a deal I conclude it is Microsoft. Because ibm and oracle+sun are selling hardware by licencing unix servers and microsoft had to play catch up.
As Anne Skamarock warns in her latest book, "A fully populated blade system may require more cooling and power than a fully loaded rack system." Have you recently investigated investing in a new blade system? Were you surprised by the price comparisons with rack systems? Did this influence your...
When purchasing/upgrading network hardware, what are some of the biggest hurdles you face? Is it related to selecting the hardware itself, or do you have more trouble on the "approval process" side? Share your thoughts!
we are starting a Capacity/Performance Management project for monitoring our servers and storage devices and there does not seem to be much information on this. where can I find information on products/software, metrics, etc, related to capacity management?
Capacity management, Performance management, Storage management
What is the best method of Data Center cooling? We currently have a 10 ton unit blowing air from above and a 5 ton unit blowing below. We spent $100,000 on these new units and duct work 3 years ago and now they are maxed out. We do use the hot and cold isle method. Since we continue to add...
I had my new house pre-wired with CAT5. I have been running my home pc wireless to date, but now the adapter has pooped out. I bought push down connectors and wired them according to the "A" standard (both ends the same), and connected it to the router. My pc tells me there is limited connectivity,...
I’m trying to process a RUNDATE = 2009-08-07 into my COBOL code via a PARM-DATE Link. That date comes in… now I try to place it in the following piece of code: EXEC SQL SET :WS-PREV-WK = CHAR(DATE(TMP-DATE)- 7 DAYS) END-EXEC. What am I getting '0001-01-01' returned?
I have a binary file on a UNIX box that I need to ftp to a mainframe as RECFM=FB and LRECL=180. How do I format the ftp script?
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What software and schedule do you use to back up your file servers?
Backup & recovery, Backup and recovery software, Backup software
I am looking for an Infoprint exit program that will control the name of the PDF document on the IFS. I have used the Mapping Object to create PDF documents that are stored on the IFS. The names are generated by IBM using the job name ect. to create a unique name. I would like to control the...
Hi, i have created a ftp scritp to put & get (back trasferred file) then compare them using CL program. ie: FTP Script PUT FROM_LIBRARY/FROM_FILE TO_LIBRARY/TO_FILE GET FROM_LIBRARY/FROM_FILE QTEMP/TO_FILE CL pgm 1) RTVMBRD FILE(FROM_LIBRARY/FROM_FILE) NBRCURRCD(&NBRCURRCD) ...
I am using Ho Proliant DL380 G5 server with windows 2008 server edition. In that I am not able to install the lightscribe software. Please let me know what I have to do?
HP ProLiant DL380 G5, Lightscribe Software, Windows Server 2008
Hi, I'm looking for CA-7 batch job JCL to transfer or copy members from one data set to other. I need to to move more than 1000 of them and can't do it throught TSO for security reason. Thank you in advance
Is this possible to take a MS Access Db and run it on the Xserve Server
Dear All, oftenly my server goes standby like monthly once. then i wil restart in safe mode, and runs kaspersky scan then it will work properly for again 3 weeks or one months. but today same thing happens in the afternoon. i restarted forced reboot. after post it shows the client MAC, and checks...


