IT Answers » Server capacity planning http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers Wed, 22 May 2013 13:32:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Calculating drive volumes and data usage on servers http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/itrus/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/itrus/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:35:07 +0000 ITrUS Ok i’m a newbie.  I need to calculate drive volumes and data usage on about 75 Sun and HP servers to obtain planning data for a complete update and conversion to NetBackup for all servers.

How can I calculate Total Disk Space and Disk Space used without having to add separate directories for every directory on every server.

I just need the Disk Space total and total of space utilized for each server.  df -k is NOT the answer I’m looking for.

]]> http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/itrus/feed/ 1 What Server do I need? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/what-server-do-i-need/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/what-server-do-i-need/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:09:33 +0000 ITKE Looking for a server that can support 50 desktop clients running basic office applications like word, email etc. Can anyone recommend a starting point. Looking for some redundancy but not a business critical server.

]]> http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/what-server-do-i-need/feed/ 2 Promortion of a menber server to Domain Controller http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/promortion-of-a-menber-server-to-domain-controller/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/promortion-of-a-menber-server-to-domain-controller/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:01:54 +0000 Pressler2904 OK, here’s the deal… we’ve got two DC’s in a Windows server 2003 network, supporting about 150 end users. Our primary DC is on-site; our secondary DC is at a co-location site several hundred miles away. The secondary DC (call it DC2) has experienced a drive failure in it’s RAID 5 array (no other drive or array in system), so has been running degraded for several days. Due to the physical layout of the co-located system, we cannot easily replace the drive (don’t ask why, please….). My question is: Would it be prudent to pass/move the backup DC role on to our Exchange server? The server runs with a 2.8 Xeon / 4GB RAM / Win2k3 SP2.

Let me know your thoughts.

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