Calculating drive volumes and data usage on servers
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 [...]

Answer Question   |  March 29, 2010  1:35 PM
Database servers, Disk space, Drive Volumes, Server capacity planning, Server Data Usage, Storage

What Server do I need?
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.

Answer Question   |  January 28, 2010  11:09 PM
Server capacity planning, Server Hardware, Server Selection, Servers

Promortion of a menber server to Domain Controller
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 [...]

Answer Question   |  July 28, 2008  5:01 AM
Dc promo, Domain Controller, Exchange 2003, Exchange infrastructure (xi), Server capacity planning