Motherboard upgrade
No: the P8P67 has a LG1155 CPU socket, for Intel processors only. When in doubt, check the motherboard manufacturer website : www.asus.com
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| April 5, 2013 6:49 PM
AMD processors, Hard disk performance, Motherboards
No: the P8P67 has a LG1155 CPU socket, for Intel processors only. When in doubt, check the motherboard manufacturer website : www.asus.com
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| April 5, 2013 6:49 PM
AMD processors, Hard disk performance, Motherboards
Archiving emails
By archiving to a folder outside of Outlook and ensuring that Outlook is not mapped to it. If it is, then the percentage will not change.
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| March 28, 2013 6:58 PM
Email storage, Storage
By archiving to a folder outside of Outlook and ensuring that Outlook is not mapped to it. If it is, then the percentage will not change.
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| March 28, 2013 6:58 PM
Email storage, Storage
SAN to SAN hardware level replicaiton to replicate MSSQL 2008 R2 databases
As far as the SAN is concerned SQL Server database files are just files stored on the array. It will transfer them just like it will any other file. Typically SAN to SAN replication is used along with geographically distributed clusters in order to have a single Windows (and SQL) cluster built in two [...]
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| March 3, 2013 9:26 AM
MSSQL, MSSQL 2008, SAN
As far as the SAN is concerned SQL Server database files are just files stored on the array. It will transfer them just like it will any other file. Typically SAN to SAN replication is used along with geographically distributed clusters in order to have a single Windows (and SQL) cluster built in two [...]
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| March 3, 2013 9:26 AM
MSSQL, MSSQL 2008, SAN
Why do you think IT sales continue to stall?
It’s rare for me to come across a client that is not experiencing budget reductions across their business. Perhaps it’s CIOs and CTOs being smart with their money and realizing that they really don’t need new computers, OSs, and applications as much as the vendors try to push their wares. Perhaps it’s partly impacted by [...]
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| February 26, 2013 8:34 PM
IT sales, Networking, Storage
It’s rare for me to come across a client that is not experiencing budget reductions across their business. Perhaps it’s CIOs and CTOs being smart with their money and realizing that they really don’t need new computers, OSs, and applications as much as the vendors try to push their wares. Perhaps it’s partly impacted by [...]
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| February 26, 2013 8:34 PM
IT sales, Networking, Storage
Do you think going private will help Dell’s storage business?
The only benefit about Dell going private is that they can now makes decisions without the concern of board members or investors. Now, whether this helps them in their changing targets, that is still a wait and see aspect. They are already going up against a couple of strong competitors, NetApp and RackSpace, but only [...]
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| February 8, 2013 3:47 PM
Dell, Storage
The only benefit about Dell going private is that they can now makes decisions without the concern of board members or investors. Now, whether this helps them in their changing targets, that is still a wait and see aspect. They are already going up against a couple of strong competitors, NetApp and RackSpace, but only [...]
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| February 8, 2013 3:47 PM
Dell, Storage
Panasas storage cluster
I work for Panasas. If you can tell me your location I can get the right people to help you.
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| January 29, 2013 8:17 PM
Panasas, Storage, Storage arrays
I work for Panasas. If you can tell me your location I can get the right people to help you.
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| January 29, 2013 8:17 PM
Panasas, Storage, Storage arrays
What’s your top IT priority for 2013?
Looking at it from my perspective as a security consultant, I think this is an appropriate ranking. Data is the ultimate component of any given environment that needs to be secured. The only issue I see is that many organizations still don’t know what data is where. Nor do they fully understand how it’s currently [...]
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| February 12, 2013 8:30 PM
Data protection, IT, Server virtualization
Looking at it from my perspective as a security consultant, I think this is an appropriate ranking. Data is the ultimate component of any given environment that needs to be secured. The only issue I see is that many organizations still don’t know what data is where. Nor do they fully understand how it’s currently [...]
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| February 12, 2013 8:30 PM
Data protection, IT, Server virtualization
Best way to store the data
This is a pretty wide open question. Besides your requirement (quick retrieval), budget plays an important part. Since you seem to have no budget at all, you would need to depend on open source NAS products. This would be a cheaper solution, provided you have reasonable hard disks.
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| February 9, 2013 9:22 PM
Data storage, Storage
This is a pretty wide open question. Besides your requirement (quick retrieval), budget plays an important part. Since you seem to have no budget at all, you would need to depend on open source NAS products. This would be a cheaper solution, provided you have reasonable hard disks.
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| February 9, 2013 9:22 PM
Data storage, Storage
1 gigabyte = ? megabytes
Here’s the conversions. 1 PB = 1024 TBs 1 TB = 1024 Gigs 1 Gig = 1024 Megs 1 Meg = 1024 KB 1 KB = 1024 Bytes 1 Byte = 8 Bits
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| January 10, 2013 7:48 AM
Gigabyte, Megabyte
Here’s the conversions. 1 PB = 1024 TBs 1 TB = 1024 Gigs 1 Gig = 1024 Megs 1 Meg = 1024 KB 1 KB = 1024 Bytes 1 Byte = 8 Bits
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| January 10, 2013 7:48 AM
Gigabyte, Megabyte
Values of factors considered when isolating Storage Performance issues- Please guide
I typically look at the response time and the service time to start with as these are going to tell me how long the array is taking to service the request. If the service time is high and the number of IOPs is low I know that there’s something going wrong in the array somewhere. [...]
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| January 4, 2013 11:28 PM
SAN, Storage
I typically look at the response time and the service time to start with as these are going to tell me how long the array is taking to service the request. If the service time is high and the number of IOPs is low I know that there’s something going wrong in the array somewhere. [...]
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| January 4, 2013 11:28 PM
SAN, Storage
Emulate USB thumbdrive with laptop
This company provides a product they affectionally dub the ‘Wormhole’, that allows you to connect two computers via their USB ports, and drag and drop files both ways, using either computer’s mouse and keyboard. I use one personally around the office, and it works great! The software and drivers are completely contained in the hardware, [...]
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| December 28, 2012 1:59 AM
USB Flash drives
This company provides a product they affectionally dub the ‘Wormhole’, that allows you to connect two computers via their USB ports, and drag and drop files both ways, using either computer’s mouse and keyboard. I use one personally around the office, and it works great! The software and drivers are completely contained in the hardware, [...]
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| December 28, 2012 1:59 AM
USB Flash drives
Repurposed Disk In Raid
If you did delete the array on the other server, then the drive is not configured and for all practical purposes is blank from the prospective of the controller. Remove the bad drive (flashing yellow) from the “good server”, insert the new hot swap drive and it should automatically restripe. You can verify by checking [...]
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| December 11, 2012 4:32 PM
RAID 5, raid 5 failure
If you did delete the array on the other server, then the drive is not configured and for all practical purposes is blank from the prospective of the controller. Remove the bad drive (flashing yellow) from the “good server”, insert the new hot swap drive and it should automatically restripe. You can verify by checking [...]
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| December 11, 2012 4:32 PM
RAID 5, raid 5 failure
Does a RAID 5 rebuild include deleted data?
As the rebuild happens at the block level, not the file level anything that should be on the disk, including deleted files, would be copied to the new disk.
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| November 29, 2012 9:42 PM
RAID 5, RAID rebuild
As the rebuild happens at the block level, not the file level anything that should be on the disk, including deleted files, would be copied to the new disk.
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| November 29, 2012 9:42 PM
RAID 5, RAID rebuild
Windows Server 2012 – VM Domain Controller
The better solution would be to put the two VMware servers in a cluster so that either server can run either or both VMs. As you are using network storage this gives you the best high availability option. You can’t configure the same VM to run at the same time on both servers. Also [...]
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| November 22, 2012 9:59 AM
Disaster Recovery, Domain Controller, VMware
The better solution would be to put the two VMware servers in a cluster so that either server can run either or both VMs. As you are using network storage this gives you the best high availability option. You can’t configure the same VM to run at the same time on both servers. Also [...]
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| November 22, 2012 9:59 AM
Disaster Recovery, Domain Controller, VMware
Hardware requirements for Backup Exec 2010 R3
Here is the HCL for ALL recent Backup Exec versions: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO22505 Hope this clears it up for you. PLUS…. Symantec are doing a FREE TRADE UP from Backup Exec 2010 to Backup Exec 2012. I’d look into that too! Regards, Martyn Keigher.
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| November 29, 2012 4:06 AM
Backup Exec 2010, Storage, Symantec Backup Exec, Windows Server 2003
Here is the HCL for ALL recent Backup Exec versions: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO22505 Hope this clears it up for you. PLUS…. Symantec are doing a FREE TRADE UP from Backup Exec 2010 to Backup Exec 2012. I’d look into that too! Regards, Martyn Keigher.
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| November 29, 2012 4:06 AM
Backup Exec 2010, Storage, Symantec Backup Exec, Windows Server 2003
RAID Benefits
Google is your friend http://compreviews.about.com/od/storage/l/aaRAIDPage1.htm
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| October 24, 2012 5:31 PM
RAID
Google is your friend http://compreviews.about.com/od/storage/l/aaRAIDPage1.htm
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| October 24, 2012 5:31 PM
RAID
Disaster Recovery for Health Care Industry
I don’t believe that the AX4 supports any of the EMC data mirroring software which would run on the array. Also you’ll have a problem buying a new AX4 for the other site as that product has been replaced. You’ll probably need to upgrade to a newer array the VNXe which should support data mirroring [...]
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| October 23, 2012 9:52 AM
EMC CLARiiON AX4-5, Storage Area Network
I don’t believe that the AX4 supports any of the EMC data mirroring software which would run on the array. Also you’ll have a problem buying a new AX4 for the other site as that product has been replaced. You’ll probably need to upgrade to a newer array the VNXe which should support data mirroring [...]
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| October 23, 2012 9:52 AM
EMC CLARiiON AX4-5, Storage Area Network
Windows Server 2003 system state.
In the ADUC, for the users profile, you want to go to the user’s Profile tab. There you will see the logon script and such. We give our customers some space on our servers for external storage, from their pc’s, for data in the event that their systems crash. You can easily do this by [...]
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| November 2, 2012 12:14 PM
RAID 5, RAID failure, system state, Windows Server 2003 32-bit
In the ADUC, for the users profile, you want to go to the user’s Profile tab. There you will see the logon script and such. We give our customers some space on our servers for external storage, from their pc’s, for data in the event that their systems crash. You can easily do this by [...]
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| November 2, 2012 12:14 PM
RAID 5, RAID failure, system state, Windows Server 2003 32-bit
Advice required on building career in Storage Area Network
Like in any job field, no one can predict the future. I am certified in NCSD for NetApp and I am going for my next cert, which is NCIE-SAN, also with NetApp. Where you should start is basically getting your certifications in Server+ and MCITP. Now, to be certified in NetApp, you will need to [...]
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| November 2, 2012 4:53 AM
certification, FCoE, HBA, iSCSI, Storage Area Network
Like in any job field, no one can predict the future. I am certified in NCSD for NetApp and I am going for my next cert, which is NCIE-SAN, also with NetApp. Where you should start is basically getting your certifications in Server+ and MCITP. Now, to be certified in NetApp, you will need to [...]
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| November 2, 2012 4:53 AM
certification, FCoE, HBA, iSCSI, Storage Area Network
Trying to find an adequate backup solution
You may want to consider investing in a professional backup storage system. I work for the government and we use NetApp. They have some videos on You Tube, and a channel, that you may be interested in viewing and see if it is what you are looking for. Good luck in your decision.
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| October 22, 2012 12:31 AM
Data management, Data storage, Windows Server 2003
You may want to consider investing in a professional backup storage system. I work for the government and we use NetApp. They have some videos on You Tube, and a channel, that you may be interested in viewing and see if it is what you are looking for. Good luck in your decision.
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| October 22, 2012 12:31 AM
Data management, Data storage, Windows Server 2003
