Email Server
Well if you can’t recover the drive and both of the mirrored set are gone you will be buying new disks, re-installing the OS and Exchange and running a restore from backups to get everyone’s mail back. What version of Exchange is this? We can give you better help if you tell us the version [...]
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| April 23, 2009 3:27 PM
RAID 1, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, Windows Server Error Messages
Well if you can’t recover the drive and both of the mirrored set are gone you will be buying new disks, re-installing the OS and Exchange and running a restore from backups to get everyone’s mail back. What version of Exchange is this? We can give you better help if you tell us the version [...]
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| April 23, 2009 3:27 PM
RAID 1, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, Windows Server Error Messages
Is Microsoft doing anything new around storage virtualization?
Microsoft is working with partners like NetApp to bring storage virtualization solutions to the Microsoft Platform.
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| April 23, 2009 2:54 PM
Microsoft virtualization, Storage virtualization, Storage virtualization software
Microsoft is working with partners like NetApp to bring storage virtualization solutions to the Microsoft Platform.
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| April 23, 2009 2:54 PM
Microsoft virtualization, Storage virtualization, Storage virtualization software
DBCC
I would run a dbcc check on the database rather than setting it up on the backup job. Disable the option to run dbcc in the backup job. You can modify the job and right click on the sql database which will give you options where dbcc is checked. uncheck the same. Please refer to [...]
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| April 23, 2009 1:37 PM
Backup Exec 11d
I would run a dbcc check on the database rather than setting it up on the backup job. Disable the option to run dbcc in the backup job. You can modify the job and right click on the sql database which will give you options where dbcc is checked. uncheck the same. Please refer to [...]
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| April 23, 2009 1:37 PM
Backup Exec 11d
Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 – not backing up all mailboxes
First off make sure you have with SP1 & Hotfix 319699. installed. -Before installing this hotfix, Service Pack 1 must be installed. Service Pack 1 can be obtained here: http://support.veritas.com/docs/317392 Here is the file for the hotfix availble in 32bit and 64 bit versions For 32bit Media Servers: http://support.veritas.com/docs/319932 For x64bit Media Servers: http://support.veritas.com/docs/319939
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| April 23, 2009 1:34 PM
Backup Exec 12.5, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2007 administration, Exchange 2007 backup, Symantec Backup Exec 12.5
First off make sure you have with SP1 & Hotfix 319699. installed. -Before installing this hotfix, Service Pack 1 must be installed. Service Pack 1 can be obtained here: http://support.veritas.com/docs/317392 Here is the file for the hotfix availble in 32bit and 64 bit versions For 32bit Media Servers: http://support.veritas.com/docs/319932 For x64bit Media Servers: http://support.veritas.com/docs/319939
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| April 23, 2009 1:34 PM
Backup Exec 12.5, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2007 administration, Exchange 2007 backup, Symantec Backup Exec 12.5
Fiber Ports on Cisco 2950 24 port switch
Do a NO SHUT on the interface. What does it tell you for the ports when you do a SHOW IP INTERFACE BRIEF? Aside from the above suggestions keep in mind that often I have to invert the fiber pair at one end of the connection making it a cross-over to allow the connection to [...]
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| April 23, 2009 12:56 PM
Cisco 295, Cisco switches, Fiber optic networking, Fiber Ports, Switches
Do a NO SHUT on the interface. What does it tell you for the ports when you do a SHOW IP INTERFACE BRIEF? Aside from the above suggestions keep in mind that often I have to invert the fiber pair at one end of the connection making it a cross-over to allow the connection to [...]
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| April 23, 2009 12:56 PM
Cisco 295, Cisco switches, Fiber optic networking, Fiber Ports, Switches
Is Hyper-V supported and available for Windows HPC?
Hyper-V is currently support on Windows Server 2008 Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter 64-bit editions only. You can run HPC Server in a Hyper-V VM.
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| April 22, 2009 1:30 PM
Hyper-V, Microsoft virtualization, Windows HPC
Hyper-V is currently support on Windows Server 2008 Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter 64-bit editions only. You can run HPC Server in a Hyper-V VM.
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| April 22, 2009 1:30 PM
Hyper-V, Microsoft virtualization, Windows HPC
Windows XP Backup Wizard
I suggest you choosing a different way such as Acronis, Ghost etc.
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| April 21, 2009 1:20 PM
Backup, Windows XP, Windows XP backup, Windows XP Backup Utility, Windows XP Backup Wizard
I suggest you choosing a different way such as Acronis, Ghost etc.
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| April 21, 2009 1:20 PM
Backup, Windows XP, Windows XP backup, Windows XP Backup Utility, Windows XP Backup Wizard
Exchange 2007 TSM GUI
We are using Exchange 2007 TDP for Exchange 5.5.100 works like a charm no /execserver.
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| April 20, 2009 5:00 PM
Backup software, Exchange 2007, Exchange Backup & Restore, Tivoli Storage Manager
We are using Exchange 2007 TDP for Exchange 5.5.100 works like a charm no /execserver.
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| April 20, 2009 5:00 PM
Backup software, Exchange 2007, Exchange Backup & Restore, Tivoli Storage Manager
Hosted archive services
Are you referring to email specifically or file archiving as well? <a href=”http://www.sonian.net/”>Sonian</a> is one hosted email archiving service.
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| April 17, 2009 7:45 PM
Archives, Archiving, Hosted Archive Services, Virtual storage
Are you referring to email specifically or file archiving as well? <a href=”http://www.sonian.net/”>Sonian</a> is one hosted email archiving service.
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| April 17, 2009 7:45 PM
Archives, Archiving, Hosted Archive Services, Virtual storage
What is SAS?
You will find a good explanation in the following article: <a href=”http://www.raid-array.co.uk/sasdiskdrives.html”>SAS Disk Drive Information</a>
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| April 16, 2009 9:13 PM
Disk drives, SAS
You will find a good explanation in the following article: <a href=”http://www.raid-array.co.uk/sasdiskdrives.html”>SAS Disk Drive Information</a>
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| April 16, 2009 9:13 PM
Disk drives, SAS
optimization of stored procedures in sqlserver
The first thing I would do is identify the commands that are taking longer to execute inside the procedure. Once identified, I would have a look at the execution plans of those commands to see if the problem could be the lack of one or more indexes
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| April 16, 2009 2:10 PM
SQL Server stored procedures, Stored Procedures, Stored Procedures Optimization
The first thing I would do is identify the commands that are taking longer to execute inside the procedure. Once identified, I would have a look at the execution plans of those commands to see if the problem could be the lack of one or more indexes
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| April 16, 2009 2:10 PM
SQL Server stored procedures, Stored Procedures, Stored Procedures Optimization
What situations or issues particularly lend themselves to storage blade solutions?
Storage blades provide a level of density that could offer solutions in the a number of scenarios.
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| April 15, 2009 9:00 PM
Microsoft virtualization, Storage Blades
Storage blades provide a level of density that could offer solutions in the a number of scenarios.
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| April 15, 2009 9:00 PM
Microsoft virtualization, Storage Blades
What effect will storage-blade technology have in the future?
Storage Virtualization and Storage Blades is an up and coming area of Virtualization. The use of storage blades will help further consolidate the datacenter, like blade servers did before it.
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| April 15, 2009 8:53 PM
Microsoft virtualization, Storage Blades, Storage virtualization, Virtualized Storage
Storage Virtualization and Storage Blades is an up and coming area of Virtualization. The use of storage blades will help further consolidate the datacenter, like blade servers did before it.
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| April 15, 2009 8:53 PM
Microsoft virtualization, Storage Blades, Storage virtualization, Virtualized Storage
RSTLIB (Restored Object – Change Date & Time
You can not edit system supplied object information. That ability would indicate a failure of the OS integrity.
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| April 13, 2009 6:01 PM
RSTLIB, Tape backup
You can not edit system supplied object information. That ability would indicate a failure of the OS integrity.
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| April 13, 2009 6:01 PM
RSTLIB, Tape backup
Editing boot.ini to start Ghost
Hi I don’t think is possible to do it but you may consider creating a network boot that connects to a Ghost master and loads the image as needed.
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| April 13, 2009 3:06 PM
BOOT.INI, Ghost boot, Ghost image, Norton Ghost, Symantec Ghost
Hi I don’t think is possible to do it but you may consider creating a network boot that connects to a Ghost master and loads the image as needed.
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| April 13, 2009 3:06 PM
BOOT.INI, Ghost boot, Ghost image, Norton Ghost, Symantec Ghost
Exchange 2003 Server out of Disk Space
Go to the mailstore properties, and Click on the Database tab. For the Exchange streaming file, click on browse, and select the other drive to send it to. If this doesn’t work post the error message you get. How much space do you have on each drive? You should set storage limits on all mailboxes [...]
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| April 13, 2009 1:31 PM
Disk quota management, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 administration, Exchange 2003 mailbox management, Exchange 2003 mailbox quotas
Go to the mailstore properties, and Click on the Database tab. For the Exchange streaming file, click on browse, and select the other drive to send it to. If this doesn’t work post the error message you get. How much space do you have on each drive? You should set storage limits on all mailboxes [...]
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| April 13, 2009 1:31 PM
Disk quota management, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 administration, Exchange 2003 mailbox management, Exchange 2003 mailbox quotas
Mount command for backup
Please provide more details. What backup software are you using? What hardware? What model/naufacturer of the tape drive? Why do you want to mount a tape permanently? This is IBM AS400 i series. Backup tape is mounted to extract customer statements for multiple requests.
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| April 11, 2009 10:15 AM
Backup, Mount Command, Tape backup, Tape Drive
Please provide more details. What backup software are you using? What hardware? What model/naufacturer of the tape drive? Why do you want to mount a tape permanently? This is IBM AS400 i series. Backup tape is mounted to extract customer statements for multiple requests.
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| April 11, 2009 10:15 AM
Backup, Mount Command, Tape backup, Tape Drive
design a strategy for implementing various applications in one database
There are many ways to make sure your database is (almost) conflict-free. It doesn’t matter how many applications use the database, it’s more how many transactions are running against it and what are these transactions doing. So to reduce contention in the database you should follow few rules: * Transactions as short as possible * [...]
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| April 10, 2009 4:11 PM
Database, Database administration, Database approach, Database archiving, Database Storage
There are many ways to make sure your database is (almost) conflict-free. It doesn’t matter how many applications use the database, it’s more how many transactions are running against it and what are these transactions doing. So to reduce contention in the database you should follow few rules: * Transactions as short as possible * [...]
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| April 10, 2009 4:11 PM
Database, Database administration, Database approach, Database archiving, Database Storage
VMware ESXi install error on Dell PowerEdge 1950
ESXi doesn’t support as wide a range of hardware as ESX and other OSs. You probably need a different RAID controller that ESXi supports. I’m sure that VMware has a supported hardware list on their site.
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| April 9, 2009 8:52 PM
Dell PowerEdge, Dell Poweredge 1950, RAID 1, VMware, VMware ESXi 3.5, VMware ESXi error messages, VMware ESXi Installation, VMware on Dell PowerEdge
ESXi doesn’t support as wide a range of hardware as ESX and other OSs. You probably need a different RAID controller that ESXi supports. I’m sure that VMware has a supported hardware list on their site.
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| April 9, 2009 8:52 PM
Dell PowerEdge, Dell Poweredge 1950, RAID 1, VMware, VMware ESXi 3.5, VMware ESXi error messages, VMware ESXi Installation, VMware on Dell PowerEdge
SAN Cluster Backup best practices
For our file servers we take clones of the LUNs and keep as many as will fit in the SATA drives that we have on the SAN. For our SQL Servers we back them us using the native SQL Server backup commands to a LUN within the SAN, which we then clone and keep several [...]
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| April 9, 2009 5:26 AM
Cluster Backup, Cluster Management Console, SAN, SAN Backup, SAN-based Clusters
For our file servers we take clones of the LUNs and keep as many as will fit in the SATA drives that we have on the SAN. For our SQL Servers we back them us using the native SQL Server backup commands to a LUN within the SAN, which we then clone and keep several [...]
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| April 9, 2009 5:26 AM
Cluster Backup, Cluster Management Console, SAN, SAN Backup, SAN-based Clusters
