Urgent SAN on Redhat x86_64 problem
have u added the drives to the server, if they were previously added then there is another senario. add the entry into the fstab file. mount those drives and then go to the /etc/fstab.conf file and are u using any one drive as LVM or all the three. First try to mount the devices and [...]
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| November 4, 2008 7:28 AM
FDISK, HBA, Logical Unit Number, LUN, Probe LUNs, Redhat Linux, SAN, Storage Area Network, x86_64
have u added the drives to the server, if they were previously added then there is another senario. add the entry into the fstab file. mount those drives and then go to the /etc/fstab.conf file and are u using any one drive as LVM or all the three. First try to mount the devices and [...]
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| November 4, 2008 7:28 AM
FDISK, HBA, Logical Unit Number, LUN, Probe LUNs, Redhat Linux, SAN, Storage Area Network, x86_64
Another example of “shot gunning”
he very well could be guessing. Unless he did memory bank testing (which would require a host reboot) using something like MemTest86+ or another 3rd party memory testing/validation tool, he wouldn’t necessarily know which dimm went south (outside of BIOS reporting). cheers, Dave Graham
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| November 3, 2008 9:18 PM
Server disk drives, Server maintenance, Shot gunning
he very well could be guessing. Unless he did memory bank testing (which would require a host reboot) using something like MemTest86+ or another 3rd party memory testing/validation tool, he wouldn’t necessarily know which dimm went south (outside of BIOS reporting). cheers, Dave Graham
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| November 3, 2008 9:18 PM
Server disk drives, Server maintenance, Shot gunning
Migration from EVA4000 to EVA8000
What are you trying to move? virtual pools? can you be more specific? I know that EMC offers something called “San Copy” that allows you to make copies of luns from arrays to arrays. I’m pretty sure that HP has some level of either host-based or array-based synchronous or asynchronous replication software that would allow [...]
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| November 3, 2008 9:16 PM
Enterprise Virtual Arrays, HP EVA4000, HP EVA8000, HP StorageWorks EVA
What are you trying to move? virtual pools? can you be more specific? I know that EMC offers something called “San Copy” that allows you to make copies of luns from arrays to arrays. I’m pretty sure that HP has some level of either host-based or array-based synchronous or asynchronous replication software that would allow [...]
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| November 3, 2008 9:16 PM
Enterprise Virtual Arrays, HP EVA4000, HP EVA8000, HP StorageWorks EVA
Hard Drive
Sorry for the delay in getting this answer to you…. There are a variety of tools available to you which can assist in determining whether or not the physical disk drive is bad. First I would determine whether or not the system BIOS (setup) routine actually recognizes the hard drive or not. Go into your [...]
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| November 3, 2008 8:48 PM
Boot failure, Hard drives, Operating System Not Found
Sorry for the delay in getting this answer to you…. There are a variety of tools available to you which can assist in determining whether or not the physical disk drive is bad. First I would determine whether or not the system BIOS (setup) routine actually recognizes the hard drive or not. Go into your [...]
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| November 3, 2008 8:48 PM
Boot failure, Hard drives, Operating System Not Found
What are the know issues with Oracle Flash back recovery area?
- You need to be sure to allocate enough space for the Flash Back recovery area, because if you don’t, this may cause problems. - Enabling flashback imposes an overhead on the database, and this could lead to a performance issue, mainly in write-intensive databases. *********************
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| November 3, 2008 5:08 PM
Oracle administration, Oracle backup, Oracle Flashback
- You need to be sure to allocate enough space for the Flash Back recovery area, because if you don’t, this may cause problems. - Enabling flashback imposes an overhead on the database, and this could lead to a performance issue, mainly in write-intensive databases. *********************
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| November 3, 2008 5:08 PM
Oracle administration, Oracle backup, Oracle Flashback
how do i access the physical hardisk from the virtual machin
I think it will depend on what virtualization software are you using. I think most of the machine virtualization tools have a “shared folders” feature, which you can use to share part of your physical disk between the host and the guest computers. In microsoft virtual pc, the shared folders feature will be available after [...]
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| October 31, 2008 9:00 PM
Partitioning, Physical Hardisk, Virtual Machines
I think it will depend on what virtualization software are you using. I think most of the machine virtualization tools have a “shared folders” feature, which you can use to share part of your physical disk between the host and the guest computers. In microsoft virtual pc, the shared folders feature will be available after [...]
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| October 31, 2008 9:00 PM
Partitioning, Physical Hardisk, Virtual Machines
SMSBATCH for adding tape library
While I have not specifically done this. I have created volume entries on the for tapes. you can reference manual: Z/OSDFSMS Access Method Services for Catalogs – SC26-7394-06 this decribes it in pretty good detail.
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| October 30, 2008 12:40 PM
Batch, SMS, SMSBATCH, Tape libraries
While I have not specifically done this. I have created volume entries on the for tapes. you can reference manual: Z/OSDFSMS Access Method Services for Catalogs – SC26-7394-06 this decribes it in pretty good detail.
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| October 30, 2008 12:40 PM
Batch, SMS, SMSBATCH, Tape libraries
capacity management planning for 30+ servers
How much storage will be needed depends on what you need to store. Storage needs are different from company to company. You might want to take a look at <a href=”http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/capacity-planner.aspx”>Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner 2007</a> which is a pre-deployment capacity planning and post-deployment change analysis solution for Microsoft server products.
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| October 29, 2008 5:56 PM
Capacity planning, Dell Storage, Server management, Storage, Storage management
How much storage will be needed depends on what you need to store. Storage needs are different from company to company. You might want to take a look at <a href=”http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/capacity-planner.aspx”>Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner 2007</a> which is a pre-deployment capacity planning and post-deployment change analysis solution for Microsoft server products.
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| October 29, 2008 5:56 PM
Capacity planning, Dell Storage, Server management, Storage, Storage management
Local email monitoring
There is a great tool for this called archive manager This solution has very powerful abilities for capturing, retrieving and analyzing all e-mail messages that are running through e-mail server. Archive manager supports exchange 2000, 2003 and 2007 as well as Novell GroupWise 6.5.4 and 7.0 Hope this helps! http://www.scriptlogic.com/products/archive-manager
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| October 28, 2008 3:32 PM
Email monitoring, Email replication, Replication
There is a great tool for this called archive manager This solution has very powerful abilities for capturing, retrieving and analyzing all e-mail messages that are running through e-mail server. Archive manager supports exchange 2000, 2003 and 2007 as well as Novell GroupWise 6.5.4 and 7.0 Hope this helps! http://www.scriptlogic.com/products/archive-manager
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| October 28, 2008 3:32 PM
Email monitoring, Email replication, Replication
Backup Deleted elements Exchange 2003
You will need to do a restore from a time before the items were deleted. For more info <a href=”http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=349985″>read this.</a>
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| October 28, 2008 3:14 PM
Backup, Exchange 2003, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore, Exchange Deleted Elements, Exchange Server 2003 Backup, NTBackup, NTBackup.exe
You will need to do a restore from a time before the items were deleted. For more info <a href=”http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=349985″>read this.</a>
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| October 28, 2008 3:14 PM
Backup, Exchange 2003, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore, Exchange Deleted Elements, Exchange Server 2003 Backup, NTBackup, NTBackup.exe
document recovery running terminal server sessions with Windows Server 2003 R2 Sp2
Did they have shadow copy turned on? You could use that. Otherwise, you would have to STOP all access to the server so the file is not over written (in case it was deleted) and then use a file recovery program. There are many out there that should work. If you are not a more [...]
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| October 28, 2008 3:04 PM
Recovery procedures, Remote users, Windows Server 2003
Did they have shadow copy turned on? You could use that. Otherwise, you would have to STOP all access to the server so the file is not over written (in case it was deleted) and then use a file recovery program. There are many out there that should work. If you are not a more [...]
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| October 28, 2008 3:04 PM
Recovery procedures, Remote users, Windows Server 2003
Restricting users to certain programs in Server 2003
I am not sure that I understand your question. Are you saying you want to restrict a user log-on to the ACTUAL server at the console? Are you saying you are using the server like a ‘workstation’ when the individual sits at a keyboard, mouse and monitor hooked directly to the server and logs on? [...]
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| October 28, 2008 2:49 PM
HP ProLiant ML110, User Permissions, Windows Server 2003
I am not sure that I understand your question. Are you saying you want to restrict a user log-on to the ACTUAL server at the console? Are you saying you are using the server like a ‘workstation’ when the individual sits at a keyboard, mouse and monitor hooked directly to the server and logs on? [...]
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| October 28, 2008 2:49 PM
HP ProLiant ML110, User Permissions, Windows Server 2003
Backing up SQL Server 2005 databases to a tape drive
I am sure you know how to change and modify the backup jobs already but the information below will help others that do not. Your issue to get your backup files on tape is a easy one. Create the Maint. Plan that backs up your databases to a central location on your network. Then point [...]
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| October 28, 2008 1:23 PM
Backup, Backup to Tape, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server database
I am sure you know how to change and modify the backup jobs already but the information below will help others that do not. Your issue to get your backup files on tape is a easy one. Create the Maint. Plan that backs up your databases to a central location on your network. Then point [...]
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| October 28, 2008 1:23 PM
Backup, Backup to Tape, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server database
Error message during SQL Server backup
Either you have some sort of network congestion or network latency, or the SQL Server is busy and can not process additional connection requests at that time. Check the CPU and memory counters of the server at the time of the error. You may have a query which is running out of control.
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| October 25, 2008 12:08 AM
SAN, SQL Server, SQL Server backup, SQL Server errors
Either you have some sort of network congestion or network latency, or the SQL Server is busy and can not process additional connection requests at that time. Check the CPU and memory counters of the server at the time of the error. You may have a query which is running out of control.
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| October 25, 2008 12:08 AM
SAN, SQL Server, SQL Server backup, SQL Server errors
What type of Raid to use on Windows Servers and tempdbs?
It all depends on the load your are expecting on the system. You effectively have 6 disks to work with. You need two for a RAID 1 array for Windows and the SQL Server binaries and the page file. You may simply want to do three RAID 1 arrays. One for data files, one for [...]
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| October 25, 2008 12:04 AM
RAID, RAID 1, RAID 10, SQL Server database design and modeling, Windows Server 2003
It all depends on the load your are expecting on the system. You effectively have 6 disks to work with. You need two for a RAID 1 array for Windows and the SQL Server binaries and the page file. You may simply want to do three RAID 1 arrays. One for data files, one for [...]
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| October 25, 2008 12:04 AM
RAID, RAID 1, RAID 10, SQL Server database design and modeling, Windows Server 2003
RGZPFM vs Reusing Deleted Records
If you expect to find the records in the entry order you cannot use Reuse Deleted Unless you use RGZPFM the file will always occupy the space of the largest number of active records RGZPFM requires exclusive access to the file RGZPFM will allow you to change the physical file sequence, which might speed up [...]
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| October 24, 2008 6:01 PM
DASD, REUSEDLT, RGZPFM, Space allocation
If you expect to find the records in the entry order you cannot use Reuse Deleted Unless you use RGZPFM the file will always occupy the space of the largest number of active records RGZPFM requires exclusive access to the file RGZPFM will allow you to change the physical file sequence, which might speed up [...]
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| October 24, 2008 6:01 PM
DASD, REUSEDLT, RGZPFM, Space allocation
Active Directory and Network security management
Try using a Virtual machine for the OS/application that needs this level of access. Another mechanism could be Citrix or Terminal server. You can look at some of these resources also for suggestions: <a href=”http://www.threatcode.com/”>non-UAC or LUA application hall of shame</a> <a href=”http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/default.aspx”>LUA – NonAdmin blog by Microsoft MVP</a> There are utilities/software out there that [...]
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| October 24, 2008 3:36 AM
Active Directory, Active Directory Backup and Restore, Backup, Network security, Network Security Management, Security, Windows
Try using a Virtual machine for the OS/application that needs this level of access. Another mechanism could be Citrix or Terminal server. You can look at some of these resources also for suggestions: <a href=”http://www.threatcode.com/”>non-UAC or LUA application hall of shame</a> <a href=”http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/default.aspx”>LUA – NonAdmin blog by Microsoft MVP</a> There are utilities/software out there that [...]
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| October 24, 2008 3:36 AM
Active Directory, Active Directory Backup and Restore, Backup, Network security, Network Security Management, Security, Windows
Exchange Server recovering sent items for a user with recovery storage group
You are not going to get the deleted items which were deleted before you moved his mailbox to the ex2003 server, no. Those are lost when you move the mailbox.
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| October 23, 2008 7:02 PM
Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 SP2, Exchange Backup & Restore, ExMerge, Recovery Storage Group
You are not going to get the deleted items which were deleted before you moved his mailbox to the ex2003 server, no. Those are lost when you move the mailbox.
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| October 23, 2008 7:02 PM
Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 SP2, Exchange Backup & Restore, ExMerge, Recovery Storage Group
When do I use INIT?
You should use INIT if you are backing up to an existing file or tape, and you wish to wipe out the data which is in the file or on the tape. If you do not want to wipe out this information us in the NOINIT.
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| October 22, 2008 3:35 AM
Backup, INIT, Linux Commands, NOINIT
You should use INIT if you are backing up to an existing file or tape, and you wish to wipe out the data which is in the file or on the tape. If you do not want to wipe out this information us in the NOINIT.
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| October 22, 2008 3:35 AM
Backup, INIT, Linux Commands, NOINIT
How To determine which HD failed in your Server.
Is that a rack mount server, or are the hard drives internal? If it is a rack mount server with front loading drives then one should have green light on it, then other should have a red light on it. The one with the red light is bad. If they are internal you’ll need to [...]
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| October 21, 2008 9:39 PM
Dell Precision 370, Dell servers, Hard drives, Mirroring, RAID 1
Is that a rack mount server, or are the hard drives internal? If it is a rack mount server with front loading drives then one should have green light on it, then other should have a red light on it. The one with the red light is bad. If they are internal you’ll need to [...]
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| October 21, 2008 9:39 PM
Dell Precision 370, Dell servers, Hard drives, Mirroring, RAID 1
