Re: Atlantis
I haven't used it but we did review the product to support our XenApp 6.5 w/ PVS implementation. Their dedupe capabilities and IO efficiencies were definitely very compelling but we opted to invest in FusionIO as an infrastructure wide solution for high IO needs since their ioDrive and ioTurbine solutions will benefit not only our PVS environment but our entire vSphere environment. With that said, I plan on reviewing Alantis on top of FusionIO if/when we start looking into VDI. At a certain capacity, the price per GB is lower than RAM and its easier to achieve greater densities on top of PCIe based flash. In addition you're easily able to show significant cost avoidance by further negating the need for shared storage. It's easy for me to see the cost savings by comparing the cost vs. expanding SSD within our Storage Arrays. - Sean On Mar 20, 2013, at 2:26 PM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Anyone using Atlantis ILIO for delivering VDI (especially the persistent variety)? I've been reading some reviews and stats about this and it looks - well, quite frankly, amazing. The density of VMs and the incredible iOPS that it can apparently achieve make me think there's really no other choice to be made...does anyone have any real-world experiences they'd care to share, as I am naturally cynical? Cheers, -- James Rankin Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: CSG 3.2 and Presenatation 4.5
No doubt. I read the entire article but missed the link the readme. Thanks for the nudge. - Sean On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:05 AM, kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: ** You will need the XenApp PS extensions loaded and the Policies module as well. I think Web's documentation is quite thorough. I normally run it from a XA server but not sure whether its a pre-requisite. Cheers, JR Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY -- *From: *Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com *Date: *Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:50:43 -0800 *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *ReplyTo: *NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *Re: CSG 3.2 and Presenatation 4.5 Forgive the seemingly stupid question, but is this intended to be run from a XenApp server? I was looking for instructions that would highlight how I can run it against our test farm prior to our production farm. - Sean On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: BTW, someone wrote an excellent script to document the XenApp 5 (PS45) Farm. J If you want to leave the customer with a document that will garner you high praise you should use the script. blush ** ** http://carlwebster.com/where-to-get-copies-of-the-documentation-scripts/* *** ** ** http://carlwebster.com/documenting-a-citrix-xenapp-5-farm-with-microsoft-powershell-and-word-version-2/ ** ** Thanks ** ** ** ** Webster ** ** *From:* Greg Sweers [mailto:gswe...@acts360.com] *Sent:* Friday, March 15, 2013 9:47 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: CSG 3.2 and Presenatation 4.5 ** ** Thank you Sir. That is good info. ** ** To get fully up to speed on this, not expert mind you but good enough. What materials would you suggest to read. ** ** *Greg Sweers* CEO *ACTS360.com http://www.acts360.com/*** *P.O. Box 1193* *Brandon, FL 33509* *813-657-0849 Office* *813-644-3479 Cell* *813-644-3476 Fax* ** ** *From:* Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com webs...@carlwebster.com] *Sent:* Friday, March 15, 2013 9:51 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: CSG 3.2 and Presenatation 4.5 ** ** I have LOTS of customers who run CSG internally. Some require that all traffic is encrypted and they also have a Citrix policy that says everyone uses RC5 128-bit ICA Encryption. ** ** I would change IIS to use 444 and upgrade CSG to the latest version 3.3.1 (http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX133095). That is also more than likely the last version of CSG. ** ** I would also make sure you are running Web Interface 5.4.2 since it addresses known security vulnerabilities. http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX130660 This is also the last version of Web Interface. ** ** If this is PS4.5 on Server 2003, just make sure your customer knows that on March 31st, 2013 that any Citrix product on Server 2003 is EOL/EOM/EOS. ** ** I would recommend Hotfix Rollup Pack 7. http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127926 Just make sure you read the prereqs first. ** ** Once you install HRP7, install the following updates: ** ** http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX133359 (security fix) http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX122214 (Access Mgmt Console 4.6.5 install before the next fix) http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX126734 (Delivery Services Console 4.7.2, install after the previous update) ** ** While you are updating stuff to get them all current, I would also upgrade to License Server 11.10 for Windows since it no longer uses IIS. https://www.citrix.com/downloads/licensing/license-server.html You will need to take 1 minute to return your current license file and download a new license file that is formatted for 11.10. This will not affect any currently logged in users. ** ** This should get you all up-to-date for all the dead products your customer is using. ** ** Thanks ** ** ** ** Webster ** ** *From:* Ken Cornetet [mailto:ken.corne...@kimball.comken.corne...@kimball.com] *Sent:* Friday, March 15, 2013 8:04 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: CSG 3.2 and Presenatation 4.5 ** ** Why would you run CSG internally? ** ** I run a Xenapp 5 farm with just a web interface for internal users. External users come through a different CSG/WI box in the DMZ. ** ** *From:* Greg Sweers [mailto:gswe...@acts360.com gswe...@acts360.com] *Sent:* Monday, March 04, 2013 2:41 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* CSG 3.2 and Presenatation 4.5 ** ** We have a client who their internal guy just left and he basically maintained a Citrix Farm on Xenapp 4.5 with CSG 3.2 ** ** They have asked us to take a look and fix a few things. I renewed their SSL cert which is running under their own PKI
Re: Vmware Design for XenApp 6.5 w/PVS
Sorry for the delayed response. Thanks again James, this is fantastic information. I'm doing all I can to disseminate this amongst my team. I'm sure I'll have more follow ups as we start on the low level design and implementation of each technology. - Sean On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:49 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.comwrote: If you're using the Personalization Server feature (and it sounds like you are), you need to be aware that if you lose this area of the environment, not only do you get no customization of user profile, session or any of their applications, you take the risk of overwriting the Personalization data with default data and causing all sorts of problems for your user base. With this in mind, you'll want heavy redundancy on both the SQL backend and in the web services that facilitate communication with the SQL backend. AppSense supports clustering, replication, mirroring and all the other usual SQL redundancy features. You will also probably want to configure some failover in the web services that provide the Management Server site and the Personalization Server site. There are some non-default options within Personalization itself I'd recommend - Offline Resiliency ensures that in the event of a database outage, the client caches Personalization data and resyncs once the database is available. I'd also recommend enabling either the web portal and/or the self-service profile reset features, which again will dictate the sizing of your database depending on how many archives you keep. See this article for a discussion of AppSense database sizing - http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/appsense-management-server-and_13.html There are also a few gotchas around AppSense and PVS I'd want to bear in mind - http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/using-appsense-with-citrix-provisioning.htmland some AV considerations - http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/antivirus-exclusions-for-appsense.html I'd also recommend you seriously consider using the Performance Manager feature of AppSense. It can eke out up to 40% higher user density on XenApp platforms - a serious ROI if ever there was one. On the XenApp side, I think Web has more than adequately covered what you need. I'll back him up on the fact that StoreFront (I dare speak the name) is not really fit for purpose yet. If you need any more advice on the AppSense side of things feel free to shoot me an email offline, although at your current stage I don't think you need do much other than scope for the heavy redundancy in the SQL side of things. Cheers, JR On 28 February 2013 17:29, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: We haven't gone through the low-level design process for each of the deliverables yet, so I am not sure if we're using that feature. Is that a part of the Environment Manager? Our implementation of AppSense is purely for a profile management solution because of the garbage that roaming profiles makes us deal with in our current environment. - Sean On Feb 28, 2013, at 8:03 AM, kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Are you using the AppSense Personalization Server feature? That's going to have a big influence on your requirements if you are. Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY -- *From: *Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com *Date: *Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:58:09 -0900 *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *ReplyTo: *NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *Vmware Design for XenApp 6.5 w/PVS Hello everyone, Let me start first by apologize for the length of this message. In my pursuit of providing all of the relevant information I fully expect for this to be a bit long winded. We're in the final planning stages of a migration from a purely physical XenApp 5 on Windows 2003 environment to a virtualized XenApp 6.5 with Provisioning Services environment on ESXi 5.0. I was hoping I could toss out our initial design and gather some feedback. Our current environment consists of a single farm, two sites, and just under 200 physical servers. That includes the SQL server, data collectors, existing Web Interface servers, licensing server and all of the presentation servers. We currently support 12 application silos. The purpose of each silo varies from application compatibility issues, business unit requirements, performance requirements, etc. At our peak, we support approximately 1400 concurrent sessions. This is the number we've used to design our future environment. The new environment will consist of a dedicated vSphere Cluster for the XenApp servers (using provisioning services). Other supporting services (SQL Server, zone data collectors, licensing server, etc.) will be supported in a general vSphere cluster. Web Interface will be migrated to NetScaler Appliances. We will also be deploying AppSense
Re: Vmware Design for XenApp 6.5 w/PVS
We haven't gone through the low-level design process for each of the deliverables yet, so I am not sure if we're using that feature. Is that a part of the Environment Manager? Our implementation of AppSense is purely for a profile management solution because of the garbage that roaming profiles makes us deal with in our current environment. - Sean On Feb 28, 2013, at 8:03 AM, kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Are you using the AppSense Personalization Server feature? That's going to have a big influence on your requirements if you are. Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY From: Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:58:09 -0900 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Vmware Design for XenApp 6.5 w/PVS Hello everyone, Let me start first by apologize for the length of this message. In my pursuit of providing all of the relevant information I fully expect for this to be a bit long winded. We're in the final planning stages of a migration from a purely physical XenApp 5 on Windows 2003 environment to a virtualized XenApp 6.5 with Provisioning Services environment on ESXi 5.0. I was hoping I could toss out our initial design and gather some feedback. Our current environment consists of a single farm, two sites, and just under 200 physical servers. That includes the SQL server, data collectors, existing Web Interface servers, licensing server and all of the presentation servers. We currently support 12 application silos. The purpose of each silo varies from application compatibility issues, business unit requirements, performance requirements, etc. At our peak, we support approximately 1400 concurrent sessions. This is the number we've used to design our future environment. The new environment will consist of a dedicated vSphere Cluster for the XenApp servers (using provisioning services). Other supporting services (SQL Server, zone data collectors, licensing server, etc.) will be supported in a general vSphere cluster. Web Interface will be migrated to NetScaler Appliances. We will also be deploying AppSense Environment Manager and using AppDNA to validate application compatibility. Anyway, my specific responsibility is to forcast the infrastructure requirements and work directly with our Citrix Admins. I used the following article as the primary reference material for starting our design. We decided to plan conservatively and base our consolidation ratios with a 20 users per guest target. The host config I've decided on are Dell PowerEdge R820s with Quad E5-4640 2.4GHz 8 core procs and 384GB RAM. Using the recommendation of 4vCPUs per guest we can support 16VMs per host which equates to 320 users per host. 5 hosts will allow us to support a peak of 1600 concurrent user sessions. We will purchase 6 hosts to maintain our N+1 cluster design standards. I dediced to bump the RAM per host considerably to allow for increased guest allocation. We support over 200 published applications in our environment, which are distributed amongst physical server silos currently. One of our goals with PVS is to consolidate the applications into as few images as possible si we want to certain we have the hardware resources to support the guests. Each host will include a FusionIO IO Drive to support maximum IO requirements and eliminate IO contention on our SAN during large scale provisioning. All of our hosts leverage infiniband with 80Gbps throughput for ethernet and native FC connectivity. http://blogs.citrix.com/2013/01/07/whats-the-optimal-xenapp-6-5-vm-configuration/?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=Feed%3A+CitrixBlogs+%28Citrix+Blogs%29 So after reading all of that I feel like I'm bragging. However, I have a fundemental concern because even though we are being very conservative and are likely procuring more resources than necessary, I have no reliable means of validating the capabilities of this proposed environment vs. our current workloads. My experience with Vmware tells me that even though the aforementioned article suggests a 4 vCPU per guest configuration, we'll likely start with a single vCPU configuration and do our best at initial scalability testing while keeping an eye on CPU waits. Should we find guests perform optimally with few vCPUs than that will just increase our consolidation ratios. I'm hoping some of you out there with a lot of XenApp experience (Webster, James, etc.:) ) can either point out any major gaps in the initial hardware design or hopefully validate that we're more than likely over provisioning hardware resources. - Sean ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage
Re: Vmware Design for XenApp 6.5 w/PVS
always be local storage but that is not always viable. ** ** Other things: ** ** Do NOT multi-home any XenApp server Do NOT multi-home any PVS server (there is no longer ANY valid reason to segregate management and streaming traffic on a PVS host to different NICs. Doing so causes more problems than you can imagine.) ** ** Make sure you read all of Nick Rintalan’s articles he has on PVS (and any other subject). ** ** http://www.google.com/#hl=ensclient=psy-abq=nick%20rintalan%20citrix%20blogoq=gs_l=pbx=1bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.bvm=bv.43148975,d.aWcfp=632744ecf4f1ca02biw=1920bih=1049pf=ppdl=300 ** ** Thanks ** ** ** ** Webster ** ** *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:58 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Vmware Design for XenApp 6.5 w/PVS ** ** Hello everyone, Let me start first by apologize for the length of this message. In my pursuit of providing all of the relevant information I fully expect for this to be a bit long winded. We're in the final planning stages of a migration from a purely physical XenApp 5 on Windows 2003 environment to a virtualized XenApp 6.5 with Provisioning Services environment on ESXi 5.0. I was hoping I could toss out our initial design and gather some feedback. Our current environment consists of a single farm, two sites, and just under 200 physical servers. That includes the SQL server, data collectors, existing Web Interface servers, licensing server and all of the presentation servers. We currently support 12 application silos. The purpose of each silo varies from application compatibility issues, business unit requirements, performance requirements, etc. At our peak, we support approximately 1400 concurrent sessions. This is the number we've used to design our future environment. The new environment will consist of a dedicated vSphere Cluster for the XenApp servers (using provisioning services). Other supporting services (SQL Server, zone data collectors, licensing server, etc.) will be supported in a general vSphere cluster. Web Interface will be migrated to NetScaler Appliances. We will also be deploying AppSense Environment Manager and using AppDNA to validate application compatibility. Anyway, my specific responsibility is to forcast the infrastructure requirements and work directly with our Citrix Admins. I used the following article as the primary reference material for starting our design. We decided to plan conservatively and base our consolidation ratios with a 20 users per guest target. The host config I've decided on are Dell PowerEdge R820s with Quad E5-4640 2.4GHz 8 core procs and 384GB RAM. Using the recommendation of 4vCPUs per guest we can support 16VMs per host which equates to 320 users per host. 5 hosts will allow us to support a peak of 1600 concurrent user sessions. We will purchase 6 hosts to maintain our N+1 cluster design standards. I dediced to bump the RAM per host considerably to allow for increased guest allocation. We support over 200 published applications in our environment, which are distributed amongst physical server silos currently. One of our goals with PVS is to consolidate the applications into as few images as possible si we want to certain we have the hardware resources to support the guests. Each host will include a FusionIO IO Drive to support maximum IO requirements and eliminate IO contention on our SAN during large scale provisioning. All of our hosts leverage infiniband with 80Gbps throughput for ethernet and native FC connectivity. http://blogs.citrix.com/2013/01/07/whats-the-optimal-xenapp-6-5-vm-configuration/?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=Feed%3A+CitrixBlogs+%28Citrix+Blogs%29 So after reading all of that I feel like I'm bragging. However, I have a fundemental concern because even though we are being very conservative and are likely procuring more resources than necessary, I have no reliable means of validating the capabilities of this proposed environment vs. our current workloads. My experience with Vmware tells me that even though the aforementioned article suggests a 4 vCPU per guest configuration, we'll likely start with a single vCPU configuration and do our best at initial scalability testing while keeping an eye on CPU waits. Should we find guests perform optimally with few vCPUs than that will just increase our consolidation ratios. I'm hoping some of you out there with a lot of XenApp experience (Webster, James, etc.:) ) can either point out any major gaps in the initial hardware design or hopefully validate that we're more than likely over provisioning hardware resources. - Sean ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business
Re: Vmware Design for XenApp 6.5 w/PVS
Ok I think we have touched on that briefly. The AppSense deployment has not been fully vetted and I don't believe there's been a decision yet as to whether or not we will deploy as VMs or on physical hardware. We have not fully adopted virtual SQL servers in our environment so it's likely the DB requirements will be met with a physical server. Even if we decide to virtualize, the guests would reside on a separate cluster from the XenApp servers. - Sean On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:40 AM, kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Its a part of EM, and it is the profile management piece, replacing the profiles with an SQL database. Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY -- *From: *Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com *Date: *Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:29:32 -0900 *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *ReplyTo: *NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *Re: Vmware Design for XenApp 6.5 w/PVS We haven't gone through the low-level design process for each of the deliverables yet, so I am not sure if we're using that feature. Is that a part of the Environment Manager? Our implementation of AppSense is purely for a profile management solution because of the garbage that roaming profiles makes us deal with in our current environment. - Sean On Feb 28, 2013, at 8:03 AM, kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Are you using the AppSense Personalization Server feature? That's going to have a big influence on your requirements if you are. Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY -- *From: *Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com *Date: *Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:58:09 -0900 *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *ReplyTo: *NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *Vmware Design for XenApp 6.5 w/PVS Hello everyone, Let me start first by apologize for the length of this message. In my pursuit of providing all of the relevant information I fully expect for this to be a bit long winded. We're in the final planning stages of a migration from a purely physical XenApp 5 on Windows 2003 environment to a virtualized XenApp 6.5 with Provisioning Services environment on ESXi 5.0. I was hoping I could toss out our initial design and gather some feedback. Our current environment consists of a single farm, two sites, and just under 200 physical servers. That includes the SQL server, data collectors, existing Web Interface servers, licensing server and all of the presentation servers. We currently support 12 application silos. The purpose of each silo varies from application compatibility issues, business unit requirements, performance requirements, etc. At our peak, we support approximately 1400 concurrent sessions. This is the number we've used to design our future environment. The new environment will consist of a dedicated vSphere Cluster for the XenApp servers (using provisioning services). Other supporting services (SQL Server, zone data collectors, licensing server, etc.) will be supported in a general vSphere cluster. Web Interface will be migrated to NetScaler Appliances. We will also be deploying AppSense Environment Manager and using AppDNA to validate application compatibility. Anyway, my specific responsibility is to forcast the infrastructure requirements and work directly with our Citrix Admins. I used the following article as the primary reference material for starting our design. We decided to plan conservatively and base our consolidation ratios with a 20 users per guest target. The host config I've decided on are Dell PowerEdge R820s with Quad E5-4640 2.4GHz 8 core procs and 384GB RAM. Using the recommendation of 4vCPUs per guest we can support 16VMs per host which equates to 320 users per host. 5 hosts will allow us to support a peak of 1600 concurrent user sessions. We will purchase 6 hosts to maintain our N+1 cluster design standards. I dediced to bump the RAM per host considerably to allow for increased guest allocation. We support over 200 published applications in our environment, which are distributed amongst physical server silos currently. One of our goals with PVS is to consolidate the applications into as few images as possible si we want to certain we have the hardware resources to support the guests. Each host will include a FusionIO IO Drive to support maximum IO requirements and eliminate IO contention on our SAN during large scale provisioning. All of our hosts leverage infiniband with 80Gbps throughput for ethernet and native FC connectivity. http://blogs.citrix.com/2013/01/07/whats-the-optimal-xenapp-6-5-vm-configuration/?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=Feed%3A+CitrixBlogs+%28Citrix+Blogs%29 So after reading all of that I feel like I'm bragging. However, I have a fundemental concern
Re: Vmware Design for XenApp 6.5 w/PVS
Internal users all access web interface currently. Remote users connect via Access Gateway with RSA integration. Sounds like moving forward with WI servers will be the easiest to support and give us the most flexibility until we entertain adopting CloudGateway down the road. - Sean On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: Another response from the guy I call Mr. NetScaler and Dr. EdgeSight. He currently manages almost 1,000 NetScalers for his employer so he knows his stuff. This is also the ONLY speaker I am aware of at a Briforum conference that got dinged by attendees because his session was TO technical! ** ** quote You can, is everyone coming in via Remote Access? ** ** I have configured the NS Web Interface for just internal (no ICAPROXY) but it is a little tricky. I am using WI on NS without issue at a few sites but we aren’t doing anything fancy (no smart cards, cert auth, anything like that) ** ** Works fine. ** ** If the traffic is external or if everyone is going to use ICAPROXY than you are fine, otherwise you will need to use WI sites, one for inside and one for ICAPROXY. /quote ** ** Thanks ** ** ** ** Webster ** ** *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, February 28, 2013 12:04 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Vmware Design for XenApp 6.5 w/PVS ** ** Thanks for the info Webster, this is exactly the kind of feedback I was after. It's funny you mention the WI vs. NetScaler argument because we've gone back and forth as well. We currently use an older pair of NetScalers to load balance client connections to our Web Interface servers. We started looking migrating WI to the NetScalers prior to XenApp 6.5 planning and the biggest complaint was the apparent removal of pass thru authentication support. In the end our management liked the idea of using the NetScalers to support the function and reducing our overall Windows Server count. During our High Level Design discussions for XenApp 6.5 we touched back on this topic and that's when discussions of deploying StoreFront started coming up but the engineer assisting with our design recommended either NetScaler or Web Interface. Since this project is not likely to ramp up until May/June, our Citrix Engineer is holding out for the possibility of deploying Cloud Gateway. I asked if Cloud Gateway was not an option which direction he would go and he's now leaning back towards deploying Web Interface servers. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Lync issue - something I don't quite understand...
In addition to what Michael already stated, disable DNS registration on the NIC you don't want registering in DNS. Get used to managing static routes. - Sean On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Having multiple DGs is wrong. There can only be one default. Windows behavior is non-deterministic when you have specified multiple default gateways. Almost certainly, the interior one needs to be eliminated and replaced by either a routing table or a set of manual routes. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 7:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Lync issue - something I don't quite understand... All, We've got a Lync 2010 infrastructure set up, but it's doing one little thing that I'm not liking. The server has two NICs - each in a different subnet. One is in the same subnet as the rest of our servers. The other is in a subnet that sits between our L3 switch and our firewall - it's not a DMZ. I didn't set this up, but I was told that the intention was to set up the second connection in the DMZ at the appropriate time for external access - that hasn't happened yet, and I wasn't involved in the install, and know little to nothing about Lync. The behavior I'm seeing is that I cannot ping the interface that's on the server subnet at all, including from machines on that subnet (I can't RDP to that IP address either). The name of the Lync server resolves to an IP address, and which one you get depends on the state of DNS - you might get back the one for the server subnet, or you might get back the other address. I can ping the other address just fine. So, where I'm going with this is: Both NICs have default gateways assigned, and in my experience, that's a largish mistake - only one interface should have a DG. I suspect this is causing some other problems that we are seeing as well However, the fellow who set this up swears that if I remove the DG from either NIC, Lync will break. So, do any of you here know enough about Lync to say if having only one DG will break it? Thanks, Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Lync issue - something I don't quite understand...
I haven't had any issues using the following syntax: netsh interface ipv4 add route network/bitmask NIC name gateway IP - Sean On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Good idea on the DNS setting on the NIC. Thanks for that. I'll do that for the one with the DG when I switch it to the DMZ. I've managed many static routes (including on UAG 2010), so that's not a problem. But, I've noticed that Win2k8 R2 didn't seem to like it when I added them via netsh - I probably used the wrong incantation for my UAG machine, and ended up using the old route command I know and love. Got a tip for me there? Kurt On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: In addition to what Michael already stated, disable DNS registration on the NIC you don't want registering in DNS. Get used to managing static routes. - Sean On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Having multiple DGs is wrong. There can only be one default. Windows behavior is non-deterministic when you have specified multiple default gateways. Almost certainly, the interior one needs to be eliminated and replaced by either a routing table or a set of manual routes. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 7:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Lync issue - something I don't quite understand... All, We've got a Lync 2010 infrastructure set up, but it's doing one little thing that I'm not liking. The server has two NICs - each in a different subnet. One is in the same subnet as the rest of our servers. The other is in a subnet that sits between our L3 switch and our firewall - it's not a DMZ. I didn't set this up, but I was told that the intention was to set up the second connection in the DMZ at the appropriate time for external access - that hasn't happened yet, and I wasn't involved in the install, and know little to nothing about Lync. The behavior I'm seeing is that I cannot ping the interface that's on the server subnet at all, including from machines on that subnet (I can't RDP to that IP address either). The name of the Lync server resolves to an IP address, and which one you get depends on the state of DNS - you might get back the one for the server subnet, or you might get back the other address. I can ping the other address just fine. So, where I'm going with this is: Both NICs have default gateways assigned, and in my experience, that's a largish mistake - only one interface should have a DG. I suspect this is causing some other problems that we are seeing as well However, the fellow who set this up swears that if I remove the DG from either NIC, Lync will break. So, do any of you here know enough about Lync to say if having only one DG will break it? Thanks, Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Recommended Ultrabooks?
I know it doesn't meet the requirements you listed, but have they looked at the cheap chrome books? I picked up one of the Acer Chrome books for my 11 yr old for $199. I understand there's additional management capabilities they can be purchased for education environments. - Sean On Jan 10, 2013, at 11:29 AM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: I have some requests coming in from teachers and administrators for smaller laptops. I'm curious what the list would recommend. 11-13 (Leaning toward the 11, but there are not many of those.) Can run Windows 7 Pro. Thin and Light. Less than $1000. (The cheaper, the better, really.) I've already looked around at various HPs and Dells, but I'm more interested in real-world experiences. Most teachers/administrators look at this as Laptop vs iPad. Thanks for any suggestions. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB
You should see vmotion run over dual 40Gb infiniband, its pretty slick. - Sean On Dec 6, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Since it's still in the lab, I have 5E here. I have CAT6 cable in the rack where it will go when I finish the migration and testing. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market… On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: And which did you replace it with - a cat5e or cat6 cable? On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Do you know what happens if you don't pay attention and attach a *CAT5* cable to the NIC that you intend to use for Hyper-V Live Migration? Yeah, it operates at 10% of its overall potential. Thankfully, I noticed before moving a really large VM. Sigh. I was wondering what was up with the speed and then my eye caught the CAT5 marking. Off to the printer it goes. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market… On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: I migrated one server live and one that was shutdown from 2012 to 2012. No difference in the operation other than speed. The one that was off was smaller, which I'm sure helped, but it was faster. The one that was up continued to run without me losing more than a few pings. It was sweet. :) Now, I'm upgrading the other server with 6 VMs on it. We'll see how that goes. LOLThe one-by-one migration from 2008-R2 to 2012 was too slow for me. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market… On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:15 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Cool. At home I have a 2008 R2 server running Hyper-V and 2 VM’s on it, think I’ll try the migration tonight myself…. Dave From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 3:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB Well, VM Host #1 just rebooted successfully after the upgrade, and it's looks like all is well. I'm going to practice moving around some VMs using the new Live Migration functionality and see how it plays out. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Providing Expert Technology Consulting Services for the SMB market… On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:23 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: It only needs to host, I already have all those other functions being handled by the guest VM’s. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 12:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB I think it only comes down to what this box needs to do for you? If it requires any other roles (DHCP, WINS, DNS, DC, etc) then Hyper-V server isn't what your looking for. Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.com image001.jpg The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.com From:David Lum david@nwea.org To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:12/05/2012 01:48 PM Subject:RE: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB This makes it look like the free 2008 R2 Hyper-V server supports 1TB: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj647789 It can be argued that if I’m going to change Hyper-V host OS then why not go to 2012. Next question….how nervous should I be about the guests if on the host I go from full 2008 w/ Hyper-V as the host to 2012 Hyper-V (effectively server core). Seems pretty simple on the surface, am I overlooking anything obvious? I guess the fallback would be to reinstall the full 2008 R2 OS, as least protecting the VM’s themselves is pretty straightforward. Time eater, but technically simple. Time for more research. Dave From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 8:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cheapest way to get Hyper-V and 64GB And the Hyper-V version is free. Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.com image001.jpg The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.com From:Mike Hoffman m...@drumbrae.net To:NT System Admin
Re: AppData - to redirect or not to redirect?
Great topic. I definitely subscribe to the avoid redirection if possible practice, but often times it's a difficult sell because of user perception. Implementing redirection can lead to significantly reduced logon times and it is easy for an end user to measure. On the other hand, redirection may cause adverse performance issues but the effect is never constant and there are almost always multiple contributing variables. - Sean On Nov 13, 2012 5:41 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I still see plenty of people using roaming or mandatory profiles along with redirected folders (for Desktop and My Documents mostly). Which basically just means that if they start copying HUGE files onto their Desktop or into the Documents folder, there isn't any lag copying it in and out from the network. I remember that point now about IE Favorites causing traffic spikes once you've mentioned it - I will add that to my list of stuff :-) On 13 November 2012 14:31, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: I usually redirect only My Docs. ** ** If using IE, redirecting Favorites can cause traffic spikes. If using Java apps, redirecting AppData can cause a lot of traffic. ** ** Most places I go to help implement PVS and XenApp use either a published Desktop with one or two apps or they use Web Interface with just a few apps. These places do not publish any Office apps. In these cases, no redirection of anything is necessary. The customer will use some type of mandatory or roaming profile (MS, Citrix, AppSense, etc). ** ** ** ** Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ ** ** *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Subject:* Re: AppData - to redirect or not to redirect? ** ** Totally agree with testing to find out what will be the best solutionI was just wondering whether the real-world experiences of the list were in line with what I'd expect to see. I know that guys like Shawn and Helge (and Aaron Parker too, incidentally, he's another of the anti-AppData crew) should be listened to, but the client I am working for at the moment is arguing the toss with me about this (because their favourite consultants recommended that it should be redirected), and I was curious to see what the general opinion in the community was around it. It would be helpful to me right now if Shawn and Aaron had already done that presentation they were considering about this subject that they mentioned on Twitter :-) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- *James Rankin* Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Wow, who knew?
I was years into my IT career before I was shown you can drag an executable into the Run window and have it populate the file path complete with quotes. Sure makes it easy when having to add switches. - Sean On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:44 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Yeah I actually get that, but I still think it's funny (and fun) to find the little things. Funnier is when some non-tech person (however in my experience it's usually someone exceedingly proficient in some MS Office application), shows you a keyboard shortcut and are surprised that we don't know it. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 8:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wow, who knew? LOL. Being 'senior' is more a matter of attitude and approach than knowing minutae - although sometimes tenure is used as a measure, unfortunately. Kurt On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:30 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Wowgood thing I've already got promoted... -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 7:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wow, who knew? On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:33 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: When full screen RDP’d to a system that gives you the little “tab” at the top where you get minimize, maximize and close buttons, I never knew you could grab and slide that little bar left and right! Very useful when using say, LogMeIn… Yeah, and if you hit the pushpin icon on the left the tab will roll up completely out of the way, too. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Otish Server room disaster.
Wow, I've dealt with heat issues before but always in a scenario when we've been able to react within a couple of hours and avoid massive outages. Sounds like this is one of those unfortunate wake calls that magically releases the funds to build in the appropriate level of monitoring and redundancy. Hopefully you were able to recover most of the systems? - Sean On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: So I come in this morning and things are not well. My first thought is my DNS issues are back from yesterday. But I stay calm and decide to walk the server room first. It is the data center for the whole district. 30 servers, 6509 for all 12 building connects, associated security cameras, video system for the whole district. A lot of gear. Its 125.7 F in the room. Fire Alarm false positive last night at 10:30, that shuts down the HVAC. It is not supposed to shut down the data center but it did. Much of it thermal shut down itself. The first system to blow up was the system to page us when things go bad, no pages. My stuff cooked all night long. We were down most of the day. Sounds like we are getting a second AC with it’s own generator and a separate environment monitoring system that uses cell phone to call and kills the power to the room if the temp climbs. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: solved ... kinda Can't send large attachments
I don't know about IronPort specifically, but its not uncommon for e-mail encryption solutions to enforce a specific size limitation on messages to be encrypted. - Saen On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:07 PM, S Powell powe...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, thank you all, I found one answer, It was the IronPort that was the issue. it was a rule in the Relay settings. now I can send, just not encrypt our large files... sigh... calling cisco now - Sub ubi semper ubi On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Candee can...@gmail.com wrote: Did you restart the Transport service? On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:05 AM, S Powell powe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I'm having issues with sending some very large attached files. the issue is that i'm not sure where the issue really is. I have upped the limit in Exchange 2007 to 30M, Set-TransportConfig -MaxReceiveSize 30MB -MaxSendSize 30MB and there are no limits on the Users mailboxes. On our Ironport I've gone in like this says https://supportforums.cisco.com/message/3594048#3594048 on the iron port SSH in and scanconfig Enter the maximum size of attachment to scan: (set it to the MAX) set the timeout to 60. And on our firewall, Fortigate 60C, Ive set the UTM and the AV filters to 25M I keep getting this:: (on an 8M PDF) exchange-server #550 5.3.4 SMTPSEND.OverAdvertisedSize; message size exceeds fixed maximum size ## --- I can send these files internally fine, i've sent internally up to 15M and I can receive up to 8MB but cannot send that same file out. If you have any thoughts i'd be grateful. thanks - Sub ubi semper ubi ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Spanning disks under server 2003 R2 on a SAN
It's not an EMC limitation... http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01812132lang=encc=ustaskId=101prodSeriesId=3936136prodTypeId=12169 - Sean On Oct 4, 2012, at 6:21 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: That's distressing, I must say. Not only doesn't the unit support LUNs larger than 1.99tb, they don't support Dynamic Disks. I'm loving my Lefthand more and more - I've got a 3tb LUN on it, and have no problems at all. On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I meant to be a tiny bit more helpful. Jump to page 202. - Sean On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have any practical experience but I've always run into compatibility issues when researching support for dynamic disks. I would start with EMC first. A quick google search turns up the following: https://elabnavigator.emc.com/emcpubs/elab/config_guide/windows.pdf - Sean On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: All, I've got an EMC VNXe3100. and a Win2k3 R2 VM as a file server using several 4 LUNs on it for its disks. All of the LUNs currently are set up as Basic disks, not dynamic, but are formatted as GPT. However, one of them has hit the extremely frustrating 1.99tb iSCSI LUN size limit for the VNXe, and I need to expand this disk to accommodate growth. Since I can't span a Basic disk, I'm looking at creating 2x1.99tb LUNs, marking them as Dynamic and formatted as GPT, then spanning them. At that point, I'd copy off the data from the old partition, shuffle drive letters and then delete the old LUN. But, when he heard about it, my manager had a bit of a fit over this, saying that using spanned Dynamic disks was bad juju. I've done some research, and found this article: Best practices for using dynamic disks on Windows Server 2003-based computers http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816307 I don't see any particular problems with this approach - does anyone have contrary advice/experience? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Spanning disks under server 2003 R2 on a SAN
No worries, looking back I think you were perfectly clear. I believe you're running into a SCSI 2 limitation. I'm not sure if its a result of their decision to marry FLARE with DART to support multiple block level protocols on the same array. I'm pretty sure that limitation doesn't exist for LUNs presented via FC. - Sean On Oct 4, 2012, at 7:52 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I guess I wasn't clear... The limitation on the size of the LUN is the thing I'm not happy about. I don't care a bit about Dynamic disks, except insofar as they would help me overcome the 1.99tb limitation on LUNs on the EMC. The Lefthand wasn't crippled with that limitation on LUN size. I don't have experience with any other EMC products, but since they are a market leader, I'll bet that this limitation was a conscious decision on their part, and that their higher end products don't suffer from that limitation. Kurt On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: It's not an EMC limitation... http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01812132lang=encc=ustaskId=101prodSeriesId=3936136prodTypeId=12169 - Sean On Oct 4, 2012, at 6:21 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: That's distressing, I must say. Not only doesn't the unit support LUNs larger than 1.99tb, they don't support Dynamic Disks. I'm loving my Lefthand more and more - I've got a 3tb LUN on it, and have no problems at all. On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I meant to be a tiny bit more helpful. Jump to page 202. - Sean On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have any practical experience but I've always run into compatibility issues when researching support for dynamic disks. I would start with EMC first. A quick google search turns up the following: https://elabnavigator.emc.com/emcpubs/elab/config_guide/windows.pdf - Sean On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: All, I've got an EMC VNXe3100. and a Win2k3 R2 VM as a file server using several 4 LUNs on it for its disks. All of the LUNs currently are set up as Basic disks, not dynamic, but are formatted as GPT. However, one of them has hit the extremely frustrating 1.99tb iSCSI LUN size limit for the VNXe, and I need to expand this disk to accommodate growth. Since I can't span a Basic disk, I'm looking at creating 2x1.99tb LUNs, marking them as Dynamic and formatted as GPT, then spanning them. At that point, I'd copy off the data from the old partition, shuffle drive letters and then delete the old LUN. But, when he heard about it, my manager had a bit of a fit over this, saying that using spanned Dynamic disks was bad juju. I've done some research, and found this article: Best practices for using dynamic disks on Windows Server 2003-based computers http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816307 I don't see any particular problems with this approach - does anyone have contrary advice/experience? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send
Re: Spanning disks under server 2003 R2 on a SAN
EMC is one of those companies everyone loves to hate. I've got a fair amount of experience with their Clariion line, and they were all well performing and reliable arrays. With that said, they were fairly expensive to operate (especially beyond the 3 year mark) and EMC is not afraid to nickel and dime for additional features. That was one of the reasons we chose to go with Compellent when uplifting our storage infrastructure last year. Have you reached to EMC or your partner to find out if removing the current limitation is part of the roadmap for the VNXe? You mentioned this is a VM but not what hypervisor you're using. It sounds like the disks are mapped directly to your VM. If your hypervisor supports it and you can switch to VHDs or VMDKs, have you thought about using extents? - Sean On Oct 4, 2012 8:44 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: As I said, I don't know - but it wasn't revealed when we made the purchase decision. It's a bit ironic, too - the new manager, because of previous experience with some of their bigger units, was all hot to go with EMC, and I didn't see a need to move away from the Lefthand. I haven't pressed him too hard on that. :) Kurt On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: No worries, looking back I think you were perfectly clear. I believe you're running into a SCSI 2 limitation. I'm not sure if its a result of their decision to marry FLARE with DART to support multiple block level protocols on the same array. I'm pretty sure that limitation doesn't exist for LUNs presented via FC. - Sean On Oct 4, 2012, at 7:52 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I guess I wasn't clear... The limitation on the size of the LUN is the thing I'm not happy about. I don't care a bit about Dynamic disks, except insofar as they would help me overcome the 1.99tb limitation on LUNs on the EMC. The Lefthand wasn't crippled with that limitation on LUN size. I don't have experience with any other EMC products, but since they are a market leader, I'll bet that this limitation was a conscious decision on their part, and that their higher end products don't suffer from that limitation. Kurt On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: It's not an EMC limitation... http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01812132lang=encc=ustaskId=101prodSeriesId=3936136prodTypeId=12169 - Sean On Oct 4, 2012, at 6:21 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: That's distressing, I must say. Not only doesn't the unit support LUNs larger than 1.99tb, they don't support Dynamic Disks. I'm loving my Lefthand more and more - I've got a 3tb LUN on it, and have no problems at all. On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I meant to be a tiny bit more helpful. Jump to page 202. - Sean On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have any practical experience but I've always run into compatibility issues when researching support for dynamic disks. I would start with EMC first. A quick google search turns up the following: https://elabnavigator.emc.com/emcpubs/elab/config_guide/windows.pdf - Sean On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: All, I've got an EMC VNXe3100. and a Win2k3 R2 VM as a file server using several 4 LUNs on it for its disks. All of the LUNs currently are set up as Basic disks, not dynamic, but are formatted as GPT. However, one of them has hit the extremely frustrating 1.99tb iSCSI LUN size limit for the VNXe, and I need to expand this disk to accommodate growth. Since I can't span a Basic disk, I'm looking at creating 2x1.99tb LUNs, marking them as Dynamic and formatted as GPT, then spanning them. At that point, I'd copy off the data from the old partition, shuffle drive letters and then delete the old LUN. But, when he heard about it, my manager had a bit of a fit over this, saying that using spanned Dynamic disks was bad juju. I've done some research, and found this article: Best practices for using dynamic disks on Windows Server 2003-based computers http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816307 I don't see any particular problems with this approach - does anyone have contrary advice/experience? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http
Re: Spanning disks under server 2003 R2 on a SAN
I actually just went through a similar process not too long ago. I moved a volume from W2k3 host to a W2k8R2 host that served up user home directories. The volume was presented via fiber channel but the underlying considerations are largely the same. You're spot on about recreating the shares and copying your scripts but that should be about it. The NTFS perms will remain unchanged. A quick search seems to indicate dynamic disks with iscsi is supported in 2k8. On Oct 4, 2012 9:26 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using the MS iSCSI initiator for these disks on our file server, and I just moved the machine over to vCenter on a very new Essentials Plus cluster from an ESX 3.5 standalone machine, and before that it had been P2V'ed from a physical box. I've whined to CDW about the VNXe, but not from a roadmap standpoint. Might be worth it. Backing up and recreating the disks as VMDKs would take too long. What's worse is that we're nearing the limits on our current space - we need to start looking at another tray for the VNXe. I'm wondering if it's reasonable to drop the LUNs from the Win2k3 VM, create a new Win2k8 R2 VM and attach the old LUNs to it. I think all I'd have to do is recreate the shares, recreate the scheduled tasks (along with moving the associate batch files) and take ownership of the disks to run the new SIDs down the directory trees. We've already pretty much moved our print queues to a separate machine, so wouldn't have to worry about that. If dynamic disks are supported under Win2k8 R2, that would be pretty straightforward. Kurt On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: EMC is one of those companies everyone loves to hate. I've got a fair amount of experience with their Clariion line, and they were all well performing and reliable arrays. With that said, they were fairly expensive to operate (especially beyond the 3 year mark) and EMC is not afraid to nickel and dime for additional features. That was one of the reasons we chose to go with Compellent when uplifting our storage infrastructure last year. Have you reached to EMC or your partner to find out if removing the current limitation is part of the roadmap for the VNXe? You mentioned this is a VM but not what hypervisor you're using. It sounds like the disks are mapped directly to your VM. If your hypervisor supports it and you can switch to VHDs or VMDKs, have you thought about using extents? - Sean On Oct 4, 2012 8:44 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: As I said, I don't know - but it wasn't revealed when we made the purchase decision. It's a bit ironic, too - the new manager, because of previous experience with some of their bigger units, was all hot to go with EMC, and I didn't see a need to move away from the Lefthand. I haven't pressed him too hard on that. :) Kurt On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: No worries, looking back I think you were perfectly clear. I believe you're running into a SCSI 2 limitation. I'm not sure if its a result of their decision to marry FLARE with DART to support multiple block level protocols on the same array. I'm pretty sure that limitation doesn't exist for LUNs presented via FC. - Sean On Oct 4, 2012, at 7:52 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I guess I wasn't clear... The limitation on the size of the LUN is the thing I'm not happy about. I don't care a bit about Dynamic disks, except insofar as they would help me overcome the 1.99tb limitation on LUNs on the EMC. The Lefthand wasn't crippled with that limitation on LUN size. I don't have experience with any other EMC products, but since they are a market leader, I'll bet that this limitation was a conscious decision on their part, and that their higher end products don't suffer from that limitation. Kurt On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: It's not an EMC limitation... http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01812132lang=encc=ustaskId=101prodSeriesId=3936136prodTypeId=12169 - Sean On Oct 4, 2012, at 6:21 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: That's distressing, I must say. Not only doesn't the unit support LUNs larger than 1.99tb, they don't support Dynamic Disks. I'm loving my Lefthand more and more - I've got a 3tb LUN on it, and have no problems at all. On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I meant to be a tiny bit more helpful. Jump to page 202. - Sean On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have any practical experience but I've always run into compatibility issues when researching support for dynamic disks. I would
RE: Why is it, in Notepad...
Ashamed to admit I didn't know that. Thanks for the tip! On Oct 4, 2012 9:49 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: View - Status Bar gives you the current line number in Notepad. You can use Ctrl+G to go to a specific line. ** ** Cheers Ken ** ** *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, 4 October 2012 7:35 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Why is it, in Notepad... ** ** Legacy stuff I guess. Who uses Notepad instead of Notepad++? Even hard-core scripters can't ignore the addition of line numbers, etc. :-)*** * On 3 October 2012 22:23, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: …word wrap is under the FORMAT menu and not the VIEW menu? *David Lum* Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: vSentry
Looks pretty compelling. I'd be interested in hearing about your experience when/if you're allowed to share... - Sean On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: This is the security software I have been testing under NDA. Looks like they are now going public with the info. ** ** http://www.bromium.com/ ** ** Thanks ** ** ** ** Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: vSentry
So I shared your e-mail with some of my co-workers, and here are some the responses I got... Thanks bromium Come at me bromium! I sense an oncoming bromancium Have you seen Bromancing the Stone? It's nice to know I work with such professionals. :) - Sean On Sep 19, 2012, at 11:42 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: It was fast and 100% effective at what I threw at it. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: vSentry Looks pretty compelling. I'd be interested in hearing about your experience when/if you're allowed to share... - Sean On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: This is the security software I have been testing under NDA. Looks like they are now going public with the info. http://www.bromium.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Something for the thin client crowd...
So its like a tablet you can't take anywhere? - Sean On Sep 12, 2012, at 2:33 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: 22 Android http://www.viewsonic.com/products/vsd220.htm ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: I don't see any problems with this
And SkyNet is born... - Sean On Sep 11, 2012, at 8:47 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Do you? Kurt http://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2012/09/get-ready-computers-worldwide-automatically-smother-cyber-strikes/57977/ By Aliya Sternstein Nextgov September 10, 2012 The federal government is strategizing to build a virtual community that would prompt computers worldwide to instantly, en mass, suppress cyberattacks, sometimes without humans at the keyboard. The so-called cyber ecosystem would take “collective action” to galvanize cooperation among networks, external devices, and consumers, the Obama administration announced today. “Computer systems, devices, applications and users will automatically work together in near real time to anticipate and prevent cyberattacks, automatically respond to attacks while continuing normal operations, evolve to address new threats, limit the spread of attacks across participating devices,” as well as share timely security information, a government research solicitation stated. The Homeland Security Department and National Institute of Standards and Technology are seeking public input on the potential benefits and challenges of the approach before forging ahead with construction. [...] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: VMware drops vRAM pricing
There was definitely some comments but I think they were mostly drowned by the 19,000+ vFaithful cheering. - Sean On Aug 28, 2012 6:58 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: That's how democracy died, right? Seriously, I'd be heckling and saying something to the effect of, 'bout time! On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.comwrote: Now its official and the announcement received a standing ovation at VMWorld. - Sean On Aug 28, 2012, at 7:24 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: Discussed last week... :-) On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Don Kuhlman drkuhl...@yahoo.comwrote: Just saw this announcment from VMware re their vRAM pricing being dropped in vSphere 5.1 http://www.cio.com/article/714918/VMware_Kills_vRAM_Pricing_With_vSphere_5.1?source=CIONLE_nlt_network_2012-08-28 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Death of the Desktops?
Seems like a lot of resonses are based off the individual's interpretation of what they mean by stating desktops are going away. Some are inferring this means the adoption of tablets, or some other device without the typical HID (read: non-touch screen). Others seem to infer they're pointing at VDI as the replacement of desktops and then arguing that VDI still involves a device of sometype which may equate to a desktop. I ask, who are they and what is their definition of desktop? - Sean On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: These initiatives, death of the desktop, cloud, BYOD, etc., etc. are just vendors trying to find new ways to make money. For desktops, in this case, the margins are so slim now, no one is making any money. Look at what Dell is doing with the acquisition of Quest. They have long been a hardware company but are trying hard to move into software, where actual money can be made. -Original Message- From: Ben M. Schorr [mailto:b...@rolandschorr.com] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 2:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Death of the Desktops? I agree with Greg. I think there's always (at least for the foreseeable future) going to be a role for desktop machines though I think SOME desktop clients are going to be replaced with docked mobile devices. It may be that 10 years from now most of us are using some sort of tablet that, as Greg suggests, slips into a docking station with a real keyboard and large monitor(s). Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer __ Roland Schorr Tower www.rolandschorr.com -Original Message- From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 11:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Death of the Desktops? The desktop isn’t going anywhere really, it's just evolving. What will probably fade out (except for high-end needs) is the dedicated non-mobile desktop pc. I can easily see were your tablet\phone\whatever has enough processing and graphic power to be sitting in a dock in the office, with full keyboard and mouse support, and then is lifted out and taken with you on the go. There will always be room for the places that have users that do not need this (Call centers, retail, etc) so it never will truly die out. -Greg -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 10:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Death of the Desktops? Spreadsheets creation and data entry, page layout, photo processing, writing, presentation creation - those and more are far more difficult on anything without a keyboard and mouse. Kurt On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Can you imagine writing technical documents or doing CAD on a tablet? Sure the percentages may change, but the desktop will not go away anytime soon. It might run on a thin client, but there's still a place for a desktop - even if virtual. Pundits have been predicting things like the death of Citrix and the year of the Linux desktop for a long while. I haven't noticed either of them happening. YMMV, IMO, etc. ---Blackberried From: Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:40:41 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Death of the Desktops? There are a number of pundits pushing the notion that desktop computing is facing certain death, and especially for desktop computers as we've known them up to now. Indeed, there are more portable offerings available than desktop machine options, but with a higher price/performance/feature ratio. I'm not sure I buy it, especially for many business environments where access to legacy apps is critical. But it does give me something to consider as we face our annual equipment refresh cycle. What are your thoughts? Roger Wright ___ If I could choose any way to destroy the world, I'd delete Google. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
Re: SPF record question
As bad as Yahoo can be to deal with, its surprisingly easy to get whitelisted if you're associated with any type of bulk mailing activities. They also recommend DKIM as well. - Sean On Jul 18, 2012, at 8:39 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.org wrote: Yahoo mail has been bouncing our messages lately. (Perhaps recent events have them being extra cautious?) It's either because we have a SoftFail (and clients have the option to reject SoftFail records), or we are lacking a piece in our record. (I will make that change once I get additional info from our webhost.) Do they give a DSN code that implies SPF, or is it just a generic rejection message? (Note that Exchange is really bad about reporting the details of an SMTP transaction. You may need to crank up SMTP logging to find out what the other end is trying to tell you.) It could also be that Yahoo's rejecting mail for some other random reason. They're good at that. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Way OT: some of you might be interested in this kind of thing
Our customer service center has a couple of these. They seem to get used fairly frequently. - Sean On Jun 20, 2012, at 8:29 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: It really is work related... http://store.steelcase.com/products/walkstation/ I know I wouldn't mind having one for my workstation... Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Re-cabling
We're building a new Data Center and decided to introduce a couple of Xsigo VP780 Directors for IO aggregation and to maximize on network and fiber channel bandwidth. We're also retrofitting our existing Data Center with them for the build out of our virtualization environment (yes, we're way behind the times in regards to virtualization) and to retrofit our large blade/chassis infrastructure with infiniband switches (currently using pass-thru modules for ethernet and fiber channel). I've been very impressed with how easy it is to allocate vnics and vhbas to ESXi hosts but the biggest reward was reducing the mass cables from our rack mount servers and chassis'. - Sean On Jun 20, 2012, at 8:26 AM, Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org wrote: That's a great idea about the patch panel for each rack. Agreed about the labeling. I label everything here. My team is lucky I don't stamp their foreheads with name tags. Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com 6/20/2012 11:59 AM The labeling I agree is far more important. Get a good label printer that’s designed for cable labeling. Rather than pulling cable all the way down in to the racks, you might want to think about putting a 24 or 48 port panel in the top (back) of each rack and then running short patch cables from there. Then on the other end you can cross connect to the switch or whatever. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 10:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Re-cabling As we have a redundant switched network our network team uses color coding religiously. Off the top of my head it's something like: Blue for primary network, green for the secondary (for the teamed networks) Orange for backup Red for rILO They also label all connections, both ends. They are not so concerned with what the system name is, as switch/port it is connected to. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org wrote: What are your preferences? Cable color by rack, system, type, etc? It's just aesthetics but I'm looking for ideas. If you want it to look pretty, use the same color for each rack/switch. Otherwise that's more confusing than helpful. Categorizing by VLAN or type of traffic makes some sense. E.g., yellow is DMZ, blue is main LAN, green is SAN, etc. Using a rainbow spread to each rack makes some sense. Makes it easier to tell cables apart when you're hunting for or tracing a particular cable. There are some standards for cable sheath color coding, but the ones I'm aware of are all facility-wide in scope. Most of your in-datacenter cabling would be the same color under such schemes. So I wouldn't call those helpful for this. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe
Re: Cisco VLAN Questions
Sorry this won't be of much help in regards to your question because I'm not much of a network guy. However, I've heard several times over the years that it's considered practice to shutdown vlan 1 for security reasons. - Sean On Apr 12, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Mike Gill lis...@canbyfoursquare.com wrote: Getting into VLAN's here. Would like some direction. I have a campus of several buildings connected back to an office building with cat5. Each building has a switch providing network access to PC's, printers, appliances, etc. Currently all the switches in use are unmanaged. The goal is to allow guest wireless access to the internet, and deny any access to the staff network from the guest network in these buildings. What I have at my disposal: 1) Cisco (2) 2900XL (5) 2950 switches (in a test setup on my desk) 2) Access points that can be configured to use unique VLAN's for primary and guest SSID's I'm reading a lot of documentation but struggling to find the practical application in what I'm trying to do. I'm not experienced with Cisco at all, but am comfortable on the command line. I've reset the switches to default settings and assigned Vlan1 an ip I can get to via telnet and the Cisco Network Assistant. These are old switches I know. I'm pondering upgrading our network to gigabit, and if I do, the HP gear looks a lot better priced than Cisco. If in spite of the upgrade costs anyone thinks I would be better off to do that I would like to hear it. I need 48 ports in the office, three buildings with 16 ports and two with 8 ports. -- Mike ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: list delays
My real name doesn't really have a 14 in it... - Sean On Mar 14, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: That is boring, though ---Blackberried From: Cynicalgeek cynicalg...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:05:18 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: list delays You guys and gals are awesome. BEGIN SIG Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Maecenas porttitor congue massa. Fusce posuere, magna sed pulvinar ultricies, purus lectus malesuada libero, sit amet commodo magna eros quis urna. Nunc viverra imperdiet enim. Fusce est. Vivamus a tellus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Proin pharetra nonummy pede. Mauris et orci. Aenean nec lorem. In porttitor. Donec laoreet nonummy augue. Suspendisse dui purus, scelerisque at, vulputate vitae, pretium mattis, nunc. Mauris eget neque at sem venenatis eleifend. Ut nonummy. Fusce aliquet pede non pede. Suspendisse dapibus lorem pellentesque magna. Integer nulla. Donec blandit feugiat ligula. Donec hendrerit, felis et imperdiet euismod, purus ipsum pretium metus, in lacinia nulla nisl eget sapien. Donec ut est in lectus consequat consequat. Etiam eget dui. Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed at lorem in nunc porta tristique. Proin nec augue. Quisque aliquam tempor magna. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Nunc ac magna. Maecenas odio dolor, vulputate vel, auctor ac, accumsan id, felis. Pellentesque cursus sagittis felis. Pellentesque porttitor, velit lacinia egestas auctor, diam eros tempus arcu, nec vulputate augue magna vel risus. Cras non magna vel ante adipiscing rhoncus. Vivamus a mi. Morbi neque. Aliquam erat volutpat. Integer ultrices lobortis eros. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Proin semper, ante vitae sollicitudin posuere, metus quam iaculis nibh, vitae scelerisque nunc massa eget pede. Sed velit urna, interdum vel, ultricies vel, faucibus at, quam. Donec elit est, consectetuer eget, consequat quis, tempus quis, wisi. In in nunc. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos hymenaeos. Donec ullamcorper fringilla eros. Fusce in sapien eu purus dapibus commodo. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Cras faucibus condimentum odio. Sed ac ligula. Aliquam at eros. Etiam at ligula et tellus ullamcorper ultrices. In fermentum, lorem non cursus porttitor, diam urna accumsan lacus, sed interdum wisi nibh nec nisl. Ut tincidunt volutpat urna. Mauris eleifend nulla eget mauris. Sed cursus quam id felis. Curabitur posuere quam vel nibh. Cras dapibus dapibus nisl. Vestibulum quis dolor a felis congue vehicula. Maecenas pede purus, tristique ac, tempus eget, egestas quis, mauris. Curabitur non eros. Nullam hendrerit bibendum justo. Fusce iaculis, est quis lacinia pretium, pede metus molestie lacus, at gravida wisi ante at libero. Quisque ornare placerat risus. Ut molestie magna at mi. Integer aliquet mauris et nibh. Ut mattis ligula posuere velit. Nunc sagittis. Curabitur varius fringilla nisl. Duis pretium mi euismod erat. Maecenas id augue. Nam vulputate. Duis a quam non neque lobortis malesuada. Praesent euismod. Donec nulla augue, venenatis scelerisque, dapibus a, consequat at, leo. Pellentesque libero lectus, tristique ac, consectetuer sit amet, imperdiet ut, justo. Sed aliquam odio vitae tortor. Proin hendrerit tempus arcu. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Suspendisse potenti. Vivamus vitae massa adipiscing est lacinia sodales. Donec metus massa, mollis vel, tempus placerat, vestibulum condimentum, ligula. Nunc lacus metus, posuere eget, lacinia eu, varius quis, libero. Aliquam nonummy adipiscing augue. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Maecenas porttitor congue massa. Fusce posuere, magna sed pulvinar ultricies, purus lectus malesuada libero, sit amet commodo magna eros quis urna. Nunc viverra imperdiet enim. Fusce est. Vivamus a tellus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Proin pharetra nonummy pede. Mauris et orci. Aenean nec lorem. In porttitor. Donec laoreet nonummy augue. Suspendisse dui purus, scelerisque at, vulputate vitae, pretium mattis, nunc. Mauris eget neque at sem venenatis eleifend. Ut nonummy. Fusce aliquet pede non pede. Suspendisse dapibus lorem pellentesque magna. Integer nulla. Donec blandit feugiat ligula. Donec hendrerit, felis et imperdiet euismod, purus ipsum pretium metus, in lacinia nulla nisl eget sapien. Donec ut est in lectus consequat consequat. Etiam eget dui. Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed at lorem in nunc porta
Re: New to virtualization
I would expect that from any SAN hardware vendor. - Sean On Mar 13, 2012, at 10:07 AM, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote: “NetApp makes good SANs, and their support is great! (A drive starts to go bad, and you get an email from support asking where to ship it to, etc. Sometimes that is the first and perhaps only indication something is going wrong.)” That is GREAT to hear, thx From: Richard McClary [mailto:richard.mccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: New to virtualization I’m really just getting started here myself, but… VM NICs connect to real ESX NICs, and you will need some ESX NICs for redundancy, for management, for a possible DMZ in the future, etc. Oh yeah – the ESX hosts need NICs for the iSCSI connection to the datastore. Figure on getting some dedicated network switches as well and work out some subnetting (so the management, kernel, and other connections are not a part of your main LAN). NetApp makes good SANs, and their support is great! (A drive starts to go bad, and you get an email from support asking where to ship it to, etc. Sometimes that is the first and perhaps only indication something is going wrong.) From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: New to virtualization Hi all, I am starting to investigate moving our aging network infrastructure into the virtual world. ~ 10 servers, 6-7 years old Windows 2003 domain Exchange 2003 Citrix 4.0 farm ~190 users After some initial discussions w/ a reseller, here’s what they are recommending: (3) DL 380 G7 servers (to host the VMs) ~$18,000 (1) Net App FAS2240 (this is the SAN that would host 12 600GB drives of storage for the VMs) ~$20,000 VMWare essentials plus kit (VMware software) ~$5200 (3) MS Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise (this would allow the 3 HP servers to run 4 Windows 2008 VMs each) I guess the way it would work is that the VMs would reside on the SAN, and the 3 hosts would call up the SAN to load each VM utilizing the host’s CPU, RAM, NIC, etc.)… right? I have meetings scheduled w/ 2 other vendors, but verbally both have started the conversation along the same path as above. Being very new to VM, does the above scenario seem to make sense? It is hard for me to imagine all that traffic going between the SAN and the host servers w/o creating a huge bottleneck (over gig Ethernet) Do people recommend virtualizing every server? Domain controllers? Exchange? Citrix farm (4 server)? Shouldn’t something be left physical? Is 7 TB of storage enough (probably only 3 usable after array config)? Is the net app a decent appliance? $20k sounds cheap to me… I have done a little more reading, and from what I understand w/ 3 Windows Enterprise licenses, I would be limiting myself to 12 VMs. However, if I went w/ 3 Windows Datacenter licenses, for a small increase in price - I would get unlimited VMs? Which would allow for actually having a testing environment, and better patch deployment? Thx . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T
Re: KVM over IP
We're a Dell shop as well, with a standard for Blade servers, but we still outfit each rack with an IP KVM. DRACs, CMCs, iKVMs, etc. all fail. A certain level of redundancy that saves someone an unecessary drive to the office can be very valuable. - Sean On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Heaton, Joseph@DFG jhea...@dfg.ca.govwrote: We use DRACs here on all our Dell servers. Order them installed. But we’re fully a Dell shop here. ** ** Joe Heaton ITB – Windows Server Support ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Tuesday, March 06, 2012 5:44 AM *To:* Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: KVM over IP ** ** Yeah Dell called ‘em DRAC cards and I also see you can buy add-in cards that serve the same function. ** ** The the LanTronix Spider looks like a winner, everything else I was finding started at $350 and up.. ** ** *From:* cynicalg...@gmail.com [mailto:cynicalg...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, March 05, 2012 6:25 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Cc:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: KVM over IP ** ** I'm buying my next motherboard with it built into the board itself. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 5, 2012, at 5:44 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Do you guys have a preferred low-ish dollar KVM over IP solution? It’s something I wouldn’t need very often but would be one of those “when I need it, I need it” things, mainly to get into and past BIOS screens. You know, use them 2x/year but each time saves me about an hour of time. *David Lum* Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: KVM over IP
You're right. It's missing the -IP in the model number. Unfortunately, those 3 little characters appear to double the price. I know we don't pay anywhere near that from our local reseller on the 17in models. http://www.tripplite.com/en/products/model.cfm?txtSeriesID=763txtModelID=4207 - Sean On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: From a very quick glance at that unit, I don't think that supports a remote IP connection... On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 14:59, Jimmy Tran jt...@teachtci.com wrote: I use this: http://www.tripplite.com/en/products/model.cfm?txtSeriesID=763txtModelID=3132 works pretty well. Not sure if its considered low price. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 2:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: KVM over IP Do you guys have a preferred low-ish dollar KVM over IP solution? It’s something I wouldn’t need very often but would be one of those “when I need it, I need it” things, mainly to get into and past BIOS screens. You know, use them 2x/year but each time saves me about an hour of time. David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: An observation on moving users to new machines
On 2/10/12, Terry Dickson te...@treasurer.state.ks.us wrote: You know that in Office 2010 .NK2 files are no more? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Storage Feature Matrix
After all of repsonses to the EMC Limitations thread I was looking forward to some responses on this. What features or capabilities would you include? To be fair, this list was comprised after initial assumptions based on the tier of solutions we were looking at (ex: LUNs larger than 2TB were supported on all platforms). I'd like to see what other requirements people come up with, if you're willing to share. - Sean On 2/8/12, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Ok folks, Here's a compiled list of features and capabilities in no particular order. Some of these references may be specific to a certain brand but it allowed us to match capabilities between solutions where the only difference was what they called it. Sub LUN Tiering Staged cache iSCSI support Storage Virtualization technology One-to-one Replication VAAI Support Vcenter integration Advanced Reporting Engine Local Parts depot (this is an important question for those of us in Alaska) Snapshot support One-to-Many Replication Synchronous replication Encypted Data Presentation SAS II Support FC Support FCoE Support AIX support Large Cache Support MSSQL VSS SharePoint VSS Exchange VSS Simple Management Interface Red Hat Linux MPIO Support Deduplication HW generation upgrades Non-Volatile Cache Vmware MPIO (DSM) SRM support (SRA) NTFS Thin provisioned reclamation VMWare Snapshot integration Boot from SAN Integration Citrix Xen Server Storage Link Support 64-bit OS Compression NAS Support Self-Encrypting Disk Centralized Agent/MPIO support Oracle integration VMware Storage Resource Management Tools OS integration with VMware Snapshot and Replication Management SRM Failback support Metro/Stretch/Geo Clustering QOS VASA Support Windows Integration High Density DAE's Replicator incremental attach VAAI support for NFS VAAI block enhancements High bandwidth offering 2.5 drive support ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: EMC limitations?
Now I'm beginning to worry what the expectations are. The template is just an excel spreadsheet with a list of features and capabilities with fields for indicating whether or not the feature is currently supported or in their roadmap and a field for further explanation. Rather than trying to distribute a document to everyone, I'll just post the complete list of features to the list when I get into the office this morning. It'll give folks an opportunity to add anything not listed and then everyone will have a detailed matrix to work from and will be forced to prioritize the features for their own needs. The 2-3 folks that have already received the template are free to copy the list as I'm still about an hour from arriving at the office. - Sean On Feb 8, 2012, at 4:14 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, as I'd like a copy as well. :-) On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Kevin Lundy klu...@gmail.com wrote: It's beginning to look like DropBox or Google Docs might be in order for the template :) On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Jonathan ncm...@gmail.com wrote: Me four please! I'd love to see that template. Thanks! Jonathan On Feb 8, 2012 2:00 AM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Understood. Out of curiousity, did you look into any other solutions other than VNX and LeftHand? And, to respond to your comment about never outgrowing the unit, expect the unexpected. I never thought we would outgrow the capabilities of the two CX700s arrays we implemented in our first SAN solution. Six years later I'm retiring both of those, two Celerra NAS gateways and a CX4-960. All the while deploying six new Compellent arrays, 3 EqualLogics with FS7500 NAS Heads and working on a recommendation for a purpose built Tier 1 solution. - Sean On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: No offense taken, and none meant on my part either - just some disagreement spiced a bit too heavily with the frustration. I do understand that caveat emptor applies, and that it would have been better if we'd done more research, but that bit of misdirection on their part was just a bit rich... Kurt On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 22:30, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I certainly didn't mean to offend you nor do I blame you for being frustrated. It's just that companies aren't going to list their lack of functionality for all to see. What you're running into is not necessarily an issue, but rather a limitation. Now a good reseller would have done a better job of trying to identify your requirements and then used those to pitch a higher-end solution (if justified). I'm assuming Lyris won't allow attachments so I'm forwarding the template to those that expressed interest individually. - Sean On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 18:10, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Well this is one of those scenarios where I think the customer needs to take responsibility. A good practice to get into is the creation of technical requirement matrices and business requirement matrices. It helps you put on paper what capabilities you need in a solution and gives the vendor a uniform method of informing you of the strengths and weaknesses of their platform. We typically tier our requirements into 3 categories that allows us to weigh the importance of features. For example, a tier 1 requirement might be that the solution support fiber channel or iscsi where a tier 2 or 3 requirement might be support for sub-lun tiering or a 64bit OS to leverage larger cache. This is EMC for crying out loud - arguably the leader in the field, and it's a software issue. We're not talking about going with lesser hardware, which can steeply influence the costs. As well, I was given to understand that this is a relatively new line for them. They have the software in hand, and my 4 year old Lefthands don't have this limitation. I do place this 99% on them (split in some fashion between EMC and the reseller). I'll hand the 1% to my manager, who had used them before, doesn't like the Lefthands, and trusted the reseller rep he's worked with at his prior company. I was given no say in the matter - I suggested another LH unit. It may be too little too late but I'd be happy to share the template we used for our last storage purchase. That might actually be a nice thing - we might not technically outgrow the unit, as it can stack a huge number of disks, but I don't see us doing a whole lot more with it, given that limitation, and the other that raised my dander. - Sean On Feb 7, 2012, at 4:29 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: If true, it would have been nice of them to disclose that before purchase, methinks... Kurt On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 17:04, Sean Martin seanmarti
Re: EMC limitations?
It certainly isn't limited to EMC. The FUD that storage vendors will throw around can be quite comical at times. On 2/8/12, Paul Hutchings paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk wrote: I can't think of too many sectors that seem to have such a mix of lies, damned lies, and statistics as the storage industry. From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: 08 February 2012 14:43 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: EMC limitations? We're still going through a storage upgrade migration. The things that frustrated me the most were: - Each company uses metrics on their spec pages that most favorably portray their product. It takes time and effort to sort through the bull and get down to the facts. - It's difficult as heck (especially from EMC, not quite so much with NetApp) to get an evaluation unit so you can run your own benchmarks. - When you're running a mixed environment of Windows and UNIX, each company will tell you it will work but you'll always be surprised (especially when you can't get an evaluation unit). Incidentally, EMC lost a sale to us because they wouldn't provide an eval. -Paul From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com]mailto:[mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 12:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: EMC limitations? I certainly didn't mean to offend you nor do I blame you for being frustrated. It's just that companies aren't going to list their lack of functionality for all to see. What you're running into is not necessarily an issue, but rather a limitation. Now a good reseller would have done a better job of trying to identify your requirements and then used those to pitch a higher-end solution (if justified). I'm assuming Lyris won't allow attachments so I'm forwarding the template to those that expressed interest individually. - Sean On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.commailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 18:10, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.commailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Well this is one of those scenarios where I think the customer needs to take responsibility. A good practice to get into is the creation of technical requirement matrices and business requirement matrices. It helps you put on paper what capabilities you need in a solution and gives the vendor a uniform method of informing you of the strengths and weaknesses of their platform. We typically tier our requirements into 3 categories that allows us to weigh the importance of features. For example, a tier 1 requirement might be that the solution support fiber channel or iscsi where a tier 2 or 3 requirement might be support for sub-lun tiering or a 64bit OS to leverage larger cache. This is EMC for crying out loud - arguably the leader in the field, and it's a software issue. We're not talking about going with lesser hardware, which can steeply influence the costs. As well, I was given to understand that this is a relatively new line for them. They have the software in hand, and my 4 year old Lefthands don't have this limitation. I do place this 99% on them (split in some fashion between EMC and the reseller). I'll hand the 1% to my manager, who had used them before, doesn't like the Lefthands, and trusted the reseller rep he's worked with at his prior company. I was given no say in the matter - I suggested another LH unit. It may be too little too late but I'd be happy to share the template we used for our last storage purchase. That might actually be a nice thing - we might not technically outgrow the unit, as it can stack a huge number of disks, but I don't see us doing a whole lot more with it, given that limitation, and the other that raised my dander. - Sean On Feb 7, 2012, at 4:29 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.commailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: If true, it would have been nice of them to disclose that before purchase, methinks... Kurt On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 17:04, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.commailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the next versions of VNX (5700, 7500, etc) support SCSI 3 protocol which would not have that limitation. I believe this was a limitation that was purposely introduced into the VNXe because EMC is marketing it as an entry level all-in-one storage solution. They need reasons for customers to scale up to the more expensive platforms. I believe even the older CX, CX3 and CX4 models supported SCSI 3. - Sean On 2/7/12, Mathew Shember mathew.shem...@synopsys.commailto:mathew.shem...@synopsys.com wrote: I have not used an EMC in a while but that does sound familiar. I did find one of their sheets that does say the size is limited to that. http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/specification-sheet/h8515-vnxe-ss.pdf Thanks, Mathew -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.commailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday
Storage Feature Matrix
Ok folks, Here's a compiled list of features and capabilities in no particular order. Some of these references may be specific to a certain brand but it allowed us to match capabilities between solutions where the only difference was what they called it. Sub LUN Tiering Staged cache iSCSI support Storage Virtualization technology One-to-one Replication VAAI Support Vcenter integration Advanced Reporting Engine Local Parts depot (this is an important question for those of us in Alaska) Snapshot support One-to-Many Replication Synchronous replication Encypted Data Presentation SAS II Support FC Support FCoE Support AIX support Large Cache Support MSSQL VSS SharePoint VSS Exchange VSS Simple Management Interface Red Hat Linux MPIO Support Deduplication HW generation upgrades Non-Volatile Cache Vmware MPIO (DSM) SRM support (SRA) NTFS Thin provisioned reclamation VMWare Snapshot integration Boot from SAN Integration Citrix Xen Server Storage Link Support 64-bit OS Compression NAS Support Self-Encrypting Disk Centralized Agent/MPIO support Oracle integration VMware Storage Resource Management Tools OS integration with VMware Snapshot and Replication Management SRM Failback support Metro/Stretch/Geo Clustering QOS VASA Support Windows Integration High Density DAE's Replicator incremental attach VAAI support for NFS VAAI block enhancements High bandwidth offering 2.5 drive support ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Storage Feature Matrix
Here's the list of requirements we included in our recommendation. We scored each solutions ability to meet these requirements on a 1-5 scale. Our technical requirements played a role in determining each solutions ability to meet these requirements. The fun part was sitting down as a group and hearing how each person interpreted these list of requirements and why they scored each solution the way they did. Architecture Availability Ease of use Efficiency Performance Flexibility Licensing QOS Reliability Replication Reporting/Monitoring Security Local Data Protection Total Cost of Ownership Scalability Support Hardware Life Cycle Other 3rd Party Integration (ie Linux, Oracle…) Microsoft Integration VMware Integration On 2/8/12, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Ok folks, Here's a compiled list of features and capabilities in no particular order. Some of these references may be specific to a certain brand but it allowed us to match capabilities between solutions where the only difference was what they called it. Sub LUN Tiering Staged cache iSCSI support Storage Virtualization technology One-to-one Replication VAAI Support Vcenter integration Advanced Reporting Engine Local Parts depot (this is an important question for those of us in Alaska) Snapshot support One-to-Many Replication Synchronous replication Encypted Data Presentation SAS II Support FC Support FCoE Support AIX support Large Cache Support MSSQL VSS SharePoint VSS Exchange VSS Simple Management Interface Red Hat Linux MPIO Support Deduplication HW generation upgrades Non-Volatile Cache Vmware MPIO (DSM) SRM support (SRA) NTFS Thin provisioned reclamation VMWare Snapshot integration Boot from SAN Integration Citrix Xen Server Storage Link Support 64-bit OS Compression NAS Support Self-Encrypting Disk Centralized Agent/MPIO support Oracle integration VMware Storage Resource Management Tools OS integration with VMware Snapshot and Replication Management SRM Failback support Metro/Stretch/Geo Clustering QOS VASA Support Windows Integration High Density DAE's Replicator incremental attach VAAI support for NFS VAAI block enhancements High bandwidth offering 2.5 drive support ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: OT - ugh!
Pun intended? - Sean On Feb 8, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Jacob ja...@excaliburfilms.com wrote: 1 million views? That is all? I can offer content that will exploded your views... -Original Message- From: Mathew Shember [mailto:mathew.shem...@synopsys.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - ugh! Ok rub in. I suck. :-P That's assume. :) -Original Message- From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 9:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - ugh! What surprised me after I posted my very first article was how fast I was able to find it via Google. It was like 15 minutes and Google had it. Within an hour I had a few hundred hits Totally blew my mind. I am fast approaching 1 million views for my blog. The view counts for some of my articles just blows me away. I have always updated my blog stats on the 1st day of the month. I have been so busy with work, I forgot to do this on Feb. 1st so I don't have current counts. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ On 2/8/12 7:39 AM, Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.com wrote: Out of curiosity, do you guys worry about SEO and your blog? Or do you just put it up there and let wordpress or whatever do its thing? Bill Andrew S. Baker wrote: Amen. ** *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB marketŠ * On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com mailto:mich...@smithcons.com wrote: I get that a lot. J And I also use my blog as an immense resource for myself. If I know I wrote an article, the easiest way to find it search on my blog. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, February 07, 2012 2:32 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: OT - ugh! I'm just converting all the documents I wrote into posts. It's actually kind of handy to have them all stored online rather than drag them everywhere with me. I've already had a guy from AppSense on to me correcting me on some of the product features (they must be watching for keywords in Google), so it appears that I am already making some more contacts, which is cool. Cheers, JR On 7 February 2012 19:25, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: Someone is having just WAY too much fun in their new blog! Keep it up. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ *From: *James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com *Reply-To: *NT Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Date: *Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:39:29 + *To: *NT Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *Re: OT - ugh! Well, I decided to start blogging up a bit of AppSense stuff, and I seem to be enjoying it! Good call. Mr Webster, I offer no apologies for stealing your bigot moniker for the title for my blog. Anyone else who may use this software can read my ramblings at http://appsensebigot.blogspot.com Cheers, JR On 6 February 2012 20:49, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: PLEASE DO. I paid my own money to take the course (using a fellow CTPs partner status to get it dirt cheap) but that is a set of software with a LOT of options. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~
Re: IOPS's calculations
Very true. Large global cache, automated tiering, etc. are all technologies that change the way performance and bottlenecks are measured. There are situations introduced in SAN environment (forced flushing of cache), that can occur in a DAS scenario, are much more prevelant in a SAN and have much wider impact. Looking at solutions like Compellent or 3Par that have virtualized storage add another level complexity. Your data could be striped across hundreds of drives. I wouldn't consider a queue depth at an equal number acceptable for a single volume. - Sean On 2/7/12, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote: Gets more interesting with SAN though when you have something like a Netapp FlashCache or something in the mix Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 10:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IOPS's calculations I don't think SAN vs. DAS/NAS should matter tbh, just the spindles in the array - no expert either I just muddle by. This is what I was going from - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc938625.aspx From: Michael B. Smith [mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: 07 February 2012 4:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IOPS's calculations I'm not a SAN expert. But for typical RAID subsystems, I don't want the physical queue to exceed the number of disks in the array. If it does, then I've got excessive queuing and degraded performance. I don't see how it would be different for a SAN, but I dunno. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 10:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IOPS's calculations Most guides I've read suggest if the LUN has 10 physical disks, you don't want the queue to exceed around 20, or if you have 5 disks a queue of 10 and so on. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: 07 February 2012 15:06 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IOPS's calculations Where do you get x 2 ? I was with you - until that. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 8:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IOPS's calculations As a rule of thumb queue length shouldn't exceed the physical number of disks in the array that the LUN is on x 2. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: 07 February 2012 13:50 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IOPS's calculations So, to which counters should I be paying attention in such a situation, or what should be the difference in interpretation? I've got a file server that's being extremely slow to back up, though daily performance is adequate. I'm seeing disk queue length hit as high as 37, with 5 LUNS for the machine. Kurt On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 21:32, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote: Those perf counters can be a bit misleading when you're looking at a SAN on the backend, though. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 3:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IOPS's calculations Disk Reads per second Disk Writes per second Average Disk Queue Length I'd track both logical disk and physical disk. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 3:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: IOPS's calculations Hi folks, Thanks for all your help in the past. Looking at setting up a SAN. From my research, I think one thing to be aware of is current IOPS (disk). There are a number of sites that will help you determine IOPS based on what hard drives (and RAID configuration). My question is: Many of my current servers are light use. The IOPS that these servers are capable of is much greater than what is actually being used. So, in order to more properly size the SAN, is there a way to determine working IOPS? That is, what is actually being used? I assume Perfmon would help, and will need to log over a period of time (I think a week would be about right, to catch most scenarios). But what counters, and how to analyze those counters? Servers are Windows 2003. Thanks. Mark Reimer, A+, MCSA Servers Networking Admin Prairie Bible Institute Box 4000 Three Hills, AB T0M-2N0 Canada Tel:
Re: EMC limitations?
I believe the next versions of VNX (5700, 7500, etc) support SCSI 3 protocol which would not have that limitation. I believe this was a limitation that was purposely introduced into the VNXe because EMC is marketing it as an entry level all-in-one storage solution. They need reasons for customers to scale up to the more expensive platforms. I believe even the older CX, CX3 and CX4 models supported SCSI 3. - Sean On 2/7/12, Mathew Shember mathew.shem...@synopsys.com wrote: I have not used an EMC in a while but that does sound familiar. I did find one of their sheets that does say the size is limited to that. http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/specification-sheet/h8515-vnxe-ss.pdf Thanks, Mathew -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 4:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: EMC limitations? I've got a new-ish (January) EMC VNXe 3100, and have run into a troubling limitation - in use as an iSCSI device, it doesn't support LUNs larger than 1.99tb. According to a post by EMC staff on their community forum, it's doe to the implementation of the SCSI II protocol. I don't know if this limitations affects its use as a NAS, but that's disturbing. My Lefthand units support larger LUNs with no problem. And, otherwise, it's performed just fine - no problems at all. Does anyone out there now if other EMC products have this limitation? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: EMC limitations?
Well this is one of those scenarios where I think the customer needs to take responsibility. A good practice to get into is the creation of technical requirement matrices and business requirement matrices. It helps you put on paper what capabilities you need in a solution and gives the vendor a uniform method of informing you of the strengths and weaknesses of their platform. We typically tier our requirements into 3 categories that allows us to weigh the importance of features. For example, a tier 1 requirement might be that the solution support fiber channel or iscsi where a tier 2 or 3 requirement might be support for sub-lun tiering or a 64bit OS to leverage larger cache. It may be too little too late but I'd be happy to share the template we used for our last storage purchase. - Sean On Feb 7, 2012, at 4:29 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: If true, it would have been nice of them to disclose that before purchase, methinks... Kurt On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 17:04, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the next versions of VNX (5700, 7500, etc) support SCSI 3 protocol which would not have that limitation. I believe this was a limitation that was purposely introduced into the VNXe because EMC is marketing it as an entry level all-in-one storage solution. They need reasons for customers to scale up to the more expensive platforms. I believe even the older CX, CX3 and CX4 models supported SCSI 3. - Sean On 2/7/12, Mathew Shember mathew.shem...@synopsys.com wrote: I have not used an EMC in a while but that does sound familiar. I did find one of their sheets that does say the size is limited to that. http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/specification-sheet/h8515-vnxe-ss.pdf Thanks, Mathew -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 4:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: EMC limitations? I've got a new-ish (January) EMC VNXe 3100, and have run into a troubling limitation - in use as an iSCSI device, it doesn't support LUNs larger than 1.99tb. According to a post by EMC staff on their community forum, it's doe to the implementation of the SCSI II protocol. I don't know if this limitations affects its use as a NAS, but that's disturbing. My Lefthand units support larger LUNs with no problem. And, otherwise, it's performed just fine - no problems at all. Does anyone out there now if other EMC products have this limitation? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: EMC limitations?
I can certainly appreciate that. We've only been able to construct an in-depth requirements matrix because of the collective experience of our staff. With that said, some of what we gathered was a result of reading white papers and searching the interwebs for examples of storage related matrices. I guess the real trick is recognizing when you don't know what to ask for. I've had my battles with vendors and wanted to place blame for not being completely forth coming, but you've got to realize that they're trying to sell you a product and that's how they make a living. Now if you ask about possible limitations and they either give you half truths or down right lie, than you have every right to be upset. Following common RFI/RFP processes will help reduce the chances of that occurring. - Sean On Feb 7, 2012, at 5:54 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: I agree, but only partially. There are some things that are hard to figure out in advance, because they are not limitations anywhere else, so you wouldn't be inclined to ask. About 8 or 9 months ago, we evaluated several SAN solutions, and the EMC people came prepared to sell us a VNXe 3100 or 3300. We grilled them and ultimately decided against them because of other limitations vs some other vendor solutions we were targeting, but despite us telling them what we were going to use the storage for, the maximum LUN size never came up. It's now added to my checklist, of course... ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Well this is one of those scenarios where I think the customer needs to take responsibility. A good practice to get into is the creation of technical requirement matrices and business requirement matrices. It helps you put on paper what capabilities you need in a solution and gives the vendor a uniform method of informing you of the strengths and weaknesses of their platform. We typically tier our requirements into 3 categories that allows us to weigh the importance of features. For example, a tier 1 requirement might be that the solution support fiber channel or iscsi where a tier 2 or 3 requirement might be support for sub-lun tiering or a 64bit OS to leverage larger cache. It may be too little too late but I'd be happy to share the template we used for our last storage purchase. - Sean On Feb 7, 2012, at 4:29 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: If true, it would have been nice of them to disclose that before purchase, methinks... Kurt On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 17:04, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the next versions of VNX (5700, 7500, etc) support SCSI 3 protocol which would not have that limitation. I believe this was a limitation that was purposely introduced into the VNXe because EMC is marketing it as an entry level all-in-one storage solution. They need reasons for customers to scale up to the more expensive platforms. I believe even the older CX, CX3 and CX4 models supported SCSI 3. - Sean On 2/7/12, Mathew Shember mathew.shem...@synopsys.com wrote: I have not used an EMC in a while but that does sound familiar. I did find one of their sheets that does say the size is limited to that. http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/specification-sheet/h8515-vnxe-ss.pdf Thanks, Mathew -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 4:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: EMC limitations? I've got a new-ish (January) EMC VNXe 3100, and have run into a troubling limitation - in use as an iSCSI device, it doesn't support LUNs larger than 1.99tb. According to a post by EMC staff on their community forum, it's doe to the implementation of the SCSI II protocol. I don't know if this limitations affects its use as a NAS, but that's disturbing. My Lefthand units support larger LUNs with no problem. And, otherwise, it's performed just fine - no problems at all. Does anyone out there now if other EMC products have this limitation? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http
Re: EMC limitations?
I certainly didn't mean to offend you nor do I blame you for being frustrated. It's just that companies aren't going to list their lack of functionality for all to see. What you're running into is not necessarily an issue, but rather a limitation. Now a good reseller would have done a better job of trying to identify your requirements and then used those to pitch a higher-end solution (if justified). I'm assuming Lyris won't allow attachments so I'm forwarding the template to those that expressed interest individually. - Sean On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 18:10, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Well this is one of those scenarios where I think the customer needs to take responsibility. A good practice to get into is the creation of technical requirement matrices and business requirement matrices. It helps you put on paper what capabilities you need in a solution and gives the vendor a uniform method of informing you of the strengths and weaknesses of their platform. We typically tier our requirements into 3 categories that allows us to weigh the importance of features. For example, a tier 1 requirement might be that the solution support fiber channel or iscsi where a tier 2 or 3 requirement might be support for sub-lun tiering or a 64bit OS to leverage larger cache. This is EMC for crying out loud - arguably the leader in the field, and it's a software issue. We're not talking about going with lesser hardware, which can steeply influence the costs. As well, I was given to understand that this is a relatively new line for them. They have the software in hand, and my 4 year old Lefthands don't have this limitation. I do place this 99% on them (split in some fashion between EMC and the reseller). I'll hand the 1% to my manager, who had used them before, doesn't like the Lefthands, and trusted the reseller rep he's worked with at his prior company. I was given no say in the matter - I suggested another LH unit. It may be too little too late but I'd be happy to share the template we used for our last storage purchase. That might actually be a nice thing - we might not technically outgrow the unit, as it can stack a huge number of disks, but I don't see us doing a whole lot more with it, given that limitation, and the other that raised my dander. - Sean On Feb 7, 2012, at 4:29 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: If true, it would have been nice of them to disclose that before purchase, methinks... Kurt On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 17:04, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the next versions of VNX (5700, 7500, etc) support SCSI 3 protocol which would not have that limitation. I believe this was a limitation that was purposely introduced into the VNXe because EMC is marketing it as an entry level all-in-one storage solution. They need reasons for customers to scale up to the more expensive platforms. I believe even the older CX, CX3 and CX4 models supported SCSI 3. - Sean On 2/7/12, Mathew Shember mathew.shem...@synopsys.com wrote: I have not used an EMC in a while but that does sound familiar. I did find one of their sheets that does say the size is limited to that. http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/specification-sheet/h8515-vnxe-ss.pdf Thanks, Mathew -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 4:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: EMC limitations? I've got a new-ish (January) EMC VNXe 3100, and have run into a troubling limitation - in use as an iSCSI device, it doesn't support LUNs larger than 1.99tb. According to a post by EMC staff on their community forum, it's doe to the implementation of the SCSI II protocol. I don't know if this limitations affects its use as a NAS, but that's disturbing. My Lefthand units support larger LUNs with no problem. And, otherwise, it's performed just fine - no problems at all. Does anyone out there now if other EMC products have this limitation? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage
Re: EMC limitations?
I forwarded the template as requested. I should add that the template provided was what we used to capture all responses. We didn't share the responses between vendors. - Sean On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I certainly didn't mean to offend you nor do I blame you for being frustrated. It's just that companies aren't going to list their lack of functionality for all to see. What you're running into is not necessarily an issue, but rather a limitation. Now a good reseller would have done a better job of trying to identify your requirements and then used those to pitch a higher-end solution (if justified). I'm assuming Lyris won't allow attachments so I'm forwarding the template to those that expressed interest individually. - Sean On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 18:10, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Well this is one of those scenarios where I think the customer needs to take responsibility. A good practice to get into is the creation of technical requirement matrices and business requirement matrices. It helps you put on paper what capabilities you need in a solution and gives the vendor a uniform method of informing you of the strengths and weaknesses of their platform. We typically tier our requirements into 3 categories that allows us to weigh the importance of features. For example, a tier 1 requirement might be that the solution support fiber channel or iscsi where a tier 2 or 3 requirement might be support for sub-lun tiering or a 64bit OS to leverage larger cache. This is EMC for crying out loud - arguably the leader in the field, and it's a software issue. We're not talking about going with lesser hardware, which can steeply influence the costs. As well, I was given to understand that this is a relatively new line for them. They have the software in hand, and my 4 year old Lefthands don't have this limitation. I do place this 99% on them (split in some fashion between EMC and the reseller). I'll hand the 1% to my manager, who had used them before, doesn't like the Lefthands, and trusted the reseller rep he's worked with at his prior company. I was given no say in the matter - I suggested another LH unit. It may be too little too late but I'd be happy to share the template we used for our last storage purchase. That might actually be a nice thing - we might not technically outgrow the unit, as it can stack a huge number of disks, but I don't see us doing a whole lot more with it, given that limitation, and the other that raised my dander. - Sean On Feb 7, 2012, at 4:29 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: If true, it would have been nice of them to disclose that before purchase, methinks... Kurt On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 17:04, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the next versions of VNX (5700, 7500, etc) support SCSI 3 protocol which would not have that limitation. I believe this was a limitation that was purposely introduced into the VNXe because EMC is marketing it as an entry level all-in-one storage solution. They need reasons for customers to scale up to the more expensive platforms. I believe even the older CX, CX3 and CX4 models supported SCSI 3. - Sean On 2/7/12, Mathew Shember mathew.shem...@synopsys.com wrote: I have not used an EMC in a while but that does sound familiar. I did find one of their sheets that does say the size is limited to that. http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/specification-sheet/h8515-vnxe-ss.pdf Thanks, Mathew -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 4:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: EMC limitations? I've got a new-ish (January) EMC VNXe 3100, and have run into a troubling limitation - in use as an iSCSI device, it doesn't support LUNs larger than 1.99tb. According to a post by EMC staff on their community forum, it's doe to the implementation of the SCSI II protocol. I don't know if this limitations affects its use as a NAS, but that's disturbing. My Lefthand units support larger LUNs with no problem. And, otherwise, it's performed just fine - no problems at all. Does anyone out there now if other EMC products have this limitation? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums
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Understood. Out of curiousity, did you look into any other solutions other than VNX and LeftHand? And, to respond to your comment about never outgrowing the unit, expect the unexpected. I never thought we would outgrow the capabilities of the two CX700s arrays we implemented in our first SAN solution. Six years later I'm retiring both of those, two Celerra NAS gateways and a CX4-960. All the while deploying six new Compellent arrays, 3 EqualLogics with FS7500 NAS Heads and working on a recommendation for a purpose built Tier 1 solution. - Sean On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: No offense taken, and none meant on my part either - just some disagreement spiced a bit too heavily with the frustration. I do understand that caveat emptor applies, and that it would have been better if we'd done more research, but that bit of misdirection on their part was just a bit rich... Kurt On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 22:30, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I certainly didn't mean to offend you nor do I blame you for being frustrated. It's just that companies aren't going to list their lack of functionality for all to see. What you're running into is not necessarily an issue, but rather a limitation. Now a good reseller would have done a better job of trying to identify your requirements and then used those to pitch a higher-end solution (if justified). I'm assuming Lyris won't allow attachments so I'm forwarding the template to those that expressed interest individually. - Sean On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 18:10, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Well this is one of those scenarios where I think the customer needs to take responsibility. A good practice to get into is the creation of technical requirement matrices and business requirement matrices. It helps you put on paper what capabilities you need in a solution and gives the vendor a uniform method of informing you of the strengths and weaknesses of their platform. We typically tier our requirements into 3 categories that allows us to weigh the importance of features. For example, a tier 1 requirement might be that the solution support fiber channel or iscsi where a tier 2 or 3 requirement might be support for sub-lun tiering or a 64bit OS to leverage larger cache. This is EMC for crying out loud - arguably the leader in the field, and it's a software issue. We're not talking about going with lesser hardware, which can steeply influence the costs. As well, I was given to understand that this is a relatively new line for them. They have the software in hand, and my 4 year old Lefthands don't have this limitation. I do place this 99% on them (split in some fashion between EMC and the reseller). I'll hand the 1% to my manager, who had used them before, doesn't like the Lefthands, and trusted the reseller rep he's worked with at his prior company. I was given no say in the matter - I suggested another LH unit. It may be too little too late but I'd be happy to share the template we used for our last storage purchase. That might actually be a nice thing - we might not technically outgrow the unit, as it can stack a huge number of disks, but I don't see us doing a whole lot more with it, given that limitation, and the other that raised my dander. - Sean On Feb 7, 2012, at 4:29 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: If true, it would have been nice of them to disclose that before purchase, methinks... Kurt On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 17:04, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the next versions of VNX (5700, 7500, etc) support SCSI 3 protocol which would not have that limitation. I believe this was a limitation that was purposely introduced into the VNXe because EMC is marketing it as an entry level all-in-one storage solution. They need reasons for customers to scale up to the more expensive platforms. I believe even the older CX, CX3 and CX4 models supported SCSI 3. - Sean On 2/7/12, Mathew Shember mathew.shem...@synopsys.com wrote: I have not used an EMC in a while but that does sound familiar. I did find one of their sheets that does say the size is limited to that. http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/specification-sheet/h8515-vnxe-ss.pdf Thanks, Mathew -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 4:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: EMC limitations? I've got a new-ish (January) EMC VNXe 3100, and have run into a troubling limitation - in use as an iSCSI device, it doesn't support LUNs larger than 1.99tb. According to a post by EMC staff on their community forum, it's doe to the implementation of the SCSI II
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I'm in Anchorage. You wanna meet up so you can smack me for that off-hand remark about XenServer a few months back? :) If it makes you feel any better, we will be virtualizing our XenApp infrastructure on XenServer in a data center we're deploying in AZ later this year. Did you get to enjoy our foot of snow coming down on Friday or did you fly in over the weekend? I may have some other questions for you if you don't mind me pinging you offlist. Mostly around your services potential and how much of a presence you foresee in Alaska. - Sean On 2/6/12, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: Hey now, I represent that remark! :) It is almost 8:30AM here in Anchorage and it is pitch black outside. But at leas it is a nice warm 19 degrees F. When I went to the store yesterday at 3PM, it was 16 degrees and people here were wearing shorts and t-shirts!!! Even the policemen outside were in short-sleeves. Different world here. Is anyone on this list in Anchorage? Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ On 2/6/12 6:47 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: I put off starting my own business for YEARS because I was afraid of what I already knew. :-) Whereas, in retrospect, I wish I'd done it much earlier. I can think of someone else on this mailing list (who is in Alaska this week) who waited even longer than I did. :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - ugh! I remember reading something awhile back stating that the reason that some non-college educated people were able to start successful businesses was the fact that they were not educated enough to realize the risks involved. An interesting thought, isn't it? -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 8:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - ugh! No, you don't need a degree to start a billion dollar company, but you do need brains and a lot of hard work. Of course if it's something you love, it's not work at all it's a passion, and folks that are passionate about what they do are what you're looking for. We're better than our less passionate IT workers simply because we ENJOY the work, learning new ways to do things, learning how the mechanics of something works, and seeking out others who have the same passion. I feel I'm better at Windows administration than my fellow SE's simply because my passion for it is far higher. Sneaking Out to Write Code: You already know how Microsoft was founded. Bill Gates and Paul Allen dropped out of college to form the company in 1975. It's that simple: Drop out of college, start a company, and become a billionaire, right? Wrong. Further study reveals that Gates and Allen had thousands of hours of programming practice prior to founding Microsoft. First, the two co-founders met at Lakeside, an elite private school in the Seattle area. The school raised three thousand dollars to purchase a computer terminal for the school's computer club in 1968. A computer terminal at a university was rare in 1968. Gates had access to a terminal in eighth grade. Gates and Allen quickly became addicted to programming. The Gates family lived near the University of Washington. As a teenager, Gates fed his programming addiction by sneaking out of his parents' home after bedtime to use the University's computer. Gates Allen acquired their10,000 hours through this and other clever teenage schemes. When the time came to launch Microsoft in 1975, the two were ready. http://www.wisdomgroup.com/report/1_hours_of_practice/ And another recommended read: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/12/a_fast_track_to_1_hours_of.html Dave. -Original Message- From: Ben M. Schorr [mailto:b...@rolandschorr.com] Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 6:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - ugh! Apparently you wouldn't HAVE to get a degree to work at Microsoft or Facebook. Well...at least not to be CEO of either... Ben M. Schorr Roland Schorr Tower www.rolandschorr.com | www.officeforlawyers.com | Twitter: @bschorr -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 7:30 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - ugh! This position requires a degree. Sorry. Click. Wow. I can see the college degree being a tiebreaker, but I can only guess the person making that statement doesn't fully understand the tech industry? Or, maybe not having gone to college myself I don't understand that thinking. It could have also been their way of backing out, instead of saying we changed our minds on our needs or we hired from inside. I've heard of that kind of thing before - where what the person not
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Virtualization (of any flavor) and storage are two other areas where expert skills are highly sought after. - Sean On Feb 6, 2012, at 7:21 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Didn't mean to imply that you're entirely unique between the two of you, just that you occupy a niche - it's probably a fairly large niche, I would guess. Probably that niche is going to grow, too, but it won't consist of folks who don't have some specialised skills, or whose skills are too specialised. Kurt On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 17:33, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: I know many other independents no different than Webster and I. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 8:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - ugh! You can look at it in one of two ways: Either you and MBS got very lucky, or you got very smart. The niches you've chosen are specialised enough that you aren't doing daily grunt work (punching down patchpanels, patching workstations, applying antivirus, replacing burnt-out video cards, etc.), but not so specialised that your only place to land is in a Fortune 100 company on its staff doing something that only applies to 3 other companies in the world. The lesson is to place yourself at some sort of sweet spot on the IT foodchain - and then exploit the hell out of it. The difficulty always lies in finding that sweet spot. And being willing to travel... Kurt On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 14:49, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: I can only speak for me, and it has been feast since I went out on my own Feb 1st last year. So far this year, the feast is even better as there is very little agency work so I get 100% of the billables. :) Yes, I am complaining all the way to the bank. If it gets any better, MBS is going to want a referral fee or commission! Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com From: David Lum david@nwea.org Reply-To: NT Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 22:31:45 + To: NT Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: OT - ugh! That’s part of my fear of dropping %dayjob% and going 100% on my own biz – feast or famine! With just three clients I have I’m always amazed at how often their feast/famine cycles coincide, and they even have different fiscal year cycles. I mean, in the span of two months I am doing an SBS 2003 – SBS2011 swing for two of them. One of these clients I can go months with nothing other than patching. From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 9:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - ugh! I find myself busier than a one-arm paper hanger in a wind storm. Don't know why it took me so long to convince MBS that I should go solo! LOL Now that my fellow CTPs know I can spell AD, I am finding myself doing a lot of AD assessments, assisting with AD migrations and putting in 2008 R2 AD infrastructures. I would say I am now 50% AD and 50% Citrix. I no longer do Exchange and refer all that to MBS. I can't believe how much Citrix work I turn down because I just don't have the time. Right now I am tentatively booked thru the end of July and already starting to worry because no one is calling about August or September yet! :) Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com From: James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com Reply-To: NT Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:53:32 + To: NT Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: OT - ugh! I ran as a contractor through a managed services company for about six years before taking the plunge myself. Whereas now I find myself counting the amount of extra tax I spent the last six years paying in disgust. It may have been the aforementioned man-in-Alaska mentioning how he could work for 48 hours a day once he'd struck out on his own that possibly contributed to convincing me to do the same. On 6 February 2012 15:47, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: I put off starting my own business for YEARS because I was afraid of what I already knew. :-) Whereas, in retrospect, I wish I'd done it much earlier. I can think of someone else on this mailing list (who is in Alaska this week) who waited even longer than I did. :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to
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Mark, Are you sure that's the data you're after? The difficult data to obtain is typically what the system is capable of and not what they're actually doing. DAS storage typically presents an IO ceiling the applications simply cannot exceed. The actual capabilities of disks can be argued, but I've always done well by using the following statistics for IO capabilities by drive: 7.2k RPM = 75-100 IOPS, 10K RPM = 100-150 IOPS, 15K RPM = 150-200 IOPS. This doesn't take into account the other pros/cons between drive types (Fiber Channel, ATA, SAS, etc.) but works for simple math. Michael gave you some good perfmon counters to monitor. The two I would add is Avg Disk Sec/Read and Avg Disk Sec/Write. This, along with avg queue length, will help you identify what kind of bottleneck your systems may be encountering. Typical thresholds for read/write latencies are avg below 10/20ms and spikes below 50/60ms. Some applications may be more or less sensitive to certain latency but those are decent numbers to work with. Avg queue length is tough to gauge because there seems to be two camps on the subject. There are those that strive for avg queue lengths below 1 and others that feel and avg queue length of N or below (where N = the number of disks serving IO) is a good place to be. As far as total IO, you simply add the avg disk reads/writes per second or max disk reads/writes per second. That depends on if you're spec'ing your SAN to support your sustained IO or your peak IO. Whatever data you're able to collect in terms of IO, I would multiply that by a certain factor if you're looking to increase performance. This practice will help you account for applications that may have been IO constrained by DAS that could end up on high-end storage and consume all of the IO you're able to provide. Now, to use the data to help spec your SAN solution, we would need to know what solutions you're currently entertaining. There are a number of different solutions that all leverage very unique technologies that have changed the game from previous raw storage solutions. Just to share my recent experience, I have migrated approximately 30 servers from an EMC CX700 array to two Compellent Arrays over the last few weeks. We didn't have very in-depth tools to gauge IO requirements but we did our best with the tools at our disposal. One SQL server we migrated had DBs residing on a LUN served by a 7 Disk RAID 5 RAID Group backed by 146GB/10K Fiber Channel disks. This RAID group also served LUNs for 4-5 other SQL servers so disk contention was evident. This SQL server, over a 12 week period, was identified as never exceeding 300 IOPS. After migrating this server to one of our Compellent Arrays backed by 12 SSDs, 36 15K SAS and 24 7.2K NL SAS drives, we saw peak IOPS exceed 5500. This certainly wasn't a common experience during our migrations but we had a few servers that really started to open up after migration. - Sean On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Reimer, Mark mark.rei...@prairie.eduwrote: The question is: I want to know what my different servers (no san, each with their own direct attached disks storage) is using (not what they are capable of, but what they are actually using/doing). ** ** Sorry if I was unclear to begin with. Mark ** ** *From:* Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] *Sent:* Monday, February 06, 2012 2:55 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: IOPS's calculations ** ** *Your SAN should be able to produce these numbers. *** * * *Thanks,* *Brian Desmond* *br...@briandesmond.com* * * *w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132* * * *From:* Reimer, Mark [mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu] *Sent:* Monday, February 06, 2012 2:56 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* IOPS's calculations ** ** Hi folks, ** ** Thanks for all your help in the past. ** ** Looking at setting up a SAN. From my research, I think one thing to be aware of is current IOPS (disk). There are a number of sites that will help you determine IOPS based on what hard drives (and RAID configuration). My question is: Many of my current servers are light use. The IOPS that these servers are capable of is much greater than what is actually being used.** ** ** ** So, in order to more properly size the SAN, is there a way to determine working IOPS? That is, what is actually being used? I assume Perfmon would help, and will need to log over a period of time (I think a week would be about right, to catch most scenarios). But what counters, and how to analyze those counters? ** ** Servers are Windows 2003. ** ** Thanks. ** ** ** ** Mark Reimer, A+, MCSA Servers Networking Admin Prairie Bible Institute Box 4000 Three Hills, AB T0M-2N0 Canada Tel: 403-443-5511, Ext. 3476 Fax: 403-443-5540 Email: mark.rei...@prairie.edu www.prairie.edu ** ** ** ** ~ Finally, powerful
Re: Infrastructure Specialist defined - was: OT - ugh!
SAN Support: · Strong familiarity with enterprise data archiving systems and disaster recovery backup systems. uses Flashnet for data archive and Commvault for Disaster Recovery backups · Level 1 2 SAN Storage Support (EMC CX300, EMC AX100, IBM N3400 · Level 1 2 Fibre Channel Switch Support (Cisco MDS 9134, McData ) CX300? AX100? McData? They don't need just a specialist, they need someone to replace that hardware. Pretty sure at least the CX300 went EoSL in December of last year. - Sean On 2/3/12, Greer, Thomas N t...@txstate.edu wrote: Were they going to put a computer on it? Tom Greer (t...@txstate.edu) Core Systems Texas State University-San Marcos -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 3:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Infrastructure Specialist defined - was: OT - ugh! On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I seem to find people who think I know everything about anything electrical, from mobile phones and games consoles to TVs and, um, recreational massagers :-0 I had someone ask me today if we (IT dept) could provide them with a table. And I don't mean a database, I mean the wooden variety. It's bad enough that people hit me up for spare computer parts for their home PC, now we're a furniture store? WTF? -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt- software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: OT - ugh!
Someone further up the hiring chain probably heard your ideas and felt threatened. - Sean On Feb 1, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Jacob Kisner jbdkis...@gmail.com wrote: Because we feel you are not diversified enough to address our issues. Same issues I have addressed over the years poor issue management, no project management, no documentation, crashing servers, IT staff treating the network like a high school lab.. etc. Not only can I stop the bleeding and stabilize the patient (gave then how I would do it), I can implement a more proactive approach to IT management and stop the fires (also gave details.) I guess they rather have the fires... On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Don Kuhlman drkuhl...@yahoo.com wrote: That makes no sense - why do they care where you were for 15 years...Sorry to hear that Jacob. I just started a new position - temp for 9 months, nice place - nice people so far. I'm getting into MAC/Linux support so it's a stretch for me (windows background), but it's a job and a chance to learn. Good luck! Don K From: Jacob Kisner jbdkis...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 5:19 PM Subject: OT - ugh! Nothing sucks more than being interviewed for a position at a different company last Tuesday, then being called Thursday to say we are going to offer you a position and finally being told today that we changed our mind... We did not realize you were with the same company for 15 years... WTF? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: did i screw up? need to fix fast.
Depending on the size if the snapshot, it could take awhile to merge the data. Not much we can help with until the snspshot is gone. - Sean On Jan 20, 2012, at 12:19 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: How did you delete the snapshot - with esxi right? -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 1:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: did i screw up? need to fix fast. Hi all, I have a client running SBS 2011 on esxi 5 (free). The VMstopped running and i got this error message: Message from esxi..company.local There is no more space for virtual disk fezzik-01.vmdk. You might be able to continue this session by freeing disk space on the relevant volume, and clicking Retry. Click Cancel to terminate this session. I clicked retry and it didn't work. I then clicked cancel and went to delete the only existing snapshot to fee up space. Now I see no options available under the power menu. the snapshot as been deleting for 20 minutes and is at 80% now. I really need to get this machine back up quickly. Thanks for any help. Bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: did i screw up? need to fix fast.
The only scenario you might want to be aware of is an orphaned disk scenario (Google it). Don't be concerned if this situation occurs, it may appear data has been lost, but that is not necessarily the case. - Sean On Jan 20, 2012, at 1:06 PM, N Parr npar...@mortonind.com wrote: It should finish up ok, no telling how long it will take. The percentage bar is useless. Depends on the speed of your storage and how big your snap was. At least your running 5, in the old days of 3.5 the GUI would time out after a while and you would have to go CLI to fix it. -Original Message- From: WJH [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 3:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: did i screw up? need to fix fast. i did delete it using esxi. removing snapshot task has been sitting on 99% for about 5 minutes now. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: did i screw up? need to fix fast.
I had actually forgotten about the snapshot. The biggest fear of all storage admins. - Sean On Jan 20, 2012, at 1:16 PM, WJH nt...@hedgedigger.com wrote: I had actually forgotten about the snapshot. I built the machine last month for a sbs 2203 to 2001 migration. Snapshot was made at some point then when configuring. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: did i screw up? need to fix fast.
Depends on how long the snapshot was active and the data change rate of the server. That is why snapshots can be very dangerous. - Sean On Jan 20, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: Its my understanding that this would be an indication of utilizing snapshots in an very inappropriate fashion - although I still cant fathom how you could get it *that* big. -- Espi On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: Pretty big? That seem absolutely huge to me. Why would a snapshot be that big? -- Espi On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Heaton, Joseph@DFG jhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote: 300GB is a pretty big snapshot. Joe Heaton ITB - Windows Server Support -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 1:47 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: did i screw up? need to fix fast. Almost 300 gig. jesse-r...@wi.rr.com wrote: Deleting snapshops can take awhile, especially if they're large. How big was your snapshot? Original Message: - From: Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.com Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:02:57 -0500 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: did i screw up? need to fix fast. Hi all, I have a client running SBS 2011 on esxi 5 (free). The VMstopped running and i got this error message: Message from esxi..company.local There is no more space for virtual disk fezzik-01.vmdk. You might be able to continue this session by freeing disk space on the relevant volume, and clicking Retry. Click Cancel to terminate this session. I clicked retry and it didn't work. I then clicked cancel and went to delete the only existing snapshot to fee up space. Now I see no options available under the power menu. the snapshot as been deleting for 20 minutes and is at 80% now. I really need to get this machine back up quickly. Thanks for any help. Bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin mail2web.com - Microsoft(r) Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: did i screw up? need to fix fast.
Glad to hear it! I think your understanding of snapshots is a common misconception. Your original vmdk becomes frozen and the snapshot tracks all changes. This is why people end up in the same situation just experienced. - Sean On Jan 20, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.com wrote: Good news. The snapshot took about 2 and a half hours, but finished successfully. The machine powered up. I checked one location on the file server and a new folder added today to the share was still there. So I think this should be a good indicator that the snapshot and server vmdk combined successfully. If anyone with more ESXi experience thinks I should check some other method, please let me know. Regarding the size of the snapshot, like I said I made a mistake and never deleted the snapshot when I was building the SBS. I think I created the snaphot before I migrated some shares, so that might explain the size. I don't typically use snapshots and thusly haven't really dug into how they work. To be honest I had assumed a snapshot would be a static vmdk of that point in time, but from this experience I now know that isn't the case. Thanks for all the assistance guys. Really. I just had a few minutes of freak out when it happened. The past couple of weeks I've neglected clients a bit. My dad passed away suddenly and unexpectedly, so life was suddenly filled with a lot of sad tasks and being there for mom. This client has been super understanding, but I didn't want to tell this client that I made a silly mistake and your new server is hosed. Everything is back up and everyone at client is now asking if I can make that happen every other Friday so they can go home early. Bill Sean Martin wrote: Depends on how long the snapshot was active and the data change rate of the server. That is why snapshots can be very dangerous. - Sean On Jan 20, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: Its my understanding that this would be an indication of utilizing snapshots in an very inappropriate fashion - although I still cant fathom how you could get it *that* big. -- Espi On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: Pretty big? That seem absolutely huge to me. Why would a snapshot be that big? -- Espi On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Heaton, Joseph@DFG jhea...@dfg.ca.gov mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote: 300GB is a pretty big snapshot. Joe Heaton ITB - Windows Server Support -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 1:47 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: did i screw up? need to fix fast. Almost 300 gig. jesse-r...@wi.rr.com mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com wrote: Deleting snapshops can take awhile, especially if they're large. How big was your snapshot? Original Message: - From: Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.com mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:02:57 -0500 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: did i screw up? need to fix fast. Hi all, I have a client running SBS 2011 on esxi 5 (free). The VMstopped running and i got this error message: Message from esxi..company.local There is no more space for virtual disk fezzik-01.vmdk. You might be able to continue this session by freeing disk space on the relevant volume, and clicking Retry. Click Cancel to terminate this session. I clicked retry and it didn't work. I then clicked cancel and went to delete the only existing snapshot to fee up space. Now I see no options available under the power menu. the snapshot as been deleting for 20 minutes and is at 80% now. I really need to get this machine back up quickly. Thanks for any help. Bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: What would you call this IT position?
$45-$60k sounds like what the company I work for might offer... - Sean On Jan 19, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: I had someone contact me about this $45K to $60K a year position. Told them this was a 6 figure salary job position: JOB DUTIES: ·Must have a solid foundation in Citrix XenApp (Citrix Presentation Server), XenDesktop, and Nescaler from initial installation through all troubleshooting aspects in a multiple production server WMWare and Windows 2003 or 2008 environments. Knowledge of the entire Citrix Xen Suite is a must. ·Collaborate with the applications team on application integration; ensuring IT standards are followed within reason ·Must have experience designing, deploying and supporting large scale Citrix environments, and experience with designing, developing, and supporting multiple Citrix farms. · Need experience with XenApp 5.0, XenDesktop 4.0, and Netscaler VPX 200 9.3 or higher. · Additionally, provide system services such as storage management, high-availability and performance management QUALIFICATIONS: · Four year College Degree with major in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent experience · 7+ years Information technology experience, preferably within a healthcare environment ·5 + years Citrix (XenApp, XenDesktop, Netscaler) · 3 + years VMware ESX / vSphere experience (minimum, level 3 skills (technical scale of 1 to 4) in the area of VMware vSphere) · 5+ years experience implementing and managing Windows 2000 / 2003 /2008 Server environments with Active Directory (minimum, level 4 skills (technical scale of 1 to 4) in the area of Microsoft Windows server with Active Directory administration and support) · 5+ years managing Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007 environments · 2+ years EMC storage management experience LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS: ·Certification: Citrix Certified Professional (CCP) – [Webster: no such certification exists] · Certification: VMWare Certified Professional (VCP) – · Certification: Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) – · Certification: ITIL v2 or V3 Foundations- · Certification: Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) – Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: What would you call this IT position? Did %dayjob% go out and do a salary survey on their particular position name? They might want to see if it exists... On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:53 PM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote: I would call it something like network support specialist but that's just me. Instead %dayjob% came up with a name for the position which may actually make it harder for me to find someone to fill it. James JOB SUMMARY The IS Technical Support Assistant is responsible for maintaining, analyzing, troubleshooting and repairing local area network (LAN) and telecommunications equipment and software. Documents, maintains upgrades or replaces network hardware and software systems. Assists manager to ensure the optimal operation and performance of all network computers and associated hardware. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES Provides technical assistance to internal customers at all company sites. Installs software (operating systems, custom software, office productivity software) according to company standards and procedures. Monitors the company IT help desk and provides primary (level one) support and technical issue resolution to all end users. Changes backup tapes daily for company servers and checks to make sure backup jobs were successful. Deploys workstations to end users, upgrades computers by adding more memory, faster processors and updating software when necessary. Maintains, replaces and repairs computer hardware, network hardware and assists Information Services Manager with servers. Sets up user accounts for new employees, makes changes to user accounts as needed in active directory and agency applications. Assists Information Services Manager with creation and changes mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange. Assists Information Services Manager with the maintenance of antivirus software for all end user computers and servers. Creates, maintains and updates documentation of company websites. Documents and inventories network devices and configurations. Assists Information Services Manager with network and server administration. Assists Information Services Manager in the research, planning, implementation of potential software for possible future use. Ensures network connectivity to all equipment on the LAN and maintains maximum speed and connection as required. Registers and manages
Re: Quarterly Admin password change
Dave, My bad. The product name is actually eDMZ. I think eGuard Post may have been the previous company. http://www.quest.com/edmz/ http://www.quest.com/privileged-account-management/ - Sean On 1/17/12, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: OK I'm sold. Are you guys talking about products like this? http://www.cyber-ark.com/digital-vault-products/pim-suite/index.asp Looks like more than I really need. Ed, how do you use cusrmgr.exe w/out having the password exposed in a similar manner? Has anyone used this? Looks to be able to centrally change the local admin password, and even make it different for each one. http://www.avianwaves.com/Blog/default.aspx?id=3 Sean, a search for eGuard Post led me to Quest, buy they have cleverly disguised what I am really looking for in their website. Do you have a link? Dave From: Alan Davies [mailto:adav...@cls-services.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quarterly Admin password change The purist would say having non-unique passwords for common accounts is a vulnerability itself, never mind how you set them! ;o) For those who can't afford the likes of CyberArk to manage all passwords individually, pass-the-hash attacks should be considered carefully. Allowing the password to be in a world-readable location for a week would be foolish in many environments (eg. callcentres, educational facilities, etc.) and an audit finding in most regulated ones. Make sure you consider the many aggravating factors that might make the risk an external one too ... poorly secured network integrated wi-fi, un-monitored ethernet points with public (or at least non-staff) physical access. You get the gist! a From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]mailto:[mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: 16 January 2012 23:51 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quarterly Admin password change The purist would see that that's a week the password could be compromised. I'd probably let it slide though, especially in a small environment. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]mailto:[mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 2:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quarterly Admin password change Saw that. My mitigation is to use the GPO for a week then nuke it, as our standard builds show follow the new PW convention and the GPO is to just catch up the previously-built systems. Thoughts? Dave From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]mailto:[mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 12:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quarterly Admin password change Keep this in mind - http://blogs.technet.com/b/grouppolicy/archive/2008/08/04/passwords-in-group-policy-preferences.aspx. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]mailto:[mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 8:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quarterly Admin password change +1 just did that myself via GPP. Our local admin maintenance GPO does two things: * Renames the local admin account. * Sets the password on the added-in local administrator account. Dave From: ed ziots [mailto:ezi...@hotmail.com]mailto:[mailto:ezi...@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 2:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quarterly Admin password change +1, that is pretty easy one. Also make sure you rename it to something else than Administrator and create a dummy admin account which is only a Guest and disabled, and audit its attempted use for audit and incident response purposes. Also can script it out with cusrmgr.exe from the Windows 2000 resource kit. Z Edward E. Ziots Senior Informational Security Engineer CISSP,Security +,Network+ From: mich...@smithcons.commailto:mich...@smithcons.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Quarterly Admin password change Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:42:35 + Easy to do with GPP or with a script. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Juned Shaikh [mailto:jsha...@gmail.com]mailto:[mailto:jsha...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 5:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Quarterly Admin password change I am trying to identify how are you folks managing the security requirement of changing Local admin password of all servers quarterly? Thanks in advance, ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage
Re: Quarterly Admin password change
We're using eGuard Post which was bought by Quest I believe. - Sean On Jan 15, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Juned Shaikh jsha...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to identify how are you folks managing the security requirement of changing Local admin password of all servers quarterly? Thanks in advance, ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: RAID array rebuild Q
I'd opt for the dual RAID 1. You typically don't want to stripe your page file. As far as provisioning, it should be fairly quick regardless of which RAID type you choose. - Sean On 1/3/12, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: Haven't created a raid 10 set on that controller, but a raid 1 is almost instantaneous. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 10:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RAID array rebuild Q I have a client that I get to flatten and rebuild an OS (an already-mentioned-here move from 64-bit 2008 to 2008 R2), as part of the change I am going -on the same server- from a 3-disk RAID5 setup to a 4-disk dual RAID1 setup (or RAID10, can't decide, but almost the same thing). My question is this - should I expect it to take long to reconfigure the disks and be able to start loading the OS? Mainly I'm wondering if there's a long please wait while building array step once I configure the RAID arrays in the system setup (in this case, Dell PERC 6/I, four 450GB SAS drives on a Dell T605 tower). David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: RAID array rebuild Q
For some reason I equated page file fragmentation with striping but I realize the two are not related. It's already been a long year - Sean On Jan 3, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I'd opt for the dual RAID 1. You typically don't want to stripe your page file. Why not? -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: RAID array rebuild Q
363 consecutive days without another mistake? I'm not liking my odds. - Sean On Jan 3, 2012, at 5:49 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: For some reason I equated page file fragmentation with striping but I realize the two are not related. It's already been a long year Well, per the NTSYSADMIN charter, everyone is entitled to one (1) mistake per year. ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Dell's Auto-Snapshot Manager (EqualLogic) vs. tradtional backup softwares
I didn't mean for that to sound like I was advocating no backups, I just meant that the term backups is an insufficient explanation of what disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities more and more businesses are after. - Sean On Dec 31, 2011, at 1:34 AM, Anders Blomgren chanks...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed. But I think backups have a part to play in this new world. As someone who's had the unfortunate combination of replicated logic errors combined with primary san failure, the absence of backups would've been a resume-generating event. -Anders Sent from my iPhone On 31 dec 2011, at 02:13, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Ben is spot on. It's time to start letting go of the concept of backups and start embracing the concept of data protection. With technologies like snapshots, cloning, replication, de-duplication and compression becoming more prevalent in data protection solutions, you have a myriad of capabilities at your disposal. The important thing to remember (and I believe this is a universal truth in IT) is to not let the technologies determine your business requirements. Determine your business requirements and then identify which technologies allow you to meet those requirements. - Sean On Dec 30, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Jay Kulsh jayku...@csi.com wrote: Ben, Thanks for responding on this semi-holiday. Yes we will take a copy of data off-site or setup iSCSI SAN in a remote location. I don't see much use of software like Symantec's Backup Exec in such a scenario. That was the thrust of my question. Thanks again. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Dell's Auto-Snapshot Manager (EqualLogic) vs. tradtional backup softwares
Ben is spot on. It's time to start letting go of the concept of backups and start embracing the concept of data protection. With technologies like snapshots, cloning, replication, de-duplication and compression becoming more prevalent in data protection solutions, you have a myriad of capabilities at your disposal. The important thing to remember (and I believe this is a universal truth in IT) is to not let the technologies determine your business requirements. Determine your business requirements and then identify which technologies allow you to meet those requirements. - Sean On Dec 30, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Jay Kulsh jayku...@csi.com wrote: Ben, Thanks for responding on this semi-holiday. Yes we will take a copy of data off-site or setup iSCSI SAN in a remote location. I don't see much use of software like Symantec's Backup Exec in such a scenario. That was the thrust of my question. Thanks again. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: ?? on jobsites
Why limit yourselves? Search them all. - Sean On Dec 7, 2011, at 7:38 PM, Cesare' A. Ramos cra...@idfllc.com wrote: Hope everyone is well. We are looking to post some job openings and also search for tech positions of different levels and want to see the thoughts of monster.com versus careerbuilder.com. Thanks. CAR This e-Mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-Mail in error please notify the sender via returned e-Mail. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this e-Mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Although IDF operates anti-virus programs, it does not accept responsibility for any damage whatsoever that is caused by viruses being passed. ** Think before you print this message. ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Dell server RAID tool?
Dell Open Manage Server Administrator - Sean On Nov 23, 2011, at 2:00 PM, jesse-r...@wi.rr.com jesse-r...@wi.rr.com wrote: I have a H700 controller in my Dell server running Windows 2008 R2. What's the name of the application I need to download from Dell to manage/check my RAID configuration from within Windows 2008 R2? I can't seem to find the tool on their website. Is it IT Assistant? or something else? Thanks mail2web.com – What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Happy Thanksgiving
Ditto to that! And a Happy early Thursday to those that don't celebrate Thanksgiving! - Sean On Nov 23, 2011, at 4:49 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: Early Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! This is list is truly something to be thankful for! Jon ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: SSD for lab Hyper-V server
MLC is the TLA you're looking for. Multi Level Cell SSDs provide higher density at a lower cost. SLC provide fast performance and endurance, but at a higher cost. I like the comparison covered in the following paper. http://www.supertalent.com/datasheets/SLC_vs_MLC%20whitepaper.pdf - Sean On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Benjamin Zachary li...@levelfive.us wrote: Check that the kind of SSD, there is MFC and SLC I think are the acronyms, one is single layer or multi layer. The single layer are much faster and more reliable. They don’t really announce if they are single or multi, you have to do a little digging … ** ** We just did a nice Nexenta SAN with 8x2TB drives, and 4 80GB SSD for logging and write caching, it made a huge difference when we realized we had MFC and changed them to SLC drives. ** ** *From:* Mark Boeck [mailto:netadmin...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:46 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: SSD for lab Hyper-V server ** ** Enjoy the HD speed. Depending on the age of the PE, you'll be running slower than expected from a CPU / memory point of view. Perhaps take the SSD and put it in a newer home PC and enjoy the boot and operational speed there... On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:28 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I just bought a used PowerEdge 840 Xeon server so I can have a 2008 R2 Hyper-V box (the free server core kind) at my home lab. It came with two 40GB SATA drives. Any reason I shouldn’t use a single 40GB SSD drive for the OS and regular (and much bigger) SATA drives? Would the SSD speed be kind of wasted on server core? *David Lum* Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Dell.com down
Works in Anchorage AK. - Sean On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:47 PM, John C Owen jo...@innovativefoto.comwrote: It’s up here in Londonderry, NH Verizon FIOS ** ** *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, October 17, 2011 6:38 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Dell.com down ** ** It's up here/now (Charleston, WV/SuddenLink cable). On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Devin Meade devin.me...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, let see my choices: (1) fight this or (2) go play football with my son and team. Hmmm .. pick this up tomorrow! On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Greg Olson gol...@markettools.com wrote: It's dead Jim -Original Message- From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:charl...@golden-eagle.org] Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 3:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell.com down Same here. Support.dell.com http://support.dell.com/ not available... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 3:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dell.com down Hmm ... I can't get to www.dell.com on multiple computers with different ISP's. Seems it not available in the Oklahoma City area. Anyone else see this? Maybe they run blackberries :-/. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: fake-out NetBIOS
We disable it on all of our SQL servers so our DBAs can leverage DNS aliases for DBs. Makes it easy to move DBs between SQL servers. - Sean On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:15 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: That’s perfect, thanks! I have never run into this before nor even heard of “disable strict name checking”, so this is good new stuff. ** ** Reason number 703,510 to love this list. ** ** How did you know about that anyhow? ** ** Dave ** ** *From:* Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] *Sent:* Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:12 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: fake-out NetBIOS ** ** Google disable strict name checking and you will find what you seek. ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:09 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* fake-out NetBIOS ** ** How do I go about having a Windows client (XP, or 7) connect to a UNC that’s different from the actual hostname w/out using a FQDN? I have a server named BOB but I want users to be able to attach using \\FRED. *David Lum* Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: fake-out NetBIOS
I'm pretty sure its required to access a 2003 server using an alias. - Sean On Sep 29, 2011, at 9:39 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Strict Name Checking is for reflection attacks - you need to disable it when a server connects to itself using something other than its own name. I'm pretty sure it's not necessary when an external party/machine connects using a CNAME or some other alias Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Steve Kradel [mailto:skra...@zetetic.net] Sent: Friday, 30 September 2011 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: fake-out NetBIOS Are y'all positive that disabling strict name checking is necessary in conjunction with a CNAME? Most apps will get the canonical name (de-alias) when looking for SPNs, etc. --Steve On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: We disable it on all of our SQL servers so our DBAs can leverage DNS aliases for DBs. Makes it easy to move DBs between SQL servers. - Sean On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:15 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: That's perfect, thanks! I have never run into this before nor even heard of disable strict name checking, so this is good new stuff. Reason number 703,510 to love this list. How did you know about that anyhow? Dave From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: fake-out NetBIOS Google disable strict name checking and you will find what you seek. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: fake-out NetBIOS How do I go about having a Windows client (XP, or 7) connect to a UNC that's different from the actual hostname w/out using a FQDN? I have a server named BOB but I want users to be able to attach using \\FRED. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Virtualisation software
That depends. If you have software assurance then the upgrade costs from ENT to DC licensing should be pretty cheap. There are substantial cost savings to be had by going with DC. - Sean On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: If you're starting out, without any existing licensing, Datacenter is almost a no brainer. My challenge is transitioning to Datacenter. That will likely happen at the next server OS release. On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: That was merely a throw away example. We got lots of licenses for lots of stuff on 'em :) But when we order a vmware host, we order a set of licenses for them. On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: No. They're not... Data Center Licenses may only be run on multi-processor boxes. On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Don Ely don@gmail.com wrote: Well, if they only have one processor in the host they're fine... ;o) On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: I sure hope it's more than one Data Center license... On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.comwrote: We run VMware here and for every VMware host we have a Windows Data Center license. Watching the new HyperV 3 features and our environment requirements and VMware's license changes, we'll be checking into it more next year as the Server software gets into beta and release. We are in the beginnings of our 3 year agreement with VMware so no immediate cost change for us. On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: And as for Client Access Licenses (CALs), that doesn’t matter what you are running on the host – you still appropriate CALs. ** ** Cheers Ken ** ** *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, 20 September 2011 7:47 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Virtualisation software ** ** No matter which virtualization solution you obtain, you will need to license the Windows guests that run in them. If you're running Linux guests, then you're fine, of course. Purchasing an Enterprise license for Windows will allow for the running of up to 4 guests against that license. Purchases a Data Center license will allow for running an unlimited number of Windows guests against that particular license. You need to review the licensing documentation again http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/virtualization.aspx *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market…* On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Nigel Parker nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk wrote: Hi thanks to everyone that replied ! I have a working solution as we used Vmware products before that's why I went down this route I though with Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 you needed licenses for the clients to connect as we are running a mix of 2k and 2003 servers I gave this a miss, as we will have a number of people connecting to these virtual machines I want the bare metal route as we cant spend anything at the moment And our thinking was that bare metal would have less overhead and therefore allow us to run more machines on the same host Thanks for all the replies Regards Nigel -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: 19 September 2011 17:10 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtualisation software For Bare Metal + Free, I think your only options are ESXi and XenServer. For nearly Bare Metal + Free, check out: Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 - http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=enid=3512 ProxmoxVE - http://pve.proxmox.com/ We ended up using Hyper-V, but not the nearly bare-metal one linked above. We decided to use the full install of Windows Server and run Hyper-V on top so we could keep the ease of use functionality, 3rd party network and RAID management compatibility, and it wasn't _that_ much more headroom to have the full windows experience. The fact that the licensing allows us to the host server for free is nice, too. See: http://www.quicklearn.us/library/Virtualization.Windows-Server-2008-R2-V irtualization-Licensing.ashxhttp://www.quicklearn.us/library/Virtualization.Windows-Server-2008-R2-V%0d%0airtualization-Licensing.ashx Proxmox looks awesome for a linux based VM server. I recommend you try this one only if you're planning a small scale deployment, as they don't have any good clustering support, yet. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Nigel Parker [mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:16:57 -0700 Subject:
Re: 3ncrypt3d email solutions
Kim, Thanks for the information. We use ProofPoint as well and although I haven't personally come across that issue, I'll pass it on to our Information Security team. The fact that you had to change the subject of the e-mail is the reason we used a very specific tag, such as [enc]. This prevents unexpected encryption of messages. Are you aware of the other triggers like using the confidential settings within Outlook? There's also a very lightweight Outlook Add-in that adds a Send Securely button to the new message form. The buttton simply adds a header to outgoing messages that ProofPoint picks up. Our users seem to prefer that method since it is a single button click to send and encrypt. My only complaint is that the button (in Outlook 2007) is placed directly above the normal Send button. I'd be happy to pass along more information if you're intereted. - Sean On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.comwrote: With proofpoint, if a user puts “encrypt” in the subject line, the email is encrypted. We also have policies that encrypt a message automatically based on policies, like SSNs, PCI info, etc. We ran into a problem recently where a worker emailed a .pdf with a social in it that got sent out un-encrypted. We found out that if the .pdf is an “image”, the proofpoint won’t see the SSN, it just sees an image. If the .pdf is “searchable”, then proof point finds the social and encrypts. At this point, we have to train users to save their .pdfs in the searchable format. ** ** Have you had that situation with Zix? ** ** ** ** PS: the first time I sent this, proofpoint encrypted it (hence the munged subject line this time), and Lyris barfed because it didn’t like me sending an attachment to the list… ** ** *From:* pdw1...@hotmail.com [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, September 15, 2011 9:50 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Encrypted email solutions ** ** We also use Zix since we fall under HIPAA (hospital). Zix encrypts based on criteria such as HIPAA, financial (sox) based policies. Users can also force encryption by placing a code word in the Subject line. Small 1U appliance which is pretty easy to setup and maintain (such as backup and upgrades). -- From: mich...@smithcons.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Encrypted email solutions Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:54:36 + I’ve got a number of customers using Zix and they are quite happy with it. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com http://theessentialexchange.com/ *From:* S Powell [mailto:powe...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 14, 2011 5:38 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Encrypted email solutions I'm starting my research on encrypted email solutions. Right now we are relying on users to sign and encrypt their email that contains protected information. We have TLS set up, only some of our providers use it, and we are looking at other solutions. We're looking at Cisco Iron Port, and McAfee Email Gateway. If you have something that you use what is it and how do you like it? - Who'd you rather be, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or
Re: 3ncrypt3d email solutions
Kim, I've searched high and low for a place to download the Outlook Plug-in from ProofPoint's website, no such luck. I know we're using the lite version, which is free, but it was provided to me directly from an engineer that was on-site last year assistance with our migration to version 6.0 on new hardware. You may have to contact your account rep or open a CTS case. As far as the other triggers go, here are the specifics for the e-mail firewall rules that you can create (or possibly modify) within your environment. Encrypt based on Outlook Sensitivity: The condition of your rule simply states Message attribute sensitivity Containts company-confidential. Apply it to your outbound policy route(s) as necessary and configure the rule to secure the message. Encrypt based on subject trigger: The conditition of your rule states: Message attribute Subject Contains trigger. In our case, the trigger is [enc]. Apply to your outbound policy route(s) as necessary and configure the rule to secure the message. It is recommended that under the dispositions, you also change the message headers and add an action to Modify Header (header name = Subject), find value = trigger (i.e. \[enc\]. and replace value = blank (effectively deleting the trigger from the header after the message is encrypted - Sean On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.comwrote: Sean, we have not noticed the other triggers you’ve noted, and as far as I know weren’t aware of the Outlook Add-in you mentioned. I’d like the info so I can at least let the bosses know the option exists. ** ** Thanks, Kim ** ** *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:40 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: 3ncrypt3d email solutions ** ** Kim, Thanks for the information. We use ProofPoint as well and although I haven't personally come across that issue, I'll pass it on to our Information Security team. The fact that you had to change the subject of the e-mail is the reason we used a very specific tag, such as [enc]. This prevents unexpected encryption of messages. Are you aware of the other triggers like using the confidential settings within Outlook? There's also a very lightweight Outlook Add-in that adds a Send Securely button to the new message form. The buttton simply adds a header to outgoing messages that ProofPoint picks up. Our users seem to prefer that method since it is a single button click to send and encrypt. My only complaint is that the button (in Outlook 2007) is placed directly above the normal Send button. I'd be happy to pass along more information if you're intereted. - Sean On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.com wrote: With proofpoint, if a user puts “encrypt” in the subject line, the email is encrypted. We also have policies that encrypt a message automatically based on policies, like SSNs, PCI info, etc. We ran into a problem recently where a worker emailed a .pdf with a social in it that got sent out un-encrypted. We found out that if the .pdf is an “image”, the proofpoint won’t see the SSN, it just sees an image. If the .pdf is “searchable”, then proof point finds the social and encrypts. At this point, we have to train users to save their .pdfs in the searchable format. Have you had that situation with Zix? PS: the first time I sent this, proofpoint encrypted it (hence the munged subject line this time), and Lyris barfed because it didn’t like me sending an attachment to the list… *From:* pdw1...@hotmail.com [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, September 15, 2011 9:50 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Encrypted email solutions We also use Zix since we fall under HIPAA (hospital). Zix encrypts based on criteria such as HIPAA, financial (sox) based policies. Users can also force encryption by placing a code word in the Subject line. Small 1U appliance which is pretty easy to setup and maintain (such as backup and upgrades). -- From: mich...@smithcons.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Encrypted email solutions Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:54:36 + I’ve got a number of customers using Zix and they are quite happy with it. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com http://theessentialexchange.com/ *From:* S Powell [mailto:powe...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 14, 2011 5:38 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Encrypted email solutions I'm starting my research on encrypted email solutions. Right now we are relying on users to sign and encrypt their email that contains protected information. We have
Re: Encrypted email solutions
Proofpoint should be worth a look. - Sean On Sep 14, 2011, at 1:38 PM, S Powell powe...@gmail.com wrote: I'm starting my research on encrypted email solutions. Right now we are relying on users to sign and encrypt their email that contains protected information. We have TLS set up, only some of our providers use it, and we are looking at other solutions. We're looking at Cisco Iron Port, and McAfee Email Gateway. If you have something that you use what is it and how do you like it? - Who'd you rather be, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: RDS Q - Webster?
C'mon now, it warmed up a bit later this afternoon. - Sean On Sep 13, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: Greetings from Anchorage, Alaska where it is cold and wet. My apologies, I do not use RDS and have never set it up beyond what is necessary to install XenApp 6 or XenApp 6.5. Sorry Webster From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Subject: RDS Q - Webster? My RDS servers are part of our internal domain, (internal.nwea.org). From my desk inside the network If I enter https://myrdswebserver.internal.nwea.org and then try to launch an app I do not get prompted and the app works fine. If I enter https://myrdswebserver.nwea.org (A URL I would also use if not inside our perimeter) I get the app list via RD Web server (populated from my RDS all server), but when I try to launch any app I get prompted for domain credentials. Entering my credentials works but that’s now an extra authentication step. The internal.nwea.org is a subdomain of nwea.org, so I need to figure out how to pass the credentials from the RD Web server to the app server. All RDS servers are in the internal.nwea.org domain. Is there a trust that needs to be set up for this to work? Do the RDS servers need to be part of our external domain? Perhaps I have this architected wrong…? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: OT: PMI PMP Certification
Much deserved congratulations. From what I understand that was no easy feat. - Sean On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:03 AM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: For everyone who was waiting with bated breath… I took the exam today and passed! What’s next? I’m thinking ITIL... ** ** ** ** John -- From: john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 14:13:32 -0400 Subject: OT: PMI PMP Certification I was wondering if there were any certified PMPs out there that could give me pointers on the exam. I had planned on taking it in around two months, but I just caught wind of the fact PMI is changing it on August 31. So now I’m cramming to see if I can get it done before the change. I took two project management courses in grad school pretty recently, and am currently reading a couple of PMP study guides. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Earthquake!!!!!!
Pshh...and when you're done with the kiddie experience in CA, come to Alaska if you really want to shake. We may even throw a volcanic eruption in for good measure. Oh, and there was photo evidence of a funnel cloud forming near Iliamna. :) - Sean On Aug 23, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote: BAH! just a 5.8?? you guys are wimps :P Come on out to Cali if you want to see real earthquakes... In all seriousness, I'm glad there's no reports of serious injuries. Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com 08/23/11 11:44 AM It's centered just 25 miles east of me. Yes, I felt it. :) http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/usc0005ild.php Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Earthquake!! Anyone on east coast feel it? We did here in Pennsylvania. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.commailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Did you know...
Similar to dragging an executable to the run dialogue to aid in launching with specific switches. I believe quotes are automatically added if the path contains spaces, but...don't quote me on that. /rimshot - Sean On Aug 22, 2011, at 8:04 PM, James Hill j.h...@coffeeclub.com.au wrote: I was just as wowed the first time I saw it to. So was my colleague at the time. From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 23 August 2011 7:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Did you know... You can paste folder names in a command-prompt windows by dragging the folder and dropping it into the CLI window? I saw my boss do it this morning and it blew my mind. How did I not ever know you can do that... ?! -- Espi ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Looking for Position and Positions in Pennsylvania
I’m waiting for the Flyers season to start up, that’s my real passion. +1000 to that! Go Rangers. -Sean On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Guyer, Don don.gu...@fiserv.com wrote: Guess Vick will be coming to you guys within the next few years, after he doesn’t produce a SB win. ** ** J ** ** I’m waiting for the Flyers season to start up, that’s my real passion. ** ** *Don Guyer* Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed – A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group *Fiserv* don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com [image: Description: Frog Signature] ** ** *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, August 19, 2011 11:25 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Looking for Position and Positions in Pennsylvania ** ** Well, it is the Eagles, what do you expect? This is coming from a long time Vikings sufferer, I mean fan. Seems like we take old-used up Eagles QBs give them a nice season when they come to Minnesota, and then expect the same in the second season. Oh wait, we do that with all veteran QBs, now that I think about it. Cunningham, Favre, George, McMahon. If the pattern holds, the Vikings should have a great year and then choke sometime in the playoffs. On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Guyer, Don don.gu...@fiserv.com wrote:* *** Man, they sure made our “standout” corners look bad last night, even though it’s only preseason. *Don Guyer* Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed – A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group *Fiserv* don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com [image: Description: Frog Signature] *From:* Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] *Sent:* Friday, August 19, 2011 7:30 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Looking for Position and Positions in Pennsylvania Hey Hey that is my home sweet home PA ( abiet I was born on the west side outside Pittsburgh) ( Go Steelers!) Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 [image: CISSP_logo] *From:* Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] *Sent:* Thursday, August 18, 2011 5:22 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Looking for Position and Positions in Pennsylvania And you expected ME to know Pennsylvania geography? Good lord, I can barely spell the state! J Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ *From:* Guyer, Don [mailto:don.gu...@fiserv.com] *Sent:* Thursday, August 18, 2011 3:12 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Looking for Position and Positions in Pennsylvania LOL! Here’s your sign… That’s actually not in my area, but thx for matchmaking anyway, Webster!** ** J *Don Guyer* Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed – A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group *Fiserv* don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com [image: Description: Frog Signature] *From:* Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] *Sent:* Thursday, August 18, 2011 4:04 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Looking for Position and Positions in Pennsylvania Christopher Bodnar meet Don Guyer, Don meet Chris. If anyone is looking or knows of someone who is looking, we will be interviewing soon for a Sr. level Sys Admin position. Ideal candidate will have the typical qualifications with an emphasis on Citrix (XenApp 6, XenApp 5). This is a FTE position not a contract position, and will be located here in Bethlehem PA. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ *From:* Guyer, Don [mailto:don.gu...@fiserv.com] *Sent:* Monday, August 15, 2011 9:30 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* OT: Looking for Position Everyone, I was just notified that my position will be cut, effective the end of September. If anyone hears of anything open in the Southeastern area of PA, please contact me offline at don.gu...@comcast.net. Thanks, *Don Guyer* Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed – A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group *Fiserv* don.gu...@fiserv.com Office:
Re: Sherry's Back
Congratulations and welcome back! - Sean On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Sherry Abercrombie sabercrom...@nhdallas.com wrote: Hello everyone, I’m finally back. After being laid off in April 2010, I was unemployed for about 4 months, finally landing a job answering Help Desk and eventually as a Network Operator at Radio Shack corporate headquarters. Not exactly doing any technical server admin type stuff……this week I started a new job as the Facilities/IT Manager at New Horizons Computer Training Center – Dallas. I’ll be over the facilities in Dallas, Fort Worth, Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Will be managing a small team, doing server admin stuff and other technical stuff, and access to any training I want to take….oh yes, I’m really excited about this job. So here I am back on the lists and very glad to be back. ** ** ** ** *Sherry Abercrombie | Facilities/IT Manager* Dallas | Fort Worth | Oklahoma City | Tulsa 972.490.5151 x2250 sabercrom...@nhdallas.com cbeav...@nhoklahoma.com | www.nhcomputerlearning.com http://www.nhtexas.com/ ** ** ** ** -- This information may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, photocopying or distribution of these contents is unauthorized and prohibited. If you have received this in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: QNAP iSCSI target for ESX 4.1
Should be no issue. We're mostly FC with our CX700s and CX4 (except for an aging Celerra gateway providing iSCSI for some dev systems). We're in the process of a storage uplift and regardless of the platform, we'll be introducing iSCSI to slowly phase out FC. - Sean On Aug 12, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: Cool. Thanks. Any thoughts about a mixed FC + iSCSI datastore environment like I'm thinking about? I'm sure people do it all the time, but we've been 100% FC up to now. The potential cost savings of adding a '2nd tier' iSCSI SAN over expanding the EVA are very compelling. On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:17 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: I have a small QNAP at home running as an iSCSi target for my ESX4 boxes, works great. I can’t think of any huge differences between 4 and 4.1 that would cause any problems (we have 4.1 at the dayjob) John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 2:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: QNAP iSCSI target for ESX 4.1 Anyone using a QNAP device as an iSCSI target in a VMware ESX 4.1 production environment? Any experiences you can share? On a related note, I'm thinking of adding some iSCSI datastores in addition to the ones already presented via FC from my EVA. Any reason that's not a good idea? We have a number of VMs that don't have significant I/O requirements (think WSUS servers and the like) that I'm thinking of moving off of the expensive storage to an inexpensive iSCSI solution such as a QNAP array. Thanks, RS ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the company. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Text Editor for Windows WAS: SQL for File Storage?
Ultraedit - Sean On Aug 5, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: One more reason to use the command line. :) Agreed! On that subject, is there a good text based editor for Windows anybody can recommend? If anybody is familiar with the emacs vs vi wars in the *nix world, I don't want to go there. I just want to know what people are using when they want to edit a text file without opening Notepad. *ducks* --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:02:38 -0700 Subject: Re: SQL for File Storage? On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Once you have problems with explorer hanging, I've found that it's time to start dividing the files into smaller directories. Hell, I've had Explorer hang on empty folders... ;-) One more reason to use the command line. :) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: VMware vSphere 5 Licensing and Pricing Update
I find it a little hard to believe that VMWare was able to react this quickly to customer outcry. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but the revised licensing seems a lot like a Plan B they had waiting just in case customers responded poorly to the original vRAM entitlements that were announced with vSphere 5. With that said, I'm glad the changes were made as it will make our licensing procurement a little easier on the checkbook. - Sean On Aug 3, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Jonathan ncm...@gmail.com wrote: Hahaha, true! Jonathan A+, MCSA, MCSE Thumb-typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) on the Verizon network. Please excuse brevity and any misspellings. On Aug 3, 2011 6:01 PM, Gary Slinger gary.slin...@gmail.com wrote: I like how their competition will have been spooling up marketing campaigns to capitalize on this, and are now going 'oh, crap... :) -Original Message- From: Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 17:58:02 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: Fw: VMware vSphere 5 Licensing and Pricing Update Yep, I need to review it this week... I like how all these companies can spin We just through up a dumb idea and now have to backtrack to we listened to our customers and partners, and decided to refine a few things... * * *ASB* *http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Gary Slinger gary.slin...@gmail.com wrote: Now that it's public, this may be of interest, given the gnashing of teeth recently. G --Original Message-- From: The VMware Team To: Gary Slinger ReplyTo: The VMware Team Subject: VMware vSphere 5 Licensing and Pricing Update Sent: Aug 3, 2011 17:40 View this email on mobile devices | View the online version VMware vSphere 5 Licensing Pricing Update Dear VMware Partner, On July 12, 2011, VMware announced our new Cloud Infrastructure Suite. The launch featured vSphere 5, the newest version of our flagship product. As many of you know, as part of this announcement, we introduced changes to the vSphere licensing model in order to align costs with the benefits of virtualization rather than with the physical attributes of individual servers. While our goal was to provide a licensing model based on consumption and value rather than physical components and capacity, we strived to make the new model as non-disruptive as possible. These changes generated much debate in the blogosphere, in conversations with our partners and customers, and across VMware communities. Some of the discussion had to do with confusion around the changes. We have been watching the blog commentaries carefully, and we have been listening to the partner and customer conversations very intently. A great deal of feedback was provided that examined the impact of the new licensing model on every possible use case and scenario, and equally importantly, reflected our partners’ and customers’ intense passion for VMware. Our success depends on the active involvement of our channel partners. We are a company built on partner and customer goodwill, and we’ve taken your feedback in earnest. Our primary objective is to do right by our customers, so we are announcing three changes to the vSphere 5 licensing model that address the most recurring areas of your feedback. • We’ve increased vRAM entitlements for all vSphere editions, including the doubling of the entitlements for vSphere Enterprise and Enterprise Plus. This change addresses concerns about future-looking business cases that were based on future hardware capabilities and the previous vSphere licensing model. Below is a comparison of the previously announced and the new vSphere 5 vRAM enti ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~
Re: Vipre console hangs server on reboot
Easy -- so I don't have to wait for it to load up when I RDP into the server. You have got to be kidding me. - Sean On Jul 26, 2011, at 9:28 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Easy -- so I don't have to wait for it to load up when I RDP into the server. :D I like to keep an eye on things and make sure everyone is updating as they should, etc. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Vipre console hangs server on reboot Why on earth have the console running all the time, then? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Schedule batch files to run accoss multiple servers and multiple schedules
We use a product called UC4. I dont think its cheap, but its pretty powerful. - Sean On Jul 26, 2011, at 9:04 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 22:30, Dean Cunningham dean.cunning...@gmail.com wrote: Looking for suggestions to manage scheduling of batch files to run on particular servers at scheduled times (weekly, two weekly, monthly etc) Currently we use sheduled tasks to set this up per server, but would like better visability and manageability as to what is scheduled accross the servers (100ish) multiple domains. Needs to be domain independant There used to be a package called Robot, from Opalis. I see that Opalis was recently bought by MSFT and is getting integrated into System Center - I don't know where that leave the Robot product, but it's worth a look. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: iphone multiple device ID
Does he have two devices? I have several ActiveSync users with iPhones and iPads. - Sean On Jul 23, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Level 5 Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: We recently upgraded Exchange from 03 to 10. We created a whole new domain, I happen to notice that on the CEO’s mailbox there are 2 iphone connections. At first I thought maybe he added a new exchange account and hes getting mail twice, but the Apple Device ID’s are different. So I went in and changed his pw, and had him change it on his phone and still 2 connections seem to be syncing with 2 diff Apple ID’s .. Im assuming since I changed his pw he just keeps changing it on both accounts … anyone know if that would make 2 different IDs? Thx ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: PC Mall created a customer account without my knowledge
+1 I have voice messages weekly from them. - Sean On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote: They’ve been knocking on our door for awhile. They seem to be a pretty big company. We haven’t used them yet, but they do call pretty aggressively. ** ** -Paul ** ** *From:* David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] *Sent:* Thursday, July 14, 2011 10:02 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* PC Mall created a customer account without my knowledge ** ** Has anyone dealt w/ this company? I just got an email from PC Mall saying “Welcome to PC Mall” – here is your username and password to begin saving money”… WTF? I never signed up w/ them, never even talked to them… Is this normal practice for resellers to just auto-create customer accounts? And to then send a plain-text email containing log on credentials??? I replied back demanding to have the account deleted and confirmation of my request. /Rant off . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes
I realize my statement was off the cuff and normally that is not like me, but I wanted to get just the reaction that I did. I've been hearing tales for serveral months that Citrix's recent alignment with Microsoft (over the last 6-10 months) is directly related to their efforts to phase out XenServer as a HyperVisor and continue advancement of HyperV. The argument has been that Microsoft has a better HyperVisor and Citrix has much better management tools. It's hard to argue that from a capability standpoint, neither Microsoft or Citrix could really compete with VMWare. Their market play has traditionally been that of a value proposition. Given VMWare's dominance in the market, it wouldn't be surprising if MS and Citrix teamed up. Citrix has a much better product in XenDesktop compared to View and Citrix has traditionally been an app presentation solution provider. I would expect them to focus in that arena while continuing to leverage their management tools with MS HyperV for server virtualization. I'm not claiming to have any insider information and I fully appreciate your position as a CTP. I would love to hear the other side of the story because to be quite honest, I haven't heard any rebuttals to the rumors above in our small IT circle up north. I honestly have nothing against Citrix. We have a 200+ Server XenApp 5 farm where I'm employed. - Sean On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote: “XenServer will be dead soon” ** ** Dude that is a boatload of crap! ** ** Do you realize that the vast majority of public cloud providers run on either the free or paid for XenServer or the free Xen hypervisor? One Canadian cloud provider has over 12,000 XenServer hosts. Now that Citrix has bought cloud.com, the Xen open source project and the Citrix XenServer (free and paid) product are not going away. ** ** Thanks ** ** ** ** Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ (check out the changes coming to my website) ** ** ** ** *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] *Subject:* Re: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes ** ** XenServer will be dead soon. You might as well move to HyperV now if you want to avoid VMWare. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes
That's the way I read it. We, like many others I'm sure, are waiting an official explanation from our account rep. - Sean On Jul 13, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Greg Olson gol...@markettools.com wrote: So one thing that I’m hoping I’m getting confused on is this: Let’s say Right now I have an Esx enterprise host with 64gb of ram and two 6 core procs. Currently I have two enterprise licenses to cover this. Now based on the new licenses it looks like I’d have the same licenses 2x32gb for memory, but reading the line below is worrisome: Q: How is consumed vRAM capacity determined? A: Consumed vRAM is equal to the sum total of vRAM configured to all powered on virtual machines managed by a single instance of VMware vCenter Server or by multiple instances of VMware vCenter Server in Linked Mode. So, I have over 30vm’s running on this host (one of about a dozen QA eSX servers) that have vm’s with 4gb of ram allocated to them each, that work well with memory sharing. Now based on what I read above, that means I now have to buy 4 licenses to cover each server as I’m at 120gb of VRam!? Add that cost across our QA and even worse our dev and prod environment’s, and that’s a big sticker hit. I hope I’m reading that wrong, if not our test Hyper-v cluster will be expanding over the next 6 months. L From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 9:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes Windows Server has those types of limitations, too, and have as long as I have been using it. It used to be that you had to go up to the Enterprise Edition to use over 4 GB of memory. It’s higher today at 32 GB (Standard Edition limit), but you still are constrained by the software. I am not saying that I like the licensing change that VMWare is doing, but it’s hardly anything unprecedented. From: Randal, Phil [mailto:pran...@herefordshire.gov.uk] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 9:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes I don’t have a problem with paying a licence fee for every installed copy of the software, but I strongly challenge the right of any software vendor to charge self-imposed taxes on their customers’ hardware. This sort of licensing should be illegal, IMHO. Phil -- Phil Randal | Infrastructure Engineer NHS Herefordshire Herefordshire Council | Deputy Chief Executive's Office | I.C.T. Services Division Thorn Office Centre, Rotherwas, Hereford, HR2 6JT Tel: 01432 260160 From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: 13 July 2011 13:57 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes One analyst says for some large VMware shops with large VMs this could quadruple their VMware licensing costs. Another analyst says VMware is sending a clear message to SMBs, “You can’t afford us”. Like MBS, I am NOT a VMware person. This is just my $0.02US worth. Webster From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Subject: RE: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes Great way for vmware to drive customers to Hyper-V. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Subject: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes http://blogs.softchoice.com/advisor/2011/07/12/big-changes-in-licensing-model-for-vmware-vsphere-5-vmware/ Note how licensing is moving to be CPU based but limited by vRam. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body:
Re: Dell
This is one of those scenarios where leveraging a channel partner over Dell Direct would probably yield better results. - Sean On Jul 13, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed. As we generally buy from Dell with a CC, I'd give serious thought about pushing a credit card side cancellation on something like this. Dell needs to learn that their poor service costs business money, and we need to start transferring those costs to Dell. On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote: No kiddingthere is NO way I'd do anything for them when they screwed it up. On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: 2. more work for me. Not much, just reply to your rep with “I took the liberty of tracking your equipment down. If you’d like to retrieve it, here’s where it’s at: xxx-xxx-. Now, please send me my order.” From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 2:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell Just had someone from Dell ship my last three orders to a weird address another state. (We only have one address). I have told 4 people to fix it; managers are involved, and had about 20 emails conversations. The person in TX that did received our orders contacted me, wondering what to do with all the goods? (Good on him). I asked one of my reps working on the issue if we can get a return label for him to send the goods back to Dell. This was his response verbatim: The retunr lable can you provided for you ofcourse.. All you have to do is call customer care and they will have it for you.. 1. WAT? Spell Check? 2. Great, more work for me. Thanks Dell! Rant over. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 1:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell Perfect! Send to: prem...@dell.com global_b2b_supp...@dell.com Dear Dell, Please fix Premier or I am going elsewhere. See attached. Thanks, Your customer [in peril] From: Shauna Hensala [mailto:she...@msn.com] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 1:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dell There are a lot of corps that need to read this and take it to heart - but particularly DELL - http://docs.media.bitpipe.com/io_25x/io_25805/item_399595/19613_WhyPerformanceMatters_WP.pdf Shauna Hensala Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 14:01:09 -0400 Subject: Re: RE: windows 7 forensics From: jonathan.l...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If there's a chance it turns into something bigger, I'd hold off doing anything. I'd unplug the computer and lock it in a safe and leave it alone. I'd talk to your superiors about being able to maintain the integrity of the machine being paramount if they think that this will involve litigation or be referred for criminal prosecution. Once you have authoritative guidance on what you're allowed to do I'd do it. Even if it means you have to pay the professional for a clone you can access, I think that it would be worth it. On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Jonathan ncm...@gmail.com wrote: Good points from all of you. I don't know that a third party will be brought in at all, but want to be prepared in case it does turn into something bigger, which is why I asked the list. What would you guys recommend for cloning for this purpose? The last thing I used was Ghost, but have used dfsee and others... Jonathan A+, MCSA, MCSE Thumb-typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) on the Verizon network. Please excuse brevity and any misspellings. On Jun 9, 2011 1:45 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: The second you log on as an Admin files have changed. If there are Legal discoveries then the evidence is tainted. Forensic specialists clone the HD with a special setup and do discovery on the clone thus preserving the original for evidence. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 1:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: windows 7 forensics Some alarm bells are going off. If there's a professional service involved, why are you doing anything? Have you asked them what they would suggest so you could do your own analysis? On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Jonathan ncm...@gmail.commailto:ncm...@gmail.com wrote: for those of you you do not have content filtering in place, when someone asks you to analyze a computer to figure out where they've been what software to use? I've used iehist to examine index.dat files but I'm wondering if there is anything better thats come out since I haven't done this in a year or two. free is preferable, but I
Re: Dell
Its a fairly new concept for us as we have traditionally always gone Direct, but I don't think it's a new concept for Dell. They may selectively push channel partners in certain regions for various reasons. We're in Alaska where Dell doesn't have a local TSE or Account Rep so they probably realized their larger customers may be better serviced with local representation. It haa worked well for us so far and our Dell account team has been more than willing to leverage partner resources over direcr when it is beneficial for us. - Sean On Jul 13, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Ryan Finnesey ryan.finne...@harrierinvestments.com wrote: I did not know Dell had a channel. Is this something new? I always think of the Dell model as direct Cheers Ryan From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell This is one of those scenarios where leveraging a channel partner over Dell Direct would probably yield better results. - Sean On Jul 13, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed. As we generally buy from Dell with a CC, I'd give serious thought about pushing a credit card side cancellation on something like this. Dell needs to learn that their poor service costs business money, and we need to start transferring those costs to Dell. On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote: No kiddingthere is NO way I'd do anything for them when they screwed it up. On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: 2. more work for me. Not much, just reply to your rep with “I took the liberty of tracking your equipment down. If you’d like to retrieve it, here’s where it’s at: xxx-xxx-. Now, please send me my order.” From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 2:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell Just had someone from Dell ship my last three orders to a weird address another state. (We only have one address). I have told 4 people to fix it; managers are involved, and had about 20 emails conversations. The person in TX that did received our orders contacted me, wondering what to do with all the goods? (Good on him). I asked one of my reps working on the issue if we can get a return label for him to send the goods back to Dell. This was his response verbatim: The retunr lable can you provided for you ofcourse.. All you have to do is call customer care and they will have it for you.. 1. WAT? Spell Check? 2. Great, more work for me. Thanks Dell! Rant over. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 1:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell Perfect! Send to: prem...@dell.com global_b2b_supp...@dell.com Dear Dell, Please fix Premier or I am going elsewhere. See attached. Thanks, Your customer [in peril] From: Shauna Hensala [mailto:she...@msn.com] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 1:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dell There are a lot of corps that need to read this and take it to heart - but particularly DELL - http://docs.media.bitpipe.com/io_25x/io_25805/item_399595/19613_WhyPerformanceMatters_WP.pdf Shauna Hensala Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 14:01:09 -0400 Subject: Re: RE: windows 7 forensics From: jonathan.l...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com If there's a chance it turns into something bigger, I'd hold off doing anything. I'd unplug the computer and lock it in a safe and leave it alone. I'd talk to your superiors about being able to maintain the integrity of the machine being paramount if they think that this will involve litigation or be referred for criminal prosecution. Once you have authoritative guidance on what you're allowed to do I'd do it. Even if it means you have to pay the professional for a clone you can access, I think that it would be worth it. On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Jonathan ncm...@gmail.com wrote: Good points from all of you. I don't know that a third party will be brought in at all, but want to be prepared in case it does turn into something bigger, which is why I asked the list. What would you guys recommend for cloning for this purpose? The last thing I used was Ghost, but have used dfsee and others... Jonathan A+, MCSA, MCSE Thumb-typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) on the Verizon network. Please excuse brevity and any misspellings. On Jun 9, 2011 1:45 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: The second you log on as an Admin files have changed. If there are Legal discoveries then the evidence is tainted. Forensic
Re: OT - problems installing HP Management Agents on VMware ESX 4.1
Out of curiousity, what benefits are provided with the HP agents? The reason I ask is because we're in the early stages of implementing VMWare in our environment. I've been working closely with our new Architect who was previously a consultant that designed and implemented VMWare deployments. He has been pretty vocal against the installation of the HP agents and/or Dell Open manage solutions for ESX. He indicated he has experienced far too many kernel panics (purple screens of death?) caused by these two pieces of software. Given the problems you seem to be having with the installation, I was wondering if it was all worth it. - Sean On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: Ah, thanks for the clarification. When you download the hpmgmt tgz and extract it, one of the files it will extract is called hpmgmt.zip Extract that file and you'll find all the hp snmp and mgmt rpm files. DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.447.6014 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE -Original Message- From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - problems installing HP Management Agents on VMware ESX 4.1 On 7/12/2011 11:00 AM, Damien Solodow wrote: The HP specific RPMs should be from the agents you downloaded (8.60, 8.70). The snmp service and the like are part of the ESX cd, so should be there. Nope. There are no RPMs named hp-* on the install CD. Nor are there any in the downloaded agent install (there's only 1 .tgz file in the Agent install). And the snmp agents are (or were) in RPMs named hp-snmp-agents It's not the snmp service I need; it's the SNMP agents from HP ... You should still be able to download the HP 8.60 agents from their site though. I have the 8.60 agent. I installed it. But it does not include the RPMs for hp-health, hp-snmp-agent, etc. The System Management Homepage RPM is already installed, it says. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Encrypting Event Logs
Thanks again for the responses. I compiled them for my manager and he got a good kick out of them, and even forwarded them to our CIO so he could see the kind of ridiculous statements we have to deal with from these auditors. - Sean On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: Defintely, if you are offloading your logs to another device ( which is a good practice, then they should be secured ( encryption) (Probably AES 128bit FIPS 140-2 standard) But I agree the auditor should give you more guidance accordingly so that you can make a proper risk determination. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:15 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Encrypting Event Logs I have no idea where the auditor was coming from. I'm hoping to get additional, more formal information. - Sean On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Encrypt them from who? They're not accessible unless the machine is off and one has physical access... Ask them if they have a reference for any tools to encrypt them... I could see if you were forwarding them via syslog and they wanted those encrypted... *ASB *(Professional Bio http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market...** * * * On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Good morning/afternoon, My manager has requested I look for ways to encrypt the event logs on our DCs. Apparently during one of our many audits (governing body to remain nameless) one of the auditors insisted that we should be encrypting the event logs on our DCs. I have since requested a formal finding be provided by the auditor indicating the perceived risks so that I can first identify if we have any mitigating controls already in place. With that, I thought I would start looking around for specific solutions. We're currently running Windows 2003 DCs in a Windows 2003 Native AD environment. I'm not finding a whole lot of solutions specific to encrypting event logs. We are planning on introducing Windows 2008 R2 DCs this year so I will research bit locker, but, I'm concered about the inter-operability with Symantec SIM. I'm still working with very little information so I'm probably missing a lot of content. I guess I would just like to find out if anyone else has received similiar directives from an audit and what solutions or mitigating controls helped satisfy the auditor's concerns. - Sean ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Encrypting Event Logs
I have no idea where the auditor was coming from. I'm hoping to get additional, more formal information. - Sean On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Encrypt them from who? They're not accessible unless the machine is off and one has physical access... Ask them if they have a reference for any tools to encrypt them... I could see if you were forwarding them via syslog and they wanted those encrypted... *ASB *(Professional Bio http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... * On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.comwrote: Good morning/afternoon, My manager has requested I look for ways to encrypt the event logs on our DCs. Apparently during one of our many audits (governing body to remain nameless) one of the auditors insisted that we should be encrypting the event logs on our DCs. I have since requested a formal finding be provided by the auditor indicating the perceived risks so that I can first identify if we have any mitigating controls already in place. With that, I thought I would start looking around for specific solutions. We're currently running Windows 2003 DCs in a Windows 2003 Native AD environment. I'm not finding a whole lot of solutions specific to encrypting event logs. We are planning on introducing Windows 2008 R2 DCs this year so I will research bit locker, but, I'm concered about the inter-operability with Symantec SIM. I'm still working with very little information so I'm probably missing a lot of content. I guess I would just like to find out if anyone else has received similiar directives from an audit and what solutions or mitigating controls helped satisfy the auditor's concerns. - Sean ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Encrypting Event Logs
This would fall under NCUA standards. I believe they mirror most of the CIS standards. I would understand if they came in and said we should have full drive encryption on certain servers. It was the statement indicating that our event logs should be encrypted that threw me. - Sean On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: Interesting, that's the first time I've heard a requirement to have just the event logs encrypted. When your auditors come in do they reference any standards such as CIS, DISA, NIST ? If this is a real requirement, I think it might make sense to coordinate the upgrade to 2008 and enabling BitLocker instead of going through the hassle of bringing in a 3rd party application. Although I don't know the scope or size of your organization, so that might not be possible. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From:Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:05/10/2011 03:43 PM Subject:Encrypting Event Logs -- Good morning/afternoon, My manager has requested I look for ways to encrypt the event logs on our DCs. Apparently during one of our many audits (governing body to remain nameless) one of the auditors insisted that we should be encrypting the event logs on our DCs. I have since requested a formal finding be provided by the auditor indicating the perceived risks so that I can first identify if we have any mitigating controls already in place. With that, I thought I would start looking around for specific solutions. We're currently running Windows 2003 DCs in a Windows 2003 Native AD environment. I'm not finding a whole lot of solutions specific to encrypting event logs. We are planning on introducing Windows 2008 R2 DCs this year so I will research bit locker, but, I'm concered about the inter-operability with Symantec SIM. I'm still working with very little information so I'm probably missing a lot of content. I guess I would just like to find out if anyone else has received similiar directives from an audit and what solutions or mitigating controls helped satisfy the auditor's concerns. - Sean ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ *http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/*http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: * http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/*http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to *listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com*listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Encrypting Event Logs
No, I'm pretty sure they aren't even much help providing examples of solutions. - Sean On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: Are they shilling for a company that provides a product? On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.comwrote: Good morning/afternoon, My manager has requested I look for ways to encrypt the event logs on our DCs. Apparently during one of our many audits (governing body to remain nameless) one of the auditors insisted that we should be encrypting the event logs on our DCs. I have since requested a formal finding be provided by the auditor indicating the perceived risks so that I can first identify if we have any mitigating controls already in place. With that, I thought I would start looking around for specific solutions. We're currently running Windows 2003 DCs in a Windows 2003 Native AD environment. I'm not finding a whole lot of solutions specific to encrypting event logs. We are planning on introducing Windows 2008 R2 DCs this year so I will research bit locker, but, I'm concered about the inter-operability with Symantec SIM. I'm still working with very little information so I'm probably missing a lot of content. I guess I would just like to find out if anyone else has received similiar directives from an audit and what solutions or mitigating controls helped satisfy the auditor's concerns. - Sean ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Encrypting Event Logs
We do syslog the event logs to Symantec SIM but I haven't been given any information that leads me to believe that transmission is what the auditor wants encrypted. I believe once the logs are at rest in SSIM they are encrypted. - Sean On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Level 5 Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: I have 2 clients that get audited by trustwave annually onsite, and quarterly pen tests. In all the audits I have done with different auditors no one has requested us to do this. We do event log collection into an sql database that is not encrypted. No one has also ever asked that we encrypt that database either. You can look for yourself on the PCI requirements checklist and see if this is mentioned anywhere. They are updated annually at least. *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, May 10, 2011 10:51 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Encrypting Event Logs Indeed! :) *ASB *(Professional Bio http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market...** * * * On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote: Yea, what you said. Another in a long line of totally clueless auditors…. Sometimes I think their only goal in life is to come up with a finding that no one else ever has before.. *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, May 10, 2011 3:04 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Encrypting Event Logs Ttttbt. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com http://theessentialexchange.com/ *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, May 10, 2011 3:43 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Encrypting Event Logs Good morning/afternoon, My manager has requested I look for ways to encrypt the event logs on our DCs. Apparently during one of our many audits (governing body to remain nameless) one of the auditors insisted that we should be encrypting the event logs on our DCs. I have since requested a formal finding be provided by the auditor indicating the perceived risks so that I can first identify if we have any mitigating controls already in place. With that, I thought I would start looking around for specific solutions. We're currently running Windows 2003 DCs in a Windows 2003 Native AD environment. I'm not finding a whole lot of solutions specific to encrypting event logs. We are planning on introducing Windows 2008 R2 DCs this year so I will research bit locker, but, I'm concered about the inter-operability with Symantec SIM. I'm still working with very little information so I'm probably missing a lot of content. I guess I would just like to find out if anyone else has received similiar directives from an audit and what solutions or mitigating controls helped satisfy the auditor's concerns. - Sean ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
