RE: Backup Software

2011-11-29 Thread Ben Serebin
Hello Bob, I have extension experience with it since I've been running it a few years and am an AppAssure partner. Support has improved in the past year. 6+ months ago, support was pretty bad. I know most of the guys at AppAssure, and it's an impressive solution if you're

RE: Backup alternatives

2011-11-08 Thread Ben Serebin
Hello All, I’ve deployed dozens of QNAPs and have 5 (1 -8 drive units) myself, and while they are high performance machines, support is lacking (but improving). BUT, you rarely if ever need support. Per Drobos, they are pretty looking. There’s a reason they won’t release

RE: OT - Blackberry Outage

2011-10-12 Thread Ben Serebin
Hello All, Snip from RIM website below. Summary: failure of testing redundant systems and not having enough redundant capacity. Have numerous clients with BBs on BES across US, and have random users affected. I just alerted all my clients to the problems. I'm a big believer in

RE: RIM Outages NYC?

2011-10-12 Thread Ben Serebin
The QA was more helpful to understand that their separate regions are actually connected. I don't believe the root cause is accurate since they claim it's a backlog which is causing the North America issue. -Ben From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011

RE: Another QNAP question

2011-08-25 Thread Ben Serebin
Hello Richard, I always enable it. Performance is good enough with it enabled. If you’re volumes are TB+, makes sense in my book. Worth the single digit performance hit. -Ben From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 12:34 PM To: NT

RE: VMware vSphere 5 Licensing and Pricing Update

2011-08-19 Thread Ben Serebin
Hello All, My comment on new VMware pricing…. if you knew me, you would know I’m a BIG proponent of ESXi for ease of deployment, stability, features. But, after heavily working with Hyper-V R2 “Core” in a 2 node cluster config for about a year (recently expanded to 3 node),

RE: find duplicate files

2011-08-18 Thread Ben Serebin
Hello Bill, Sorry for the delay (but this list generates a lot of email). The developer of FolderSizes has a great tool called Duplicate File Detective and he has it in 64 bit multi-threaded and supports removing dups as well. It's very feature rich. FolderSizes rocks as well. Far

RE: QNAP iSCSI target for ESX 4.1

2011-08-17 Thread Ben Serebin
as a spare for emergencies. On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Ben Serebin b...@reefsolutions.commailto:b...@reefsolutions.com wrote: Hello Richard, I have 5 different models of QNAPs all running iSCSI from ESXi. I run VMs directing from them and use others for storage LUNs and while

RE: QNAP iSCSI target for ESX 4.1

2011-08-16 Thread Ben Serebin
Hello Richard, I have 5 different models of QNAPs all running iSCSI from ESXi. I run VMs directing from them and use others for storage LUNs and while QNAP is rock solid, I would NOT recommend QNAP in a production VM running environment unless you’re willing to deal with a 1

RE: I need a Landline! You read that right.

2011-08-02 Thread Ben Serebin
that the DID flat rate is $4.95 to $5.95 and outbound is either $0.0052 or $0.0125/min. On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Ben Serebin b...@reefsolutions.commailto:b...@reefsolutions.com wrote: Hello All, I know this is old, but wanted to share in case it helps someone (I spent a few

RE: I need a Landline! You read that right.

2011-07-29 Thread Ben Serebin
Hello All, I know this is old, but wanted to share in case it helps someone (I spent a few months determining my options and testing different solutions). I recently dropped Vonage after about 9 yrs for my home setup and switched to a significantly cheaper and more flexible

Reading Shadow Copies from volume

2011-06-20 Thread Ben Serebin
Hello All, Any ideas how to pull shadow copies from a hard drive that's original OS [2003] doesn't exist? All data was recovered except for 1 important file. A separate volume was used for Shadow Copies. I'm trying to pull a single file from the Shadow Copies, but so far haven't found

RE: connecting TO a XP PC via RDP AND getting multi-monitor support

2011-05-19 Thread Ben Serebin
RDP AND getting multi-monitor support On 17 May 2011 at 10:49, Ben Serebin wrote: I'm well aware of the span feature in RDC 6.0 for outbound RDP connections to a multi-monitor environment, BUT I'm trying to do something DIFFERENT. I need to know and find something documented that says

RE: Sonicwall TZ100 content filtering

2011-05-17 Thread Ben Serebin
Hello Matt, It works well if all computers are treated equally. Simple, effective, and low cost. If you're trying to do more complex filtering (e.g. whitelisting per AD logged on user, skip it), but if you can whitelist based on IP ranges, it works well (requires CFS Premium version).

connecting TO a XP PC via RDP AND getting multi-monitor support

2011-05-17 Thread Ben Serebin
Hello All, I'm well aware of the span feature in RDC 6.0 for outbound RDP connections to a multi-monitor environment, BUT I'm trying to do something DIFFERENT. I need to know and find something documented that says inbound (yes, inbound) to what level OS (XP SP3, Vista, 7,

RE: Sonicwall TZ100 content filtering

2011-05-17 Thread Ben Serebin
reporting in this case. If you're trying to do more complex filtering (e.g. whitelisting per AD logged on user, skip it)... Does this mean it cannot do what I require? Thanks again for your feedback. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Ben Serebin [mailto:b