RE: Bandwidth problems

2010-08-29 Thread Lists - Level5
stem that sends Arnold back in time to kill the hacker as a small child before he invents the virus..." "There are 10 kinds of people in this world... those who can read binary, and those who can't" From: Lists - Level5 [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2

RE: Decrease number of CPUs in Windows?

2010-08-26 Thread Lists - Level5
Many thoughts will tell you that after you p2v or otherwise to put the single apci in hardware manager and roll back to 1 cpu. Then use the resource managers in esx/vcenter to add weighting and priorities. I do both, usually if it's a dual cpu I leave it, but some of the performance blogs/for

RE: Bandwidth problems

2010-08-26 Thread Lists - Level5
ource=extension&utm_medium=emai l&utm_campaign=footer> WiseStamp <http://s.wisestamp.com/pixel.png?p=chrome&v=1.2.3.0&t=1282839004056&u=76067 36&e=1283> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Lists - Level5 wrote: Rich, all the security stuff is disabled, we did

RE: Bandwidth problems

2010-08-26 Thread Lists - Level5
Rich, all the security stuff is disabled, we didn't need it anyway but I took it off as a precaution the other day. From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 12:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Bandwidth problems Do you have any of the

RE: Bandwidth problems

2010-08-26 Thread Lists - Level5
Thanks guys for trying to help. We have a 20MB MetroEthernet that was plugged into a Cisco router, the cisco was removed last night as a possible issue, and it wasn't needed anyway. We have jumbo frames throughout, but on the WAN I cannot enable more than 1500 MTU. I am installing Viewpoi

RE: De-duping recommendation

2010-08-09 Thread Lists - Level5
asing installation assistance. Not that it is difficult, but the paradigm is a bit different. On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Lists - Level5 wrote: We are being approached by Dell to get a few of their Data Domain san units. We currently have 4 6TB EQL's and are running a 9TB/wk backup rot

De-duping recommendation

2010-08-08 Thread Lists - Level5
We are being approached by Dell to get a few of their Data Domain san units. We currently have 4 6TB EQL's and are running a 9TB/wk backup rotation. The owners have requested to have all data backed up and readily available for 7 years. Nothing on tape. I heard that NetApp is one of the leaders

MD3200i / VSphere

2010-07-28 Thread Lists - Level5
Anyone managing an MD3000i series device? I only have been using LH and EQL boxes, but am installing an MD3000i (budget reasons), anyway the system comes up well and good, but my question was that each port has its own IP there isn't a 'group' IP like there is on EQL. On the iSCSI side on vpshere i

procurve trunking

2010-07-22 Thread Lists - Level5
Reading up and getting some conflicting information and wanted to run it by the list. I have 2 servers in an SQL cluster, each with 8 nics bonded (4 intel and 4 bcoms). This seems to be pretty stable, each set of 8 connections connects to its own procurve switch. We have trunking across 14 HP s

RE: Backups offsite

2010-07-20 Thread Lists - Level5
Check out these units: http://www.zenitharca.com/who_is_zenith.asp They make a managed offsite solution but have a new product that you can buy, I hear its pretty good and am deploying my first one next month. It is the backup application and offsite replicator. I think the BDR unit (their manage

RE: NetoMeter - Step by Step Screencasts And Video tutorials. Windows, Exchange Server, Small Business Server, Virtualization.

2010-07-17 Thread Lists - Level5
I used them for a couple months on some exchange 2007 stuff like single server fe/be scenarios. They did the job. I didn't really look at much else, I just grabbed what I needed. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 9:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: (test) No emails since Sunday from this list

2010-07-06 Thread Lists - Level5
Same here .. I figured it was down for maintenance over the long weekend .. From: Ames Matthew B [mailto:mba...@qinetiq.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 6:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: (test) No emails since Sunday from this list -- Matthew Ames SDS IT Services Softwa