Hi
The backup will run if I start it manually
I will STOp/Start the Vss service in the batch file see how that works
out
Thanks
-Original Message-
From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
Sent: 06 February 2012 14:12
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Volume
Gotta help my brethren out... :)
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On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote:
Hey now, mind your own business there!
Carl Webster
Consultant and
-- Exchange AD
-- Citrix
-- Security
-- Virtualization
-- Database (mostly Oracle, but I'm seeing more and more SQL these days)
Not trying to say that these are the only areas of massive opportunity, but
these are the top infrastructure areas I see out there today.
And yes, all situations
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
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
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
When we were planning for our SAN and VM conversion/migration, the Microsoft
engineer we worked with had us collect information on our servers about usage
using the MAPs tool. Looks like it's still around-not sure if it would do what
you need:
How long will you be in Seattle, MBS?
-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 3:00 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Infrastructure Specialist defined - was: OT - ugh!
The last time I was in Seattle, I tried one
Any one of the command line perms modifiers, like cacls, xcacls, icacls,
subinacl, etc should be able to manage this.
On 7 February 2012 14:31, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
So, during a SAN move all our NTFS ACL’s were wiped (thousands of folders
and about 300K files. Ouch). Resetting
As a business owner of a small IT consultancy in Boca Raton, you probably
could find an entry level person for about 25/hr, but you would need to
include/reimburse for mileage.
If you look in the South Florida Business Journal, you will see that IT
networking is @ 3% unemployment and
I agree that is the most reliable way to get leads / business but it takes
time. The way I got started on my first IT business was by moving from a FT
position with my employer to a contract position, they covered my bills and
it let me build up some other clients at the same time. That business
We are using Vmware HA/DRS 5 , and Veeam Backup and DR. We do daily backups
and 4 hour snapshots to a secondary SAN. We can drill into the backups
easily and drag out files or just mount from backup.
We tested the exchange restore and Im not super crazy about it, but it does
work . we don't
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
It's just the next version of USB which will make it much more common than
eSATA in the future. My laptop has USB3 and it's a lower-end Lenovo from
last year.
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote:
But less common from what I saw. That is why I asked. Speed does
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
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
Oh wow, I totally forgot about that douche move. They were truly a match
made in hell - and we will continue to pay the price.
--
Espi
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote:
VeriSign
I've always used the *2 rule of thumb cited below also...
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132
-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 9:26 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
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]
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,
I think even DAS is getting smarter these days. I've just had a new Dell
arrive and whilst we aren't using the feature, it seems the PERC can use an SSD
drive as cache, which I thought was pretty cool for such an entry level box of
tricks (relatively speaking).
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
You mean a disk queue length of 5 on two-spindle RAID1 for more than 5 minutes
is bad? LOL. I have a client that is constantly HDD-bound (I've seen queue
lengths of 15 for over 10 mins at a time - and they're not out or RAM either),
running SBS2K3 on dual SATA RAID1 volumes (the OS, Exchange
One of my first Exchange migrations was for an accounting firm whose
Exchange 2000 server had an average DQL of * (Do you remember that one
MBS?). I was able to convince them to get all new servers and upgrade
their AD and Exchange. Of course, the fact it took hours for e-mail to be
sent and
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:55 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
What activity generates the Exchange log files? dumb Q, but I have an E2K3
server that has no traffic going to it but it still regularly generates log
files.
Any write to the Exchange database.
I expect even an empty
I will suggest you invest in your own domain name. (You can still use
blogspot). It's pretty cheap, it also makes things more portable and
later, you can use it for your email should you go independant and not lose
the existing work or your 'identity branding'.
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:39 AM,
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.comhttp://www.carlwebster.com/
From: James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.commailto:kz2...@googlemail.com
Reply-To: NT Issues
I did give some thought to that, it's on my to-do list right next to build
a decent lab and try to stop eating as much rich food
On 7 February 2012 19:17, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote:
I will suggest you invest in your own domain name. (You can still use
blogspot). It's pretty cheap,
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),
I get that a lot. :)
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]
Doesn't even take a write. A completely idle system generates a log flush every
X minutes (I can't remember how often X is on Exchange 2003). But it's
basically there to prove that the system hasn't died (this is much more
important for clusters and heartbeats, but does apply to single systems
I have to thank you guys for this thread. I've been doing consulting for about
15 years, for some small businesses and a couple years of full time work for
one business in particular. I've recently stopped working full time for my
big client (skills were stagnating because of too many other
It is cool when the product vendor finds your blog. It was very surreal when I
got the first e-mail from Citrix Education and the Citrix Exam team saying they
were reading my stuff and sending links to my articles internal at Citrix!
Then when I found out the CTP handlers at Citrix were
Been a big help to me too. I am just trying now how to work out how to get
the most work from two clients. I have an offer in the post for ten days'
work for a fairly high-profile client but also an overlapping offer for a
month's work at a different client. Is there any way people have found to
Muchos gracias. I wondered where I had picked a couple of extra followers
up from :-)
On 7 February 2012 20:12, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote:
It is cool when the product vendor finds your blog. It was very
surreal when I got the first e-mail from Citrix Education and the Citrix
While I don't do full out articles and haven't blogged myself in a while,
the main reason I do post stuff on mine, is really, so I can find it later.
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote:
I get that a lot. J
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And I also use my blog as an
Yes - thanks to you for sharing guys! It's very encouraging to read your
success stories and the way you got there.
Much appreciated!
Don K
From: James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Sent:
I have a list of people that regularly call/email about work. My philosophy is
First confirmed, first served. Anytime I get a contract, I update my
schedule and e-mail my list of contacts. The customer I am working for in
Idaho next week has waited 6 week s for me. I have no idea why?
There's me screwed then, I am a complete prick :-)
Actually I find it a bit harder the other way, I have to try very hard not
to be one of the boys and make remarks to the people I am working
alongside that might make me seem unprofessional. It's a little hard coming
from a support background
Amen.
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On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote:
I get that a lot. J
** **
And I also use my blog as an immense resource for myself. If I know
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote:
It would always
bore me how they’d spend time talking about the bosses and subordinates and
the wives and the kids – but you know – it makes a difference. It’s called
“relationship building” and it helps establish
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm doing RFPs and vendor selection and all that right now,
and every salesdroid I talk to wants to do the touchy-feeling
in-person meeting thing.
If you tell them that you don't like to be handled, they won't.
A
Oh Ben, I bet it even works on you. :-)
I'm sure you feel more confident dealing with someone you trust than with
someone who you just found on the Internet.
Perhaps I'm wrong - but I doubt it.
I do understand your point. And when I'm looking at making hardware or software
purchases (no
I would never do that. I do try to get my name in front of past customers at
least once a quarter, usually via a quick-tip of some type that I think would
apply to their environment.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original
We found you on the internet...
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote:
Oh Ben, I bet it even works on you. :-)
I'm sure you feel more confident dealing with someone you trust than with
someone who you just found on the Internet.
Perhaps I'm wrong - but
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote:
I'm sure you feel more confident dealing with someone you trust than
with someone who you just found on the Internet.
Absolutely.
But I also know how sales works. They've been trained to ask how
I'm doing at the
You could always take part in a larger community and become an expert there,
instead of setting up shop on an island somewhere, where you're only an
expert to yourself. J
Rod Trent http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/community/members/rodtrent/
http://www.myitforum.com/ Description:
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote:
I do try to get my name in front of past customers at
least once a quarter, usually via a quick-tip of some type that I think would
apply to their environment.
Well, you're an independent consultant, which is a bit
I agree with this, unfortunately I find looking for a job to be a job. Not
quite my passion...
But I am looking for a job so my plan over the next 9 years would be to
1st 3 years - get a certification in VMware (or on any virtualized platform)
and from this list it looks like a Citrix
If you get into anything just for the money, you will not make it. And it
by chance you do make it, you will not be happy.
I give away a lot of time and info for free (as I know MBS, ASB and BD
do). I have actually told prospects that I have an article written that
covers the work they want me
Thanks for all the ideas, helps, etc.
Mark
From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 7:00 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IOPS's calculations
When we were planning for our SAN and VM conversion/migration, the Microsoft
engineer we
And not necessarily a lot of protection, either.
Kurt
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From: Jim Ausman aus...@well.com
Date: Feb 7, 2012 4:49 PM
Subject: A Certificate Authority Man-in-the-middle attack corporate
attack in the wild
To: d...@farber.net
Dave,
For IP, if you wish
We tell all sales calls, especially any cold calls, that we prefer any
correspondence via email. We inform them that we answer support calls for a
school district, and we don't have time to discuss every vendor's
product/service and the opportunities they may provide. If we like the product
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
Mine has a mixed eSATA and USB3 on it. When I went to price external
drives the best deal for me at the time was an eSATA enclosure. That said
if the prices had been better I would have gone with a USB3 but only
because it would have been backward compatible with more devices than the
eSATA.
I believe they now have the Hyper-V support. I seem to remember hearing
that at a class/marketing meeting I attended recently. They are also
supposed to be System Center compliant I believe is the expression they
used.
Jon
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Benjamin Zachary li...@levelfive.us
I would suggest you get the first one of those two on the to do list. I
can't comment much on the second as that is my major problem as well.
Jon
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:28 PM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote:
I did give some thought to that, it's on my to-do list right next to
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
I agree totally. Right now about 80% of the IT work I do is on a volunteer
basis, for a medium-sized private school. I love the work and enjoy knowing
that I'm helping to fill a position that would otherwise detract from the
teachers' salaries or maybe not be filled at all. I also have enough
Indeed.
One of my wife's friends was that way. We would go somewhere just to hang out
and the pitch would eventually happen.
Some can't help themselves especially if you happen to work for a large company.
Luckily my job keeps me away from my desk phone. ;-)
-Original Message-
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
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
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
Precisely...
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On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote:
I believe the next versions of VNX (5700, 7500, etc) support SCSI 3
protocol which would not have
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
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
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Find out what other ways can you use it (other than iSCSI), and
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:04 PM, 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.
It's prolly worth noting that there is no actual specification
document called SCSI-3. SCSI-2 was the
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote:
It may be too little too late but I'd be happy to share the
template we used for our last storage purchase.
I, for one, would love to see that document. Both because I'll
prolly be spec'ing SAN stuff within a year or
The problem is not with SSL, but with the centralized CA model... many
or all of those CAs simply aren't as trustworthy as one might like to
believe.
Regardless, this is foul, foul stuff, issuing an any-purpose cert to a
third party for snooping on their employees. Normally in this kind of
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
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 19:34, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
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.
You are correct on the problem with the model, but nobody yet has come
up with a workable alternate model for general use. I know there is
some work going on, but it's definitely not mature.
Kurt
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 20:05, Steve Kradel skra...@zetetic.net wrote:
The problem is not with SSL,
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
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...
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
Me too, please. (For the template - Not the broken SAN.) :)
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:30 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
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
Me three please.
Thank you!
From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 10:41 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: EMC limitations?
Me too, please. (For the template - Not the broken SAN.) :)
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Sean Martin
I wanted to stay with LH, given that I liked it so much, and that
growing that solution is so easy, and management is just as easy - we
have three units, and adding a fourth would have been a no-brainier.
Manager had experience with EMC in his previous company and didn't
want to look at anything
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