So, speaking of VMing your BES, who has Virtualizeded their physical
BES? One of our clients has their BES running on an ancient 2000 server
with over 100 devices. I was thinking that instead of doing a knife
edge cutover, I could just virtualize the server. None of our clients
currently run any corp network stuff in VM, so this would be new.
Easier than knife edge cutover? Is the downtime minimal? Setup easy?
Bill
Christopher J. Bosak wrote:
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> Thanks for the suggestions, folks. Time to put the research hat on and
> start reading up.
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> Christopher J. Bosak
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> Vector Company
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> *From:* Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 23, 2008 08:12 hrs
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Blackberry Bold Administration
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> Indeed. VM is great.
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> I've got about 60 users on a VM w 1GB or RAM and 30 GB Vol.
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> *From:* Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 23, 2008 6:00 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Blackberry Bold Administration
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> No. I ran BES on a 4 year old PC for a while for 30 users. No
> problems. I think it had 512mb and a 30GB drive and maybe 1ghz?
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> I now have about 100 users on BES in a VM. The VM server has 8 other
> VMs on it. I have it configured with 2GB RAM and a 100GB volume.
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> Just follow their minimum requirements for your application.
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> Bob Fronk
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> *From:* Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:42 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Blackberry Bold Administration
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> I'll grab a look at the pricing. Does BES need real beefy specs to
> run? In or out of a VM?
>
> Christopher J. Bosak
>
> Vector Company
>
> c. 847.603.4673
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> /"You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue."/
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> /- B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me/
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> *From:* Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 22, 2008 16:37 hrs
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Blackberry Bold Administration
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> You're in a golden position to request the BES software!
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> I run it in a VM. And for small deployments you can even start with a PC.
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> *From:* Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 22, 2008 2:01 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Blackberry Bold Administration
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> The powers that be like the shinyness of the new Blackberry, and thus,
> it shall be supported. All we have right now is Exchange.
>
> Christopher J. Bosak
>
> Vector Company
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> c. 847.603.4673
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> /"You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue."/
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> /- B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me/
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> *From:* Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:55 hrs
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Blackberry Bold Administration
>
> So are you saying that the powers that be have made the decision that
> Blackberrys will now be supported? Are you currently supporting
> another type of synching (WAS, Good) and now need to add BES/BIS?
>
> TVK
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> *From:* Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:43 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Blackberry Bold Administration
>
> Okay, so with the Blackberry Bold being released November 4^th , and
> about 3 people want to pick them up here, what do I, as the person who
> never, ever, EVER, had to administer anything having to even remotely
> do with a blackberry need to do to prepare?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Christopher J. Bosak
>
> Vector Company
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> c. 847.603.4673
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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