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    building file server for ESXI lab

    I have note added any SSD's for caching however I'm thinking or ordering two 256 gig Crucial's this afternoon. BTW I am using mirroring and the speed still sucks.
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    building file server for ESXI lab

    Guys I would like to build a storage server dedicated to my home ESXI/Hyperv lab. I am currently using a old cor2duo with an IBM M1015 controller with 4 500 gig Seagate Constellation ES drives passed throughusing Windows storage spaces. I am using iscsi as the storage protocol. I am unhappy with...
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    Hyper-V network card problems

    Guys I put together a basic Hyper-V lab on Windows Server 2012 R2 in order to learn Hyper-V. The problem I'm running into is network cards. For my ESX lab I use the Intel Pro 1000 PT which works great. I installed a Pro 1000 PT in my Hyper-v systems I am able to use native teaming with no...
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    Monitoring windows nlb web cluster

    I have a Windows 2012 NLB cluster the cluster is backing two nodes. I also have it configure for signal affinity due to the requirements for the web application. Now I would like to know how do you guys monitor your NLB clusters? I am mainly interested in making sure the traffic is divided up as...
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    Hyperv networking nic teaming and vlans

    No VMM this is just normal Hyperv management. Also I've started getting into power shell more so I will use power shell to manage the vlans. After I get a feel for regular management I plan to configure VMM. I guess I was trying to say why is the sub interface route wrong. That was something the...
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    Hyperv networking nic teaming and vlans

    I would like to bring up the topic of Hyper V networking and using nic teaming along with vlans via Windows Server 2012 R2. I come from a Vmware shop one of our sister companies is going Hyper V so I decided to read up on it. From what I've read you have to configure vlan tags on each...
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    poe switch for home lab

    I need to purchase a poe switch for my home lab. So I would like to ask what are you guys using? This switch will be for a few phones and some AP's.
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    securing a PBX

    Basically right now I have a few test DID's from Anveo, Callcentric, and IPKALL. I have configured a few extensions in my test lab. However, I would like to play around with having remote extensions and accessing voice mail. Right now I will be using some Android phones for testing the remote...
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    securing a PBX

    I would like to discuss securing PBX servers I'm mainly speaking from the network side of things. For example, do you guys simply forward sip back to your pbx or do you use some sort of proxy? I would assume that you all create firewall rules that only allow specific ip addresses to connect...
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    Server 2012 Expanded My Raid to add space, Windows doesn't see space added

    That's interesting I run two systems with Perc 6i cards on server 2012 and I never had to do that. I'm also curious in knowing what brand controller you are doing. Also you should just need to extend the volume as others have stated.
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    build new multipurpose file server

    Thanks for the info guys from what I read looks like one of the biggest benefits of ZFS is addressing the raid 5 write hole problems. When you go raid 10 this problems does not exist thus it would seem the appeal goes down. I actually found some random articles that talked about this I will see...
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    build new multipurpose file server

    The storage server will be separate from my ESXI lab boxes. Also I have about another backup server its 9 terabytes passed through to a server 2012 vm running in a raid 0 that I use to backup my main file server nightly. I'm rather torn about ZFS I might end up with a Linux box build. From my...
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    What's your backup strategy?

    I actually have 4 2TB drives passed through to a vm in a raid0 than I run a robo copy script around 3 am to copy all changes over from our main file server which has a raid 5 array.
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    build new multipurpose file server

    I would like to consolidate two file servers into one system. As of right now I have one system that runs a perc6i with a raid 10 configuration I use that for all of my Vmware ESXI lab stuff. My second system also has a Perc6i running a raid 5 with 7 2TB WD Reds. I want to put this all together...
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    voip lab for educational purposes

    Most likely I will use FreePBX however I don't see any hardware requirements. So I would like to ask what type of hardware configurations do you guys use for lab and production systems?
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