Recent content by marty9876

Yikes! I feel like I owe you a refund a decade or so later ;) I would like to remind you they were called ‘crappers’ for a reason! Back then I had a buddy who ran a recycling company and would drop off pallets of old computers which I’d hobble together one boxen and a time from all the...

5 years later and your still sucking that same Moose tit...:rolleyes: :):):)

I'm running it, only vCenter install I've ever worked with. Could never find a place for vCenter to install on Windows as it always fought with some other app (small shop here, BES etc it no like). Haven't blown it up yet but all in all no issues from it. Haven't done an upgrade of/from it yet.

I did a sbs 2k3 warm. Stopping all the services (DNS/DHCP/Exchange/AD if you can stop it do) was the trick for me to make things easy.

PM me email and I can send it, too long to post here. I image it's what stilner listed, had a contractor set this up so I'm not too familiar with it.

http://www.open-audit.org/ Free, does everything you listed I think. We've got it setup on a login script.

Veeam- once setup right (95% user error) it's been pretty stable. Latest versions of Veeam are a ton better than v4 days. I've done complete DR testing excluding actually failing over the entire network and having users work in the DR environment. Networking quirks are the toughest part...

Took ya long enough... :p

Be interesting to see the price differences between: 2x hosts + 3rd physical machine + VMware licensing vs. 2x hosts + Veeam and doing replications from one host to another Give up vmotion/failover in lieu of simpler setup for the latter option. I did the Veeam thing, VSA wasn't out...

I forget the details but when I looked into this is was expensive for SMB sector.

I would disagree. What the company things your services are worth, and what the marketplace considers your services worth are not always the same thing. When a company is paying more (substantially more) than what the marketplace is offering your overpaid in my view. Good thread...

I don't have too much experience with this stuff, installed a Shoretel system here for ~ 35 users (vendor installed) and it's pretty simple to admin. For something not to take up too much of my time it's pretty nice. Soft phones are hit or miss at best, thinking of outlawing them. Performance...

Keep things on the business case point of view. What will your changes do to support the business units.

Just have the poor persons licensing for ESXi here. I went from ESXi 4 to ESXi5, with intention of taking advantage of the VMFS enhancements, and use Veeam's "Quick Migration" option. Worked out fine. Basically throws in a snap shoot, replicates the mess, powers down source VM, replicates...

felmcom just screwed up his overclocks and shot a bunch of EUE's to the servers to "look" important. :)