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Currently have a network that has grown a bit out of control, comprised completely of a dozen HP ProCurve 2650 and 2510 switches. Need to upgrade the "core/distribution" switch because the 2510's blistering 300mhz CPU and 1.5MB of frame buffer just isn't up to task anymore. Getting packet...

Building out a main storage server for a SAN that will be serving 4 VM host servers with about 90 virtual machines (with room to grow). The client wants about 20TB, and they're forcing Dell hardware (fine, whatever). I'm not leading this, my buddy just brought me in to assist - however his...

It's come time to replace a couple dozen 5U SmartUPS 2200 XL's (circa 2000), and I'm looking to consolidate them into a couple units. I've gotten quotes in the $15k range for a 20KVA SmartUPS RT and TrippLite "EZ-series" with expanded batteries. I'm relatively satisfied with APC, but not...

Hi All, I've been working with virtualizing quite a bit over the last couple years, and adopted vmWare ESXi pretty quick. But with the release of ESXi 5.5, it's painting a pretty grim picture of the direction that vmWare is heading, especially with their free releases. The main use I'm...

Hey All, Currently looking for a convertible ultra-book or split tablet for the wife - but I'm not finding a real consensus on what's decent out there. Wishlist: At least Core i3 (no Atoms), pref i5 11.6" Touchscreen (may be able to swing 12.5" if it's incredible with thin bezel)...

We have a recent need for many independent servers at work (can't virtualize), to be used as a perpetual test environment for new software and web apps. Up until now, I've been using HP DL120's because they're dirt cheap and decently powerful (for our needs). For around $1500 I can do an...

Has anyone successfully run "Non-HP" Hard Drives in a Gen 8 ProLiant server? I'm looking to get a cheap test platform, but need it to be 1U due to space constraints. My old standby was the DL120 G7, but according to my primary vendor HP pulled them due to a fire risk in the PSU :eek: So...

Hey [H]- Long story short, our company has a business system that is made by folks who were really good at programming a Terminal-Based Unix system, but Really REALLY bad at development in a windows environment. And we're stuck with it (Primary Vendor compatibility). It's used by about 200...

Just came across the problem that I struggled with and ended up making me feel like a total moron. Got 2 ASUS B400A Ultrabooks for fancy-pants executives who don't want our standard Lenovo E530. First one worked great - got it all setup with our standard image. Second one - the power...

Hi All, I'm looking at updating a couple of PowerEdge 2900's as part of a server room revamp, and had a question. We're removing quite a few of these 4U beats from service, and I'm looking to move the "spare" CPUs from the retiring machines to the production servers to beef up their...

Currently I have a Radeon HD 6570 in my media center PC. I've been wanting to do some couch gaming while my 360 is down, but it definitely isn't great to game on. The PC is a Core i5 2500 in a low-profile case (with a 350W PSU). The PSU doesn't have any PCIe leads on it, but I could hack...

Hey all, I'm sure this is relatively common knowledge, but my google-fu is letting me down. Does anyone have the URL, IP and/or file type for iOS update downloads direct from Apple devices? We're moving to Apple devices and would like to allow users to directly update over our corporate...

Beating my head trying to figure this out -- In a test environment I'm running ESXi 5.1 (was on 5.0 - same issue) and all data transfers to the datastore are hilariously slow. They top out at about 2.5KB/s. Hardware : HP ProLiant DL120 G7 Datastore : Internal 4 disk 4TB SATA RAID10...

Dunno if anyone has EVER even heard of anything like this, but I figured it was worth a shot. THE BACKSTORY: About a week ago I changed over 9 HP Procurve switches that were previously stacking in series (yeah, daisy-chain) to a Access-Distribution type scenario with 2 (or 4 on server...

Alright, let's be honest, who still has to support any NT4 machines on any business network? I'm sick of running into people who give me a constipated penguin look as soon as I say 2000, let alone NT4, so looking for some real idea of how rare it really is. Currently we have about 80...

I'm working for a company that is working to kill off an old NT4 domain and replace with either an OpenLDAP based solution (being pushed like hell by the consultant who we work with) or Active Directory. Our consultant is being a doom and gloom over a potential AD implementation. Basically...

Morning all - I'm running into a weird issue on a big file server at our main office here. It's becoming completely inaccessible when trying to transfer a file over 4GB to it. The file server is an older HP running RAID5 on a SmartArray 641with 5x 72.4GB 15K SCSI drives. It's at about...

Hey All, Just looking for some advice on an upcoming decision for client anti-virus. Thanks in advance for any help We're coming from an ancient version of NAV corporate. It's basically a joke now, and we have essentially no anti-virus on our network. So anything is going to be a step...

Background : My HTPC was randomly freezing (no BSOD, no error logs) for a few weeks, I assume it had something to do with some TV Server software I was playing with after I installed my TV Tuner card. Weird Part: One day it froze while on the screen saver again. I did a hard reboot and was...

I finally talked my manager into letting me demo a Treo (700wx), and it's all working well, except for, well, the VPN connection, which is pretty damn important. We currently have a PPTP VPN running off BSD 3.7. It won't accept anything lower than MSCHAP v2 Authentication and MPPE 128bit...

Anybody ever get a call from these jokers? It just reeks of scam, they offer you like 5% of retail for your old backup tapes and drives....wonder where they would make their real money (cough-stealing data-cough)

Does anybody have a Good Windows Server tool that will tell me the client and/or files that are active in killing my file server here? We have about 125 clients on a single RAID5 array, and it works fine 98% of the time, but randomly it seems someone decides to either dump or copy some huge...

Could someone please tell me if there's anything comercially or open-source to let me do this: - Allow domain users to upload pictures (via web interface) to an internal host - Allow them to set the permissions on those pictures, based on domain credentials - Allow authorized users to view...

Hey guys, Recently got a mac as a "bonus" (read: we finally got software for the wintel platform to replace the 1 application we had to run on macs) and I'm kinda foggy of if it "good" or not. It's a G4 733, 90GB HDD, 256MB RAM. I have OSX 10.1 on there right now, but I'm waiting to get...

Just got an old VPN/firewall pulled out of a remote branch at work, using it as a personal file server now. It's a PIII550 loaded with XP SP2 (stripped down). Current hardware: PIII 550 (slot 1, 5.5x100) 2x 128MB PC100 10GB Fujitsu HDD (OS) 2x 80GB Maxtor HDDs 10/100 NIC Old ATI AGP...

I discovered today that my CC# had a recurring tansaction for the past couple months for a payment service online. I called that service, got informed that someone had signed up with all my info, adress, full name, etc for 3 adult sites. So it isn't a random generated number. They got the info...

have my main PC (w/ Ti4200 VIVO latest drivers, XP SP2) in my living room at home (smaller apartment, you know how it is) and obviously I use it to play all my bought and rented DVDs which I pay gross amounts of money for. I also have a 5 way A/V switchbox that I use to swtich between the PC...