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I was wondering if anyone had any real world experience on using the de-duplication features on the VNX 5300 datamovers on VMware datastores. I don't have a spectacularly large system, but as most of my vms are Server 2008r2, I would suspect there is a lot of duplicate data on the os volumes of...

I was wondering if there was a better way of doing this then what im currently doing. I have now have 2 Datacenters (one is now PROD, and the other is DEV/QA) in my vCenter server and I need to move some VM's between them. I thought about doing different clusters, but as we are using vDS...

I'm trying to decide if my expectations are to high for Windows Network load balancing and Exchange CAS. Right now when I fail a CAS server, Outlook goes into disconnected mode, and requests a password, I can ether enter in the password, or close and reopen outlook and it connect without any...

My office is investigating moving the the 10 (BES, ACCPAC, SharePoint, vSphere and a few other small apps )or so small on the machine sql instances to a more powerful sql Custer for easier management, backups and better reliability. Does anyone have any suggested ways creating this sql...

I have an interesting problem with my exchange 2010 room calendars. People would like to edit the calendars directly by using the calendar view in outlook, not sending an invite to the calendar and it auto accept. I have found that this is possible without an annoying little popup saying...

I have a test lab setup running vSphere 4.1 and its not adding a network card when creating a new vm, and it was before. I dont know what I changed to stop it, but something happens. I am using vDS for switching if that makes any difference.

I just want to hear peoples thought on the Nexus1000v. We are looking at deploying VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus and getting the nexus 1000v is only a little more. I do have some questions in regards to the nexus. Is it all software, or is there a hardware component to it? does it...

I am planning on building a Datastore server for my vCenter test lab that I have at work. This is my specs: Core i3 540 8GB ram Supermicro X8SI6 motherboard Supermicro 2U 8Bay CSE-825TQ-563LPB 8x 500GB Seagate 7200.12 2x Intel 320 G3 40GB SSD 1x Intel Gig nic for management My...

Odd question and I'm sure I can locate the info on them thar interwebs. What is the point of the distributed switches in vmware? Is it just an easier way of deploying networks across many hosts? Can distributed switch be use for storage or is it just for guest networks?

As the [H]ardForum has lots of professional IT people in it I figured this would be the best place to ask. I need to come up with a better solution the backuppc for backing up windows servers that run everything from exchange to random CMS software. I have looked at Avamar as I hear its damn...

I was wondering if anyone has made a Highly available ZFS storage cluster? The protocol I would be using more then likely would be NFS to allow for snapshots and easier backups with VMware. I am looking at this to be used in a DEV lab. I have done it with Linux HA clustering but I like the...

A simple question for all who have EMC SANs. Is powerpath worth it? Did you notice a big improvement between when you had it and when you didn't?

I was wondering if anyone has ever seen some software that would allow me to remotely manage multiple domains across many sites over many sites thought one console, preferably a web interface. Basically what I picture is a webui where I choose the domain, then from that point forward im able to...

So I have been reading many different thing in regards to this. 1. If I get a Server 2008r2 datacenter license I can only use it on that one server. IE if I have 3 esxi boxes I'd need 3 sets of licenses. 2. Datacenter requires 2 cpus. So I'd have to give it 2 vcpus. 3. You get one...

I'm Just trying to confirm that fault tolerants support is at the CPU level and not the motherboard level. We are looking at deploying some test servers that are white boxes using Supermicro's 6016T-NTRF4+ Barebones server. Its on vmwares HCL, but FT shows as "no", and if i remember correctly...

I was wondering if anyone knows of a IPMI management application that will manage all sorts of different types of servers? We have IBM, Dell, HP, and Supermicro server all running IPMI and I was hoping someone has some experience in finding a centralized management application. I'd really...

As per a previous post my company is finally looking into real Visualization. It was recommended that we look at the HP Storageworks p4300 g2 7.2TB SAS Starter SAN. Anyone have any experience using this? The reason was it does our redundancy that we want and it looks like it should be...

I have been tasked with coming up with a plan for creating a full vSphere environment that has no single point of failure. I understand how to do it with vSphere it self and on the networking side, but i have no idea how to do It for the storage. If you could recommend some documents i...

I was wondering if anyone had ever looked into Server benchmarking. I am looking for CPU performance, Disk performance and memory. If you can think of anything else to test, and you have a program to do so, that would be great.

hello all, I am looking for a easy to use (RE: Webui) distro of a firewall/file server in one combo to deploy at my parents. I'm looking for a hybrid of something like pfsense and freenas, but my google-fu seems to be lacking on this one.

I figured this would be the best group to ask as we [H] as a large number of network consultants on it that I'm sure have faced this issue before. I was wondering what people have done to their event logs for various windows servers (IE auditing, changes, better reporting etc) I am looking...

I have a Netgear gsm7248 switch that's giving me a lot of headaches when trying to pass ISCSI traffic from my File server to my VM server. It only appears to be an issue with this switch, and only when I try to use ISCSI traffic. The odd thing is, it only looks like it drops packets from...

I am trying to figure out how to do this: I want multiple external IP, if possible still NATed to diffrent interal ips, IE External_IP_1 External_ip_2 External_ip_3 \________|_______ / |___Cisco 3725___| / | \ OWA server WEB server...

I am sure I am going to get a few "why don't you use the Search" or "try Google" suggestions, but the problem is I am not 100% sure on what to Google for this. I have a Server 2008 R2 Box doing my DNS, and DCHP duties among a few other things. Before I started using the DHCP on the windows...

I am currently in the process of makeing my new file server and I need some sugestions on a 16 port raid card that can do raid 6 and is PCIe. I am planning on using Segate 1.5TB drives because I can get a good deal on them. It doesnt need to be super fast, but i would like it cheepish but I...

I am kind of at a road block in my build, This build is mostly coming out of my pocket but a few things have been giving to me. This server is just going to be my home testing server, mostly to break stuff and make over complex networks to learn. This is what I have 1 x Tyan S2912 (bios...