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I have been using a pair of Rosewill RSV-L4411 cases to run a pair of servers, 1 replicating to the other for backups. Not long ago I had a power supply in one of them go bad, and it seems to have damaged some components when it went. I have replaced the system board,memory, and some...

My bad. Mini, Micro, Pico... they all bleed together after a while... Thanks for the replies guys. I'm going to have to try it out just to see what I can do. Which pins should I use on the PSU plug to connect the SPST switch?

I am looking for a power supply for a case with just drives in it. I have a 1U case that has a 4 bay hot swap SATA setup in it that I'd like to possibly use as a simple drive enclosure for a nas setup. I could put a small MINI itx board in the case, but I'd really like to just use the case's...

And just in time I caught this motherboard on NewEgg for $59.99 today as the afternoon "Shell Shocker" deal. That's another $20 saved as it was $79.99 this morning.

Looks like about a $50 jump to the i5 2400 would get VT-d. For a general home test environment, is it something I really need to worry about?

Nope, the CPU does not. Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d): No

I found another thread on here about this Biostar Mobo that indicates VT-D support: Biostar TH67B: http://www.biostar.com.tw/upload/Man...T_110215_B.zip Page 17 of the manual. The picture show:"VT-d [Enabled | Disabled]". It also says:"VT-d This item enables/disables VT-d function. Options...

Thanks everyone. I'm not sure I'm too concerned about the VT-D right now. It's just a box to run so I can play with various OSes to keep up with what's going on. One reason I liked this board is the 4 memory slots. I'll start with 2x4GB and when I need more I can add it via the available...

I'm looking to build an ESXi box to host some VMs for my home lab. I'm looking to start with a few Windows Server 2003/2008 VMs and a few random others. I will host the VMs on my NAS (SS4200-E). I already have a hard drive, case, power supply and an Intel 1000 GT dual Gigabit NIC (if I...

Me giving my notice the other day had a little to do with their choice too. :)

Well, I think that Exchange will be going back to physical box. Since I'm leaving next week and I'm the sole VMware guy, I think they're gonna scrap it all and go the old fashioned way of a room full of boxes. Oh well.

Um, yes. Whoops. I'm doing a live migration of 1 server now and will do the Exchange later. Trying to beat it up and see if any errors come up.

we turned on write caching today and since then have not seen a single error. *knocks on wood*

I used the IOPS calculator found here http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/93438 and came up with these numbers. If that's right, then the Exchange VM is using just over 1/2 of the capacity of the NAS all by itself. Exchange IOPS calculator # Mailboxes 150 Exchange IOPS 75...

Yup. It's a small Exchange server with just over 100 users. We set this up with plans to run a small SQL server and some other basic servers, but we tried to pull in an Exchange box because we wanted to re-use the hardware it was on. If we have to, we'll restore the Exchange data to the...

So last night I put in a different ix4-200r NAS. This one has multiple 250GB iSCSI LUNs. I created a different datastore on each of 2 LUNs. I assigned each VM to a different datastore. After 4 hours I got a single message about connectivity: Lost connectivity to storage device (long iscsi...

I'm working on switching to NFS instead of iSCSI to see what happens.

I recently deployed a pair of Dell 1950 servers with an Iomega ix4-200r 2TB NAS. I had no issues running a single VM imported from a physical box. However, after I imported a second box, I started having lots of errors. I am constantly losing connectivity from the ESXi server to the NAS...

You think that's a mess? That's better than most that I have seen in places I have walked into. Consider yourself lucky.

They may not know what they are saying, but if they don't know they shouldn't say. If they are repeating what they were told to say, they are lying by proxy. If they are making stuff up, they are lying by just making stuff up. All I know is that my contract spelled out the replacement...

I had a PRP on my big screen I got from BB in 2003. About 9 months short of the end of the warranty it acted up, scrambling the display. The PRP specified that they had a right to repair it before replacing. It took them over 4 months and many trips out to repair it. I kept hearing from...

And if I sign up for google checkout I can save another $10. How safe is google checkout? I'm skeptical of having my CC info stored by google.

Buy.com has the APC batteries for about $39 shipped. A new Cyberpower UPS with AVR is about $72

I have an APC BK350 - Back-UPS CS that I have had for what must be 5+ years. The battery finally died in it. Should I just buy a new battery or should I bet a better UPS with AVR like the Cyberpower 685VA http://www.buy.com/prod/cyberpower-6...203064705.html The Cyberpower model is about...

I just got rid of my laptop. It was a Pentium M HP nc8230. I am looking to get a dual core system and I want to be able to run Vista. I am a Systems Administrator and while I administer a 99.99% 2000/XP shop, Vista is around the corner in my workplace. As such, I need to start working with...

Yeah, I have never thought much of A+ since when I look at the material it is sooo outdated. Um, how often are you going to work on a system that uses SIPPS memory modules? :o I am only working on the Security+ because it is part of this boot camp. I normally hate boot camps, but my...

I think the lack of good certs has cost me some jobs lately. I have my MCP and ACP (Altiris) and nearly 12 years of experience, but I keep hearing "have you ever considered getting your MCSE?" or similar questions. For the longest time I thought the same as most of you in that just because you...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325473

I sent an email. I'll just have to wait and see. A 1 year deal is sure better than 2, so at least we got that changed. As a Network Systems Administrator this training is directly related to my job and will be used immediately.

I did, and he referred me to the CFO who handles all this stuff. I am composing an email to him since he's out at a field office all week.

I know the contract stuff is pretty normal, but is non-prorated normal? Pretty much all the people that I have spoken to about it say they signed pro-rated deals since the company gets the benefit of the training while you are there. If I leave after 1 month I still would owe $4587 of the...

In the past I have worked at companies that did not require you to sign any agreements before they paid for you to go to outside training. At one place they had to implement a contract after some people took lots of training and quickly left for more money. I was recently scheduled to take a...

I recently did a similar upgrade from 2 2000 AD servers to 2 2003 AD servers. How things were done: #1 2003 server was built Brought up to date on all MS patches. Added to the domain It was given a static IP address. DNS and WINS were installed. Then I used DCPROMO to make it an...

enginurd - I knew it needed to be replaced, but I never expected it to die that fast, nor swell up to the point that it was really wedged in the unit. Thank goodness we smelled the venting gas or it could have been a really bad scene here. I may do that, call APC. Not sure I could get away...

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but I need to ask it. I had an APC Smart UPS 1500 go really bad tonight. I started smelling something "odd" and my wife said it was really strong down in the office. I knew my UPS had started warning that my battery needed to be replaced...

We were under the impression that the patch was a critical update, leading us to believe that our WSUS server would patch machines. BUT, MS in their infinite wisdom decided to classify the Time Zone fix as an Update Rollup instead. So on Monday when we found that out I added Update Rollups...

Well, I guess I should have had patience. HP confirms that 667 would have been fine: Thank you for your interest in Hewlett-Packard. The HP Compaq nc8230 Series Business Notebook PC has the following RAM memory specifications: -RAM Memory - Standard/512 MB or 1 GB -RAM Memory - Maximum/2 GB...

I went ahead and ordered a pair of 1GB 533mhz G.Skill modules. NewEgg even cut the shipping costs for the 2nd module, so I got a great price overall as opposed to paying for a 2x1gb boxed set.

One more Q to add before I hit the sack. Would I be better off buying a set of 2 1gb in a single package or can I get the same results from buying 2 1gb singles of the same model ram at the same time? With NewEgg I can save just over $5 if I buy the 2 individually over the pair in a box...