ReD-DaWg-OnE
n00b
- Joined
- Jul 23, 2009
- Messages
- 36
First the server specs...
Dell PowerEdge T110 ii
Intel Xeon E3 1270
8GB RAM
Windows SBS 2011 Essentials
2 x 1TB 7200RPM SATA Drives RAID 1
Server Roles -
AD DS
DHCP
DNS
Now the environment...
25 Workstations
Gigabit Switch
Basic DD-WRT Router
Ubiquiti UniFi AP's
How they use it, and the issues...
So this is a medical office, they track the patient visits and misc metrics on Word, Excel and PDF files, and bill insurance from these forms. The front office staff pulls these documents up for the providers in the exam rooms via VNC from the front desk. The largest folder from which they pull these documents up has 3,965 folders and 59k files.
They also have appointment software and practice management software running on the server.
What is happening is they open some of there office documents on the server and they can't save them again, it gives them a permission error. They have to save as with a different name and then delete the old file.
I have gone threw various steps to try to fix the issue, disable Windows Desktop Search (reported issue) adjust the RAID controller settings for speed (write back cache, etc...), installed a Gigabit switch.
They are also having what appears to be speed performance issues.
In the networking tab on task manager they are getting spikes up to 35% utilization.
I am thinking the issue is a bottleneck due to the slower hard drives, I just need someone else to give me there opinion before we start purchasing new hardware.
Dell PowerEdge T110 ii
Intel Xeon E3 1270
8GB RAM
Windows SBS 2011 Essentials
2 x 1TB 7200RPM SATA Drives RAID 1
Server Roles -
AD DS
DHCP
DNS
Now the environment...
25 Workstations
Gigabit Switch
Basic DD-WRT Router
Ubiquiti UniFi AP's
How they use it, and the issues...
So this is a medical office, they track the patient visits and misc metrics on Word, Excel and PDF files, and bill insurance from these forms. The front office staff pulls these documents up for the providers in the exam rooms via VNC from the front desk. The largest folder from which they pull these documents up has 3,965 folders and 59k files.
They also have appointment software and practice management software running on the server.
What is happening is they open some of there office documents on the server and they can't save them again, it gives them a permission error. They have to save as with a different name and then delete the old file.
I have gone threw various steps to try to fix the issue, disable Windows Desktop Search (reported issue) adjust the RAID controller settings for speed (write back cache, etc...), installed a Gigabit switch.
They are also having what appears to be speed performance issues.
In the networking tab on task manager they are getting spikes up to 35% utilization.
I am thinking the issue is a bottleneck due to the slower hard drives, I just need someone else to give me there opinion before we start purchasing new hardware.