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iSCSI storage, partitioning and LVM
We are in the process of moving our (direct attached) storage systems to an iSCSI based consolidate storage and we have come up with this interesting question: where should we place LVM processing? ...
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To consolidate or not consolidate hardware
I have a customer that is in need of a platform upgrade and has a specific use case that makes me think twice about consolidation.
They basically have two services in the network that are currently ...
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Consolidate mssql databases into 1
I need to consolidate 20 databases that have the same structure into 1 database. I saw this post:
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MSSQL: separate dev and prod databases as separate instances on shared hardware?
I've got a small virtualised environment which hosts a small internal website with database backend. I've currently separated my webservers and database servers on separate VMs running on the same ...
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Exchange Site Consolidation
I'm looking for your thoughts on consolidating a 5 site Exchange deployment into a single fault tolerant site. Is this feasible? Is it just a bad idea?
Here are the details:
Site1: Hub site. ...
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Consolidate two IIS6 webservers into one IIS7 webserver
I have two servers each running IIS6 and i need to bring all the siteson BOTH servers into ONE IIS 7.5 server...
i've looked at MSDeploy but i can't find anything to combine two servers into one... ...
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Consolidate several servers into one machine
There are 10 of game servers running on 10 virtual machines. Each server listens to 10 different ports for dedicated purposes. However, usually the CPU/MEM utilization for each server is less then ...
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Can Exchange 2010 high availability be achieved with only 2 servers?
In Exchange 2010, you can define Database Availability Groups and have your mailbox database(s) automatically replicated between multiple servers, and you can have mailbox server which are members of ...
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how to consolidate multiple log files into one ldf file in sql2000
I'm in the process of copying databases from SQL 2000 to a 2008 instance on another server using DETACH, copy windows file to 2008 server, then finally ATTACH. I've come to a database where the LOG ...
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sudoers file cleanup and consolidation tool/script
I am curious to know what other folks out there might be using to keep the sudoers file in a sane manner. I am looking for a tool, that removes redundant entries, overlapping permissions and/or ...
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How does virtualization improve server utilization?
The biggest benefit of virtualization is usually said to be improved server utilization.
But why do I need virtualization for that?
Say I got N physical servers that are lightly used. Why don't I ...
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How to consolidate servers with the not-very-strong infrastructure
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Situation
We are in retail industry with about 10 distributors and use Solomon as the standard ERP for all our systems
Each distributor has 1 HQ and 5 - 10 branches, each branch has their own ...
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Consolidating Windows and Linux servers
I'm looking forward to getting your thoughts on consolidating/virtualizing 3 Windows 2008 Servers and 2 Linux Debian Servers into 1 (powerful) machine.
What is the most cost-effective Virtualization ...
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Consolidating Bugzilla instances
Scenario:
Two or more Bugzilla instances
Want to migrate to one big central instance
Bug numbers clash
What's the best practice for migrating all the bug records into the new instance? Is it a ...