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Jan 7 |
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Four disks - RAID 10 or two mirrored pairs? I can't think of a compelling technical reason to split 4 disks into 2 mirrors (esp. just 2 mirrors and no spares). That said, there can always be reasons: a build standard you can't change or a requirement to physically isolate app/data from system disks or maybe even some customers (or devs) who want it like they want it and it's not possible or worth it to change their minds. |
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Jan 6 |
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Four disks - RAID 10 or two mirrored pairs? My .02...if the measurements show that there is no contention under a range of conditions from normal to peak, then mitigating a theoretical resource contention is worth about as much as bullspit as Matt points out. ;) So, unless there are other reason for splitting things out... |
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Oct 14 |
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Factors in choosing storage for backups missing words |
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Oct 14 |
answered | Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Annual Sysadmin Tasks |
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Oct 14 |
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Why buy high end hardware firewalls? I agree that legal action is pretty rare in my experience but having an ongoing relationship with the vendor and/or support organization can result in good leverage to resolve issues if things do go sideways. I generally think of it as "reaching out for help" but I've also seen it as "having somebody's desk to pound on" if there's a problem. |
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Oct 14 |
answered | Factors in choosing storage for backups |
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Jul 21 |
answered | Disable group policy from a workstation |
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Jun 6 |
awarded | Yearling |
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May 26 |
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Tools for Remote Desktop with Relay feature mRemote is convenient for me when I use a Windows desktop since I manage multiple servers and devices using RDP and ssh and it was nice to have everything in one place. I've also used royalTS and a plain, old duct-tape custom mmc with all my RDP connections saved. |
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May 13 |
answered | Network wiring template for Visio |
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Apr 8 |
answered | Windows Error Accessing a Network Share |
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Mar 24 |
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Is there a limit that a folder can store how many files and folders? good point re: db blobs. It may seem like a good idea occasionally but everybody regrets it sooner or later if there are many and/or large files. Let dbs do what they are good at and let filesystems be used for what they are good at...if needed, manage the layout on the filesystem and reference those locations in the db. |
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Mar 23 |
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How do *you* track and document routine maintenance? deleted red. wording |
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Mar 23 |
answered | How do *you* track and document routine maintenance? |
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Mar 22 |
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SAN typical MTBF Those kinds of failures are seriously painful and I don't envy your situation. However, no SAN that's sold as fully redundant and highly available and has been installed and configured in that manner should be failing that often and that spectactularly (if at all). Cold comfort, I know, when you're living through that pain and hearing those kinds of explanations. :( |
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Mar 22 |
answered | SAN typical MTBF |
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Mar 10 |
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FATA disk performance for VMware You have to use what you've got available. You're right that guest VM-based stats may not tell the whole story performance-wise as opposed to array stats. It isn't uncommon at all to measure performance using Windows and Linux OS-based tools and roll it up as you are thinking about doing. It is not a bad method...done carefully, it should represent fairly well what your environment's workload looks like. Ideally, array stats would offer another "whole system" view to keep in mind. Any chance of temp/eval licenses to look at thos array stats? ;) |
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Mar 9 |
answered | FATA disk performance for VMware |
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Mar 9 |
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FATA disk performance for VMware FATA is ATA-based disk that can plug into a FC-backed enclosure...where supported, a cost-effective way to add relatively cheap disk to an enterprise disk array. |
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Nov 25 |
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Netapp Filer - can I resize an aggregrate? I believe this is technically inaccurate. Aggregates cannot be sized downwards. As this post and others have pointed out, aggregates can be grown on the fly. |
