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I am preparing to purchase a SAN and continue to run into an issue regarding SFF SAS drives. To put it bluntly... they are limited as of right now when it comes to speed compared to size so the question then becomes "size vs. speed vs. spindle count". Here's the break down (sorry for the...

SAN disk performance depends on many factors. Like wether the disks are SAS or SCSI, the disk speed, the spindle count, Raid level, and the amount of LUNs/Arrays. If for example you have a database, 300 GB in size, having 6 x 146 15k SFF SAS drives in a raid 10 connect via 4G FC would give you...

My enviroment is solely Fiber and for a quick answer... yes fiber is more expensive than iscsi. If just starting out with a san and high performance is not a must than stick with iscsi, save the budget. If you plan on running services like virtualization, exchange, sql, or VDI than fiber may be...

You can check out Bluebear's Kodiak software. It uses adobe air and works pretty well. The software is still in beta and is by invitation only but if you cant get an invitation let me know and I can shoot you over one. You can contact me through my website. John Sorensen Network/Systems Admin...

Yes you can. In VMware Converter when it gives you the option you can choose to make it a standalone virtual machine. Once you have it at your office upload it to ur esx server and then run the following command using remote cli or putty to make it readable in your esx enviroment... vmkfstools...

To put it bluntly... I'm sick of Backup Exec and looking for an alternative and its up for renewel soon. We are a microsoft shop for the most part running exchange and sql servers but we do have a HP-UX box and we also run some esx servers. Currently we only backup our windows machines using...

Have you tried to adjust the time settings with in the bios of the esx host. also I would check in the vmware tools to see if the guest is set to sync with host or not and also verify the correct time with in the guest bios. In my network I do not have the guests grabbing the time from host, the...

Sorry this thread turned into an "advertisment", at least after reading over it it looks that way.... this was not meant to be. I am sure there are many other vendors, we just found that this one best suited our needs and they specialize in the medical industry. John Sorensen Network/Systems...

As for encryption level it is AES which is Fipps compliant, sorry misread the question Zix uses different types of encryption depending if both endusers are using zix or if one is and the other is not. The main method they use is escrow encryption where the public keys are stored at their...

Oh... ya... and for the encryption... it is FIPS 140-2. John Sorensen Network/Systems Admin http://it-john.com

We've actually made a decision today. We've decided to go with ZixCorp. They have more of what we are looking for. We required to obey Hipaa... so we are in the medical industry. Zixcorp specializes in my industry and many of our partners use them as there solution. They provide the public...

We have been looking into email encryption solutions and have narrowed it down 2 different companies, ZixCorp and AppRiver. I am wondering if there is any one out there that can give me real world insight on either of these or if any one can suggest a different solution. Right now we are...

Thanks, I will give it a try. We use disks mainly now but sometimes helpdesk needs to restore files from tape and they always forget about the whole locking issue. Thanks. John Sorensen Network/Systems Admin http://it-john.com

Joining a domain after Citrix is installed can cause many problems all the way from premissions to TS licensing. I tried this once in a test enviroment and gave up shortly after and reinstalled citrix after joining the domain. I would back up your configurations, reinstall citrix, then restore...

One thing that will slow down any backup no matter the connection is not the size of the files but how many files. 100,000 10k files will take much longer to backup then 1000 1M files. John Sorensen Network/Systems Admin http://it-john.com

restoring exchange is a pain. It sounds like your restoring from a brick level backup... from past experience that not usually a good thing. If you have a full backup of the actual message store I would restore it to a recovery store then perform a merge. Assuming you have a non-brick level...

Check to see if have it set to backup the master database. If memory serves me correct BE cant backup the master. Another thing to check is if it is set to back up using VSS or not. John Sorensen Network/Systems Admin http://it-john.com

One exellent thing about VM's is the compression. A 30 gig VM could easily compress down to 10GB or even less. John Sorensen Network/Systems Admin http://it-john.com

I have had the same problem and never found a solution and gave up trying. This has been an issue for many years now. we've since switched to removable drives instead of tapes. Less of a headache. John Sorensen Network/Systems Admin http://it-john.com

Have you ever thought of just removing the shutdown option from the windows guest all together. Thats assuming they are working on the guest and not the host itself. If its necassary to actually reboot the the guest via esx command then create a cron job to reboot the server every night at a...