@Jaguar said:

I wholly agree with the SSDs for databases, and really, anything that has a high amount of 'touches' (otherwise known as IOPS!). Databases constantly have little tiny touches to make changes, which results in a higher amount of requests going on to the storage. This is where higher IOPS makes the difference. For systems like your average desktop, moving a large file takes relatively few IOPS, but more throughput.

These large number of small touches is why huge RAM both in the system and in cache make such a big different to databases. With a good RAID cache you can offload a ton of write hits and speed the system while also preserving the SSDs. And a large system memory will do even more often keeping transactions from hitting the storage subsystem completely.

I use Notepad++ quite a lot too.

Yup, pretty normal. Postgres is the database. Hashing never stops, baby.

Unitrends is constantly preparing itself for need to do an autosynth, and is working on the dedup and inline hashing and everything else all the time. It's pretty normal for postsgres to be pegged.

I need to spend some time going over the exchange 2013 books myself, I've deployed countless exchanges up through 2010, but 2013 just seems to have endemic issues, like sharepoint. You've got to dig in and change things before it'll even begin to work properly.
On a fresh exchange 2013 install, I couldn't even get the EAC to come up until I'd installed the service packs, all I was getting was "Something went wrong, sorry :-(", no messages to help along the way.

I liked the old exchange console :<

@garak0410

No, the 302 redirect is on the website/hosting from the old website. The redirect you are using is only for the home page also, which is why this page is still working: http://pinnaclemetalbuildings.com/contact.html

My company can help you guys with this type of issue as websites, graphic design and marketing is 60% of our workload.

It's weird because sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I haven't seen a pattern yet.

This is one script we did when me and James used to work together at the town. It was mainly to make sure users where restarting to get updates from WSUS as well as new GPOs that needed restarts. We were tempted to take the okay button away after 14 days and make it only a Restart now but that got shot down of course.

http://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/1478-uptime-notification

CoreOS could threaten Linux potentially. Not completely threatened (especially as it "is" Linux) but it could very much change the face of the Linux ecosystem and reduce the number of traditional deployments.

Glad that that worked out so well.

Probly gonna leave it open frame for a little while.

Now we just need to do a search and figure out where it is hiding!

@scottalanmiller no kidding, I am not normally unable to keep up like this.

Someone has to chew the gum around here.

@scottalanmiller said:

@ajstringham still comes back, though, to just fundamentally bad management. No matter how big or small a business is, it needs good management.

Agreed. As I said, it's a management fail. People try to step outside their role and then get lost and confused and just $@#% stuff up.

I was always told no support was offered on PLC/SCADA stuff if we did it our selfs. The upgrade from them usually comes with 1-3 year support. going cheaply in this area when they can control so much just may cost you your job if something goes wrong.

@JaredBusch said:

Looks like Elastix has updated their RPM, but not posted anything intelligent about it..

http://bugs.elastix.org/view.php?id=2003

yeah we are watching that. Doing some testing on it on Friday night.

@art_of_shred said:

@NetworkNerd said:

@ajstringham said:

@NetworkNerd said:

Maybe I could use the HP DL 385 G5 I have with the MSA 70 and run something like FreeNAS on it for another datastore option?

That's one option. Something that would be good for, to be honest, would be your StorageCraft server, if you go with that.

I was thinking use it as a NFS datastore and a place to store the VM files for my current physical machines like was mentioned above. That saves money on a secondary backup solution.

Actually, that would be a tertiary backup solution, as you have Veeam and BE already. The original decision seemed to be "buy hardware or buy another backup solution". It seems that utilizing current hardware like that could avoid both?

I'd get rid of BackupExec with the P2V of the physical boxes and be able to use Veeam. That eliminates cost of software. But, I cannot avoid some investment in increasing backup storage. So this does not completely eliminate a need for more hardware but does decrease the cost of the hardware needed by a large factor.

@IRJ said:

Sorry for abandoning this thread. My fiance is having some complications with her pregnancy and its been keeping us busy. She is doing much better today, though.

Completely understandable! We only had to deal with fairly typical morning sickness for both of my wife's pregnancies. I count myself so lucky on that front. I have known many people with varying issues.

I have a small, portable Tascam recorder and a good AKG lapel mic that could be used for audio recording at first, I think.

@JaredBusch said:

@NetworkNerd said:

In the past it has always been USB stick required, but in this particular case, we got a brand new laser from Trumpf and the software that goes with it. I was pretty surprised when there was no USB HASP to plug into the server since that has been the trend.

A few memory cells reconnected! The new licensing requires live internet activation and deactivation.

Shortly after we installed TruTops, the HDD in the machine died and had to be replaced. I do not normally perform full backups of user computers because it is just as easy to reinstall Office 365 anymore (this client has no other special apps).

I did not think about TruTops at the time. After I reinstalled, I could not license it and TruTops had to work backend stuff and required a signed statement that we had a hard crash before they would release the license and let us relicense.

This is becoming more and more common - but I don't think the vendors using it are doing enough to educate the users of the importance of backups in these cases for recovery.