Posts made by BC

Norton-AntiVirus 2015
(because one more year always makes it better than the last)

Forgot Vacation... that has now become a project instead of a plan...

We are using compatibles in quite a few of our units...

• we originally tried compatibles and it ended poorly with spilled / bad laser cartridges...
  we found a local supplier that will install them and replace them quickly if they fail...
  not only does he replace the failed toner he will clean up the mess and repair the unit if it caused further failures for free...
  it has been a no brainer for us and some of our color HP Laser toner systems are costing us less than .05 a page now when it was ~.25 previously...

that said we still have quite a few canon copiers that still require OEM toner... just keeps them working longer...
Konica's and other copiers have no issue with compatibles though... we'd only be using OEM if we hadn't found our "Dealer"

Hummm Projects...

• Migrate some storage from physical to Virtual - Not the server yet though...
• Install some 2012 R2 Servers and have them be the New AD Domain, DNS DHCP
• Remove some of the older 2003 Physical boxes
• Attempt to Remove more Commvault from my Life... - still like the email stubbing but exch2010+ has that if I want to purchase enterprise cals I guess
  -- commvault server move to virtual, but keep tape drive functionality for email archiving / compliance - the make sure veeam has tape aux option as well.
• move my Veeam Server from Physical to Virtual (uninstall - reinstall probably)
• VoIP Elastix - while keeping our existing system in place - putting that one off... Server looks Easy... phones / softphones have no idea!
• Complain about my choice of firewall - thinking I should have gone another direction, x300 works but is loud and QoS is odd
• upgrade some older systems to SSD's - leave XP on 1 / two of them the others are old systems running Win 7 but want them on SSDs to give them a little longer life. (that shouldn't be too difficult - trick is imaging to non-identical size drives for low/no cost imaging - clonezilla doesn't like different size drives)

-- Projects that have been completed recently - for others

• New Virtualization Server ESXi Free 5.5, and be able to manage from vsphere 5.5 client from a virtual host DC (tricky)
• Move / Change DC from physical to virtual, demote the older ones
• Exchange 2007 > Virtual Exchange 2007 (they didn't want to spend money for 2010 when they didn't need it)
• Various system reloads/upgrades/SSD installs

Think that covers about 25% of my headaches lately...
Heading over to Vegas next week to look at tech and security stuff... (might be nice to see that metal 3D Printing System)

(Home Project List is HUGE)

• New Exterior
  New Windows
  New Flooring for ~ 1,500sqft (possibly some subflooring as well)
  New Bathroom - since its currently just studs
  New Front Yard... currently weeds / dead things + fixing sprinkler lines / valves - stupid system - wish nest or someone had a nice web managed system... (saw one last year - too much money)
  Roof - Repairs and better flashing all around
  New Exterior Doors - going from several single pane glass doors to nicer Low-e

awesome...
my veeam is running on a physical host and haven't played with much more than making sure it runs...

Will have to check those settings

LAMP software on a development system...

http://www.apachefriends.org/index.html
that is also helpful - basically have your test environment quickly loaded up where you need it.

There are many of these packages and I'm sure others also have suggestions on which ones are better

http://www.amazon.com/ReadyNAS-diskless-Attached-generation-RNDU6000/dp/B003V8AL98
But does look like no longer being made...
My case was I didn't even care about it being the ProSeries The Home Version worked fine and saved additional $$s (next one however will probably be the Pro Series)

still around.. but also the Duo for his case makes perfect sense...

The free veeam will connect over SMB protocols so it won't even utilize NFS will it? still even going over CIFS/SMB I am getting some prett good speeds ~90mbit (at the highest)

http://www.readynas.com/?page_id=3962

ReadyNAS Ultra 6
Loaded with pretty generic 3TB 7200 rpm SATA drives

Running in a RAID10
NAS connection works fine for backup target - no AD LDAP support but has quite a few other options been working pretty well even running low utilization webserver over the NFS connection...

Veeam targets readynas over CIFS share from windows host so not even using the NFS storage for Backups.. just a few test vms setup as a datastore. also setup an iscsi target for one of my other systems to store data on as well.

all those connections it hasn't missed a beat for 24-30 months.