Posts made by CCWTech

In this case it's a request from the owner of the company. I don't have any background as to why at this time.

What is a good (Covert) monitoring software that can tell what a user is doing? I have a client who has a need to do some montioring.

Ok, thanks.

Tim,

Let me re-phrase.

I have to setup NIC teaming, but there is already the Hyper-V virtual NIC in place.

If I setup NIC teaming on the host, will it break the Hyper-V NIC?

To clarify, I have done NIC teaming before many times, but that was before setting up the hyper-v virtual NIC and before the machine was in production.

Since 1 NIC is setup for the Hyper-V Virtual NIC, can I just team another physical one with the current physical NIC or will I need to remove or reconfigure the Hyper-V?

Ok, so set up NIC Teaming on the Physical Server then?

My bad - QTY (8) 1GB Cards...

I have a server with 8 GB Network cards. It is currently setup with only 1 NIC in use. Physical NIC shared with Hyper-V virtual NICs

It's a physical server with 2 Hyper-V machines.

In order to get better network speed is it going to help to add another NIC if ultimately it's going into the same switch?

Ok, will do. Thanks!

New server soon so I'm going to keep it the same, but I am a Raid 10 fan, big time.

@scottalanmiller said in Failed Global Drive:

@ccwtech said in Failed Global Drive:

It's going to be replaced in the next few hours... but wanted to see if I could deal with a slow server issue in the meantime.

Yank it out now. It's already failing and you don't want a spare with a RAID 5 array, so I'd pull it out and not replace it.

Why is a spare bad?

600 GB

It's going to be replaced in the next few hours... but wanted to see if I could deal with a slow server issue in the meantime.

I have a client that has a RAID 5 array with 3 drives in the array and 1 Global Spare. The server suddenly started running very slowly so I checked the RAID array. I have a pre-fail condition on the Global Spare. Since the global spare is not in use right now, would that have an impact on performance?

Good info from all. I know it's going to be hard, but can't see myself going to work for someone. I don't have any desire to become a large company.

Are any speaking from experience in starting a company fresh or is this mostly anecdotal?

@scottalanmiller said in How to Grow from a One Man Operation to Two:

@dashrender said in How to Grow from a One Man Operation to Two:

@scottalanmiller said in How to Grow from a One Man Operation to Two:

@dashrender said in How to Grow from a One Man Operation to Two:

@scottalanmiller said in How to Grow from a One Man Operation to Two:

@ccwtech said in How to Grow from a One Man Operation to Two:

No doubt. I waited too long before hiring. I've been working 7 days a week about 17 hours per day... Not fun.

Yeah, probably too long. But the longer you do it, the more time you have to bank the money to pay the next person with less risk.

Yeah, you have to either be prepared to get a loan to cover their salary, or have it in the bank already. You might find your own salary going down, possibly significantly, while you continue to grow the business.

This is often the case. Employees are expensive. Lots of people never get back to where they were before hiring.

once you hire, there are a ton of new or at least significantly higher fees/taxes/etc you have to pay that you didn't before.

Unemployment taxes, payroll costs, workman's comp, etc.

I'm 'very aware' of that... It sucks...

@dashrender said in How to Grow from a One Man Operation to Two:

@ccwtech said in How to Grow from a One Man Operation to Two:

@dashrender said in How to Grow from a One Man Operation to Two:

@scottalanmiller said in How to Grow from a One Man Operation to Two:

@ccwtech said in How to Grow from a One Man Operation to Two:

No doubt. I waited too long before hiring. I've been working 7 days a week about 17 hours per day... Not fun.

Yeah, probably too long. But the longer you do it, the more time you have to bank the money to pay the next person with less risk.

Yeah, you have to either be prepared to get a loan to cover their salary, or have it in the bank already. You might find your own salary going down, possibly significantly, while you continue to grow the business.

Yes, I saved enough that if 0 dollars come in I would still be able to operate for over a year.

Paying yourself and an employee? If so, that's awesome, sounds like you're nearly read to make the jump to your first employee.

Yep... and I did it 2.5 weeks ago.

@dashrender said in How to Grow from a One Man Operation to Two:

@scottalanmiller said in How to Grow from a One Man Operation to Two:

@ccwtech said in How to Grow from a One Man Operation to Two:

No doubt. I waited too long before hiring. I've been working 7 days a week about 17 hours per day... Not fun.

Yeah, probably too long. But the longer you do it, the more time you have to bank the money to pay the next person with less risk.

Yeah, you have to either be prepared to get a loan to cover their salary, or have it in the bank already. You might find your own salary going down, possibly significantly, while you continue to grow the business.

Yes, I saved enough that if 0 dollars come in I would still be able to operate for over a year.

No doubt. I waited too long before hiring. I've been working 7 days a week about 17 hours per day... Not fun.