@scottalanmiller said:

Is that a Sybase DB running? That is a lot of CPU there.

That is the DB for Symantec SEP...again, currently not running...

It just happened again now:

We are running 2 virtual processors.

And yes...horrid performance problems, especially when it was at 99%. Taking forever for end users to access files on the shared drives.

@scottalanmiller said:

Are you seeing spikes inside the VM or from outside of the VM? Are you seeing performance problems?

Within. The Host is pretty normal. This is the task manager before I killed Symantec:

Then Symantec was still running, it was constant 99%. Right now, it just spiked (with no Symantec running)

Not sure if this is just normal spikes with our usage. Didn't have this problem on the physical and under powered SBS 2003 with only 4GB and 32bit.

My new file server in a Hyper-V VM was migrated last weekend. It has been running quite well until today. We are now having CPU Spikes. It looked like it was our Symantec SEP but I killed it and while the CPU settled down, it is still averaging about 40% CPU usage with spikes back up in the 90's. Mostly from Service Host or SYSTEM.

The VM has 8GB of RAM and 2 CPU. With Anti-Virus management killed, it is then just a file server with shadow copies on (only runs twice a day.)

DO I need to tweak my VM settings some? And yes, I know, Symantec is bloated but it is all we have for now and has worked well for us.

Any other suggestions? Management is looking at this closely and wanting to point at virtualization.

@scottalanmiller said:

VB is just an awful language.

We had a huge production system written in VBScript server side and VB6 client side for nearly a decade. That was just painful.

I can agree...the plethora of VBA (which I know, isn't VB but is still VB ) projects we have drives me insane...

@scottalanmiller said:

That's VB6 or older. A completely different language. No simple "convert" button. This is where CNAMEs help for legacy app support.

Chances are, just tricking the app with a hosts file entry will work.

Long term you can't keep running something you can't fix. This is going to break.

@scottalanmiller said:

How to fix?

Write it fresh. You could just use C# and make the tool again as it is. But this time keep the code.

Or consider it a chance to approach the problem differently.

Lord have Mercy, I just found VB 6 on our server...I almost feel "dirty" installing it just do handle this...He needs it TODAY, so quickest way to do it...but I do need to get into this code to see what it does and then as you said, re write it. This old junk will soon crawl out of the woodwork...

As a result of our server migration, some smaller issues are starting to appear. One of them is a small VB program that our accountant uses. Somewhere in it's code, it looks to the old server and it was coded and compiled long before I got here. I have Visual Studio 2013 and it looks like this was done in a much older version of VB. It has VBP and VBP files but I cannot open them in VS 2013. I tried CONVERT but didn't have any conversion tools. I've searched and found a few converter tools but they've not resolved the problem.

Any suggestions?

Thanks...

@IRJ said:

@garak0410 said:

As ignorant as my posts may have looked during this process...now that is complete, it makes so much more sense now...

You cant be that ignorant. You just did a major migration on your own. Sure alot of Mangolassies gave you info, but no one remoted in your server and did the work.

Just a little humility...

As ignorant as my posts may have looked during this process...now that is complete, it makes so much more sense now...

@scottalanmiller said:

DNS is not affected by roles. DNS is not tied to AD. Two separate services. Are you sure that people's desktop are pointing to the new machine for DNS? Use nslookup to test.

Agreed...now that I've had time to think, this may go back to my static assignments and not using DHCP...adding to list...

Big round of applause for all of the tips I got here. It looks like my file server migration went quite well. A few minor things today:

As it would happen, we had a power surge and the battery backups for the old server (domain controller) both went nuts and turned the server off. I assume since the other roles haven't been officially moved to the new Domain Controller is why no one had any DNS services.

One of our VBA programs has messy, messy code and it's all over the place. Any job made prior to the file server would not open unless I restored sharing to the folder on the old server that contains the code for this project. So, the workaround works but adding this fix to my list.

Beyond some users needing to log out and in a few times to get their login scripts right and some typos I made in the script,, I couldn't be happier.

I guess I will be planning on the eventual demotion of the old DC...

@garak0410

After first Robocopy completed, I rebooted my VM for my file server. Immediately, it is at 95% memory usage (7.5 GB out of 8GB). I turned it off, turned DYNAMIC memory OFF and bam...looks much better.

Oh baby, Rowsdower saves us and saves all the world. He comes to save the day in a broken truck. With stinky denim jacket on his back. He couldn't help this movie, which really sucked. But, at least we didn't have to see him... play... hacky-sack.

@scottalanmiller said:

File transfers should use all available memory. Nothing odd there.

So noted. Just wish it showed up in task manager...I'll be patient...we have than less than 1/3 left to copy...and then a run with the /XO command tonight to get what is new or changed.

Another Screen Shot...

In contrast, the Host shows very little wear on it...

@scottalanmiller

Turned off Symantec and it has gotten worse and can't reboot due to Robocopy...I do not really see any other reason for the high memory usage...

@Minion-Queen said:

Since I work in a home office, with a full operational server lab (new equipment should be arriving soon).

3 Windows 8.1 pro desktops
1 Windows 7 Desktop running as our media server
2 Ipad mini's
1 Dell Venue Pro w/8.1 Pro on it
Nexus tablet (hate the thing)
HP Windows 8.1 laptop
MacBook Pro A1278
IPhone 5c
IPhone 5s
Nokia Lumia 822
Nokia Lumia 925
Galaxy S4
Ipod's

At least 2 other Windows 7 pro desktops for lab/guest usage.

I might be missing things but... there ya go.

Very diverse...I do have an iPhone4 in my laptop bag I use to guild myself with troubleshooting others phones.

Not quite new but never did an intro.

Brian here. From Cabot, Arkansas (a "suburb" of Little Rock). IT guy since my first Atari and Vic-20. Professionally, been in IT for 18 years.

Family man Love my wife and daughters (22 year old and 6 year old)

My wife and I

My oldest daughter and I

My youngest daughter and I

I am a 27 year theatre actor/director and currently in production of Larry Shue's THE NERD as, well, The Nerd!

I am also in the Children's Ministry where I can also exercise my years of acting talent to make characters and lessons very animated.

Ah...the great Home Network & mobile / tablet platform discussion. Just curious what everyone uses.

I am strictly a Microsoft Shop now. And I actually like Windows 8.1 and the under the hood improvements. I used to be an Android Phone and Tablet guy too but took a chance on the Microsoft Ecosystem and am mostly pleased.

At home:
Self Built Core i3 Box with 8GB RAM
Windows 8.1
Huge Windows Media Center Fan and I Extend to my XBOX 360
4TB (Raid 1) WD NAS for Archiving and Media (personal cloud) (with 4GB off site backup drive I update once a week)
4TB Backup Drive and a matching 4TB Drive for offsite copy.
2TB (Raid 1) WD NAS for future use (got it for a review copy...haven't utilized it yet)

Mobile:
Surface Pro 2 256 GB Edition
Nokia Icon Windows Phone

Other
Office 365
Skydrive
XBOX Music
Kindle Fire for my Daughter (has the best parental controls I've seen)

I took the Microsoft dive after years on Android. While I miss the custom and geeky factor, I am totally happy with my Surface and Windows Phone. The pictures my ICON takes are amazing and that is my most important feature I want on a phone. Skydrive was very wonky early on in the 8.1 release...so much that I lost data to bad syncing and it would just flat out refuse to sync on my Surface Pro 2 and I had to rebuild it three times with NO help from Microsoft. After this last SkyDrive update (where they restored the desktop system tray icon, it has been MUCH better.