Microsoft actually has a great article about how to create a DFS enviornment on a windows server cluster.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301588
I’m going to append to this my own version but for now, here’s the placeholder!
Jul
30
A major release for NetApp posted to the NOW site today, OnTap 7.3. This is a major performance release for NetApp as it starts to take advantage of the powerful 64-bit cores that NetApp has in their lineup of products.
For those of you that have a NOW account:
http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel73/html/ontap/rnote/frameset.html
Jul
27
I’m going to start to change things around. This blog will become more of a datacenter infrastructure site rather than a SMS/ConfigMgr/Scripting site. I’m going to change my focus on to storage, fiberchannel/ethernet storage networks, datacenter design trends, and high-level project overviews.
I still haven’t found alot of time to keep this up to date. but i’m going to try in the future to at least post one blog a week. Respond to this post with comments on anything you’d like expained and i’ll try to use those as topics to proceed.
storage resource management products are hard to find. i’ve compiled a list (in no specific order) of products i’ve found. If you have any others to add please do!! it’s actually been quite difficult to uncover some of the more advanced automation and storage management products.
Storage resource management (SRM):
Storage resource management (SRM) is the process of optimizing the efficiency and speed with which the available drive space is utilized in a storage area network (SAN). In recent years, numerous programs have become available that can help SAN administrators accomplish this task. This diverts the burden of performing the chore manually, which can be considerable, away from administrators.
Functions of an SRM program include data storage, data collection, data backup, data recovery, SAN performance analysis, storage virtualization, storage provisioning, forecasting of future needs, maintenance of activity logs, user authentication, protection from hackers and worms, and management of network expansion. An SRM solution may be offered as a stand-alone product, or as part of an integrated program suite.
Jun
25
Just thought i’d share, i finally got my internet fixed. turns out i had two modems on my account and they kept provisioining the wrong one for the faster speeds.
May
22
I just realized I had an issue with the blog. WOW, here I was thinking everything was fine and dandy. Well, it’s fixed now. I’m embarking on an interesting project using Oracle VM and NetApp. I’m planning to document it on this blog. Hopefully I’ll have time!
May
22
How does your datacenter storage look? We created a “storage asile”. There are 20 racks that we thought would be plenty during the datacenter build (approx 2 months ago). Now, there’s only a few racks left as we’re installing another new NetApp 6080. Here’s some pics:
I found this interesting forum post on the msft forums. This code will help you change all your sites to require secure key exchange.
here’s the post: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2796017&SiteID=17
Feb
04
Here’s some pictures of a new datacenter I helped design. In future posts I’ll show a before and after!
Feb
04
I found this interesting site the other day. It is quite interesting the differences people use to design their networks (and diagrams).
Jan
15
It really sucks when thefts occur at home. I was recently robbed, he broke in through a window that was at the roof line and jumped down about 15 feet into my condo. Then, proceeded to take a bunch of my stuff and walk out the front door.
He got away with my brand new PS3, brand new laptop I bought for my wife for xmas, XBOX 360, Wii, and a ton of my games.
The thing that is the most upsetting is that someone came into my home and went through my stuff and took what they wanted. They went through my room, fingered through my games (and left the ones they didn’t want), and who knows what else. It’s sad too, because I think it was someone in my building and I’m just not happy.
Jan
08
I had some fun at work today and created a 100TB volume for a project. NetApp’s OnTap GX operating system is quite nice and I can’t wait for the release that combines 7G and GX together. Here’s some fun screenshots.
- Microsoft Operations Manager—MOM
- Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner—SCCP
- Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager—ConfigMgr
- Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager—SCDPM
- Microsoft System Center Essentials—SCE
- Microsoft System Center Operations Manager—OpsMgr
- Microsoft System Center Reporting Manager—SCRM
- Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager—SCVMM
- Microsoft Systems Management Server—SMS
Oct
24
My first post using Windows Live Writer. This seems like it will be quite a nice application for publishing entries. I’m hoping that this will be useful. I especially like the spell check and the WYSIWYG interface where your typing looks like your blog. I also updated some other pages (such as the “about” page) using this tool. Quite nice, allows for easy editing.
