IT guy here.

[jakethevape]

I just thought I would give a friendly heads up that I can offer IT assistance when I am available for our members.

If anyone has any problems feel free to inbox me and I will see what I can do for you.

Cheers.

Jake.

[genguskhan]

Nice one Jake #icon_thumbsup#

[Deleted]

you can start by looking through all the wifi connection threads ...

[Perpetua]

That's a very kind offer, thank you Jake.

[Deleted]

thanks jake I do actually have a connection problem myself but now in the hands of o2 my provider
allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=lounge&thread=16636&page=1#319955

did all the relevant bits but still no joy opted for another router but having tried 2 I dont think thats gonna solve it but I will leave it with them first maybe a pm coming your way soon though

[meeee]

Here's one - Got the normal IT kit - Dell PS6000 San, a couple of Dell servers in a hyper V cluster etc etc, (Yep I know should have used VMWare) anyway I am in debate at the moment whether to buy Veeam or Double take to backup some windows 2008 hyper V hosts. For speed I am planning to image the hyper V hosts off to disk and then use backup exec to back up the image but tape. I am really struggling to decide which solution would be best? if you have any experience of either It would be great to get your input.

thanks

Meeee

[chrisjw]

Jan 14, 2013 21:23:45 GMT meeee said:

Here's one - Got the normal IT kit - Dell PS6000 San, a couple of Dell servers in a hyper V cluster etc etc, (Yep I know should have used VMWare) anyway I am in debate at the moment whether to buy Veeam or Double take to backup some windows 2008 hyper V hosts. For speed I am planning to image the hyper V hosts off to disk and then use backup exec to back up the image but tape. I am really struggling to decide which solution would be best? if you have any experience of either It would be great to get your input.

thanks

Meeee

Errrmmmm.....................

[kibbster]

Jan 14, 2013 21:23:45 GMT meeee said:

Here's one - Got the normal IT kit - Dell PS6000 San, a couple of Dell servers in a hyper V cluster etc etc, (Yep I know should have used VMWare) anyway I am in debate at the moment whether to buy Veeam or Double take to backup some windows 2008 hyper V hosts. For speed I am planning to image the hyper V hosts off to disk and then use backup exec to back up the image but tape. I am really struggling to decide which solution would be best? if you have any experience of either It would be great to get your input.

thanks

Meeee

Just avoid Backup Exec 2012 as it's a piece of utter shite.
Unstable as hell and moving from a job to a server-centric setup was madness.
It's also got a really sluggish UI and is very unstable bringing our 2003 Domain controller down on a weekly basis.

Just my opinion from "upgrading" from BE 2010 to 2012

[meeee]

Jan 14, 2013 21:55:34 GMT kibbster said:

Jan 14, 2013 21:23:45 GMT meeee said:

Here's one - Got the normal IT kit - Dell PS6000 San, a couple of Dell servers in a hyper V cluster etc etc, (Yep I know should have used VMWare) anyway I am in debate at the moment whether to buy Veeam or Double take to backup some windows 2008 hyper V hosts. For speed I am planning to image the hyper V hosts off to disk and then use backup exec to back up the image but tape. I am really struggling to decide which solution would be best? if you have any experience of either It would be great to get your input.

thanks

Meeee

Just avoid Backup Exec 2012 as it's a piece of utter shite.
Unstable as hell and moving from a job to a server-centric setup was madness.
It's also got a really sluggish UI and is very unstable bringing our 2003 Domain controller down on a weekly basis.

Just my opinion from "upgrading" from BE 2010 to 2012

yep totally agree, I run it on 2 of our office servers, the UI is just junk and so hard to naviagte. I tend to use BE2010 R2, which fixes the exchange 2010 and Hyper V issues BE 2010.

The issue I have is speed being agent based it is a lot slower than other backup solutions. Also I am looking for something that does bit level replication which BE does not do.

[kibbster]

Jan 14, 2013 22:03:15 GMT meeee said:

Jan 14, 2013 21:55:34 GMT kibbster said:

Just avoid Backup Exec 2012 as it's a piece of utter shite.
Unstable as hell and moving from a job to a server-centric setup was madness.
It's also got a really sluggish UI and is very unstable bringing our 2003 Domain controller down on a weekly basis.

Just my opinion from "upgrading" from BE 2010 to 2012

yep totally agree, I run it on 2 of our office servers, the UI is just junk and so hard to naviagte. I tend to use BE2010 R2, which fixes the exchange 2010 and Hyper V issues BE 2010.

The issue I have is speed being agent based it is a lot slower than other backup solutions. Also I am looking for something that does bit level replication which BE does not do.

Yet to meet anyone yet that thinks 2012 is any good.
Agent based is also a nause when you have NAS servers because you can't install an agent on them hehe

We used to use ARCserve but that was a long time ago and moved over the BE 2010... which we should have stayed on TBH but CBA to downgrade the licenses and all that hassle.

You're so right about hard to navigate, what chimp came up with that UI and thought it was a good idea?
Everything is buried deep in random screens from random screens.

Hate that bloody software, we get failed backups every week for no reason at all and if our DC survives the week without crashing we are lucky.
Unfortunately it's also out Exchange server and VPN server.
Yeah I know bad idea having it all on one server but we are working with legacy gear and a company that needs mission critical services 24/7 so haven't had the downtime to be able to sort it.

We back up to tape as well, but we've set up disc backups for when we are on holiday and the tapes can't be changed daily (I wanted an autoloader but MD won't go for the cost )

Also our MD being a bit tight and wanting to pay wages before we buy shiny servers doesn't help either

Looking at upgrading exchange next year (2003 currently) possibly a move to cloud exchange (I can dream.)

[meeee]

I remember the days of Arcserve, twas a good bit of software. You are running a lot on 1 box, a couple of years ago we spent about 40K on new server kit, Went with a Dell San, Dell poweredge servers and a dell powervault 24 tape autoloader etc. Its good kit but not the cheapest, I have to say however the dell mission critical support is brill. One of the HDD's went down on the San @ about 3 in the morning. When I got to work at 8:45 I already had an email from Dell to tell me, I gave them a quick call and we had a new one arrive within 3 hours.

We did the exchange upgrade from 2003 to 2010 last year, main reason was we were close to hitting the 75GB limit of the exchange DB. I did look at the office 365 option but it worked out far to expensive for 200 people so went with hosting it internally.

Meeee

[izan]

Jan 14, 2013 22:12:28 GMT kibbster said:

Jan 14, 2013 22:03:15 GMT meeee said:

yep totally agree, I run it on 2 of our office servers, the UI is just junk and so hard to naviagte. I tend to use BE2010 R2, which fixes the exchange 2010 and Hyper V issues BE 2010.

The issue I have is speed being agent based it is a lot slower than other backup solutions. Also I am looking for something that does bit level replication which BE does not do.

Yet to meet anyone yet that thinks 2012 is any good.
Agent based is also a nause when you have NAS servers because you can't install an agent on them hehe

We used to use ARCserve but that was a long time ago and moved over the BE 2010... which we should have stayed on TBH but CBA to downgrade the licenses and all that hassle.

You're so right about hard to navigate, what chimp came up with that UI and thought it was a good idea?
Everything is buried deep in random screens from random screens.

Hate that bloody software, we get failed backups every week for no reason at all and if our DC survives the week without crashing we are lucky.
Unfortunately it's also out Exchange server and VPN server.
Yeah I know bad idea having it all on one server but we are working with legacy gear and a company that needs mission critical services 24/7 so haven't had the downtime to be able to sort it.

We back up to tape as well, but we've set up disc backups for when we are on holiday and the tapes can't be changed daily (I wanted an autoloader but MD won't go for the cost )

Also our MD being a bit tight and wanting to pay wages before we buy shiny servers doesn't help either

Looking at upgrading exchange next year (2003 currently) possibly a move to cloud exchange (I can dream.)

You almost made me cry, I'm sorry you have to work like that.
After a while, the pay isn't enough for the BS you endure. I don't miss it at all.
Good luck performing miracles...Daily.

I

[jakethevape]

Wow talk about inundated with posts

To make it simple PM would be easier. No way can I keep up with this thread. Meeee I would love to offer advice on your question but enterprise networking / server storage is something I am currently learning at my work.
We have 8 HP blades with 4 Hp storagework SANS plus a pain in the flippin arse AIX IBM server (I hate AIX with a passion!). Each node is housing around 4 virtulized servers using hyperV, not VMware, thought VMware is some pretty hot stuff!.

Linux is something I pick up every now and again but with my work I am pretty dictated by good old microsoft unfortunatly.

My main strong areas at the moment are hardware support, server/pc's, PC software support (Win XP / Vista / 7 and 8), Windows server 2003 and 2008. Dabbling in SQL at the moment for report writing (fun fun..... )
Also 3D design, Auto CAD, adobe etc.

[meeee]

How are you backing up your Hyper V nodes at the moment? if you don't mind me asking

[jakethevape]

Jan 15, 2013 10:07:54 GMT meeee said:

How are you backing up your Hyper V nodes at the moment? if you don't mind me asking

We have an additional backup server just offsite (ideally located so we were able to put in a 10gig fibre line between the two sites) We have 3 smaller disk sized SANs here and a single larger SAN at the other location. Just put an order in for another high speed 900gig disk.... you dont get much change from £1000!! shocking.

But you will be surprised to hear we are still using tapes to do allot of the backing up. We can get about 1.5tb of data on the hp storagework tapes which is enough to backup an whole SAN array. However there is another bit of HP software as part of the storageworks admin interface that sets the SANS to automatically backup the data between the two locations simultaneously with backing up to tape. Still a bit new to me but very eager to learn.