Next stage of my first business customer, getting a server set-up (storage, sage etc)
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Yep it's only its testing stages at the moment 
All mirrors are now synced, although i tested by shutting down and pulling out disk0, booting it up, when it was booting it was asking me to select which instance of OS, there was the main one, if i selected that it would fail to boot, if i selected the second boot record it works fine.
Not had a chance to play around with it today to be fair as i have prepping to go and terminate cat6 in a block of flats tomorrow. First time doing this on this scale, alone. Obviously not going to be done in a single day
All mirrors are now synced, although i tested by shutting down and pulling out disk0, booting it up, when it was booting it was asking me to select which instance of OS, there was the main one, if i selected that it would fail to boot, if i selected the second boot record it works fine.Not had a chance to play around with it today to be fair as i have prepping to go and terminate cat6 in a block of flats tomorrow. First time doing this on this scale, alone. Obviously not going to be done in a single day
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Going back to my question previously from owners of this server, and similar setup, what is the performance like as I have read some very mixed reviews about the microservers hardware raid, also the monitoring what could I use to monitor?
I have used a microserver for a few years now as a physical box and now ESXI host, but have never tested the RAID side of it
I don't mind playing about but I have a busy week this week, if anyone has any useful stats or performance tests I would appriciate it if not ill look up tomorrow when I'm back
I have used a microserver for a few years now as a physical box and now ESXI host, but have never tested the RAID side of it
I don't mind playing about but I have a busy week this week, if anyone has any useful stats or performance tests I would appriciate it if not ill look up tomorrow when I'm back
Well this server in question for this person is running server 2008 and thats it.
If the Microserver is indeed using a sort of hardware/software raid set-up combined, what software am I going to have to use to get this working? (as above must be free)
If the Microserver is indeed using a sort of hardware/software raid set-up combined, what software am I going to have to use to get this working? (as above must be free)
I am having a few problems setting up this RAIDXpert, I am trying to basically set-up the mirror
So to clarify
I have so far
Enabled RAID in the BIOS, booted to server 2008 set-up, partitioned the first drive, there is the initial boot partition, the OS partition and the data partition. I have installed server 2008 on C
Booted in to server 2008 and installed RAIDXPert, I can log in to it, I like the email notifications it offers, however its only showing physical drive view which shows 2 x 1 TB drives, no portioning info
Then another view logical drives, again showing both drives, no partitioning info
I want to be able to mirror all partition's, but there doesnt seem to be any other views on this RAIDXpert to be able to do this?
EDIT: I think it may be because I needed to create the logical drives when I boot up using the on-board controller
So to clarify
I have so far
Enabled RAID in the BIOS, booted to server 2008 set-up, partitioned the first drive, there is the initial boot partition, the OS partition and the data partition. I have installed server 2008 on C
Booted in to server 2008 and installed RAIDXPert, I can log in to it, I like the email notifications it offers, however its only showing physical drive view which shows 2 x 1 TB drives, no portioning info
Then another view logical drives, again showing both drives, no partitioning info
I want to be able to mirror all partition's, but there doesnt seem to be any other views on this RAIDXpert to be able to do this?
EDIT: I think it may be because I needed to create the logical drives when I boot up using the on-board controller
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Went to test out sage today at site after testing on a lab setup
Seemed to go smoothly backing up the company.000 directory, took several backups of it and backed up th company file for any rollback
Moved the company.000 directory over to to server, edited the company file to point to the new location on the server.
All appeared to be ok the local sage installs could see the data , but it wouldn't let the same sage login account to be used which they have been using called MANAGER I guess a new account is required for each person? Need to do some checking when I'm back in the office
Seemed to go smoothly backing up the company.000 directory, took several backups of it and backed up th company file for any rollback
Moved the company.000 directory over to to server, edited the company file to point to the new location on the server.
All appeared to be ok the local sage installs could see the data , but it wouldn't let the same sage login account to be used which they have been using called MANAGER I guess a new account is required for each person? Need to do some checking when I'm back in the office
Thanks, I cant see any need for ESXi at the moment, but will concider it if they need in the future but I highly doubt it, I think the max this place will ever see is 5 workstations maybe, I cant see them running too many applications and needing multiple servers.
I am due to create some additional accounts within sage for them so will see how that goes, UPS I will mention to them, I have a spare 250GB HDD here at the moment which came with the micro server, I am thinking about buying a USB caddy for the time being and getting some stuff backed up and will also look at online backups.
What firewall would you go for that doesnt need licensing, not expensive, we manage and resell SonicWall's at work, good units but their licensed and quite pricey for later models
I am due to create some additional accounts within sage for them so will see how that goes, UPS I will mention to them, I have a spare 250GB HDD here at the moment which came with the micro server, I am thinking about buying a USB caddy for the time being and getting some stuff backed up and will also look at online backups.
What firewall would you go for that doesnt need licensing, not expensive, we manage and resell SonicWall's at work, good units but their licensed and quite pricey for later models
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Had another go at centralising their sage again today. Moving data to network share and pointing sage to it works no probs. they have created multiple users. But still issues with it not being able to log more than one user at a time!
Can't get my head around it.
I'm thinking i might just see if they can outsource the support for the sage side. I don't think i want to support that part as I don't have any exepetience in it
Everything else on their server setup is running fine though
Can't get my head around it.
I'm thinking i might just see if they can outsource the support for the sage side. I don't think i want to support that part as I don't have any exepetience in it
Everything else on their server setup is running fine though
He says it should have the ability for concurrent users with that key, is there anyway of finding out if this is true if i have the details?
Well when I edited the company file on the first workstation to point to the share, open sage, it could see the data, open up company, asks for creds, then says something like this user is already logged on, the user that was using that account had logged off. Ill try and get a screeny
Iv had to revert them back to using local sage for now
Well when I edited the company file on the first workstation to point to the share, open sage, it could see the data, open up company, asks for creds, then says something like this user is already logged on, the user that was using that account had logged off. Ill try and get a screeny
Iv had to revert them back to using local sage for now