Recent content by jfrantz

Have you considered bypassing the power supply for the device you're trying to keep running? The 24vdc to 120vac conversion is fairly inefficient. You may be able run your device directly from batteries and save yourself a lot of money. It may take a bit of engineering to add a charging...

Yes, you can defragment a RAID volume. Fragmentation happens at the filesystem level. -Jeff

I installed it two weeks ago and have had no issues. -Jeff

Rob, I have had my entire infrastructure virutalized, including DCs, for almost two years with the exception of the server which I use for data backups. Everything runs smoothly with no AD issues. -Jeff

Chris, I use esXpress to backup the VMs and ARCserve for file level backup. I believe the next version of esXpress will support file level backups from virtual machines. I've looked at CommVault and it is very nice but also very expensive. -Jeff

Yes, VMware said SATA support will be in the 3.5 product.

I use Retrospect at a client's office and have never had a problem with it. http://www.emcinsignia.com/products/smb/retroforwin/

Andrew, The expansion will be faster if you have the battery-backed write cache installed. If you do add that many drives, I suggest migrating to RAID 6 which gives you the ability to loose two drives simultaneously. If it's a critical machine, using one or two drives as hot spares is a good...

I've done it several times with Ultimate P2V (BartPE with free tools) and had no problems. I recommend that you keep the VM-NIC disabled on the virtual machine until you get the VMware tools installed and everything is configured exactly as the physical machine was. -Jeff

You will have to backup and restore. You can use a disk imaging tool to do this. -Jeff

John, You can use a larger disk to replace a smaller disk. The remainder of larger disk will simply go unused. -Jeff

You cannot use IDE storage with VMware ESX. You may be able to find a supported RAID controller which will allow you to use IDE disks, such as 3Ware. See this: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx_io_guide.pdf -Jeff

How about VNC?

Brian, I just purchased a Fluke CableIQ qualification tester and love it. I purchased the kit version for $1,500 which includes a case, toner, and six additional remote identifiers. This device has saved me lots of time and has given me peace-of-mind versus my old basic continutity tester. It...

The RAID configuration is stored on the disks. You can safely remove the controller and replace the batteries. -Jeff