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You need to shut SQL down if your database and log files reside on the SAN before the SAN is shutdown. Your shutdown time may vary depending on your log files last checkpoint and your activity level on the SQL server. If you do not shut down gracefully you take a higher risk of corruption. Use...

Does anyone know where you can find the download for Crystal Reports Viewer 2011? I can find product documentation at help.sap.com but can only find the Viewer 2008 files for download on the main page...

Some SAN will change the disk block size when the LUN is sized over 500GB. It is important to know what block size your SAN uses based on the provision amount and set VMware to use the same block size when writing data to ensure optimal performance. You should check with your SAN manfacturer or...

You can just copy the files out of the VMFS datastore by using the ESX console but where are you copying the file to? How will you copy them back for restore? Do you have RDM volumes running in physical mode? Check out Veeam. Cost was not high (license per host socket not # of guest) and can...

Some clarifications, you must be running Compellent Enterprise Manager to take advantage of Windows free space recovery. Compellent has detailed best practices for ESX 3.x and 4.x to help you determine when you should use VMFS and RDM LUN configurations. Your VAR, TAM,Copilot support, and the...

John, To truly evaluate you would need to know the IOPS your 15k Ultra SCSI 320 can sustain vs the other drives you are looking at and how many Ultra SCSI drives are used for each LUN in the MSA1000. As long as you are giving each LUN on the P2000 the same or higher IOP and your RAID config is...

In the HP solution you are better off putting 8GB DIMMS into 4 slots (2 per cpu socket) so you can run the bus at 1333Mhz. This will let you add another 8GB per socket if you need and keep your memory bandwidth running at best rate. Also given your application profile, RAID 5 storage is not the...

Let me clarify my point. LUN 1 & LUN 2 contains the VMDK files for Guest 1 and 2. LUN 3 & LUN 4 contains the VMDK files for Guest 3 and 4. You can run VCB snapshots for Guest 1 & Guest 3, or Guest 1 & Guest 4, or Guest 2 & 3, or Guest 2 & Guest 4 at the same time. The trick is not having...

Chapter11, You could go traditional putting agents in each guest or use a VCB solution. VCB is usually more cost effective froma licesing standpoint. You could use LUNS formatted as NTFS and mapped to your VCB proxy to use as mount points for the VCB jobs. There are IO considerations but you...

imad77, Sorry you didn't get a response from the community but a quick search in the forum of FTP or chroot would have turned up the info you were looking for. [morning] needcoffee

Are the 2 systems in the same facility? If so you could feed both systems to the same "server" easily. It should be possible to centralize if they are not since the records are stored in MS SQL 2000 but will require help from your security VAR. [morning] needcoffee

Insert the following as the first command in your script to prevent breakout. trap " " 1 2 3 18 Also, if this is a startup script in .profile, call it with exec so if they exit it closes the shell. [morning] needcoffee

OK, Got it working. I am officially a moron this week due to sleep deprivation. I forgot to call the funtion again within the script I put this into. My apologies all, [morning] needcoffee

p5wizard, The max change I am using this for is 6 days so I am below this threshold. Do you have any suggestions on an alternative way to do this? Thanks, [morning] needcoffee

I cannot determine why this script How do I get any date relative to today (in ksh) by PHV to work on AIX. I think it may be how 5.2 returns $TZ but I am lost on how to debug this. Can someone lend some expertise? Here is $TZ in ksh on my machine: EST5EDT,M3.2.0/2:00:00,M11.1.0/2:00:00 Thanks...