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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

ESX does this best, but GSX and VMware server support SMP also. Workstaion v5.5 has experimental support for SMP. -Jeff

I had a VSR do odd things many years ago. It turned out that one of the fans which kept the system cool had tied up and the heat build-up caused odd problems such as those you describe. I agree with the above post that RAM could be a problem too. Run memtest86+ (http://www.memtest.org/) and...

I have gotten much better network performance in Win2K3 machines (physical and virtual) by disabling the IPSEC service. -Jeff

You could uuencode the file and redirect the output to the appropriate serial port, capture it on the PC to a file, then uudecode the file on the PC. -Jeff

I am not familiar with Adaptec's line of RAID controllers and their capabilities, but array expansion is easy with Compaq/HP controllers. I would use an imaging tool (Ghost, Acronis, Drive Image, etc.) to create an image of the existing disks on another server or portable USB drive. Then...