Re: [lopsa-discuss] Offices on opposite sides of oceans

2010-01-12 Thread Ryan Pugatch
Jeremy Charles wrote: > I'd like to hear from those who have had to manage IT resources for offices > that are located on opposite sides of oceans. > > Our primary challenge right now is this: Our original offices, and our CIFS > file servers, are located in Wisconsin, USA. We also have an of

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Unison for windows file synchronization

2010-01-12 Thread Ryan Pugatch
Rob Cherry wrote: > Has anyone ever used unison? (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) > > I have a large file server migration coming up (large being relative - > its only .5Tb - but large for us). We are migrating to a new domain > infrastructure. As such all the SIDs and ownership of f

[lopsa-discuss] Splunk under Xen

2010-01-14 Thread Ryan Pugatch
Does anyone have recommendations on running Splunk under Xen? http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/installation/SystemRequirements says "Note: Running Splunk in virtual machine (VM) mode on any platform will degrade performance." and the recommended hardware config is at least: 2x qu

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Splunk under Xen

2010-01-14 Thread Ryan Pugatch
peg your processors nicely to boot. I wouldn't recommend running Splunk > in a virtualized environment for anything other than integration testing > or else if you are processing the lightest of loads. > > Cheers, > - --Trey > > Quoth Ryan Pugatch [01/14/2010 07:46 PM]

[lopsa-discuss] virtualizing XP under Linux and remote IE testing

2010-01-20 Thread Ryan Pugatch
Hello all, I currently have 32 Windows XP machines virtualized on a CentOS machine under Xen. They're used for testing websites under IE (and are accessed via RDP). Unfortunately, I have been having horrible performance issues with Windows XP under Xen. I've emailed the centos-virt list to s

Re: [lopsa-discuss] virtualizing XP under Linux and remote IE testing

2010-01-21 Thread Ryan Pugatch
Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > I find that Xen is great for virtualization of linux inside of linux ... And > for nothing else. In fact, whenever I have a non-linux guest inside of Xen, > I find Xen is unstable. I have a server with windows & linux guests inside > of xen on RHEL5 host ... and abou

Re: [lopsa-discuss] virtualizing XP under Linux and remote IE testing

2010-01-21 Thread Ryan Pugatch
Joshua Penix wrote: > > If you haven't already, give the GPLPV ("ParaVirt") drivers for XP a quick > try. They're supposed to help network and disk performance significantly: > > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv > >> What I'm hoping to find out from people on this list is othe

Re: [lopsa-discuss] virtualizing XP under Linux and remote IE testing

2010-01-21 Thread Ryan Pugatch
; > -Original Message- > From: discuss-boun...@lopsa.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lopsa.org] On > Behalf Of Ryan Pugatch > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 10:42 PM > To: discuss@lopsa.org; blu > Subject: [lopsa-discuss] virtualizing XP under Linux and remote IE >

Re: [lopsa-discuss] virtualizing XP under Linux and remote IEtesting

2010-01-21 Thread Ryan Pugatch
.com/products/server/ > > > > I've successfully used it to virtualize WinXP systems in the past, > specifically for Mac web developers to test on, actually. It has a > pretty nifty web management interface. > > Dan > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Ryan

Re: [lopsa-discuss] virtualizing XP under Linux and remote IE testing

2010-01-21 Thread Ryan Pugatch
Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > VMWare Server is a terrible product. I wouldn't recommend it for any > purpose. > > Perhaps you should look at ESXi? Does the host need to be Linux, or perhaps > bare metal would be ok? > Yeah, I have been leaning toward ESXi. No problem with that since I can loa

Re: [lopsa-discuss] virtualizing XP under Linux and remote IE testing

2010-01-22 Thread Ryan Pugatch
Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> Yeah, I have been leaning toward ESXi. No problem with that since I >> can >> load OpenManage in it which lets me manage the RAID, etc. > > If you can load OpenManage on ESXi, please tell me how. That is something I > would desperately love to do, but as far as I know

Re: [lopsa-discuss] IT Policy Discuss

2010-05-23 Thread Ryan Pugatch
Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > For the moment, I am not asking you what you think is good policy. > > > > For the moment, I am only asking for feedback on my intended style, to > introduce policy in an organization that formerly had none. > > > I think that asking the 'general public' to help

Re: [lopsa-discuss] IT Policy Discuss

2010-05-24 Thread Ryan Pugatch
Robert Hajime Lanning wrote: > Education only goes so far. You still need the policy. In fact the two > go hand in hand. There should be a policy, with the education on why > the policy exists and how to follow the policy. > > In the end, you will need something to enforce. You always end up

[lopsa-discuss] Compellent SAN

2010-07-06 Thread Ryan Pugatch
Hi, Anyone using a Compellent SAN? Especially interested for those using it for data warehousing/MS SQL Server. Thanks. -Ryan ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the Leagu

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Compellent SAN

2010-07-06 Thread Ryan Pugatch
On 7/6/10 9:48 PM, Adam Levin wrote: > We have one in our lab with about 50TB of storage on it right now (four > shelves, and I believe the breakdown is 1 shelf each of 450GB 15k FC, > 300GB 15k FC, 500GB 7200rpm SATA and 1TB 7200rpm SATA, but I could be > off). We purchased two shelves initially,