If you're trying to solve connectivity problems at a customer site, you can ask a colleague back at your office to use ping and traceroute to see how the network appears to the outside world; or you can use the tools at http://www.heise-online.co.uk/networks/nettools/ to do it yourself. There are tools for looking up Mac addresses and calculating subnet masks too. If you need a more detailed trace, http://w3dt.net/tools/pathping has a pathping tool.
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Backup goes online and offsite
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Turn DPM and Windows Storage Server into an appliance
Combine windows storage server and add windows system center data protection manager and you can get a backup and dr appliance you can build – or a service you can sell.
Raid 6 Storage
If two drives fail in a RAID 5 array, you lose data. RAID 6 promises more protection and better performance.
Backing up Exchange
Like any other database, Exchange needs a little TLC if you want to recover from any downtime.
Database Backup
Databases store the most valuable information for the businesses you work with and they’re the trickiest systems to back up; some of the largest technology companies in the world have got database backup badly wrong. Losing that data can have serious consequences for the business, to say nothing of the embarrassment quotient for you. Here we explain the essentials of backing up and introduce some specialist tools.
Types of Storage
There are three types of storage you can provide to your customers: Direct Attached Storage (DAS), Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Networking (SAN). What you choose will affect the cost, the solution and the levels of support and services you can offer.
Setting up SANmelody to create your own Storage Fabric
Setting up SANmelody to create your own storage fabric
When you install the operating system on the storage server do not format the disks you will use for storage, just initialise them. The storage software will take care of everything else.
Storage: Buy, Build or Restore?
Over the last 20 years we have seen the cost of hardware and software plummet. For the most part, smaller companies can now run the same computing solutions as large companies.
Lessons in Space and Time
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Systems such as Exchange Server are closely entwined with Windows Active Directory, so customers can experience problems even if the mail server itself is still functioning correctly.
Recovering from mail server disasters
If your best client were to lose their mail server and the emails on it, how crippling would that be? Most businesses both large and small depend on email. If a company relies on email, you need to have the tools and techniques ready to solve their problems for the day disaster strikes.
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