I’ve had a Western Digital WD DX 4000 8TB model for quite a few years now, and it’s doing great duty storing offsite backups from my home here in my office. However this week I had one of the 2TB drives fail with clicking and grinding. No issues, the WD is in RAID5 therefore my data is protected. The challenge however is that WD only tested specific drives with the Sentinel … [Read more...]
How can I view log files live?
You’re troubleshooting an issue for a client, and the log files are all text based log files. The normal default goto tool used to read these is of course Notepad. The challenge however is how do you handle it if there are changes being made to the log files. Notepad just does not cut it at that point. A few years back, I was working on a project where we had to move 400 … [Read more...]
What is Hyper-V Replica?
Back in Windows 2012, Microsoft introduced a feature called Hyper-V Replica. This feature has been improved in the 2012R2 version and has even more improvements in Windows Server 2016 due for launch shortly. In this series on Windows Hyper-V Replica, I’ll aim to give you some background on the feature as well as pointers on how to implement it. What is Hyper-V … [Read more...]
How can I integrate Windows 10 into SBS 2008, SBS 2011 or Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials?
With the release of Windows 10, Microsoft have needed to provide updates for older versions of SBS to make it work properly. Adding Windows 10 to an SBS 2008, SBS 2011 network or Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials itself is pretty simple. Here’s links to the Third Tier blog where you can see specific instructions on how to get Windows 10 working with these now defunct versions … [Read more...]
Why do my Fujitsu Servers fans speed up every night at 11pm?
Amongst my varied collection of gear in my home lab environment, I’ve got a couple of Fujitsu RX200 S8 servers that are running as part of my W2012 R2 Cluster. They do a great job and I’m really happy with them overall, with one minor exception. Given they are in my home office, which is essentially a bedroom, every night at 11pm without fail the fans in the servers … [Read more...]