I decided to do some very basic performance testing of non Windows based NAS devices that I’ve got here at in my lab / production network. The aim of this is not to come up with a winner or loser, but to understand what levels of performance I might expect from these NAS devices. I’ll break this testing up into two categories, and tonight's blog post will feature the non … [Read more...]
WD DX 4000–Software Update Available
I really like my WD Sentinel DX 4000 – it’s great little product for me and I’ve actually got two of them in the SBSfaq.com offices. I walked into the office this morning though to see the display below on them “Software Update Available”. This is cool and I’d love it if my normal servers would do the same – makes it nice and simple to see what is going on. Ok – … [Read more...]
Hyper-V Clusters and iSCSI
If you like me have little experience with Hyper-V, Clustering and iSCSI, then you will appreciate how much “fun” we can have in getting it all working. Thankfully, I stumbled across this blog post from Ben Armstrong and a further blog from Aidan Finn with detailed step by step guide on how to use the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target to create a Hyper-V cluster. If you … [Read more...]
ShadowProtect–What is the best version to use at the moment?
The current version of ShadowProtect on the US website is 4.1.5, and on the Australian website is 4.1.0. I’ve recently had a few issues with high CPU utilisation in ShadowProtect and had of course upgraded to the latest version thinking the issue would be resolved. Unfortunately there is an issue under investigation at the moment that some people are experiencing that occurs … [Read more...]
Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials Released
Microsoft this week announced the RTM of Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. This is the product that I presented on at the February meeting of the Sydney SMB IT Pro group and also in Phoenix last month. It’s basically built on the same code as Windows Home Server 2011 and SBS 2011 Essentials. It’s going to be available only preinstalled via certain OEMs – … [Read more...]