Why DFS doesn’t replicate certain files ?
January 28, 2008
Posted by Roel in : Technical , 1 comment so far
I always advise everyone to use DFS (Distributed File System), even when you do not plan to replicate files/folders between servers, it’s a good way of getting rid of all that server names.
Do these problems sound familiar: "On which server was that share ?" or "The share is running out of space, but we can’t move it to another server because 1000+ employees mapped it" ?
Take a look at this video (or show it to your manager), it’s easy to understand.
Problems
After I configured DFS for the Home Directories share (using replication to another server), i saw that not all files were replicated.
5 files to be exactly, 4 pictures (jpg/gif) and 1 PDF document.
Diving into this issue, there are a few reasons why files won’t get replicated; (more…)
X64 issues (when migrating some servers)
January 10, 2008
Posted by Roel in : Technical , add a comment
I recently migrated some Windows platforms to Windows Server 2003 x64 which were running Windows 2003 Server (normal 32-bit version).
The reason for this was that i migrated to a new virtual platform (in my case Xen Enterprise 4.0.1) which supports 64bit Operating Systems, so it would be a quick win… If i didn’t had XEN (or another virtual platform), i would have to buy several complete new servers (hardware) when i wanted to do this (migrating to 64bit) because none of my ‘old’ Pentium III, Pentium IV and Xeon processors supported 64bit, even the system boards did’t support 64bit CPU’s.
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