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Battery issue may not be fully resolved in IOS5.1

This entry was posted in Review Storage and tagged IOS 5 on December 12, 2011 by HAL

Even with the release of 5.01 several users have reported to me serious issues with battery life – across various devices. I picked up some discussions around the imminent release of 5.1. beta 2 to developers that issues may still exist. I have noticed a definite drop in life span on battery charge to the […]

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Trilead backup and orphan snapshots

This entry was posted in Software Storage Tips Virtualisation and tagged MD3200i Orphan Snapshot Trilead VMWare on November 29, 2011 by HAL

Had an issue today where a client with an MD3200i san and VMware esx reported a problem with space when copying contents of physical cds to a virtual machine for installation. The strange issue was that they reported a disk space message when there was in fact plenty of space on the virtual disk. After […]

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Windows 2008 r2 and Exchange VSS problem

This entry was posted in Software Storage Tips and tagged Backup EXEC 12.5 VSS on November 8, 2011 by HAL

The scenario. Two servers – one with Backup Exec 12.5 and all available patches – the other with Exchange 2007 SP2 nd the backup exec agent for exchange. Both running Server 2008 r2. The problem – every time an exchange backup of the store on the second server failed immediately on backup exec with a […]

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IOS5 – still “coming soon” ?

This entry was posted in Interesting Storage Tips Web and tagged IOS5 on October 12, 2011 by HAL

The widely awaited update to IOS 5 may well be on the horizon. A number of  unconfirmed tips have suggested that it will be here today but I have to say I’m not anticipating it as yet. But its early yet. The downside I do see is that with multiple IOS devices the update will […]

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Another pdf related problem – files not opening with Acrobat Reader – need to change association on Windows 7

This entry was posted in Storage Tips and tagged Acrobat Reader Adobe on September 22, 2011 by HAL

For a windows 7 user – that I recently installed Acrobat Reader 10.1 – reporting to me that email attachments that were PDF files were not opening in Acrobat Reader rather in Media Center – but showing as empty here is a solution. The steps top change the pdf  association under windows 7 were   […]

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Cisco VPN client on Windows 7 64 bit – poor !!

This entry was posted in Comment Storage and tagged Cisco VPN on June 22, 2011 by HAL

I had occasion to install the Cisco VPN client to access a remote VSphere installation for a client. I was not impressed. The setup was way too slow for this type of application and the stability was questionable. I was able to connect but found that the system performance was dubious. Makes you wonder what […]

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Best practices for Backup Exec 2010 Granular Recovery Technology

This entry was posted in Storage Tips and tagged Backup Exec 2010 Best Prac GRT on June 13, 2011 by HAL

As an adjunct to the Best Practices for BE for Exchange 2010 – heres a reheat of the GRT specific best practices from Symantec. Best practices include tips and recommendations to help you use Symantec Backup Exec and Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) effectively. For more information about Granular Recovery Technology, see the Backup Exec 2010 […]

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Best practices for Backup Exec 2010 Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server

This entry was posted in Software Storage Tips and tagged Backup Exec 2010 Best Practices Exchange on June 10, 2011 by HAL

During research for a problem that related to Exchange GRT backups which you can read here – I found this document on the Symantec site which I thought I’d reproduce with some comments and thoughts. For me the simple act of documenting how the server is configured is absolutely vital – especially in a crisis […]

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