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AdminiMe 2012 for Windows Home Server (WHS V1) Released

Patrick Kennedy — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:55:26 +0000

A quick note, AdminiMe 2012 for the original Windows Home Server (Windows Server 2003 based kernel) has been released. I have covered AdminiMe a few times (also here for an upgrade), and it is an add-on I use in my Windows Home Server. Here is an excerpt of the changes: New Features Top 5 current [...] Related posts:

Apple’s iCloud: Not the End to SMB/ Home Storage Servers

Patrick Kennedy — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:14:29 +0000

One question I have been getting a lot lately has been whether or not I think Apple’s iCloud is going to be the end to the SMB/ Home storage server market. After all, many users do store their music, pictures, contacts and documents and etc. are often stored on network attached storage (NAS) devices. One [...] Related posts:

Creating a iSCSI Target with VHD in Windows Server 2008 R2

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 02 May 2011 09:14:01 +0000

After Microsoft released its free iSCSI target for Windows Server 2008 R2, we posted a guide on how to install the iSCSI target software on a server. The next logical step was to create a guide for creating a target. To simplify the demo a bit, I also decided to use a virtual disk. Test [...] Related posts:

Installing an iSCSI Target on Windows Server 2008 R2

Patrick Kennedy — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:14:53 +0000

Recently Microsoft released an iSCSI Target for Windows Server 2008 R2. This is something that many users have requested for a long time, and with the introduction of Windows Storage Server 2008 R2, it became a logical add-on to offer with Windows Server 2008 R2. Perhaps the best part of the software is that Microsoft [...] Related posts:

Thin Provisioning and Storage Systems

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:14:24 +0000

One of the biggest storage management advancements in the past years has been the (re-) introduction of thin provisioning. Practically speaking, thin provisioning is one of the many technologies that have transformed some aspects of the age-old problem of storage utilization. Since storage utilization is a rough metric used to determine the amount of data, [...] Related posts:

Tyan IPMI 2.0 Remote Management WebGUI Tour

Patrick Kennedy — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:14:43 +0000

These days, IPMI 2.0 with KVM-over-IP functionality is virtually a requirement on server boards unless one is using an external KVM-over-IP unit plus an IP switched power distribution unit. Being able to remotely administer not just the operating system, as one can with tools like SSH/ Telnet, VNC and Remote Desktop clients is a huge [...] Related posts:

Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 Essentials Server Backups the Easy and Hard Ways

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:14:08 +0000

One of the great new features in Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 Essentials (SBS2011E) is the ability to backup the system drives easily. This was a feature that Windows Home Server v1 was generally lacking and is something that users have taken for granted at this point with newer, more full featured versions of Windows [...] Related posts:

CloudBerry Online (and Network) Backup for Small Business Server 2011 Essentials

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:14:27 +0000

One important storage principle that many people forget is that RAID is not a backup solution, it is a method of achieving performance targets, redundancy, and up-time. Users backup their PCs to their local servers, but often forget to backup server data off-site. This is especially concerning for any data using the local server as [...] Related posts:

Dynamic Memory and Hyper-V Guide in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

Patrick Kennedy — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:14:55 +0000

One of the biggest new features in Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V users is the new Dynamic Memory functionality. Instead of partitioning physical memory into separate silos for each virtual machine, Dynamic Memory basically allows the Hyper-V hypervisor to allocate a pool of memory to be used for various virtual [...] Related posts:

Storage Tiering: A Primer on Cost-Effective Tiered Storage and Caching

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:12:10 +0000

One thing that virtually every major storage player and enterprise has been using for the past few years, and is continuing to use, is a tiered storage approach. This is mainly due to the fact that lower capacity, higher-cost drives tend to have higher performance than larger and less expensive alternatives. The basic premise is [...] Related posts: