And the beat goes on......

Cluster Phase 1, Part 3 went off fairly pain free. Gearing up for moving the final box onto the NWCS stack. Still have about 600gb of SAN space left after that, but I don't want to migrate anything else in until I have more hardware than 2 blades. 

On the windows side of things (yeah I finally caught a project in the unused part of my skill set) we finished revamping some recycled hardware into a new backup solution. A HBA attached MSA1000 that had a troubled past is the heart of the system, we upgraded the firmware to current and active/active settings. We'll see how it performs tonight. It's going to be a monster running Backup Exec 12.d with 13.2TB of diskspace running on the the aforementioned MSA 1000. We' ve been geting about 2GB/s of throughput out of it, now we should be getting close to 4GB/s. We need to figure out how to attach a MS6030 library via Fiber next. After that we'll be adding a MSL2024 and another MS6030 (all SCSI) to the mix of tape drives. It'll be 4 LTO2 ad one LTO3 drive. We've dubbed this 8u Server, 13U's of disk and 14U of tape drives "Frankenstein".......

A major portion of my time is spent fixing the damage a group of consultants and employees did the to the Novell environment. It wasn't intentional I'm sure, but the end result was a hodgepodge of assort methodologies that isn't working. We've been having problems with iPrint/NDPS lately. That needs to be dug into more, and I need more data from the techs than "it doesn't print". Zen needs an overhaul, the app server is overbooked and underpowered. Not a good combination with 4000 users a day mapping drives and running Zen Imaging , WS import and removeal AND being a slpda server is a bit much.