Flora

Thank you. I tried Veeam, and it looked fantastic but it refused to backup our servers as they are ESXi (free version of VM). Is there a way to get around this? In the interim I will research DPM! Many thanks for your help, John.

Working in a small school, I have three physical servers running VMware v5.0.0. Spread across those are 6 virtual 2008 R2 servers (2 x DCs, 2 x File Servers (with MySQL server), and a SIMS server (MSSQL). We also have a very fancy QNAP NAS which currently I have mapped through iSCSI as a massive volume onto a backup server. An additional complication is that our servers are split across sites with a 10mb WAN link. This will make full backups painful, but incremental backups will be fine given relatively slow change to the data. What I need now is a relatively cost effective (given our scale) solution that backs up all the servers. The cost to upgrade to VI Foundation (if the correct level) is expensive, but may have to be born, on top of the licensing software. I've tried a few options, but haven't got very far - so advice would be greatly appreciated!

Salary Information: Year Around Equivalent: SCP18 £17,161 to SCP25 £21,519 Actual Sallary (Term Time Only + 4 weeks): SCP18 £15,753 to SCP25 £20,822

I've attached an application form, Job Description and Person Specification. Application Form.doc Criminal Background Self Declaration Form HRAS034.pdf Immigration,+asylum+and+nationality+act+-+declaration+form[1].doc Job Description - ICT Support Technician - High Park School.doc Person Specification - ICT Support Technician - High Park School.doc Applications should be sent to [email protected]. By all means PM me if you have any questions. The salary is Level 3/Scale 4, term-time only + 4 weeks. I am waiting to confirm the exact amount & will hopefully update with those later today. Kind regards, John.

Please see here for more job details: ICT Support Technician , High Park School Closing Date for applications: Wednesday 15th February 2012 Interviews will take place on Wednesday 22nd February 2012 at our BD6 site

I envy your network of no more than 1 hop to anywhere. I recently worked at a school that had a flat network that had a maximum of 9 hops from one end of the school to the other when I started! Spanning tree wasn't an option, but they did suffer from a nightmare of a broadcast storm with some lovely netgear hardware!

Have you got a wildcard certificate, which allows you to use the certificate to protect: anything_here.{domain}.com. A normal certificate will only protect fixed_name@{domain}.com. John.

I agree - it is the best option I have found.

May I ask if you have had much interest? I work for a school in Bradford as their Network Manager & am trying to choose between employing a more experienced techie for 15-17k, or recruiting an apprentice.

Thank you, your experience has made the decision much easier. I will order a few to tomorrow!

@m25man The unify solution seems fantastic, and was heading towards ordering a test one (guessing I'll never get a trial for such a cheap unit), but am deeply worried to discover they only have a 100mb ethernet port, which somewhat limits the potential of the N standard & their claims of throughput of 300mbps! Have you experienced this causing a bottleneck in the schools you have installed this in? - I worry about future-proofing.