Shuriken1

Evening all, (Apologies if this has been covered before. I did have a quick look through the shortlist it gave me, hopefully you won't consider this a waste of your time to read. Thanks.) I'm in the position where I need to replace our fileserver. We have only one at the moment serving approx 800 users (students and staff) and the HDDs cannot cope, they're hitting 100% disk time for about 15mins between lessons, causing the odd network location not found error, all sorts of things. The current setup is Raid 5 for the data drive, they're something-capacity 7200rpm SATA drives - not the most fileserver-worthy drives imo. After that it's 1x dual core 3.4ghz (ish) xeon and 4Gb of RAM, neither of which get stressed at present. I was thinking of replacing it with two servers but money dictates that I don't think that will be possible, so, my plan is this: 2u server with 12 3.5" drive bays in the front. 2x E5620 2.4Ghz 8Gb RAM 2x small 15k SAS drives for system (internal). 2x 1Gb NICs teamed together. Then for the main data drives, two RAID 10 arrangements: 1x 600gb RAID 10 comprising of 4x 300Gb 15k SAS drives - for staff profiles, shares etc. 1x 1.2Tb TAID 10 comprising of 8x 300Gb 15k SAS drives - for students. Shared data will probably stay on the old fileserver as I think it can probably manage that. You can probably guess that I'm trying my hardest to avoid the HDD bottlenecks we're currently experiencing. Have I got a good plan here? Will those 15k RAID 10s give enough speed increase over the single RAID 5 we have now. Is splitting the staff and student data onto two RAID arrays going to help? I presume it will as one won't overload the other. I'm open to any feedback on this one, have I got the right idea? The last thing I want is to buy this and it make no difference, so I'm looking for some confirmation that this is a workable plan really. Your time (and feedback) is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Shuriken1.

Yep, that's worked perfectly, thanks Ian. Edugeek comes through again. Sam.

Superb, thanks a lot, I'll check it out. Sam.

Morning everybody. I suspect this is a long shot but someone might know. I've created some reports in SIMS, exported them to a report definition file, everything's fine. I was just wondering how to change the 'Supplier' field on the reports. I notice some reports we have are showing 'CES Reporting Services', so it must be possible for it to be edited, as CES Reporting Services is obviously not a school. Any info or thoughts would be very well appreciated. Thanks, Sam.

That would be very kind of you if you could. Equally, if you don't have time, please let me know too. Thanks a lot. This is in the background due to SIMS stuff at the moment but I would still very much like to get it working! Thanks guys, Shuriken.

Gibbo: I can see other PHP pages yeah, I've got loads of various different php applications running on this IIS server. Webman: I'm not sure where you meant the ? or / needed to go but I tried it as a change to the web address, ie. http://blah/crbs/index.php? and / respectively - no luck. Also tried changing the rewrite rule in the same way, although IIS probably isn't processing that anyway. Also tried changing the $config['index_page'] and that didn't work either. I'm not keen on using Apache as well as IIS. I agree Apache is better but theres other webservers in the school running IIS and it would be messy and complicated for any successors. Besides, a phrase I find myself saying far too often.. "it should be able to do it!" lol Thank you both for replying, any more suggestions? Shuriken1.

Hi, I feel like an idiot being quite well versed in PHP programming and having unpacked plenty of php packages, but I'm getting the same problem as sippo. Its running on IIS 6.0 with the PHP isapi installed and MySQL running. The setup works fine, as I run plenty of php/mysql apps from it. I've setup the config files as per the instructions and just followed Gibbo's directions to check I had done everything right. Seem to have, yet still get 404 when I try and view index.php. Tried using the correct .htaccess, the original and an empty one, none work. I know IIS doesn't support mod_rewrite but the guide says thats optional. How can I find out what file it is that it cannot find? I've checked the IIS logs but that just shows a request to /crbs/index.php - which I know exists. I've checked the perms on that too and they're fine. 777 in fact, as all of the package seems to be - a bit odd I thought? The whole package seems to be 777 but haven't thought much more of it. Also checked the directory security, got it set to integrated authentication and NO anonymous access, but tried with anon thinking the script might not be able to open another file but still no luck. Would love to get this working as I made a prog last year but my grasp of date/time strings in PHP clearly wasn't sufficient and I'm looking for alternatives. Thanks in advance, Shuriken.