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From year 4 upwards each pupil has their own netbook which is stored in the classroom's, how do you store your netbooks and what storage units do you use, were not looking for a charging supply unit just somewhere to keep the netbooks neat and out the way of classroom space?? Thanks Guys.

Hi, All our servers runs on on-premise VMware cluster. We have Active Directory with multiple child domains. We have recently migrated from on-premise Exchange to the Office 365 for the emails. Few departments use SharePoint to store the teaching/learning resources (Site-Pages/Documents library). We use Veeam for the backup; DR site has critical servers replicated by the Veeam. Do you guys use Azure VM/Storage or any Azure services for your school ? If you do then could you please share your experience on what do you use it for ? Thank you

Hi We are running out of space fast so we need to come up with a enterprise storage solution for 10tb + needs to beable to auto compress/encode media files. Does anyone have any idea's?

I have a teacher that can't create any more forms as it says she's out of space. Where are they stored and what policy governs this? EDIT: ok the actual error is reaching the forms limit!

Hello, I'm looking at putting the case forward for replacing some of our aging hardware, we have an HP EVA (HSV300) with 4 disk enclosures containing FATA and FC disks, making a total of 36TB capacity. It's all 7 years old now, and HP support costs are increasing rather drastically. We have a VMWare environment consisting of 3 hosts and a single backup server that all use the EVA for storage via 8GB fibre channel. I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to storage solutions, so can anyone give me some suggestions for what to look at as a replacement for the EVA? Something along the same lines in terms of capacity and performance is fine, although any increased performance wouldn't be a bad thing. I'd like to keep our data in-house and not in the cloud. Thanks in advance.

Just a quick post to find out how the fine people of edugeek setup your computers and storage for video editing. A little background. We have used Adobe Creative Suite in our Media department for a number of years and have setup a NAS where each student has a secure folder for saving projects, capturing footage, scratch disks and media cache etc... This system is not without flaws but it has worked very well for 5+ years. However with the uptake of HD cameras and content, which in theory streamlines the editing process, we are starting to see alot of systems crashing, hanging and generally being very slow when working on video projects over the network. I have discussed this with the rest of our ICT team and we have a number of ideas, I was just hoping that some of you may have implemented something that we have not thought of. Any advice or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Okay so I have a client that is seeking for a suitable way to backup 20TB of data, does anyone have any suggestions? I was thinking of maybe using an external hard drive. Recommendations would be extremely helpful.

Hi All, Has anyone got experience with NetApp I am trying to diagnose a citrix issue in the environment people are complaining of slowness and everything looks fine the only thing I can really point out is the CPU utilization on the NetApp is running at 100% can anyone tell me if this is normal and if not any troubleshooting I can do to find out the cause? Thanks in advance josh

Hello, On our site we currently have 90 iPads for students to use. Some staff now want students to be able to save the research work that they do on the iPads to be able to access it from the PCs in the school. The way I was thinking of doing this was through using dropbox, but this would obviously mean a lot of hassle setting up every student with a dropbox account. Also being able to share work with their teachers would mean the staff having to set up a shared folder and typing in each individual students account. We do have fronter, and I wondered if anyone had any ideas for a solution that would be quicker and better than using dropbox before I get to work setting up approx 900 student dropbox accounts...

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Ok, so I have 2 Dell R710, twin 6 core Xeon w/HT, 16GB RAM, FC HBA acting as fileservers running Server 2008 R2 I have just purchased a Dell FC SAN made up of: MD3600f MD1200 24 x 600GB 15k SAS drives The MD3600f connects into my SAN switch, along with the 2 file servers. The MD1200 connects via dual 6Gbps SAS into the MD3600f. The File servers hold network homes for around 2000 users (mainly macintosh, so quite a read intensive workflow). We have about 1200 devices. FS1 = ~1000 students roughly 2TB FS2 = ~1000 students roughly 2TB How should I configure my storage to suit this environment. It needs to be fast - we were using a sata based system before, but it couldn't deliver the IOPS we required, hence the new SAN. Now the questions: Should I have one raid 10 array per server, or one large raid 10 array split into luns per server? Should I separate homes and profiles onto different luns, or physical disks - we do have some windows users too. I only initially require about 4TB (after RAID and formatting) but this will grow as i move other users over. Any thoughts / suggestions welcome. Thanks.

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How much storage space do people have? I currently have an issue regarding this at my school, in that my space is being eroded, due to my store cupboard being slowly but surely taken over by the ICT teacher (as it is at the back of her classroom). So, my current storage space consists of, about quarter of a cupboard - which works out at an area 7" by 4" in size. I also have 3 shelves in my server room which are 3" by 1" in size, and I have 3 kitchen style cupboards by my desk. So, as you can probably gather, anything large has nowhere to go. I have now been told that a loft space is being arranged for storage of old equipment until it is collected - which is a bit odd really, as it requires a lot of effort to get it up there and then back down when it is collected... What do other people have? How do you deal with storage when you order batches of new machines? I'm not talking about 35 new machines for a suite (as these are a special one off occasions really), more when we order 10 new laptops, or a dozen machines for a new area etc... We had a big argument over it here, as I was told my desk area was a mess - explaining that I simply have nowhere else to put stuff never goes very far... So, any ideas, suggestions etc...?

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Hi We have now got our new backup server for our virtual and physical environment, we are using a mix of veeam and backup exec 2010. I am just in the process of setting it up and was after any suggestions for best performance speed, we have a tl2000 tape library hung of this via sas for archive. The Server has 24tb of raw storage in it and 1 x quad nic and 2 x onboard. Thanks in advance

Please could you tell me the best option to buy. The price is below £6000 Thanks. 1.NetApp Storevault, S500 Base System, 2U, 12-bay Single controller, Dual Redundant, Hot Pluggable power supplies, power cords, fans, 1024MB DDR2 Memory, 256MB NVRAM, 2 Ethernet 10/ 100/ 1000 copper, 1 9-pin serial port. Network Appliance Data ONTAP Storevault Edition operating system, Integrated StoreVault Manager software, up to 255 snapshots, e-mail alerts, NIS, DNS, SNMP, NDMP, FlexVol. 2 Years NBD (Advance swap-out - Hardware only) warranty included. 250GB Hot-Swappable SATA Drive Module with driver carrier - minimum of 4 drives per system INT-S500-RAILKIT-A CIFS software license SnapRestore StoreVault Edition - currently FOC 9x5xNBD Advanced Exchange warranty (Hardware only) - Upgrade to 3 Years 9x5 Software Support & Maintenance - 3 Years 2.PE2900 III - Quad-Core Xeon E5420 2.5GHz/2x6MB 1333FSB English - Documentation and Rack Cord 1 PE2900 III Server Rack Chassis 1 Rack Bezel Assembly 1 16GB 667MHz FBD (8x2GB dual rank DIMMs) 1 PE2900 III - Additional Quad-Core Xeon E5420 2.5GHz/2x6MB 1333FSB 1 No Floppy Drive Option 1 73GB SAS (15,000rpm) 3.5 inch Hard Drive (hot plug) 2 300GB SAS (15,000 rpm) 3.5inch Hard Drive (hot plug) 5 PERC 6/i Internal RAID Controller Card (256MB cache, battery backup) 1 16x SATA DVD 1 Redundant power supply (2 hot plug PSU) 1 Power Cord, PDU (Rack) 1 Display : Not Included 1 Broadcom TCP/IP Offload Engine functionality (TOE) Enabled 1 No Mouse 1 No Keyboard Required 1 English Windows 2003 R2 SP2 Storage Server x64-bit, Standard Edition (HW RAID) With Docs 1 OpenManage Server Software, with CD & documentation 1 Upg to Silver 3Y (24x7) Premier Enterprise Support 1 You have chosen not to take the Dell PowerEdge installation service 1 Base Warranty 1 1YR BASIC NBD ONSITE 1 PE2900 Universal Sliding Versa/Rapid Rack Rails 1 PE2900 III - C3A - RAID1/RAID5 PERC5i/6i