I am doing miracles with image-migrating, shadow protect, ibm x226, asus P5G41T-M LX

USING SHADOW PROTECT IT ED.

first boot from SP it cd, start w2003 image restore, I got error "error start operating system"

tried a few things I noticed it failed to restore hidden track.

so I tried using w7 restore option, un-tick restore hidden track, boooom , the system boots into w2003

oh baby , my bacon saved for the day

the first trouble I noticed is an external usb drive wont show a drive letter,
press ctrl+shift+f12 I can see more cmd options, start diskpart, select volume 2 (in this case), assign a drive letter, it will assign the next drive letter to the external usb drive which contains the backup image. however the trouble continues along the w2003 restore path.

even if the image itself is w2003 on ibm x226.

WD ELEMENTS 640 external hard drive

my otherwise good friday got ruined by WD elements 640 external hard drive.

plug into IBM x226 drive, the whole thing appears sluggish....

two drive letter appeared for this one. my co-work told me its WD new feature .... something like virual drive...

ohhhhhhhhh, kiss the llloooooooooooooooooooppppppppppppppp

this drive caused the x226 failed to boot.

attached this to an IBM x205 server, it seems fine.

I had pleasant experience with other models of external WD drive. now i am told those good ones are gone. only fancy ones here to chip me offfff


in my memory MY book is the one worked for me before ... as for the external elements ... dont really go to clinc with those things

impressive USB transfer speed on a x226 server

Lacie external USB drive attached to IBM x226 server, in shadow protect sessions,

speed observed
54.35MB/s from the server itself.
31.44MB/s from another server an IBM x306 across a network (Gigbit switch)

network files access is slow, files slow to open ... its a paging file problem

network files access is slow, files slow to open..... windows 2003 file server, an IBM x226.

used taskmgr to monitor the bandwidth usage ... its at 1% of 100Mb.

wondering why, since all PCs in the lan having the same problem, it must be the server.

updating the server and doing ping tests, there were packets losses, high pings to the gateway in a small network!

oh dear, luckily there was a clue in the veritas backup log, indicated second drive was failing which was used for internal backup. the 2nd dirve in x226 was also used for paging. so there was No paging file.

re-set the paging file location solved the problem.

test again on a client PC, network usage can go up to 67~68%.

No more cabling.

upgrade IBM x226 server memory

upgrade IBM x226 server memory ... 2* 2GB kit. it was rack-mounted with rack-mount kit. quite easy, slide out, un-do the cover. of course 32bit windows 2003 standard can only see 4GB ram.

the scsi attached eonstor infortrend needs be reset/power-cycled as well. otherwise the windows 2003 upon restart wont see the luns properly.