I'm trying to save power when load shedding is in progress in our server room so the
UPSes last longer.
By switching off servers that is not that business critical.
And leave the ERP system running.
Problem is we are running a DC environment. Server 2003
If the DC goes down all clients seem to hang for short intervals, Not hang as in freeze.
Its as if its waiting until it times out, Simple eg if the DC is down and you go to MyComputer it obviously tries
to list all connected network drives, I have 10 network Drives in total. So it then will then hang the explorer.exe process for a while
then continue on after about 1/2 to 1 min.
I'm sure DNS checks also have something to do with this.
If i set my PC's IP static and dont give any DNS servers it seems to be ok, and works without hanging.
Anyone know how to prevent this ?
Saving Power by turning off our DC
Hey Dude Thanks, I never thought of that.junjun wrote:hi
you could virtualize your enviroment, that way you would be able to keep the system running using less servers or keep the same amount of server's and when the power goes out ( start your virutal server )
VMware ?
How does it work ?
Can i clone our current DC server somehow ?
Whats weird people with laptops work fine at home and they log on using the AD account. ?
Why should desktop PS behave like this ?
the reason is that Latop users use cached credentials to log on when they are not on the network, unlike PC's which are always plugged in.
MS virtual Server is the best so far ( for me ) but VMware will also work well
you will need to do some research, it depends alot on your needs and budget and performance / avaliability requirements.
what spec server do you have ? the more virtual server's you load on a Physical server the bigger the performance know you will take ( unless you have good server to handle the extra load )
i would say, find out , depending on your hardware, how many VS yor server can handle without lossing to much performance then, you will be able to reduce your amount of server's accodingly
MS virtual Server is the best so far ( for me ) but VMware will also work well
you will need to do some research, it depends alot on your needs and budget and performance / avaliability requirements.
what spec server do you have ? the more virtual server's you load on a Physical server the bigger the performance know you will take ( unless you have good server to handle the extra load )
i would say, find out , depending on your hardware, how many VS yor server can handle without lossing to much performance then, you will be able to reduce your amount of server's accodingly
