Nice beefy intel servers, world-class Isilon storage, and a lot of planning in order to replicate the entire installation offsite. There are a total of 11 virtual servers for their numerous apps(and I do mean numerous) and about 40 virtual desktops. We’ve set up some Persistent pools and some individual pools for special desktops such as accounting/check printing, etc.

My company specializes both in Disaster Recovery(DR) and virtualization – through offsite backups and mirrored server/cluster solutions.

It’s great to be on the edge of technology and show clients some great products and solutions that they can really benefit from; both short and long term.

They had an aging Active Directory, so one of the pieces of this project was starting fresh with a new domain, setting up Exchange 2007, and consolidating two domain’s mail to the one Exchange server.

Everything was actually switched over in one weekend. (it’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it) that was fun, working through the night has been a way of life on different projects like this.

Now what’s been on our plate is getting all the little helper applications working again, and trying to organize file structures, etc.

Well, I just wanted to update on recent things, but feel free to ask me if you want more details or have any questions.

-Dave

There are many user accounts, and we’ve gotten all the small birds moved. Now, we have some massive (over 100GB) accounts to be moved. I’m working with GigE networks, so normally >100GB would not be a big deal.

However, the folder/file counts are huge. For a 200GB account, it typically ranges from 1-1.5 MILLION files. That’s right, MILLION. So, because of lovely indexing(going from an iSCSI NTFS NAS to a IFS Isilon Cluster) it takes a while to get things going. Once the copy is started, it starts moving along at a decent clip, but the time it takes to initially index the machine is what slows me down so much.

If anyone knows a way to copy the data without the need for indexing every single file/folder, let me know please!

And that’s all for Moving users to Isilon