Server management console won't start; changing RAID config; making VM snapshots; change domain nam

Hi,
Problem 1
I received a server based upon a ASUS KFSN5-d motherboard 8 Kingston 1G
modules and two AMD 2378 CPU's (Opteron Shanghai).

I can't start the management console trhough ,,compueer Right mouse-manage
It won't start

The server had Microsoft SBS 2008 preinstalled on a mirrored boot raid
(Nvidia) disk.

At startup the welcome screen of SBS 2008 starts up fine.


Question 1. For performance reasons I wan't to convert the mirror to a Raid
0 srtipe. Is there a safe way to do this?

VMWare
Question 2: After I solved the startup problems,how can I make a snapshot of
the system for exapmle with WMWare Workstation and get that snapshot back in
place after a full cleanup of the system

Question 3
What is the best procedure to change the native domain name?
Kind regards,
Tony Thijs

 

Hi Tony:

See in line below. And welcome to SBS!

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Larry
Please post the resolution to your
issue so that others may benefit.

What are you wanting to do there? Are you sure there is no built in Wizard
to do what you want? What error message do you get?

There is no safe way to run with a RAID 0. Zip, Nada. There are no
performance issues with SBS. Watch your CPU and RAM states and you will see
that the system pushes the RAM, but not the CPU, and rarely the drives. But
the problem with RAID0 is if you lose one drive you lose everything, unless
you also Mirror the RAID0, thereby requiring 4 drives.

SBS native backup to external USB does a good job. Others like Shadow
Protect or Accronis. With VMWare, I don't know.

Insert the DVD into your drive, run setup, remove existing installation,
reinstall SBS.

BTW, this would also work for question 1, with the additional step of
breaking the mirror and setting the controller to RAID 0, but please don't
do this.

 

Just looked at the ASUS page on the mobo. Should have done this first,
probably, but it would not change my reply about RAID 0.

I can't tell from a quick look at that MOBO on ASUS site which config is the
"d". If you did not get the add on controller, then you must be using
standard SATA drives. Hopefully, you got what the industry calls
"enterprise" SATA.

With 7200 RPM and 8 or, better, 16 MB cache, you should be ok in all but
the most intensive environments, such as heavy usage, many users, high
transaction SQL. And with SBS08, SQL is meant to be installed on the second
server.

You did not say what the purpose was, or how many users. Still does not
change my answer about RAID0.

--
Larry
Please post the resolution to your
issue so that others may benefit.

 

Hi Larry,
The culprit was Live one care. Once removed -took some hours- , the server
reacts as usual.
Thanks for the feedback.

By the way, which parts of SBS would benefit from a second processor?
Kind regards,
Tony Thijs