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NTFS Fine Tuning and Optimizing for Performance

While researching ways to improve performance on a file server, I came across some interesting information. There are a few registry values that can be modified to reduce some of the overhead inherent in NTFS. If you are an old school IT guy like me, you may remember back in the DOS days of seeing file and folder names such as Progra~1, Filena~1.txt, etc… Well NTFS still keeps an eight character version of all filenames for DOS and Windows 3.1 compatibility. Why it does this, I have no idea. This can be disabled by navigating to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Filesystem and changing the value of NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation to 1. Another NTFS “feature” that can reduce performance on large volumes is automatic updating of the Last Access Date. This … [Read More...]

Downtown Tampa Florida Computer Networking, IT Solutions, Server Management, and Computer Consultant

Downtown Tampa is the central business district of Tampa, Florida and the chief financial district of the Tampa Bay Area. Companies with a major presence downtown include Bank of America, Suntrust Bank and Verizon. The downtown area contains important cultural landmarks as the Tampa Bay Performing Arts … [Read More...]

New Tampa Florida Computer Networking, IT Solutions, Server Management, and Computer Consultant

New Tampa is bounded by Lutz to the west, Wesley Chapel to the north, Morris Bridge Road to the east, the University of South Florida to the south. DTI Networks services offered in the New Tampa, Florida: Remote Maintenance Online/Offsite Backups Disaster Recovery Solutions Document Management Citrix … [Read More...]

Temple Terrace Florida Computer Networking, IT Solutions, and Server Management

Temple Terrace is an incorporated city in northeastern Hillsborough County, Florida, USA, adjacent to Tampa, Florida. Home of Florida College and many beautiful golf courses. It is named for the Temple hybrid citrus. DTI Networks services offered in the Temple Terrace, Florida: Remote … [Read More...]

VMware vCenter Tomcat Memory Usage and Tuning

After installing vCenter (vSphere version 4.0) on my local PC to manage my VMware hosts, I noticed that my memory usage was extremely high, with the biggest culprit being Tomcat6.exe at almost a GB by itself even while the vCenter vSphere client was not running. Tomcat6.exe (Apache) is the web server … [Read More...]

Server Virtualization Overview

We are at the brink of a new era in the IT world, where servers are moving from plain physical boxes to virtualized servers running on platforms such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft’s Hyper-V server or the open source Xen. Virtualization Benefits There are more benefits to virtualization that I … [Read More...]

Setting Up Your Office For Remote Access: Office and Remote User Setup Part 3

BACK TO PART 2 Office Workstation Setup Each workstation should have a Static IP address assigned to it to make it easier to connect remotely through the VPN For Windows XP click on Start-Control Panel and then open Network Connections Right-click on Local Area Connection and choose … [Read More...]

Setting Up Your Office For Remote Access: Setting Up and Connecting the Router Part 2

Back to Part 1 Go TO Part 3 Setting up the Router The router I have chosen to use is the Cisco RVS4000 VPN Router (currently $135 from office depot). Any VPN router will work; you will just need to follow the setup instructions that came with your device. Unplug one of … [Read More...]

Setting Up Your Office For Remote Access: Recording Existing Network Information Part 1

In this post I am going to explain how a small office can be setup for its users to securely connect to the office remotely. It may not be the best solution for every office, but it is inexpensive, easy to implement and gets the job done. Equipment needed: High speed internet with static IP address … [Read More...]