Hi,
I recently switched over from Server 2003 Standard to Server 2008 Standard. I did a clean install.
In my server i have 10 hard drives, all of which are mirrored.
The 5 main drives (again, other 5 are mirrored) are all specific drives which i map to. For example, one drive is the main OS drive on the server where i map to a home directory. One drive is called "installs" where it's all of my software that's been collected over the years. Another drive is called Hardware and it has all the drivers/setup disks for any hardware purchased over the years. Another is OS and contains all my OS's collected over the years staring with DOS, Win 3.11, XP, 2000, Vista, NT 4 Workstation & Server, Server 2000, Server 2003 and now Server 2008, etc. Another drive is called "Learn" and it contains all reference materials, Computer based training software, etc. Everything i'd consider "educational".
Each drive is mapped when I or my wife logs into our workstaiton. I use a very basic notepad script such as "loginme.bat" and "logonher.bat".
The install was fairly strait forward. Once installed i ran DCPROMO and promoted this to an Active Directory Domain Controller. It's my only server.
I set up DHCP, DNS, User Accounts and access, etc. I also set up both file level security and share permissions on the various drives so that based on whether you're a domain user vs a domain admin, you have access to the various shares.
The problem i'm having is... all my data is contained on the drives on the server.
Outlook for example... the PST's for msyelf and my wife are located i our home directories. That way we can move to any one of the 4 PC's i have at home and once logged into our accounts, Outlook opens right up. We happen to have Outlook 2007 on our Vista Ultimate workstations.
Well, when Outlook tries to open the PST's that are in our home directories, it takes upwards of 5 mintues before outlook opens up. This happens for each of us. Then it hangs and hangs and hange off an on again.
Another example... on my "Learn" drive i have a folder called "General Applications". Under that is one for "Microsoft Applications" and under that is "Microsoft Office Programs" and under that is Office XP, Office 2003 and Office 2007. So you click on Office 2007 and now you're at the Setup.exe file and you install it on the local workstation.
The problem here is... when you click on the first folder "General Applications"... from the workstation, it hangs. You get the Vista "search" icon that the mouse turns into, the little blue circle. Finally "General Applications" expands and now you go down to "Microsoft Applications" and once again... it hangs. 90 seconds later it expands and then you get down to "Microsoft Office Programs" and again... it hangs. 90 seconds later, it expands and you get down to the next level.
Hopefully you get the idea.
It's almost acting as if Server 2008 is indexing each folder before it expands and lets you go down another level.
On the server i did originally install the "search" service but then wound up uninstalling the service.
I've checked all the logs, DHCP, DNS, FILE, etc and the only one that is erroring is in the FILE logs... and it was erroring on the SEARCH. So that's when i uninstalled that "service".
After a reboot, i'm having the same problems.
EVERY network drive/share hangs.
To try and test everything... 3 workstations are Vista Ultimate 64 and one is XP Pro 32 bit. (The Server is 32 bit as that's the OS i was provided).
One workstation i actually wiped the drive and started over, got all the updates, joined the new domain and set everything up. IT's having problems. The other Vista Ultimate 64 workstation i simply joined the new domain and it has the same issues that i'm reporting above. The XP workstation i also joined to the new domain and it also has the same hanging/bottleneck issues.
I'm sure that there is more information you will need. I will provide it as i get the opportunity. I'm at work and dont have immediate access to collect info, but i will do my best.
I'm looking for help as to what might be causing this extreme network slowness since moving to Server 2008. It's affecting all HD's in the server when accessing from a workstation.
When accessing these drives from the server itself... you'd never know there was an issue.
Thanks much, sorry for the newbie question... but that's why MS is giving away this software... for us to learn and then help others. :)
Thanks!
Terster
P.S. I wanted to add this additonal info as i just thought of it. My Server is a Quad Core 2.66 w/4 gigs of ram and a gigabit nic. My network is gigabit. My primary desktop is also a Quad Core 2.66 w/4 gigs of ram running Vista Ultimate 64 bit. My Wife's laptop is Dual Core 2 at 2.0 Ghz w/4 gig's ram running Vista Ultimate 64 bit. My Laptop is a Dual Core 2 at 2.0 w/4 gigs ram runing Vista Ultimate 64 bit and the spare laptop is a Pentium 4 3.06 Ghz w/2 gig's ram with Windows XP Pro 32 bit.
Also, i incorrectly stated that all drives are mirrored. Until i got Server 2008 running smootholy, i disconnected the 2 drives and put in a new drive and installed Server 2008 on that drive. Since the installs, i did NOT mirror this drive yet. It is also the drive that contains the HOME directory.
All the other drives were mirrored under Server 2003 and Server 2008 seems to have recognized that when i imported all the disks as the mirror status did not change.
All Drives are SATA drives running at 3.0 gig @ 7200 rpm.
For my small home network, this has been totaly ok for us under Server 2003. Thanks. Sorry for being long winded. Just trying to be thorough.
I recently switched over from Server 2003 Standard to Server 2008 Standard. I did a clean install.
In my server i have 10 hard drives, all of which are mirrored.
The 5 main drives (again, other 5 are mirrored) are all specific drives which i map to. For example, one drive is the main OS drive on the server where i map to a home directory. One drive is called "installs" where it's all of my software that's been collected over the years. Another drive is called Hardware and it has all the drivers/setup disks for any hardware purchased over the years. Another is OS and contains all my OS's collected over the years staring with DOS, Win 3.11, XP, 2000, Vista, NT 4 Workstation & Server, Server 2000, Server 2003 and now Server 2008, etc. Another drive is called "Learn" and it contains all reference materials, Computer based training software, etc. Everything i'd consider "educational".
Each drive is mapped when I or my wife logs into our workstaiton. I use a very basic notepad script such as "loginme.bat" and "logonher.bat".
The install was fairly strait forward. Once installed i ran DCPROMO and promoted this to an Active Directory Domain Controller. It's my only server.
I set up DHCP, DNS, User Accounts and access, etc. I also set up both file level security and share permissions on the various drives so that based on whether you're a domain user vs a domain admin, you have access to the various shares.
The problem i'm having is... all my data is contained on the drives on the server.
Outlook for example... the PST's for msyelf and my wife are located i our home directories. That way we can move to any one of the 4 PC's i have at home and once logged into our accounts, Outlook opens right up. We happen to have Outlook 2007 on our Vista Ultimate workstations.
Well, when Outlook tries to open the PST's that are in our home directories, it takes upwards of 5 mintues before outlook opens up. This happens for each of us. Then it hangs and hangs and hange off an on again.
Another example... on my "Learn" drive i have a folder called "General Applications". Under that is one for "Microsoft Applications" and under that is "Microsoft Office Programs" and under that is Office XP, Office 2003 and Office 2007. So you click on Office 2007 and now you're at the Setup.exe file and you install it on the local workstation.
The problem here is... when you click on the first folder "General Applications"... from the workstation, it hangs. You get the Vista "search" icon that the mouse turns into, the little blue circle. Finally "General Applications" expands and now you go down to "Microsoft Applications" and once again... it hangs. 90 seconds later it expands and then you get down to "Microsoft Office Programs" and again... it hangs. 90 seconds later, it expands and you get down to the next level.
Hopefully you get the idea.
It's almost acting as if Server 2008 is indexing each folder before it expands and lets you go down another level.
On the server i did originally install the "search" service but then wound up uninstalling the service.
I've checked all the logs, DHCP, DNS, FILE, etc and the only one that is erroring is in the FILE logs... and it was erroring on the SEARCH. So that's when i uninstalled that "service".
After a reboot, i'm having the same problems.
EVERY network drive/share hangs.
To try and test everything... 3 workstations are Vista Ultimate 64 and one is XP Pro 32 bit. (The Server is 32 bit as that's the OS i was provided).
One workstation i actually wiped the drive and started over, got all the updates, joined the new domain and set everything up. IT's having problems. The other Vista Ultimate 64 workstation i simply joined the new domain and it has the same issues that i'm reporting above. The XP workstation i also joined to the new domain and it also has the same hanging/bottleneck issues.
I'm sure that there is more information you will need. I will provide it as i get the opportunity. I'm at work and dont have immediate access to collect info, but i will do my best.
I'm looking for help as to what might be causing this extreme network slowness since moving to Server 2008. It's affecting all HD's in the server when accessing from a workstation.
When accessing these drives from the server itself... you'd never know there was an issue.
Thanks much, sorry for the newbie question... but that's why MS is giving away this software... for us to learn and then help others. :)
Thanks!
Terster
P.S. I wanted to add this additonal info as i just thought of it. My Server is a Quad Core 2.66 w/4 gigs of ram and a gigabit nic. My network is gigabit. My primary desktop is also a Quad Core 2.66 w/4 gigs of ram running Vista Ultimate 64 bit. My Wife's laptop is Dual Core 2 at 2.0 Ghz w/4 gig's ram running Vista Ultimate 64 bit. My Laptop is a Dual Core 2 at 2.0 w/4 gigs ram runing Vista Ultimate 64 bit and the spare laptop is a Pentium 4 3.06 Ghz w/2 gig's ram with Windows XP Pro 32 bit.
Also, i incorrectly stated that all drives are mirrored. Until i got Server 2008 running smootholy, i disconnected the 2 drives and put in a new drive and installed Server 2008 on that drive. Since the installs, i did NOT mirror this drive yet. It is also the drive that contains the HOME directory.
All the other drives were mirrored under Server 2003 and Server 2008 seems to have recognized that when i imported all the disks as the mirror status did not change.
All Drives are SATA drives running at 3.0 gig @ 7200 rpm.
For my small home network, this has been totaly ok for us under Server 2003. Thanks. Sorry for being long winded. Just trying to be thorough.