Hello All,

I am looking for a Monitoring solution which can monitor Azure environment(VMs,Storage,Traffic, Load balance,all azure services), application, Network traffic and process level. It also needs to be alert when anything went down or increase in utilization. The main application service and performance to be monitored are Cassandra, RabbitMQ, IIS.

I have evaluated the service DATADOG, New Relic & Dynatrace .Datadog and Newrelic required to do configuration on the agent to get the application metric but Dynatrace is having an auto discovery feature. Datadog Azure plugin is not able to get Linux metric and no offering alert icon on the portal top page for an easy monitoring. New Relic is not having Azure plugin and required customisation on the agent to get required application. Dynatrace seems better but not having the plugin for Cassandra but other two have the feature.

I request you all to advise me a good solution which is having all the features which am looking.

1. Azure Infra monitor (VM's Status, VMs CPU,Memory, Traffic metrics, Disk I/O metrics, Loadbalance traffic..etc)
2. Application Plugin for Cassandra, RabbitMQ, IIS ( need the application performance metrics)
3. Alert on Application, VMs failure..etc and display alert icon on portal top page
4. Need to configure alert for resource utilization and display alert icon when increase in the configured threshold
5. Need to configure service or process level alert.

Thanks in advance

@Dashrender CloudBerry Backup leverages Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Technology to backup opened files

@scottalanmiller Yes Scott, Its a good solution if we want a Continuous Real-time Backup (CDP)

With this feature every change to the files will be captured automatically and you don't need to set up a separate schedule for the backup. The software will automatically look for new and modified files and send the copies to the cloud storage in the background.

@scottalanmiller Thanks Scott

In CloudBerry backup there is an option to do Real-Time backup and this will execute to backup the change in every 60 sec.

This option satisfy my need as it will backup files to aws on real-time and file deleted from local will not get deleted from AWS.

Thanks All for the support.

Hello All,

Any one using any software to SYNC local folder to AWS S3 Bucket.

We need only one-way Sync, as the local folder files will be cleanup every week, but all the files need to be in S3 Bucket. This Sync can be schedule as 5 mins or less

Thanks in advance

@StrongBad said in Skype for Business Server 2015 with Elastix PBX ?:

hat's why central hosting rather than on prem is popular. Do you have latency problems between sites? What is your site to

We have around 9 sites and each sites is having min 50 extentions .

Sites are in US,UK,Southeast Asian,Middle East.etc

@StrongBad said in Skype for Business Server 2015 with Elastix PBX ?:

rem or hosted Skyp

We are looking for a on prim.

If Skype for Business is a PBX itself then can i migrate all the elastix extensions to Skype for Business ?

Another questions is with the current setup am not having any latency on VOIP call and only impact to local site on PBX failure as we have PBX on each site.But if i have a centralize Skype for Business then the local site VOIP call will have latency and Server failure cause the entire site VOIP down.

Thanks all for the support.

Cloudberry seems to be good and suggested to the management.

Hello All,

Am new to Skype for Business Server 2015 or Lync 2013.

Currently our company is using Openfire for instance messaging and Elastix for VOIP . We are planning to move to Skype for Business Server 2015.
I would like to know the feasibility of integrating the Skype for Business Server with current Elastix PBX. We have different locations and each location is having in house Elastix PBX and interconnected with IAX trunk.

1. Currently we have Polycome Voip Phones connected to Elastix PBX .We need to call to local and other sites VIOP Phone from Skype for Business client application using Elastix PBX. Also need to call from Polycome Voip Phones to Skype for Business client.

2. Is it possible to configure two Elastix PBX in Skype for Business Server, one for other site Voip calls and Other for PSDN calls.

3. Does it provide all the features in Openfire.

4. Is it worth to migrate to Skype for Business Server 2015 .

Please share me the configuration documents as well so that I can test the same in my lab setup.

Request your valid comments and suggestions on this plan.

Please share your thoughts and experience on the same.

Thanks in Advance.

Thanks all for the valid response. Checking the mentioned software,

@StrongBad Sorry for not mentioning the OS, its Windows 2012 R2 .

I have tested cloudberry and its doesn't have automatic delete after backup

Hello All,

Please suggest a good and reliable tool to backup files from local to Amazon S3 bucket.

My requirements are

1. Automatic backup , files and folders to Amazon S3 bucket.
2. After backup completion, the local files and folders need to be deleted.

Suggest to have a free version,but paid version can also be included.

Also looking for a centralize console (single dashboard ) for monitoring all the backups and report on the activities. Push restore from the console

@Ambarishrh Thanks for the quick response.

We have tested the Veeam Endpoint Backup and its quite impressive, but we are looking for a solution which can encrypt the data while backup.

Hello All,

Any one have experience in Druva inSync software :- Protect and Govern Your End-User Data Across Endpoints

http://www.druva.com/products/insync/

We are looking for a backup solution for laptop users . Requirement are as follows

1. Automatic backup to central location ( sync data)
2. Reschedule the backup if not done.
3. Granular Restore data (single file restore)
4. Encrypted data backup
5. Deduplication
6. Data loss prevention

Please share your valid comments on Druva inSync software ,

If any alternative for Druva inSync software (open source / paid solution) please share the same.

Thanks in Advacne

Hi All,

Thanks for your valid comments on exchange ,O365 licensing model.. etc.

My current requirement is to list out the possibilities of question/area that i need to check with rackspace before going for a trail. Also need to know what to test before jump into trail.

We are planing to provide normal rackspace email for casual users and exchange for power users to reduce the email cost.

Need to know anyone is using this feature and how benefit it is ? . Does the exchange share calendar work with rackspace email ? Does the resource mailbox is accessible by rackspace email users ?

These types of possibilities of question am looking forward, if any one such please share so that i can include in my list.

Thanks in Advance.

Hello All,

We are planing to migrate our current Domino mail environment to RACKSPACE Hybrid.

I request all of your suggestions on the same and list me all possibility of question/areas that i need to check before get into trail .

https://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/webmail-exchange-hybrid

Some questions which i have prepared are as folows

1. Security

• Control of Anti-Spam/Antivirus
• Encryption

2. SLA

• Availability , Redundancy , Reliability

3. Geo Location Load balancing
4. Backup & restore

• Are there daily, off-site backups
• Restore user individual emails

Thanks All for the support and suggestions

Hi All.

Am quite excited to know how you all are dealing with windows patch management.

I would like to know how the patch is being tested and generating reports? Test plan

Any tools for recording the changes before and after the patch installation.

Currently we are manually monitoring the event log , IIS log , CPU utilisation .etc.

Please suggest best practice and tools which can be utilise for patch testing and reporting.

@Ambarishrh
Thank You,

I will test this and update the same.