Failure to Comply

Situation: Deployment of View Client 5.4.x in production environment. Issue: Massive delay on connection to connection server from client. Background & Troubleshooting: TEST FROM ALT HARDWARE – DIRECT CONNECT LAN "2014-06-27","11:03:40","ComputerName" / Latency "1.37 ms", / WRITE "453.5648800", /READ "Mbps","205.2395120","Mbps” Connection to VIEW CONNECTION SERVER is 5 seconds from alt hardware (My laptop) using on floor network cable and port. NOTE ON NETWORK: Speed tests on alternate hardware showed  a connection at over 400 Mbps (10 test AVERAGE) TEST FROM LOCAL HARDWARE – DIRECT CONNECT LAN NOTE ON NETWORK: Testing the local system again shows surprisingly fast results with transfer times @ 1/10th of a second per 1MB. (10 test AVERAGE) Connection to  VIEW CONNECTION SERVER is 60+ seconds from production hardware using on floor netowork cable and port. At this point it looks like the c...

I am in the process of changing my backup structure to EMCs Avamar and Datadomain. Avamar provides a granular restore functionality for Exchange 2010 and using a DAG component for the VSS enabled backup of your data stores. Part of the setup process is to create a DNS entry for the cluster object manually before running Avamar's DAG configuration tool. After running the tool and setting everything up I noticed this warning and error in my clusters event log: Warning Event ID: 1196 Cluster network name resource 'YourClusterNameHereresource' failed registration of one or more associated DNS name(s) for the following reason: DNS operation refused. Error Event ID: 1579 Cluster network name resource 'YourClusterNameHere' failed to update the DNS record for name 'YourClusterNameHere' over adapter 'YourAdapterNameHere'. The error code was 'DNS operation refused. (9005)'. Ensure that a DNS server is accessible from this cluster node and cont...