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Monitoring NetApp SnapManager and SnapDrive with Microsoft SCOM

Published Thu, Dec 8 2011 17:37 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

NetApp Reference Architect for Virtualization and Cloud Computing, Santhosh Rao, has published two very interesting articles how to monitor SnapManager and SnapDrive with Microsoft System Center Operation Manager. You should read this https://communities...

Filed under: General, SQL, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, SharePoint, System Center, Managed Services, Microsoft Provisioning Services, Tools, File Services, NetApp, SCOM, Cloud Computing

Exchange DAG and Cluster recommended Updates

Published Wed, Nov 30 2011 17:45 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

My former Microsoft MVP fellow and well-known Microsoft Exchange Cluster Expert, Scott Schnoll, published a new blog post giving a headsup on recommended updates for Windows Failover Cluster environments with Exchange DAG implemented. It is worth reading...

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, File Services, High Availability

Partly Cloudy and forecast for 2012

Published Tue, Nov 29 2011 10:32 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

As you may already know, there will be some essential changes with several Microsoft technologies in next version 2012 coming up. According to those changes infrastructure design will also need to be adjusted. As well dynamic computing architectures and...

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, System Center, SCVMM, Managed Services, Virtualization, File Services, NetApp, High Availability, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing

Windows Anti-Virus Exclusion List

Published Wed, Aug 17 2011 10:40 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

A comprehensive all exclusion list for Windows Server Systems has been published on TechNet Wiki. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/953.aspx  

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, SharePoint, System Center, Data Protection Manager, Active Directory, Certificate Service, Forefront, Network Services, File Services, CRM, DNS, Windows Client, DFS, BizTalk, App-V, MED-V, Cloud Computing, Group Policy, IIS, SCDPM

NetApp Storage Systems in Microsoft Systems Environment

Published Tue, May 3 2011 13:05 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

NetApp published a new article and guide how their storage environment and solutions work in Windows Systems architectures and infrastructures. The article gives you a lot valued information about how it works with Domain Controllers in Active Directory...

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Managed Services, Migration, Active Directory, Virtualization, Network Services, File Services, NetApp, High Availability, DFS, Security, Group Policy

Microsoft iSCSI Software Target now available

Published Tue, Apr 5 2011 7:56 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

All new OS have the iSCSI Initiator client already available out of the box. The server side component was only available for Windows Storage Server. Now it is available for all other server types too. How to use it with a Hyper-V Cluster read the blog...

Filed under: General, SQL, Storage, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, Tools, Virtualization, Network Services, File Services, NetApp, High Availability, Windows Client

Install a Hyper-V Cluster

Published Sat, Feb 19 2011 15:22 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

A complex challenge is to install a Hyper-V Cluster. Chris Collins from NetApp has put together all the necessary steps to achieve such a Hyper-V Cluster. Find here the checklist from Alex Jauch from NetApp who published the necessary steps to finally...

Filed under: General, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, File Services, NetApp, High Availability, Dynamic Computing

Architecting iSCSI Storage for Hyper-V

Published Fri, Feb 18 2011 15:13 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

A very interesting article about this has been published here . How is Hyper-V supporting iSCSI technologies? How can iSCSI storage provided for guest systems? What is best practise configuration? How to achieve the best data throughput? This and other...

Filed under: General, SQL, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, SharePoint, System Center, SCVMM, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Hosting, WSUS, Data Protection Manager, Migration, Virtualization, Network Services, File Services, High Availability, DFS, SCOM, SCCM, MED-V, SCMDM, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing, VDI

How incorrectly formatted NTFS volumes affects Exchange

Published Thu, Feb 10 2011 20:32 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Here is a really important article descibing how incorrectly formatted NTFS volumes affects Exchange http://blogs.technet.com/b/mikelag/archive/2011/02/09/how-fragmentation-on-incorrectly-formatted-ntfs-volumes-affects-exchange.aspx Thanks to Mike Lagase...

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, File Services, NetApp, High Availability

Running, Filtering and Saving Scans in Best Practise Analyzer

Published Sat, Sep 25 2010 13:39 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Who knows the Best Practise Analyzer for Exchange (ExBPA) is already familiar exporting scan results to other file formats to save or achive. The Best Practise Analyzer (BPA) coming with Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Roles doesn’t have this opportunity...

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, Remote Desktop Services, ISA Server, Tools, Active Directory, PKI, Certificate Service, Forefront, Network Services, File Services, BPA, DNS, DFS, Security

More Performance with SMBv2x on Windows and NetApp

Published Wed, Sep 22 2010 19:22 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

NetApp has prepared an interesting performance test with new SMBv2.x available with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. The NetApp OnTap operating system has already been updated to support SMBv2. Find here the result figures about performance increase...

Filed under: General, SQL, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, SharePoint, Disaster Recovery, Backup, ISA Server, Hosting, Managed Services, Office, OCS, Data Protection Manager, Migration, Active Directory, Forefront, Virtualization, Network Services, File Services, NetApp, High Availability, Navision, Business Intelligence, CRM, Windows Client, DFS, BizTalk, Opalis