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Windows Server Failover Cluster 2012 in Depth
Published Tue, Jul 24 2012 9:18 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
Find here all sessions from Tech-Ed which covers all details about Windows Server Failover Cluster 2012. Every session takes about one hour. But it is worth taking time watching all of the sessions.  
Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 available
Published Mon, Dec 5 2011 10:44 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
You can download it from here http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28190 Exchange 2010 SP2 is a complete installation software pack, so for new Exchange installations, you can use it to start with from scratch. Also when you use it for...
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...
Best Practices for Microsoft Virtualization and Netapp Storage for Hyper-V
Published Wed, Aug 3 2011 8:45 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
A consolidated version of the former articles about this scenario has been published by ‘NetApp for Microsoft Environments’ Team. You’ll find the detailed documentation about NetApp Storage Best Practices for Microsoft Virtualization and NetApp Snap-Manager...
System Center, Cloud and Storage – Best Practise
Published Sat, May 28 2011 1:11 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
Watch the sessions from Alex Rauch and NetApp to get best out of virtualization and the Cloud: VIR201 Virtualization: State of the Union VIR327 Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track: A Reference Architecture for Private Cloud SIM335 Microsoft System Center Integration...
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...
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...
Snapshots are not supported with Windows DFSR
Published Tue, Mar 22 2011 9:36 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
If you are running virtualized Windows Server with DFSR, snapshots are not supported as with any other Windows Multi-Master Database. DFSR does not implement USN rollback quarantine protection like Active Directory Domain Services. More details here ...
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...
Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controller on iSCSI boot server not supported
Published Fri, Oct 8 2010 19:24 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
When you installed Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller and used iSCSI mounted drives for your SYSVOL and Active Direcotry Database, you recognized that this doesn’t work because the iSCSI LUNs are not mounted when Active Directory Services expect it...
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...
Best Practise Deployment Exchange 2010 with NetApp Storage
Published Sat, May 29 2010 10:33 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
In the May issue of Tech OnTap an article has been published that describes some of the new features for Exchange 2010 and discusses best practices for deploying it with NetApp storage including HA, virtualization, and storage efficiency. You can check...