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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

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

Configure the Forefront TMG 2010 to allow DPM 2010 communication

Published Wed, Oct 20 2010 14:55 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

The DPM agent uses various ports and protocols to connect with the DPM server. The Forefront TMG needs to be configured to allow the DPM server to communicate through those ports. The complete list of ports that are used by DPM are documented at the Microsoft...

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Hyper-V, SharePoint, System Center, Disaster Recovery, Backup, TMG, ISA Server, Data Protection Manager, Forefront, Virtualization, File Services, Security

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...

Filed under: General, Windows Server, Hyper-V, Backup, Active Directory, Virtualization, NetApp, Dynamic Computing

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

Data Protection Manager Storage Calculators

Published Thu, Sep 2 2010 21:05 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Microsoft Data Protection Manager Team provided storage calculators for Exchange " http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/5/1/851E02E6-4CCA-4846-83C5-3C92C8114899/DPM_2010_Storage_Calculator_for_Exchange_2010.xlsx " Hyper-V " http://download...

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Hyper-V, SharePoint, Backup, Data Protection Manager, Virtualization

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...

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Migration, Virtualization, NetApp, High Availability