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Partly Cloudy and forecast for 2012

TBittner — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:00:00 GMT

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 hardware selection in regards of storage.

The guys from NetApp have published a nice document for you to give you a feeling what needs to be taken into your conclusions about next infrastructure designs in regards of storage for your virtualization infrastrucuture and of course may be also for Exchange storage.

You should read this following this link

http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3874.pdf

Microsoft System Center Advisor

TBittner — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 05:00:00 GMT

The public available Release Candidate has new features:

Windows Server, Hyper-V host, and Active Directory analysis – Analyze and see alerts for these workloads on your Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 installations.

Multi-User support – Multiple users can access a single Advisor account.

Email Notifications – You will now receive weekly roll-up emails of alerts and changes in your environment.

SQL Server Clustering support – Advisor includes enhanced clustering support, including automatic detection when a node shifts from passive to active.

For more information on these and other new features, see what's new.

Architecting iSCSI Storage for Hyper-V

TBittner — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:00:00 GMT

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 questions are subject of this document.