Application Protection: There’s Something Happening Here

There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear There’s a man with a gun over there Telling me I got to beware Yes, it’s blasphemy to simply change a classic like Buffalo Springfield’s “For What’s It Worth” – but I will anyway to prove my point. There’s something happening here If you haven’t [...]

Podcast: Integrated Exchange Single Item Restore

Like finding a needle in a haystack, EMC’s ItemPoint helps you find and extracts emails from disk-based copies made by EMC’s Replication Manager. Please take a minute to listen to Neil Salamack and I hit the big points of why and how you’d do this. (Links to an MP3 file) Trivia: That’s Neil on guitar [...]

The VNX Total Protection Treasure Hunt

Do you like treasure? Do you like Apple products? Who doesn’t! Please follow the clues for a chance to win an an iPod Touch, an iPod Shuffle, or 1 of 10 $15 iTunes Gift cards. The first person to make it to the end gets an iPad 2! The Treasure Hunt Starts Now. CLUE #1 [...]

Windows Geoclusters, Stretch-Clusters, and RecoverPoint/CE Failover

Taking a page out of Chief EMC Blogger Chuck Hollis‘ playbook, I’m attaching the graphics from entire PPT file that I thought would be important to highlight for this blog and its readers.  Some of the graphics didn’t fit to the page as well as I thought it would (I need to shrink them further). [...]

Storage and Virtualization for SQL DBA’s

I try to keep up with as many people who are interesting and important work in the field of Microsoft’s enterprise application products such as Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint and now and then it surprises me when someone really “gets it” in terms of their audience. Denny Cherry is one of those guys.  He [...]

Large Scale Hyper-V Clusters, Cluster Enabler, and VPLEX

I talked with Partner Engineering Manager Txomin Barturen about how to get ultimate scale from Hyper-V with Cluster Shared Volumes. He also spoke about his session on multi-site Windows Clustering Configurations and EMC’s Cluster Enablers which plug directly into Microsoft’s clustering framework and well as EMC’s storage virtualization and transportation appliance, VPLEX. Recorded at Microsoft [...]

EMC’s Most Popular Microsoft SQL Server Documents

These are the most popular Microsoft SQL-focused documents that were downloaded within the past 3 months.  Simply click the link, download, and read whatever might interest you. White Paper: Implementing EMC CLARiiON CX4 with Enterprise Flash Drives for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Databases Applied Technology White Paper: EMC Tiered Storage for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 [...]

VPLEX and SharePoint Distance VMotion

Wondering how EMC’s storage federation device VPLEX might solve SharePoint DR concerns? A few of the engineers teamed up to create a reference architecture that shows you how it’s done. First, they listened to early customer feedback on what use cases might be most beneficial. What came up again and again – SharePoint (and SAP [...]

Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d NAS and iSCSI Storage Array

I hear stories all the time about people who became celebrities and how often people from their past come out of the woodwork to pester them. That’s how I feel about Iomega! They have come FAR beyond those annoying zip drives that I’d dismissed in my head and are delivering the most advanced storage arrays [...]

Demo: Hyper-V Live Migration using EMC SRDF/Cluster Enabler

How EMC’s SRDF/CE provides Live Migration and Disaster Recovery protection of Hyper-V virtual machines between Symmetrix storage arrays in a non-disruptive manner, including bidirectional failover and failback across geographically dispersed clusters.  Peter Griffin would describe this functionality as frickin sweet!

Microsoft Support: Top Issues for Windows 2008 Clustering

An eye-opening post directly from Jeff Hughes, Senior Support Escalation Engineer in the Microsoft Enterprise Platforms Support Team. To further add to this, I’d like to comment on issues 2 and 3. 2. Storage hardware does not support SCSI 3 Persistent reservations Well, it’s a good thing EMC is good to go here.  When using [...]

Microsoft “Cluster Enablers” for SRDF and MirrorView

Cluster Enablers, sometimes called stretch clusters or geo-clusters for short, can be the pinnacle of Disaster Recovery: Zero Data Loss, and a Near-Zero Recovery Time.