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 [...]

Is SQL Server 2008 on VMware ESXi 4.1 supported? Find out using Microsoft’s SVVP Wizards

For DBA’s who have concerns about the support of their SQL server environments on virtualization technologies other than Hyper-V™ and Virtual Server, Microsoft provides the Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP). This article shows the simple steps required to complete the SVVP Support Policy Wizard to check support of your configuration. Step 1 Select the Support [...]

Webcast: SharePoint 2010 Migration Tips and Tricks

Please sign up for what will be a great EMC Live Webcast: Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Upgrade and Migration Tips & Tricks Attend this webcast and learn how you can: Assess your current SharePoint environment and learn how EMC’s upgrade decision tool helps you decide on the optimal upgrade path. Employ best practices to minimize risk [...]

The Windows IT Pro Community Has Spoken! EMC Takes Gold… and Silver!

Best Hardware: Storage Gold Community Choice Award for EMC CLARiiON “Great build quality, powerful performance, and low price—the CLARiiON series is a winner.” http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/review/2010-Windows-IT-Pro-Editors-Best-and-Community-Choice-Awards/3.aspx Best SharePoint Product Silver Community Choice Award for EMC SourceOne http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/Editors-Best-Awards-and-Community-Choice-Awards-Announced-for-2010.aspx

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). [...]

Automating Perfmon with Perfcollect

[ Post by Paul Galjan ] When I started here at EMC, I was pleased to see that most of us would use actual host data (perfmon) to perform size out our storage.  We have a variety of cool tools that will analyze perfmon output and help visualize trends, size out replication bandwidth required and [...]

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 [...]

SharePoint Storage and Virtualization Best Practices

It’s not too late to sign up for what will be a great webcast on March 4 2010 on SharePoint Storage and Virtualization Best Practices Eyal Sharon and James Baldwin are really pushing the limits on scalability, virtualization, protection, and availability of SharePoint – and will offer you some great best practices: How you can [...]

Upcoming Free SharePoint Webinars!

Due to popular demand, EMC will be putting on a series of webcasts around SharePoint.  Sure, this isn’t until March but based on the demand we’ve gotten for SharePoint solutions this year already, I can tell these are going to be a hit. If this is the slightest bit interesting to you, signup today and [...]

Introducing EMC SharePoint Guru, James Baldwin

I think it’s time to spread the word about my colleague James Baldwin – an engineer in EMC’s Global Solutions Group – who I was able to see in “full tech mode” at the SharePoint Conference in Vegas.  You see, most of us storage geeks have it – one sec we’re joking around, then we  [...]

SharePoint Conference – Vegas! Next Week!

At this year’s conference, Microsoft will be looking towards the future with a broad array of deep content centered on the next version of SharePoint, SharePoint Server 2010 and at the same time be firmly planted in the present, sharing real world experience and guidance to help you maximize your investment in SharePoint Server 2007. [...]

Best Practices for Backing Up SharePoint 2007

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is hard to backup. You have a lot of moving parts: Multiple servers with different roles Various SQL databases (content, SSP, config etc) Index FS IIS customizations, web parts Logical architecture doesn’t translate into physical components Although Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 does offer some native tools for backup and [...]

How to Build an Efficient Application Infrastructure through Virtualization

I couldn’t figure out how to embed this into my blog, but this is a great, short video which shows how EMC is working with Microsoft to virtualize applications like Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint.  It’s only ten minutes long and showcases one of EMC’s great technologists, Brian Martin, as he speaks with Microsoft’s Jim Schwartz.

V-Max and Microsoft Application Documents

Here’s some documents from various departments within EMC around the new Symmetrix V-Max and Microsoft Applications. If you are implementing Exchange, SQL, or SharePoint in your environment today, I highly suggest you take a look (and read) the following: EMC Proven Solutions Reference Architecture for V-Max with SQL, SharePoint, and Exchange Whitepaper for V-Max with [...]

Virtualizing Microsoft Applications – Seminar Series

As you probably know, server virtualization helps you reduce costs on servers, power, cooling, and management and opens up some new options for backup, HA, DR, and adds a new level of flexibility. Since Microsoft now supports Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint virtualized environments – whether it be on Hyper-V or VMware through their Server Virtualization [...]

A customer had a SharePoint farm. Eee-i Eee-i O.

And on this farm they had a 2007 upgrade that needed to happen.  After a Microsoft Consulting Services review, they were told to fix up a number of issues in their current environment: Get web/app/DB servers  in the right place. Intranet and internet portals on shared disk spindles, they want to move to same hardware [...]

Consolidated versus Distributed

Deconsolidation is a step back in time.

EMC’s Windows Related Webcasts Available On Demand

For a while EMC has been running their own internal web events to allow the product teams and engineers to communicate directly with people who might become customers.  Below is a list of several events that you might find interesting that are available OUTSIDE the firewall.  Enjoy! Exchange Microsoft Exchange 2007: A Second Look Leverage [...]

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.