HP just released this great document with some guidelines and best practices for StoreVirtual environments in combination with VMware SRM… Good reference guide in case you want to implement this nice technology! Find the document here.

This solution brief provides an HP ProLiant SL4540 Gen8 Server and HP Smart Array P420i storage solution for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 (Exchange), based on the Microsoft Exchange Solution Review Program (ESRP) – Storage Program. This solution implements the Database Availability Group (DAG) mailbox resiliency features found in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. This feature is the base component of the high availability and site...

I just finished deploying some new HP 3PAR StoreServ 7200 systems within my customers environment. Off course I wanted to add these nice systems in our SIM environment. However, it does not seems to be supported/enabled by default. When you launch a discovery with HP SIM towards the IP adress of the 3PAR StoreServ you will get following message: * Checking for WBEM protocol support on system… Minor:    This system does not...

Many organizations today rely on some degree of virtualization to reduce costs, improve agility, and enhance business continuity. Whether it is a few virtual machines (VMs) running on a single physical computer or an entire data center with hundreds of physical servers, and thousands of VMs. Virtualization brings tremendous benefits to data centers through server consolidation, ease of provisioning and deployment, and the standardization of...

This recommended configuration is designed around a building block approach with a multi-copy high availability design using a database availability group (DAG). The number of servers per DAG is a flexible design decision that customers can make (up to sixteen servers per DAG based on an Exchange Server limit). This recommended configuration uses a total of five multi-role servers, with three in the primary location and two in the secondary...

For Exchange 2010, virtualization and advanced Storage Area Network (SAN) features provide value to IT organizations looking to increase data center efficiency by pooling resources. Virtualization and Storage Area Networks provide increased agility to dynamically scale mailboxes and enhance business continuity. While scaling up resources is the most prevalent design concern, there can be opposite situations where resources have been...