Using VMware vCNS Edge for Exchange 2013 Load Balancing
If you've deployed Exchange in a production environment you've undoubtedly gone through the joy of figuring out what you were going to do for load balancing. This really became relevant in Exchange...
View ArticleWindows 2012 Failover Clustering on vSphere 5.1
It's not supported...for now....kindaThat's all I can say about that at the moment. So why write anything at all? Well, because there are those of us who want to be able to test stuff and are not...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 Failover Clustering on vSphere...it's kinda alright!
I won't bore you with the whys or hows, but just know that there are certain configurations of Windows Server 2012 clustering that are perfectly ok to run on vSphere. Let's take, for instance, the...
View ArticleSQLCMD Fun
I recently had the joy of working through a request to build a VM and have said VM connect to a database server, create a database based on input parameters, create a login based on input parameters...
View ArticleExchange Load Generator 2013 Released
Almost a year after Exchange 2013 went RTM, which was (IMO) just a marketing move to be part of the "Office wave" since it didn't become useful until earlier this year, Microsoft has released the...
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I asked for mount-points, not drive letters…
Here's the situation; you are trying to create a golden template to be used in some cloudy way. This template has your base OS (Windows of course), is up to date with all updates and security patches,...
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Where’s My vNUMA?
This is the perfect case of something that I saw a while back and thought to myself, "there's no way I can forget this." When encountered with a similar problem a few weeks ago it took me a while to...
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vSphere HA Enforces DRS Anti-Affinity Rules…yay.
UPDATE 11/22/2013: Added a correction, the option is for vSphere HA, not DRS, added some notes about the option and a link to the KB. -alex …but it did before, right? I mean, I've seen a bunch of...
View ArticleAdding DAG Members In Different Subnets
Seems straight forward; you have some DAG nodes in one site and you bring up another site for some purpose...maybe DR. Most likely you will have a seperate subnet. Exchange does a great job of masking...
View ArticleUnable to access mailbox using Outlook after remote mailbox move to Office 365
This really sucks, and you won't find out until the process has completely failed.The breakdown is; you are migrating mailboxes, you go to complete (or auto-complete), and mailboxes get stuck with a...
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