NetApp System Manager is a Microsoft Management Console based snap-in to manage your NetApp/IBM filers. It gives a great overview of your filers, including the partner setup. It can also be used to setup new filers. In order to connect to your filers, you have to enable (or setup) ssl. These are the steps to [...]
Just saw on the Teched Europe website that registrations are open as from today June, 22. The format is a bit different than previous years, with all sessions (for developers and IT professionals) in one week: from 9 to 13 November The venue will be held in the ‘Messe’ Hope to see you there! Tom
I recently enabled data dedup (previously called a-sis) on our storage boxes for the volumes that contained the vmware guests. Data dedup is a free option as from march 10, 2008, however it is not enabled by default and you should ask your distributor for the licenses. You will get 2 license keys, one for [...]
Last week we learned an important lesson: do not leave the default logging values in Kaspersky’s anti-virus products. If you install Kaspersky Security 6.0 for Exchange 2007, 2 different logs will be kept: one common log (which contains information about the applications’ activity) and an anti-virus log (which contains the results of the anti-virus scans). [...]
First a little of context: my company is registered in Belgium, works with Belgium-based distributors, but does a lot of business with clients based in the Netherlands. Recently, one of those clients received a mail from someone in the licensing department of Microsoft Netherlands. They wanted to have a phone conversation about the license management, [...]
Some time ago I had to advice a client about a new SAN infrastructure and associated to this, look for a new backup and restore strategy for Exchange server and SQL server. While researching this I saw some benefits that come with SAN snapshots: Very quick full backups and restores: Modern SAN/NAS devices are able [...]
