Working with HP MSA 1500cs SAN

Hi,

I have recently been working with an HP MSA1500cs SAN for a client who is putting in a new Exchange 2003 cluster.

 

Over the course of the last few days I have located several useful websites which I hope might be of use to someone else. So below are a bunch of links:

 

Acitve/Active Firmware

PDF about migrating Windows systems to Active/Active

Specs of the SAN and part codes for options

HPs general SAN infrastructure page

Downloads for MSA 1500cs

 

I hope you find these useful!

Cheers

Nathan

Installing ISA 2004 or 2006 with only one NIC

If you have ever looked into ISA you will find that it is a very capable firewall. One of its major features is the ability to do application level scanning of traffic which helps cut out exploit type traffic pretending to be something it isn't!

 

It you are setting up ISA in a single NIC configuration then you will loose some functionality. Check out the links below to see what:

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838364

 

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/isa/2004/plan/single_adapter.mspx

 

Cheers

Nathan

An Interesting extension to VMware VDI for multimedia

Hi,

 

Here is some useful info about extending the VMware VDI solution to provide full remote multimedia capabilities:

 

Here is a presentation that happened at VMWorld:

http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/med0062.pdf

 

And here are two pieces of technology that the solutions requires:

Link

Link2

Patched for ESX Server

Hi,

 

For anyone using VI3, in particular ESX 3.0.1 here is a link to the latest patches for download.

 

http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/index.html

 

Cheers

Nathan

Ideas for DC design and DNS in small networks

Hi,

Although not definitive, the last few posts in this forum thread give some insight into design for DNS and DCs in a small AD network.

http://web2.minasi.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19157

Cheers

Nathan