FAQ

After I published the vSphere Flash Read Cache FAQ many asked if I would also do a blog post for frequently asked questions about Virtual SAN / VSAN. I guess it makes sense considering Virtual SAN / VSAN being such a hot topic. So here are the questions I have received so far, followed by the answers of course. If you have a question do not hesitate to leave a comment. Make sure to visit the VSAN community forum and sign up for the beta! VSAN requires an SSD, what is it used for? The SSD is used for read caching (70%) and write... [Lire la suite]

Last week we released Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1. It has received some great feedback and reviews from customers, experts, analysts, and the Exchange community. The starting point for SP1 setup/upgrade should be the What's New in SP1, SP1 Release Notes, and Prerequisites docs. As with any new release, there are some frequently asked deployment questions, and known issues, or issues reported by some customers. You may not face these in your environment, but we're posting these here along with some workarounds so you're... [Lire la suite]

There have been a lot of questions about how Hyper-V virtual machine snapshots work, and what considerations you need to take when using them. Frankly this is an area where I need to do more blogging – and we need to work to make the technology easier to understand “out of the box”.  However – in the mean time our documentation team has put together a handy Hyper-V virtual machine snapshot FAQ that you can read here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560637.aspx This details things like: How are snapshots... [Lire la suite]