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With the release of Windows 2012 and the support for Exchange 2013, what are the operating system requirements for the new email platform?   Exchange 2013 supports both Windows 2012 and 2008 R2 SP1 as the base operating system. The good thing is that you only need Windows 2012 Standard for any deployment of Exchange 2013 – be it the CAS, Mailbox or Mailbox server as part of a DAG. The standard edition of Windows 2012 includes the failover clustering feature which DAG requires. As I have written before, there is no enterprise... [Lire la suite]

To this date, I still see a lot of confusion as to the IP requirements of Lync 2010 Edge Servers. I have seen the following questions: Why do we require Public IP addresses on all 3 Lync Edge Roles when using Hardware Load Balancing? Why does the Audio/Video Edge Role need a Public IP when behind a Hardware Load Balancer? Why can we NAT when we’re doing DNS Load Balancing? Why can’t we have a mix of Public IP and NAT’d IPs on the same Edge Server? Have you been pondering the answer to any of the above four questions? If so,... [Lire la suite]

I’ve seen this question passing by a couple of times now and I found myself going through the document to dig up the reference. I thought it would come in handy to document it: Q) What is the disk size requirements for ESXi installable?A) The minimal required disk size is 5GB (Page 24, ESXi Installable and vCenter Server Setup Guide), recommend is 6GB (KB: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026500) http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2010/10/27/esxi-disk-size-requirement/