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In this instalment in our SAN Essentials series Mark takes us through performance and performance testing. Using Iometer we look at the performance of an EqualLogic(Dell) and HP EVA SAN  by presenting disks from each, over iSCSI and Fibre, to a VMWare host. Now the results may shock you, I mean surely fibre has got to be faster it just seems far more futuristic for a start, but it seems there are far more factors than that to consider, join us to find find out more…

We plod on with our chat on virtualisation ,this time we look into application virtualisation and how it solves many deployment and packaging issues, then presentation virtualisation, which is terminal services to most of use, oh I mean Remote Desktop Services. Then onto server virtualisation, machines virtualisation including Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Finally we look at how virtualisation has transformed the server rooms of some organisations.

In our first look at Exchange 2010 we chat about the new and improved features such as DAGs, archiving and OWA. Then after a kinda successful installation we take a look around the new console and the new web based control panel. Then onto the usual, create a mailbox, access by web access. Oh, you may notice we had a few issues filming this one……

In the exciting conclusion we look at creating some disks on a real life SAN, I told you it was exciting, it did involve 56 disks you know. Anyway, we then go on to present them to some machines, chat about NIC teaming and some general iSCSI advice. Right, you are now a storage consultant, how hard can it be?

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