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[eggheadcafe.com SQL Server Posts] I never heard of equallogic before, but Google and Dell have. I suspect that the equallogic snapshots were being treated as backups, which were being supplemented with SQL Server transaction log backups.

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[Michael Ellerbeck] So you bought an EqualLogic now what”¦.. Virtualize Exchange ...: First you should probably decide if you want to align all your volumes, or just the data volumes.  Realigning the data volumes can be easily accomplished with tools like Ghost or Clonezilla, or even simply xcopy, robocopy, or backup/restore procedures.  Simply add a new disk, create an aligned partition, and copy the data with your tool of choice.  Doing the same on the boot partition is a little more inovled since it’s pretty easy to break the boot loader by moving data all around.

[Double-Take Software] Double-Take 101 Series: FFO for SQL Servers? How about File or ...: In a recent DT:101 posting, I went over how you can use Full Server Fail Over (FSFO) technology to safely protect Microsoft Exchange Servers, even though this isn’t our best practice here at Double-Take Software.  This prompted quite a few questions about the other applications that are covered using our Application Failover Manager (usually called DTAM) technology. 

[Scoop NZ - Site Wide Most Read] Scoop: Dell Triples Equallogic Storage Scalability: Dell is also simplifying and enhancing dataprotection for virtual infrastructures with a new featureincluded on all EqualLogic SANs: Auto-SnapshotManager/VMware Edition (ASM/VE). The unique ASM/VE softwareintegrates EqualLogic snapshots directly with VMwareInfrastructure 3 (VI3) environments to provide fast onlinebackups and quick restores of VMware virtual machines andVMFS file systems.

[Brent Ozar - Too Much Information] Why Would You Virtualize SQL Server? | Brent Ozar - Too Much ...: I loved this approach because it let me keep old SQL Servers around as long as necessary.  For example, we decommissioned an old help desk database server, but I told the help desk folks they could keep it around as long as they wanted.  It hardly used any resources at all, because nobody queried it unless they had a question about an old help desk ticket that didn’t get transitioned correctly to the new system.  I set the server up with one virtual CPU, 1gb of memory, and put it on cheap RAID 5 SATA.  The end users loved me because I could provide the service for no cost.

[Technical RollUp] Technical RollUp : August 2007 - Technical Rollup Mail - SQL: iSCSI support in Windows Server 2003 makes connecting servers to an iSCSI SAN easy and affordable. This paper describes the deployment and testing results of SQL Server 2005 using the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator with an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN.

[Most Popular White Papers and WebcastsSoftware and Web Development Research] Case Study: McAllen ISD simplifies its messaging, storage and ...: It is critical that SQL Server environments are well protected and maintain integrity. This white paper highlights how iSCSI SAN solutions can simplify management and protect this data, while retaining flexibility in SQL Server environments.

[blog.scottlowe.org] Storage Array Snapshots with VMware - blog.scottlowe.org - The ...: the debate on RDMs is over - they should be used very sparingly (MSCS/WSFC use cases, Oracle databases where you want to move from V to P easily to repro things, when you can’t ensure that the VMware admin won’t oversubscribe the VMFS volume on a mission-critical workload, and a few other cases - but these are rare, not the primary design point)

[TechNet Blogs] Jose Barreto's Blog : Using a SAN with DPM 2007: If both the DPM Server and the protected servers use a SAN for storage, there are interesting things your could do to leverage the SAN technologies and reduce the time for both the initial replica creation and an eventual data restore. This is something many SAN vendors have thoroughly documented via white papers.

[VMblog.com - Virtualization Technology News and Information for Everyone] ExaGrid Announces Industry's First 30TB Disk-Based Backup System ...: Most Cost-Effective and Flexible Solution: Granular sizing options “right size” to specific customer backup data requirements, today and in the future. Five EX Series server configurations with .

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