Tech OnTap Newsletter: Hyper-V Best Practices. November 2009

community@netapp.com — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:52:31 GMT

Top 5 Hyper-V best practices, how SAS is taking disk storage to
the next level, and a technical report on larger-sized aggregates.

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TECH ONTAP NEWSLETTER: HYPER-V BEST PRACTICES

HIGHLIGHTS | November 2009

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TOP 5 HYPER-V BEST PRACTICES

Chaffie McKenna, Microsoft Reference Architect

The second release of Microsoft(R) Hyper-V(TM) is shipping with many new features and capabilities. NetApp best practices cover important new features as well as lessons learned from numerous deployments.

Learn how to configure networks, set appropriate iGroups and LUN types, avoid alignment problems, and configure CSVs. > More

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TIPS FROM THE TRENCHES

Q&A: Taking Disk Storage to the Next Level with SAS
Doug Coatney, Storage Software Engineer
Chris Lueth, Technical Marketing Engineer

NetApp recently released its first SAS-based disk shelf with Storage Bridge Bay and out-of-band management. Find out why SAS disk technology is replacing FC. > More

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ENGINEERING TALK

An Introduction to Larger-Sized AggregatesUday Boppana, Technical Marketing Engineer

Data ONTAP(R) 8.0 7-Mode supports bigger aggregates, called 64-bit aggregates. Read this technical report to learn about creating and managing them. > More

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LOGGING WITH DAVE

Cloud/Grid/UtilityDave Hitz, NetApp Founder and EVP

At first, cloud computing was about how to not build a data center, but it quickly morphed into an architectural description of how you should build a data center. > Dave's Blog

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COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT

> Connect With Your Fellow Readers

See what other Tech OnTap readers are talking about. Join our group in the NetApp Community and share your ideas and storage expertise.

> Multimode VIF Survival Guide

Our resident network expert talks all about deploying high-performance Ethernet storage infrastructures, such as multimode VIFs.

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> TECH ONTAP ARCHIVES

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Tech OnTap Newsletter: Hyper-V Best Practices. November 2009