Tag: High Availability
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Write some code and you can influence DAG failovers (for now anyway…)
A recent debate on the Exchange 2013 (unofficial) Facebook group started off with the question “can I built my own failover criteria in a DAG?” and pointed to the TechNet page on Active Manager. The debate began with sheer denials, mostly on the basis that it didn’t seem to make…
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ePublishing for Technology: a new book on Exchange 2013 High Availability
Time is both the greatest enemy and greatest friend of technical books. I know that seems like a statement which makes little sense, but truth lurks in these words. We all know that technology now evolves at an ever-increasing cadence. The upshot is that the traditional publishing cycle struggles to…
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NFS and Exchange: Am I a sheep? Some at Nutanix think so…
A number of people working for Nutanix have been in the vanguard of those who would like to see NFS supported as a valid storage option for Exchange deployments, some of whom cheerfully recommend that “customers continue to run Exchange on Nutanix containers presented via NFS.“ In my mind this is…
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SQL 2014’s link to Exchange 4.0
It was nice to read the memories of ex-Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Hal Berenson in a post about SQL 2014’s delayed durability feature. Like me, Hal used to work at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), where he specialized on database engineering. He tells the story of prototyping delayed durability to fix some performance…
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Join me at the Marathon Technologies webinar on 24 February 2011
Many companies ask me to look at their technology, especially when it’s relevant to Exchange 2010. Typically there’s a request to get involved by assessing the technology and perhaps writing about it. Most of the time I politely decline because I don’t have the time or I don’t care to…
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