Archive for April, 2010

Exchange 2010 Client Access – NLB or Hardware Load Balancers?

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

With the new architectural changes in the Exchange Client Access Role, we need to give careful consideration to load balancing for Exchange 2010 deployments. We are often asked if NLB is adequate or if it is worth the money to invest in a hardware load balancer? Although there are a number of functions that benefit from [...]

Important patch for VMware vSphere iSCSI MPIO deployments

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

On April 1st, VMware released a set of patches for ESX/ESXi as they do every month.  Included with this patch is an important fix to their software iSCSI initiator described as follows: In a software iSCSI environment, the iSCSI connection might go offline when multiple VMkernel NICs in the same subnet are used to access [...]

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