Exchange storage performance is constantly evolving. Tuning storage to support Exchange services for the best performance is a complex and never ending task. As new storage becomes available tuning for email services also becomes more complex. We will discuss some techniques to tune storage for email services. Also, we will look at some storage product’s exchange performance to reveal what was done to support the service levels reported.

Discussion of the challenges and design decisions involved in embedding SMI-S agents on the TS3500, SVC, DS8000 and XIV devices.

Learning Objectives

CIMOM Selection
Footprint reduction
Porting to a CIMOM to an RTOS
Design tradeoffs
Why embed?

Traditionally storage and IT infrastructure products were managed by tech-savvy administrators using cryptic command line interfaces or complex GUI consoles which resembled fighter jet dashboards. The advent of cloud and mobility has completely changed the personas of the users and managers of these products. There is a need to support self serviceability by end users as well as the needs of a business savvy CIO who is focused on managing SLAs to ensure that IT is being run as a profit center.

This session will appeal to those seeking a fundamental understanding of the role fault tolerance plays in High Availability (HA) configurations. Modern SANs have developed numerous methods using hardware and software fault tolerance to assure high availability of storage to customers. The session will explore basic concepts of HA, move through a sample configuration from end-to-end, and discuss some of the challenges faced in testing HA configurations.

In today’s data center storage is the fastest growing component, this as storage managers are faced with the daunting task of reducing cost while keeping up with service levels. The DBAs insist their applications need to have the high end storage devices because their application is the most important to the success of the business. While the accountant down the hall has saved no less than 10 copies of last month’s ledgers because he/she wants to make sure they don’t lose it. How does a storage manager manage its user base?

In today’s data center storage is the fastest growing component, this as storage managers are faced with the daunting task of reducing cost while keeping up with service levels. The DBA’s insist their applications need to have the high end storage devices because their application is the most important to the success of the business. While the accountant down the hall has saved no less than 10 copies of last month’s ledgers because she wants to make sure they don’t lose it. How does a storage manager manage his user base?

IP SANs with iSCSI offer a number of advantages to organizations including flexibility, lower cost, and simplified management. Many applications are ideally suited for iSCSI SANs including server virtualization, infrastructure applications, storage consolidation, and business applications.

This session will discuss managing the storage infrastructure. It will describe the basic of storage management, describe how SMI-S helps with managing diverse storage networks, and provides approaches that can be undertaken to get answers to many storage questions. This presentation will explain ways to get started, where you can get some help, and outlines goals and objectives that can assist you in obtaining sponsorship from your storage management project.

This session will discuss managing the storage infrastructure. It will describe the basic of storage management, describe how SMI-S helps with managing diverse storage networks, and provides approaches that can be undertaken to get answers to many storage questions. This presentation will explain ways to get started, where you can get some help, and outlines goals and objectives that can assist you in obtaining sponsorship from your storage management project.

A year ago Microsoft presented our perspective on SMI-S in the Windows environment. We have made a lot of progress over the year and we are working to integrate SMI-S into the Windows management infrastructure. The System Center Cross-platform Storage Management Team will be presenting our vision and updating the community on our work.