Exchange Server
NetApp Data OnTap 7 and Flexvolumes
The Saturday (July 16th) was spent on migrating an Exchange cluster from an older NetApp 840 to a new 920 filer. My personal experience with…
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Exchange 2003
SnapDrive 3.1 requires 3 hotfixes (2 avail only from PSS)
Want to upgrade NetApp SnapDrive 3.x to 3.1? You’ll need 3 hotfixes, 2 of these cannot be downloaded from microsoft.com. You need to call Microsoft…
Exchange 2003
Running 3-4 node cluster on iSCSI
Clusters with more than 2 nodes using iSCSI storage are not officially supported by Microsoft or NetApp. Yet. Probably being tested in labs. Added 3rd…
Exchange 2003
NetApp Volume Fails To Mount After Power Outage
A power outage (are rolling blackouts back in California??) earlier in the morning, and the resulting mess. The new cluster (Windows 2003/Exchange 2003) with NetApp’s…
Exchange 2003
NetApp SnapManager for Exchange (SME) Restore takes Physical Disk offline
I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with NetApp’s SnapManager for Exchange (SME) backup utility. To restore a store, SME needs to take the Physical Disk…
Exchange 2003
NetApp’s VSS Provider looks for “non-existent” file versions in KB833167
When you try to install the NetApp VSS Provider (to connect iSCSI filers to Windows Server 2003), you need to install Hotfixes from KB833167 and…