TechCenter community members had a second consecutive week to participate in two chats, with last week’s schedule providing a two-part series on Internet SCSI (iSCSI) and virtualization technologies. Visit the landing pages for the Dell iSCSI and Virtualization and iSCSI Security and Best Practices chats for full transcripts and links to related resources for both topics.

Links to landing pages for upcoming chats and transcripts of previous chats are available on the Chat Topics and Transcripts page. As always, post a comment or ask a question on any chat page. Upcoming chats are each Tuesday at 3 pm U.S. Central time, unless otherwise noted:

  • July 7 – Urge your colleagues and customers to participate in a discussion around Microsoft® Exchange 2007 software performance and scalability on the VMware® vSphere™ 4.0 virtualization platform. Former TechCenter staff member, Todd Muirhead—now a staff performance engineer at VMware—will moderate a discussion of the vSphere 4.0 infrastructure and how it can support different levels of users in virtualized Exchange configurations.

Recent TechCenter Activities

  • New Page Focuses on Nehalem. Visit the new 11th-Generation – As Good As Advertised? page that will explore how the features of the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series (Nehalem)–based micro-architecture can affect performance and energy efficiency while running high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. The page promises to include benchmark data that will be measured by the HPC team at Dell.

Favorite of the Week

  • “The PowerEdge R710 blade is a winner in my book with its 18 DIMM slots,” said a regular TechTuesday chat participant. “The full-height blades have redundant mezzanine cards as well...something the half-height blades don't have, which would mean up to four 10GbE ports on a PowerEdge R710—perfect for redundant connections to iSCSI and the internal network.” Be sure to check out the full transcript of the discussion.

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