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This Technical Report describes various methods and configurations for performing backup and recovery operations using a PS Series group.

This Technical Report describes how to configure the QLogic QLA4010 iSCSI host bus adapter to support booting Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 from PS Series storage.

This Technical Report describes how to configure QLogic QLA405x iSCSI Host Bus Adapters to support booting Microsoft Windows Server® 2003 from PS Series storage.

This Technical Report describes how to back up and restore NTFS volumes, Exchange e-mail, and SQL databases using CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11.1 for Windows with PS Series group storage and Auto-Snapshot Manager for Windows VSS provider.

This Technical Report introduces you to the member RAID policies for PS Series groups. This report also provides information on the performance characteristics of the RAID policies under normal and failure conditions and will help you choose the RAID policy that is right for your applications and environment.

This Technical Report describes how to use Cisco® Catalyst® 3750 and 2970 switches with a PS Series group to create a high performance.

6 common issues when using VMware ESX SW iSCSI initiator.

This Technical Report describes how to backup and restore local and remote NTFS volumes and SQL databases using CommVault® Galaxy™ 5.0 with PS Series group storage and the Dell EqualLogic™ Auto-Snapshot Manager for Windows® VSS provider.

This Technical Report describes how to use the Dell EqualLogic™ Multipath Device Specific Module, (DSM) to enable and deploy multipath I/O, (MPIO) for highly available access to a PS Series SAN.

This Technical Report details the benefits of Dell’s EqualLogic Multipathing Extension Module, MEM, for VMware vSphere, as well the installation and configuration process to provide multipath I/O for highly available access to the Dell EqualLogic PS Series SAN. Also covered are a number of overall virtual environment iSCSI design considerations and best practices.

The Symantec Backup Exec Advanced Disk-based Backup Option (ADBO) coupled with the snapshotting capabilities of Dell EqualLogic Storage Arrays are combined to create a comprehensive solution for customers that want quick recovery and off-host backup support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, and 2008.

Taking advantage of all of these new features requires some new steps to be taken by ESX administrators. Most of the configuration is done via CLI inside the ESX server. At the release of this document there are plans to implement many of these steps into vCenter but currently a majority of the work is done via console commands. The rest of this Technical Report will be focusing on installation and configuration of an iSCSI software initiator connection to a PS Series SAN.

The virtual datacenter introduces new challenges and techniques for disaster recovery. This technical report details the installation and configuration of Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager to help make disaster recovery an automated and manageable part of your virtual environment.

This tech report demonstrates how using Dell EqualLogic™ SAN Snapshots can improve data protection in a VMware® Virtual Infrastructure environment.

This Technical Report describes how to configure the ProxyHost iDataAgent to support Transportable hardware-based VSS snapshots while backing up NTFS volumes using CommVault® Galaxy™ 6.1.0 with PS Series group storage and the Dell EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager V2.0 for Windows® VSS hardware provider.

This Technical Report describes how to back up and restore NTFS volumes, Microsoft® Exchange e-mail and SQL databases using CommVault® Galaxy™ 6.1.0, the Dell EqualLogic™ Auto-Snapshot Manager V2.0 for Windows® VSS provider and PS Series storage arrays.

This Technical Report describes how to deploy Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 in an iSCSI SAN using PS Series storage arrays. It provides configuration and management recommendations and best practices for Exchange and the PS Series SAN.

This Technical Report describes how to deploy Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 in an iSCSI SAN using PS Series storage arrays. It provides configuration and management recommendations and best practices for Exchange 2007 and the PS Series SAN.

This Technical Report describes how to deploy Exchange Server 2010 in an iSCSI SAN using PS Series storage arrays. It provides configuration and management recommendations and best practices for Exchange 2010 and the PS Series SAN.

This technical report details information and best practices for deploying Microsoft® Hyper-V™ with Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series iSCSI storage arrays.

This Technical Report describes how to deploy Microsoft® SQL Server® in an iSCSI SAN with PS Series storage arrays. It provides configuration and management recommendations for SQL Server and the PS Series storage.

This Technical Report describes scenarios for deploying Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager 2006 (DPM) with PS Series storage, providing a high performance, highly-available, and scalable DPM storage pool.

This Technical Report describes scenarios for deploying Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM) with PS Series storage, providing a high performance, highly available, and scalable DPM storage pool.

This Technical Report describes how to use PS Series storage arrays with a Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 cluster. With PS Series storage arrays, you can set up a scalable, fault-tolerant, and easy-to-manage iSCSI SAN that increases data and application availability.

This Technical Report describes how to use Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series storage in a Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 environment. With PS Series storage arrays, you can set up a scalable, fault-tolerant iSCSI SAN that increases data and application availability and is easy to set up and manage.

This Technical Report describes how to use PS Series storage in a Microsoft® Windows® Storage Server environment. With PS Series storage arrays, you can deploy file serving with a scalable, fault-tolerant iSCSI SAN increasing data availability and flexibility.

This technical report documents the procedure for configuring the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system to operate with Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage arrays.

This Technical Report describes how to back up and restore NTFS volumes, Microsoft Exchange e-mail, and SQL databases using Symantec™ Backup Exec™ 10d for Windows Servers, the Dell EqualLogic Host Integration Tools kit, and PS Series storage arrays.

This Technical Report describes the implementation and deployment of thin-provisioned volumes in a PS Series SAN.

This Technical Report describes how to use Veritas Backup Exec 10 for Windows Servers with PS Series storage arrays from Dell EqualLogic to back up and restore local and remote NTFS volumes, Exchange e-mail, and SQL databases.

This Technical Report describes how to backup and restore local and remote NTFS volumes, Exchange e-mail, and SQL databases using Veritas Backup Exec 9.1 for Windows with PS Series storage arrays.

This Technical Report describes some best practices when using Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 environments.

EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager / Microsoft Edition (ASM/ME) with PS Series arrays to protect Microsoft Exchange Server with online Smart Copies and recovery operations for Exchange 2010.

This Technical Report describes using Dell EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager with PS Series arrays to protect Microsoft Exchange Server with online Smart Copies and recovery operations for Exchange 2003 and 2007.

This paper presents a “pay-as-you-grow” methodology to build an Oracle SE RAC configuration that can scale up to 4 single-socket servers. It showcases the performance characteristics and scalability of incrementally adding RAC nodes.

This Technical Report describes using EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager / Microsoft Edition to perform online Smart Copy protection and recovery for Hyper-V Virtual Machines using PS Series arrays.

This Technical Report describes the deployment and testing results of SQL Server® 2005 using the Microsoft® iSCSI Initiator with a Dell EqualLogic™ iSCSI SAN. It helps you understand best practices and the benefits of using an iSCSI SAN with SQL Server 2005.

This Technical Report describes how to use the DiskPar or DiskPart utilities to configure Microsoft® Windows® disk partitions to match the default RAID stripe segment size used in a PS Series storage array.

This Technical Report describes how to expand Microsoft Windows basic disk volumes after increasing the size of the corresponding PS Series group volume.

This Technical Report describes using EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager / Microsoft Edition to perform online Smart Copy protection and recovery for SQL Server databases using PS Series arrays.

This technical report details information and best practices for monitoring a Dell™EqualLogic™ PS Series storage environment using the SANHQ software

This Technical Report describes creating a Novell® NetWare® disk volume and then expanding the volume when you have increased the underlying PS Series volume size – all without disrupting ongoing applications.

This Technical Report describes how to use a PS Series group to provide NFS server storage space to servers running Oracle9i™ Database. It includes group and server requirements, describes configuration choices, and provides ecommendations for high availability.

This paper outlines how Oracle ASM complements the PS EqualLogic load balancing capability.

This Technical Report focuses on the installation, configuration and usage of Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware™ Edition to obtain hypervisor aware snapshots and provide an additional layer of data protection for the Virtual Environment.

This Technical Report describes network configuration requirements and recommendation for high performance and reliability with a PS Series storage array.

This Technical Report describes using a PS Series group as scalable and reliable shared storage in a Red Hat® Linux cluster. A PS Series group is a fault-tolerant iSCSI SAN that is easy to set up, manage, and scale and increases data and application availability.

This document covers installing and configuring the RedHat Enterprise Linux v5.x software iSCSI initiator. It also covers configuring MPIO with RHEL v5.2 or greater.

This Reference Architecture Implementation guide is intended to be used as a guide and or used as a point of reference for Dell Enterprise Implementation Engineers when deploying a virtualized Exchange 2007 environment based on Dell EqualLogic iSCSI Storage.

This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blue print or a starting configuration, for designing Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 storage in a virtualized server environment using Dell™ EqualLogic™ arrays.

This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blueprint or a starting configuration, for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized server environment and provides guidelines for designing and sizing the storage for the same using Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage systems. It also offers the latest best practice recommendations and other considerations along the way.

Many organizations are turning to consolidation and virtualization to maximize existing resources, provide flexibility in deployment and operations, and build the dynamic data center of the future. This Agile Consolidated model is designed to enable Microsoft® Exchange 2010 to be deployed into this paradigm of centralized storage and virtualization readiness.

Many organizations are turning to consolidation and virtualization to maximize existing resources, provide flexibility in deployment and operations, and build the dynamic data center of the future. This Agile Consolidated model is designed to enable Microsoft® Exchange 2010 to be deployed into this paradigm of centralized storage and virtualization readiness.

Many organizations are turning to consolidation and virtualization to maximize existing resources, provide flexibility in deployment and operations, and build the dynamic data center of the future. This Agile Consolidated model is designed to enable Microsoft® Exchange 2010 to be deployed into this paradigm of centralized storage and virtualization readiness.

Many organizations are turning to consolidation and virtualization to maximize existing resources, provide flexibility in deployment and operations, and build the dynamic data center of the future. This Agile Consolidated model is designed to enable Microsoft® Exchange 2010 to be deployed into this paradigm of centralized storage and virtualization readiness.

Many organizations are turning to consolidation and virtualization to maximize existing resources, provide flexibility in deployment and operations, and build the dynamic data center of the future. This Agile Consolidated model is designed to enable Microsoft® Exchange 2010 to be deployed into this paradigm of centralized storage and virtualization readiness.

The Small and Branch Office model provides full functionality and 100 percent redundancy in two tower or rack form factor servers. Using two servers with internal storage only and two DAG copies of the databases, Microsoft® Exchange 2010 can be deployed reliably and cost effectively for up to a thousand or more mailboxes.

Many organizations are turning to consolidation and virtualization to maximize existing resources, provide flexibility in deployment and operations, and build the dynamic data center of the future. This Agile Consolidated model is designed to enable Microsoft® Exchange 2010 to be deployed into this paradigm of centralized storage and virtualization readiness.

This report covers the test methodology, resources utilized, and the performance and scalability achieved with Dell EqualLogic PS6010XV storage arrays with RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 update 4 running Oracle 11g R2 RAC in a Data Warehouse environment.

This Technical Report will discuss advanced operations and techniques on how to use Auto-Snapshot Manager / Microsoft Edition (ASM/ME) to protect SQL Server databases as well as enhance SQL Server operations in the datacenter.

This Technical Report describes how to implement highly-available network access from Sun™ Solaris™ 8 and Solaris 9 servers to a PS Series group.

This technical report describes PS Series replication and provides planning and recovery considerations and examples.

This Technical Report describes how to configure Internet Authentication Service to leverage accounts in Active Directory to control login authentication to a PS Series Group.

This document describes how to use Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) initiator authentication and access control records to control which hosts (iSCSI initiators) can access a volume or snapshot (iSCSI target).

This Technical Report describes how to use the Microsoft® VShadow VSS requester and the Auto-Snapshot Manager VSS provider to back up and restore NTFS volumes, Exchange e-mail, and SQL databases residing in a PS Series SAN.

This Technical Report describes how to use Multi-Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) to monitor the I/O between Windows systems and PS Series group members running PS Series Firmware Version 3.2.

This document describes using the Cisco® Linux 3.4.2 iSCSI initiator for diskless booting of Red Hat® Linux 9 (RH9). Dell EqualLogic™ has enhanced the initiator to provide boot support using the open-source PXELINUX network bootloader and has provided a utility for creating the diskless hosts boot disk and kernel boot images.

This Technical Report describes how to backup and restore Windows Server® 2003 NTFS volumes in a PS Series SAN using the Microsoft® Backup utility (NTBackup) and the Dell EqualLogic™ Auto-Snapshot Manger for Windows® VSS provider.

This Technical Report describes the concepts and benefits of tiered storage, and describes how to take advantage of storage pools and other features of EqualLogic PS Series Firmware to implement tiered storage in a PS Series SAN.

This Technical Report describes how VMware® Virtual Infrastructure 3 can work together with Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series iSCSI SANs to provide dynamic, scalable and highly available virtual environments.