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Friday, August 26, 2011

Multipathing Support in Windows Server 2008

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Understanding Windows Server MPIO Features and Components

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Labels: clustering, device drivers, dsm, miniport, mpio, storage architecture, windows server 2008

Windows Server Device Management Architecture

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Labels: architecture, device manager, driver, miniport, storport, windows server 2003, windows server 2008

Understanding Requirements for Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters

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Labels: basic disks, clustering, dynamic disks, gpt, mbr, san, windows server 2008

How the Cluster service reserves a disk and brings a disk online

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices for SQL Server

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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 - Improvements to the way a cluster works with storage

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Labels: clustering, gpt, guid partition table, san, scsi bus reset, windows server 2008
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