jamesrhart

I'm just going through this myself, you need to open a ticket through Office 365 service requests (you should now see a Yammer option in the service request dropdown).

Hi Chris, We are doing this, all you really need to do is to change the virtual directories' authentication method to 'Intergrated Auth', just be careful you don't lock yourself out, we have two front ends, one uses Integrated Auth (NTML) and the other forms. James

Hi, I did a move from 2003 to 2008 R2 (virtual) a couple of years ago and it worked fine, and on Monday I went from 2008 R2 VM to 2012 R2 VM, again by unlicensing the old server and installing on a fresh server then activating, so there shouldn't be any issues.

We're on a CS240, as said no real load yet as it's not in production, the 24 VMs are just Zero copy clones of Server 2012 R2 (it's a 3 node Hyper V Cluster), just running IOMeter now.

I really haven't put it through its paces yet, I've just put 24 VMs on it and booted them all at the same time, saw the IOPS hit 18k but it wasn't a bottle neck as it came down quite quickly, will try and run iometer later.

+1 for Nimble, I'm just implementing mine and so far the performance seems out of this world. The company my brother works for went with Equallogic and suffice to say he is very jealous with performance difference!

Glad to hear it, I've just had the tracking through so hopefully it won't be too long, will make sure to upgrade straight away.

Hi, I can't say I looked too heavily at the VRTX, having had a quick look I would still go the way we did (and in terms of servers we are Dell all the way).... we have around 8 Hyper V hosts all with local storage and really wanted a large amount of storage (when does it stop growing!) and some redundancy in terms of Hyper V hosts - we looked at Dell, HP and then came across (through edugeek of course!) Nimble. HP fell through pretty quickly based on the timeframe to just get a quote from them. Dell was a very close second and we liked the idea of single vendor but didn't want to be held back by that idea (we also purchased 2 x R620's with 256GB RAM in each for a new Hyper V cluster, along with 2 x Dell 6248 switches to be dedicated to the SAN switching - the R620s are extremely power efficient compared to our old PE2900's and even the R710's - not to mention going from 5U to 1U!), I had some very good conversations with Matt from Nimble (with plenty of questions from me) and ultimately we chose them, I think the key for us was to look very closely at what was actually being offered by each vendor in terms of performance in real terms as well as accessing future growth and needs (possible VDI etc.), for us there was a clear winner! We went with a single CS240 (unfortunately our budget wouldn't allow for 2!), which means that we will leverage snapshots for short term backups but will keep DPM and some very large NAS boxes and tape library going for long term/disaster recovery). We haven't received it yet, so will try to update how we get on when it arrives, but really looking forward to putting it through it paces and checking out infosight. I'm in Devon, but if anyone wants to see it in action (when we've got it in and running of course) or have a chat feel free to PM me.

Hi, Just to put my two pence in, we have just been through a similar process of evaluating which SAN to purchase, we have around 8 Hyper V hosts all with local storage and really wanted a large amount of storage (when does it stop growing!) and some redundancy in terms of Hyper V hosts - we looked at Dell, HP and then came across (through edugeek of course!) Nimble. HP fell through pretty quickly based on the timeframe to just get a quote from them. Dell was a very close second and we liked the idea of single vendor but didn't want to be held back by that idea (we also purchased 2 x R620's with 256GB RAM in each for a new Hyper V cluster, along with 2 x Dell 6248 switches to be dedicated to the SAN switching - the R620s are extremely power efficient compared to our old PE2900's and even the R710's - not to mention going from 5U to 1U!), I had some very good conversations with Matt from Nimble (with plenty of questions from me) and ultimately we chose them, I think the key for us was to look very closely at what was actually being offered by each vendor in terms of performance in real terms as well as accessing future growth and needs (possible VDI etc.), for us there was a clear winner! We went with a single CS240 (unfortunately our budget wouldn't allow for 2!), which means that we will leverage snapshots for short term backups but will keep DPM and some very large NAS boxes and tape library going for long term/disaster recovery). We haven't received it yet, so will try to update how we get on when it arrives, but really looking forward to putting it through it paces and checking out infosight. I'm in Devon, but if anyone wants to see it in action (when we've got it in and running of course) or have a chat feel free to PM me.

Meraki have a good whitepaper - https://meraki.cisco.com/lib/pdf/meraki_whitepaper_ios.pdf

Hi, Yes you do get it - on one of your welcome emails from EES you will have a promotional code (something like 'DSEES1'), just use this along with your EES agreement when prompted and the 1 year cost will be £0. James

Hi Mark, The important thing to remember with the Palo is that the QoS occurs on the egress interface, there's quite a good doc on the Palo support community here - https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/docs/DOC-3439 James

We had a trial of Meraki wireless and use Systems Manager, we're in Devon and it places our staff all over the country, unfortunately it's simply not very accurate, although I believe there's now an app for mobile devices which will feed back the GPS data.