This paper demonstrates the actual effects of Exchange Server 2007 on HP server blades in an environment with 20,000 users with 1-GB mailboxes. It provides technical information and best practices for sizing and configuring with HP EVA storage arrays. »

Local Continuous Replication provides a single-server solution using server-based technology to create and maintain a copy of an Exchange storage group on a second set of disks connected to the same server. This paper reports the findings of Customer Focused Testing based on extensive testing of an LCR environment supporting 5,000 users with 1-GB mailboxes. »

This paper provides technical best practices that enable customers to streamline their CCR planning and deployment process in order to build infrastructures that perform predictably. »

This paper provides configuration and performance data, best practices, and recommendations to help system administrators deploy Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 on several of the HP MSA family of products. The results presented here are intended to help you perform pre-deployment planning and ensure adequate hardware and predictable performance for your specific business requirements. »

This interactive session is a technical introduction to several key Exchange 2007 engineering projects the HP Customer Focused Testing (CFT) team has completed, encompassing configuration, backup and recovery, and replication. »

This webinar demonstrates that, in a highly-available disaster recovery environment using either HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database mirroring, checkpoint duration is critical to managing the solution behavior and implementation of the best practices results in significant performance improvements up to 52 percent. »

This whitepaper discusses how SQL Server 2008, particularly 64-bit server configurations, together with the resources and technologies available on HP ProLiant and Integrity servers, offers a valid option for consolidating corporate data on one single device. »

This paper helps users understand the options and the limitations of implementing backup and recovery in an enterprise environment using Linear Tape-Open tape, disk-to-disk, and virtual tape devices. Additionally, the paper discusses backup and recovery recommendations for the integration of Data Protector Software and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and the impact on database performance and throughput for each of the backup methodologies. »

This best practices white paper leverages HP servers, storage, and management software by providing the recommended best practices for configuration of an HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage subsystem deployed into a Microsoft. SQL Server 2005 environment with HP servers. This paper covers guidelines for a total end-to-end deployment of Microsoft SQL Server, encompassing servers, storage, management software, and offline full database backup practices. »

This white paper demonstrates that, in a highly-available disaster recovery environment using either HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database mirroring, checkpoint duration is critical to managing the solution behavior and implementation of the best practices results in significant performance improvements up to 52 percent. »

This white paper provides IT professionals with best practices related to implementing HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft. SQL Server, version 3.6. These documents assist solution architects, SQL database administrators, storage administrators, service administrators, and IT technical management personnel as they develop their consolidation/virtualization platform standard, architecture blueprint, and deployment strategy for Microsoft SQL Server. »