As stated earlier, in this deployment of SFBS default gateway on frontend server are L3 switch as against the hardware load balancer (HLB) in the case of Lync 2013. This was to ensure the license cap apart from the hardware capability of HLB is not...
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January 10, 2016 Prasanta Kumar Panda
Haproxy, Keepalived, SFBS, Uncategorized
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In Lync 2013, SQL mirroring was the option used for backend high availability. For skype for business server however SQL always on was the preferred choice. It combines the richness of Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) while removing the dependency of shared storage as in...
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January 9, 2016 Prasanta Kumar Panda
AlwaysON, SFBS, SQL Server, Uncategorized
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After the high level details on previous post, this post would be on infra setup for SFB. First things would be the storage space setup that going to host the SQL server VMs (requires Hyper-V) as well as few FE servers, apart from providing tiered...
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December 10, 2015 Prasanta Kumar Panda
SFBS, Uncategorized
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Hyper-V being the platform of choice for Lync is proving good and hence it would be continuing for SFBS. However, the new design has to improve the current IOPS to meet the increase in demand and reduce network latency further, while allowing to reuse the...
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December 10, 2015 Prasanta Kumar Panda
SFBS, Uncategorized
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My earlier post on Lync 2013 on Virtual Infra gives a quick insight into the current deployment. As part of transition to skype for business server (SFBS), there are list things that need to be considered including improvement requirement.
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December 10, 2015 Prasanta Kumar Panda
SFBS, Uncategorized
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Day 1: How many users in your company: ###K How many endpoints you have: XXXK How many IP address you use:?????? Do you know how many subnets are in used in your enterprise: sure I can share you the list quickly
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December 10, 2015 Prasanta Kumar Panda
IPAM, Uncategorized
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Inputs like failed disk or communication lost etc. can give a clear indication for replacing storage disk. However, things like intermittent IO issues are bit difficult to determine if the disk requires replacement. SMART information of the disk, HBA etc. as discussed in the last...
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May 21, 2015 Prasanta Kumar Panda
Storage Spaces, Uncategorized
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6th May 2015 : Today done the in place upgrade to build 10074 and findings so far
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May 6, 2015 pkpanda
Uncategorized
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Storage spaces related events are logged under Microsoft-windows-storagespaces-driver/operational log. A SCOM rule can be created to alerts on these events
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April 13, 2015 Prasanta Kumar Panda
Storage Spaces, Uncategorized
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Gen2 Linux VMs, using CentOS7 are going to be part of setting up the syslog infra components of enterprise LogVault.
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April 13, 2015 Prasanta Kumar Panda
Storage Spaces, Syslog, Uncategorized
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