Top__Hat's questions

The majority of my Exchange users are all on Windows 7 and have no issues (at least using Outlook...) but a subset of the executives are ardent Mac users running Outlook 2011 for OS X. One of these clients is prompted every 5-10 minutes for credentials. Ticking the checkbox to remember credentials does not fix the situation.

Mac version is 10.7.2.

I have already removed and rebuilt the EWS virtual directory on my Client Access server.

Outlook anywhere is set to NTLM authentication.

None of the Microsoft clients are experiencing this issue.

What else can I do to make this issue go away?

I am standing up a new file server and I need to connect it to my iSCSI SAN and I am looking for a good NIC to use for dedicated iSCSI with multi-pathing. What should I be looking for in a good dual-NIC card to dedicate to iSCSI?

Here is what I have so far in my list:

• adjust MTU beyond defaults
• hardware offloads for iSCSI tagged traffic
• must be GigE

Are there things I should avoid?

I am moving several hyper-v VMs from an under-powered host to a newer host with an iSCSI array for storage. What is the best configuration for the iSCSI volume to get the best performance for hyper-v? Should I make one large LUN and then just put all the vhds on that LUN or would multiple smaller LUNs work better with hyper-v?

The host server is a Dell r710 with dual NICs dedicated to iSCSI with the Dell MPIO drivers installed. The MD3000i is using all iSSCI ports through the same physical switch as the r710.

Most of the servers are self contained machines and the disk I/O is not heavy for most of the machines. I do have three development servers that work as build target machines which have higher disk I/O than the other serevrs but the builds are not constantly running.