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May 2007 - Greg Beech's Tech Blog

  • SAN configuration for BizTalk 2004/2006

    The most important performance factor in a BizTalk environment is the SAN and the way it is configured. I’ve tuned a few enterprise BizTalk systems and in most cases the ultimate (and usually unsolvable by this time) bottleneck has been the disk write queue length on the database disk volume(s). Using slow disks, too few disks, an unsuitable volume configuration, or the wrong RAID level will come back...
  • When naming servers, please name them sensibly!

    At my house I have a bit of a north pole theme with my hardware naming conventions. The laptop I'm writing this on is called ICECAP, my media center is called GLACIER, and my desktop is called ICEBERG. Even my wireless network is called AURORA BOREALIS. Now this is a bit of fun in a home environment because there aren't many computers, it's only me who has to remember which is which, and...
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