Um, no. SAN's (which are really direct attached storage) ARE supported. NAS (Network attached storage) is not.
They don't support snapshot backups on SANs, but that's a different story... SANs are indeed supported. ------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Peregrine Systems Atlanta, GA > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 6:31 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Re: Win 95 Outlook 2000 Clients unable to connect to > Exchange5.5 > > > I know that MS Exchange is not supported in a SAN > environment. Has to do with write thru cache or something > like that. There are articles on this on this in MS's > website. Does the SAN box do some self maintenance on > Saturday nite. If you call PSS they might not have an answer > due to the SAN setup. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Darren Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 4:38 AM > Subject: Re: Win 95 Outlook 2000 Clients unable to connect to > Exchange5.5 > > > > Answers to all the responses so far. > > > > * Nothing appears to running on Saturday night and nothing > comes up in > > the event logs. > > > > * Everything at TCPIP level is fine, ie users can resolve > the servers > > address. The WINS might have changed as we have added two > more servers > > for Fault Tolerance. > > > > * The new hardware differences include :- > > > > * Data & OS now resides on a SAN > > * Network is now a Team of Compaq Gigabit & Compaq Ethernet, > > provides a virtual interface to the users. > > * Servers now have 4 processors instead of 2 > > * Servers have 2GB Memory instead of �GB > > * The two physical network interfaces go into 2 different CISCO > > switches for fault tolerance. > > > > We are planning to increase Exchange logging and run some NetMon > > traces this weekend to try and get some more info on this problem. > > > > Thanks > > > > Darren > > > > > > > What happens on Saturday nite. Do you have some routine > running that > > > is causing this. Event logs show anything? > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Stidley, Joel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 3:25 PM > > > Subject: RE: Win 95 Outlook 2000 Clients unable to connect to > Exchange5.5 > > > > > > > > > Can the clients resolve the name of the server when they > are having > > > the problem? Are the WINS settings correct on the new servers? > > > > > > > > > Joel > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Soysal, Serdar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 1:50 PM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: RE: Win 95 Outlook 2000 Clients unable to connect to > > > Exchange5.5 > > > > > > It could be a network-component related issue. Does > rebooting the > > > client also correct the problem? I would suspect it > would. What is > > > different with > > > the new hardware? Is it connected to the same switch etc? > > > > > > Serdar Soysal > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Darren Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 6:13 AM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: Win 95 Outlook 2000 Clients unable to connect to > Exchange > > > 5.5 > > > > > > > > > We have a very weird problem at the moment. > > > > > > We have 4 servers of which 3 have been migrated to new > hardware and > > > the data is held within a SAN. The servers are performing > well and > > > servicing clients. > > > > > > However, it seems to be only on a Saturday night, we get > occurences > > > of Win95 clients running Outlook 2000 not being able to > connect to > > > Exchange. If the > > > server is rebooted they then can access their mail, if Outlook is > > > reinstalled on the client they can also access their mail. > > > > > > There is nothing at all appearing in the event logs on > the Exchange > > > servers so we are a little stumped on this one. > > > > > > Our other users using Win2K and NT don't seem to be > affected and the > > > 4th server which hasn't been migrated yet is also not affected. > > > > > > Any thoughts appreciated. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Darren > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
