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This month we worked primarily on storage infrastructure that will facilitate the Exchange 2007 deployment and merger.

We added 66 TB of storage to our EMC EDL.  We had to upgrade the code on the array and the EDL engines in order to successfully install the new capacity.

We ordered and received two new storage arrays.  One is currently in the Hill Center and the other will be placed in an offsite location for disaster recovery purposes.  We configured and assigned the first batch of storage just this past week to the new Exchange 2007 database servers from the new CX4 at the Hill Center.

We have ordered new SAN blades which will be installed into our existing Cisco 9509’s to provide high bandwidth ports to the new Storage Arrays and performance intensive Exchange servers.  Additionally, a smaller SAN switch was purchased to go in the offsite location for DR.

We are still working on a migration path in our e-mail archive environment from the old EAS environment to the new environment.

We have been working on planning to resolve some fiber length issues in our SAN environment since the arrays and SAN switches have been moved to better facilitate data center cooling.  Along with these changes we’ll be coordinating installation of the new SAN blades sometime by early August.

The BlueArc storage we purchased a couple of months ago is now almost completely used.  We have migrated some shares around to provide more space to the users on those shares.  I have also restructured old storage pools to make better use of spindles underneath those file systems.