I just wrapped up the eastern half of a partner event with IBM Canada storage group. I was asked to speak about Optimizing Exchange Performance at their 1/2 day information session on SAN storage solutions based on their DS4000 series SAN architecture.  It was really nice to see the business partners and the customers come out to such an event and listen to how to tune an Exchange server on IBM hardware attached to an IBM SAN.

I was asked a lot about disk tweaking, partition block allocation size and IOs per second and what that all meant to the performance on the Exchange server.  Ironically enough as you can see from my previous post - we just released a tool that does a lot of what I was talking about for you automatically and reports on how to tweak it.

I wanted to thank the IBM Canada storage team members Ken Halbert (National Channel Manager) and Chris Mak (IT Specialist with the storage group) for asking me and my team to participate.

For those who attended the session or for those who are interested in seeing the short deck I used, here's the link for the content now posted online.

By the way - if you are interested in joining my colleague Bruce Cowper on his west coast stops of the tour I believe there is still time to register. The IBM guys say their events registration should be up by Monday (http://www.ibm.com/news/ca/events/).
November 15th - Vancouver
November 16th - Calgary
November 22nd - Toronto