Last week I showed you a script that I wrote to create a mass amount of databases and database copies on an Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group (DAG). Since that script was a work in progress, I needed to test it again. This meant I needed to get rid of most of the databases it…
A few weeks ago, I showed you my solution to creating a mass amount of disks with PowerShell and diskpart, for future use as Exchange 2010 database and log drives. I finally had time to go back and create the databases for this environment. In this environment, I had 4 Exchange 2010 servers with the…
Last week I showed you how I used PowerShell and diskpart to partition, format, and label 193 disks. If you’ll recall, I said I still needed to figure out how to get 188 of those disks mapped to folders for Volume Mount Points. My goal was to get this 100% automated. Due to time constraints,…
Today at work I had to partition, format, and label, 193 disks, in Server 2008 R2. Each disk was a LUN on an EMC SAN. The server is an HP ProLiant BL460c G7 Server Blade. This will be an Exchange 2010 mailbox server that is part of a Database Availability Group (DAG) when it is…