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Welcome to the HP and Microsoft - Storage & Server solutions resource center. Here you will find a series of technical white papers and webcasts prepared by HP Principal Consultants and Senior Architects that will help Microsoft IT managers and administrators identify and resolve key infrastructure obstacles. These technical resources focus on best practices for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server environments.

As a Worldwide Prime Integrator for Microsoft, HP is uniquely qualified to deliver a complete messaging solution, deployed on industry-leading HP ProLiant servers, HP StorageWorks hardware, software and infrastructure.

HP was recently recognized as Microsoft’s Enterprise Partner of the Year for the fourth time, marking the first time in the award’s history a company has been honored more than three times. Our goal is to help you reduce costs and accelerate time to deployment for your Microsoft environment.

	Backup and Recovery Best Practices for SQL Server 2005, Including HP Data Protector The test results reported in this paper and the derived best practices and recommendations, provide users with the information necessary to plan and implement an effective and efficient SQL Server 2005 backup and recovery strategy to meet their specific requirements. Download Now		Backup and Recovery for MS Exchange Server 2007 with HP This paper provides users in enterprise environments the data to effectively understand the options as well as the limitations of implementing online streaming backups into their infrastructure. Host-based VSS backups are also addressed and will be tested in depth at a later point. Download Now
	Best Practices for HP Servers and Enterprise Virtual Array in a Microsoft Exchange 2007 Environment This paper shows customers two options for designing the HP EVA layout to support the required environment. Although both options have been proven to support performance, they must be carefully considered. It also shows the validity of each option, based on lab data and best practice recommendations, and points out the important factors to consider when designing the final environment. Download Now		Best Practices for Microsoft Exchange 2007 with HP Server and Storage in Mid-range For customers who are migrating or planning deployment to Exchange Server 2007, this paper provides technical guidance, best practices, and supporting data for businesses that support 1,000 users on a single array. Download Now
	Configuration Best Practices for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with HP EVA4000 and HP Blade Servers This solution is targeted at the entry-level and mid-range or small and medium business (SMB) market. The test configuration and equipment used for best practices in this paper is meant to represent what a typical SMB would run in its IT environment. Download Now		High Availability for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Using CCR with HP Storage This paper provides enterprise-level customers with the data required to effectively understand the options, as well as the limitations, of implementing this replication-based high-availability solution into their infrastructure. Download Now
	High Availability for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Using LCR with HP Storage This paper identifies the best practices for the implementation, maintenance, and recovery of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 utilizing LCR with an HP StorageWorks EVA. The best practices were based on the findings of extensive testing of an LCR environment supporting 5,000 users with 100-MB mailboxes. This testing identified the changes in server resource utilization with LCR enabled. Download Now		High Availability for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 using Array-Based Replication Array-based remote replication solutions for Microsoft SQL Server have existed for years, and SQL Server 2005 provides a built-in, host-based feature called database mirroring as an alternative for disaster-recovery solutions. Although these technologies are widely available, users may lack the information needed to select the replication, mirroring, or high availability method(s) suitable for their environment. Download Now
	Optimizing HP Servers with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 With the consolidation of corporate data, resource management is a requirement to optimize the infrastructure. In this paper the current and future capabilities of Windows Server and SQL Server is highlighted. Windows Server 2008 now provides features that allow the server to scale without downtime as well as capabilities that allow the hot addition of memory and CPUs. Download Now		HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server Best Practices for Storage Deployment This white paper provides IT professionals with best practices related to implementing HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server, version 3.6. These documents assist solution architects, SQL database administrators, storage administrators, service administrators, and IT technical management personnel as they develop their consolidation/virtualization platform standard, architecture blueprint, and deployment strategy for Microsoft SQL Server. Download Now
	High Availability for MS SQL Server 2005 using Array-Based Replication and Host-Based Mirroring This webcast demonstrates that, in a highly-available disaster recovery environment using either HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database mirroring, checkpoint duration is critical to managing the solution behavior and implementation of the best practices results in significant performance improvements up to 52%. Register Now		Technical Overview of Exchange Server 2007 with HP Servers and Storage This interactive session is a technical introduction to several key Exchange 2007 engineering projects the HP Customer Focused Testing (CFT) team has completed, encompassing configuration, backup and recovery, and replication. Download Now

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