Jeff Loucks talks about SBS Performance Tuning at TechEd

Who says there is no SMB content at TechEd! Jeff is talking about optimizing SBS for line of business application performance right now. Going through the disk configuration, RAID levels, latency and more:

You get one slide for free, for the rest of this in-depth info condensed into roughly an hour you have to come to these presentations. Ok, ok, here, one more but this is the last one:

Jeff of course works for AvailableTech and is an SBS MVP. So far the SBS tuning information is amazing and not a single person has gotten out of their seat! Solid, solid content. Just goes to prove that SMB IT Professionals really want and need to be very proficient with these technologies, but for that to happen the overall ignorant attitude of “immediate gratification” of our IT segment needs to be burried.

Update: Someone in the audience just complimented Jeff on the “Takeaways” deck that talks about the best ways to partition the disk. Paraphrasing (a lot):

Audience: Has Microsoft seen this deck?

Jeff: They selected it for TechEd

Audience: It’s great information, but it contradicts a lot of published information.

Jeff: Well, yes, there is a lot of contradicting information because we are using Exchange, SQL, IIS, Server. Each product has its perfect disk configuration and there is nothing to give you the idea of the best one for all of them. So when people can’t find it they go out on their own and make it up (see: sbslist forum) – so the point of this presentation is to throw a load at the server and give you some definitive information on how to do it all.

So in closing, use SBS!

He even put his phone number for people that want to ask questions directly! I’m guessing that line will be ringing off the hook, I think I’m going to be first one in line to ask Jeff to present some of this content to us at Orlando IT Pro.