#Exchange #Exchange2010 #vmware Matt sent me this .. an Interesting read http://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2011/11/virtualized-exchange-storage-vmdk-or-rdm-or.html “ One of the hottest topics I get into when talking to customers about virtualizing Exchange is storage. Not surprising considering the number of options available when we virtualize Exchange on vSphere. If you are not familiar with the common methods for provisioning
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Comments Off #vmware #vSphere Joe tweeted this link (http://twitter.com/joewells/status/18435437921) and I wanted to share it further: http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2010/07/vsphere-41-is-released.html As well as this: http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2010/07/changes-to-vcp-exam-due-to-vsphere-41.html
Comments Off This is quite funky, up on VMsecured.com they have created a quote tool for VMware software! http://www.vmsecured.com/
Comments Off #Powershell Funky … http://d3planet.com/rtfb/2009/10/06/vsphere-powercli-commandlet-poster/ Pablo Roesch, VMware, has put out a poster that their marketing department did, that has a listing of the PowerCLI commandlets. This is a very useful tool for anyone working in PowerShell using the VMware Toolkit for Windows. http://d3planet.com/rtfb/files/2009/10/powercli-poster.pdf
Comments Off The last day, and the sun is shining outside which is always a plus. So lessons learnt for the day … If your Hyper-V server is in a workgroup and SCVMM is part of a domain, you need to do an agent install and treat it as if it’s in a perimeter network Lots and
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Comments Off #Hyper-V So its Wednesday and day 3 … today was more SCVMM Just great, Windows Update bounced my laptop and lost this post .. Greeaaaat. So let me try and remember .. Oh, what is cool is that you can create a Windows 2008 Failover cluster. You can then install hyper-v on both nodes of
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Comments Off Another day and some more learning. So my ramblings from today are: Have a server, take a snapshot and install an SP ..test it and then is okay, merge the snapshot. If not, remove the snapshot and you back. Nothing else really shone out, so this is nice and short
Comments Off I am on a Hyper-V Training course for the rest of this week at QA in London and wanted to share some “stuff” that came up today with you all. The course combines 6331A Deploying and Managing Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager [3 Day Course] and 6422A Implementing and Managing Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
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Comments Off #Exchange2010 Source: http://kennethvanditmarsch.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/vmotion-and-exchange-2010/ Now this is very very interesting and may explain why my DAG databases keep failing over.. … vSphere Update 1 states: Enhanced Clustering Support for Microsoft Windows – Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) for Windows 2000 and 2003 and Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering is now supported on an VMware High Availability (HA)
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Comments Off How funky is this Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-nz/sysinternals/ee656415%28en-us%29.aspx Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk – Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system
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