VMWare has updated their client virtualization platform and released the VMWare Workstation 7 release. Why upgrade? Ultimate Desktop Virtualization Product for Windows 7 Best 3D Graphics Just Got Better with for support Windows Aero in Windows Vista and Windows 7 virtual machines Most Advanced Virtualization Platform with up to 4 virtual processors or 4 virtual [...]
Last night we lost our Openfiler SAN with a “kernel panic” stop message and all virtual machines located on the VMWare ESX cluster were frozen. After I found the problem and I reboot the SAN box; I than encountered another problem on one of our development SQL server. Just after the POST phase a black screen [...]
If you using a OEM Windows installation often there will be a wallpaper set when you login from the console or with Remote Desktop services. For me this is annoying when using RDP session as it is slow to render the wallpaper bitmaps over the internet connection or WAN. I prefer the disable this. Example [...]
Finally after 2,5 year Vista was released I can say “WOW” with the first public beta of Windows 7. The installation process was and went smooth. I installed one VM and two physical machines. The setup went fine on a Lenovo ThinkCentre M57 and on my ASUS home system. I am looking forward to see [...]
September 30, 2008 - 4:29 pm
Tags: 2008, basic, disk, extend, server, VMWare, volume, Windows
Posted in ESX | 1 comment
Last week I run into free disk space problem on my Windows Server 2003 virtual machine and today on another virtual machine running Windows Server 2008 I encountered same thing again. The virtual disk was sized for 10GB and only 80MB was free. The virtual machine is running Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft enhanced the [...]
August 26, 2008 - 8:18 pm
Tags: 2007, 2008, certificate, exchange, export, import, migrate, move, outlook web access, owa, server, ssl, Windows
Posted in Exchange 2007, Windows Server 2008 | 1 comment
Thanks to guys from Telnetport25 I was able to finish my SSL certificate migration for my new Windows Server 2008 virtual machine running a Exchange 2007 SP1 installation. My work log: Logon on the old Windows Server 2003 hosting the OWA front-end role Start MMC and add the Certificate Snap-In; choose the Computer Account. Go [...]
Hyper-V, a key feature of Windows Server 2008, has now released to manufacturing (RTM) and is available for deployment into production environments. With help of ServerManagerCMD.exe I will install the Hyer-V role. What is ServerManagerCMD.exe? Server Manager in Windows Server 2008 provides a single source for managing a server’s identity and system information, displaying [...]
August 3, 2008 - 5:47 pm
Tags: ext2, file, howto, linux, mount, system, Windows
Posted in Windows | No comments
Since I am dual booting between Ubuntu and Windows Vista on my desktop workstation I am missing my linux volumes on Vista. I have three large 500GB SATA2 disks and one of them is partitioned and formatted with Ext2 linux file system. I have two options to read my linux volumes from windows: a) Explore2fs [...]
If you are migrating notebooks at work, from friends or family you will always hit same problem after the new one is ready for use. Most documents and user settings can be migrated in some kind (ntbackup,robocopy and the Windows transfer wizards) , but when migrating the wireless network setting you may need additional script [...]
This morning my Cacti appliance warned me by email that the windows root volume was getting above the 90% threshold. I configured this a while ago for getting notified in front. When installing and configuring this Windows server I didn’t plan the configuration in the right way and my free space for C:\ volume [...]
