Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Exchange 2007 CCR Configuration Notes
Posted by on February 29, 2008
Once you’ve followed the installation process and have your active and passive nodes setup you may not actually be able to failover and mount the stores – it fails and logs an event 9317 from MSExchangeSA as below; The fix is to register an SPN for each cluster node as per this KB article [...]
Novell Acquire Platespin
Posted by on February 29, 2008
As noted here and here, they’ve done it – lets hope they don’t stuff it up – Platespin have a good roadmap in my book – particularly around virtual DR/BC with their Forge product. Novell had, and to some extent still do have very good technical products but they just make such a mess [...]
Today, You Work For Nothing
Posted by on February 29, 2008
I hadn’t really thought about this, but as the BBC point out technically you are working today without pay..! As if we didn’t already work enough unpaid overtime Now, if I didn’t have this big pile of things to do today then….
VMWare Vulnerability during VMotion.. is it really?
Posted by on February 27, 2008
As the Hoff posts here and on VMTN here. the proposed vulnerability that you can manipulate and possibly compromise a VM during a VMotion process isn’t exactly major, it’s clever.. but – like anything if you don’t follow the best-practice recommendations then you expose yourself to these risks… same reason they recommend you lock [...]
Impressive Facial Mapping Demo
Posted by on February 27, 2008
Cool site here of a company called image metrics, they produce systems to map facial expressions to computer models and graphics for films and games. show reel on this page Cool stuff.
Firefox Download Window Stops Working
Posted by on February 27, 2008
I’ve had this problem for the last week where if you try to download a file in firefox the download status window doesn’t display although the file actually downloads. you can fix this by going to %appdata%MozillaFirefoxProfiles and deleting the downloads.rdf file.
HP iLo Very Slow for Installing an OS
Posted by on February 27, 2008
A bit of a disappointment; we’re trying to do a WinPE 2.0 CD/DVD based installation for our Windows 2003/2008 standard blade servers in an HP c7000 enclosure. Installing from a .ISO image presented to the iLo via the virtual media applet is dog-slow (5-10 times slower than from a physical CD/DVD- why is this? [...]
New Blog Furniture
Posted by on February 27, 2008
Have been playing with a few new widgets, and I figured out how to add HTML code into the pages that wordpress.com hosts. If you need to do it – just add a “Text” widget and then you can put any HTML code you like in that and it gets processed as part of [...]
Running Exchange 2007 on VMWare ESX Server
Posted by on February 26, 2008
Interesting article here on some stress testing VMWare have done running Exchange 2007 under virtualization on VI3.5. It’s working.. .and working well, now – official support?
Disaster Recovery Resource for Exchange
Posted by on February 23, 2008
Stumbled across this site earlier; looks like there is some good practical information here if you are looking for how to handle Exchange backup and disaster recovery. Sites like this are so much more valuable than the usual vendor white-paper approach as they show people’s real world experiences, mistakes, etc. This is an employee [...]
