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About owning a server

dineshsamuel — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:27:53 +0000

New Answer by Michael Tidmarsh

What’s your top IT priority for 2013?

Michael Tidmarsh — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:30:06 +0000

New Answer by KevinBeaver

Trying to virtualise a Windows Server 2000 running Lotus Domino Server 5.0

Jammydodger9999 — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:41:51 +0000

Hello,

Our organisation has a very old legacy app running under Domino 5.0 on a Dell Server on Windows 2000 Server. It is totally read-only, and just has to be there for cross-reference. Ideal solution is to virtualise onto our Vsphere platform. Made several attempts using VMware Standalone Converter 4.x and 3.03. Conversion always successful, but when the virtual server comes up and the Domino Server starts, we get the following message in the console, and none of the clients can connect.

[strong]10/08/2011 17:17:11 Server started on Physical Node XXXXXX[/strong]

[strong]10/08/2011 17:17:11 error on listen function: NETBIOS unit/lana number specified in NOTES.INI is not valid on this system or a network is not started[/strong]

Message repeats a number of times, then

[strong]10/08/2011 17:17:11 Listener task for port LAN0ip is suepending for 20 seconds due to listen errors[/strong]

[strong]10/08/2011 17:17:11 Router: Unable to obtain Internet Host and domain names [/strong]

The startup completes , but the users are unable to connect.

We have no Notes/Domino expertise on site, but we do have Windows/VMware/networking skills .We are guessing it is related to the network hardware changing and that Notes/Domino needs to be told somehow (NOTES.INI ?) . Please can anyone help with some simple troubleshooting steps/best way forward. each time we have done this we have had to roll back to the physical server, most frustrating !!

Thanks & Regards

Mick

Automatic HOT failover between Highend Rack servers running under Windows2008R2 EE

S9099 — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:01:36 +0000

How to implement Hot failover between two high end Rack Servers running under Windows 2008 R2 EE server and a critical application which uses MS MQ for application message Queue handling since windows2008R2 EE provides four instances of Virtualisation.

RDP into multiple servers with only one NIC

Troubleshooter24 — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:39:24 +0000

If we have a VMware server hosting several Window servers 2008 can we RDP into each server at the same time even though the server only has one NIC?

Running multiple virtual machines on the same server

TeachMeIT — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:40:56 +0000

Is it possible to run multiple virtual machines on the same server? How and with what software?

What sort of differences in storage workloads can be expected?

TeachMeIT — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:41:47 +0000

What sort of differences in storage workloads can I expect with desktop virtualization versus server virtualization?

How does virtualization change my storage needs?

TeachMeIT — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:58:47 +0000

New Answer by Michael Tidmarsh

Windows Server 2003 on Intel DH55TC

Subhendu Sen — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:40:02 +0000

I have an Intel DH55TC MB with Intel Core i-3. Now my problem is that, it does not support to install Windows Server 2003 / 2008. After workground, it supports only Windows 7, XP(Pro) and Vista. Is there any patch / tools / other way to overcome my problems. Server virtualization is also possible, but I want to install the server physically. I am also searching, but till date I could not get any solutions. Also Intel discloses it is not possible. I have tried to change jumper etc. but the result is same.

Thanks–

Running IIS to make one virtual server

Troubleshooter24 — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:35:25 +0000

We have four Windows Servers 2003. Running IIS, can we make them all into one virtual server accessible by one ip address?