SBS 2003 and beyond:

HyperV


December 10, 2010  7:44 AM

Microsoft HyperV Error 2424869



Posted by: Roger Crawford
Error 2424869, HyperV, Windows 2003

I had a Windows 2003 R2 server running virtually that I had removed a bunch of data from and I wanted to compact the Virtual Data drive. When I shutdown the server and tried to...

August 29, 2009  5:09 PM

Windows Server 2008 R2 HyperV Clustering



Posted by: Roger Crawford
HyperV, HyperV Clustering, MSA 2012i, Windows 2008 R2 Server

I have a on going project bringing in 12 new servers and a c7000 HP Blade Enclosure and a MSA 2012i going on right now and one of the interesting things I have done is to setup 2 Windows 2008 R2...


May 9, 2009  1:45 PM

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Published Apps and Virtual Desktops P4



Posted by: Roger Crawford
HP Blades, HyperV, Micosoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Published Apps, Published Virtual Desktops, Remote Desktop Services, TS Gateway, Virtual Desktop Pool, Windows 7

Takes note to self don't be so self involved in projects and take time to write posts as you go here. That way not so much to spew in one sitting. Yea right as if that will happen. Mean while back at the ranch Ok had everything configure like I thought it should be now and still not seeing my...


May 9, 2009  1:27 PM

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Published Apps and Virtual Desktops P3



Posted by: Roger Crawford
HP Blades, HyperV, Micosoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Published Apps, Published Virtual Desktops, Remote Desktop Services, TS Gateway, Virtual Desktop Pool, Windows 7

Well momentary pause for head banging here as what did I do now to break the stuff. Time to read and I went searching and finally found a document called Deploying RemoteApp and Desktop connection Step by Step guide from MS. 


May 9, 2009  12:54 PM

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Published Apps and Virtual Desktops P2



Posted by: Roger Crawford
HP Blades, HyperV, Micosoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Published Apps, Published Virtual Desktops, Remote Desktop Services, TS Gateway, Virtual Desktop Pool, Windows 7

OK got my server up and running and went through the normal drill and got the settings configured on the server for networking and name and domain joined and all of that fun stuff to numerous to mention but I am sure you all know the drill. But I thought ok what am I going to do for sure here you...


May 9, 2009  12:35 PM

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Published Apps and Virtual Desktops P1



Posted by: Roger Crawford
HP Blades, HyperV, Micosoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Published Apps, Published Virtual Desktops, Remote Desktop Services, TS Gateway, Virtual Desktop Pool, Windows 7

I know I haven't posted much lately as I have as my wife's says been ignoring her even and diving into the Windows 2008 Server R2 RC and Windows 7 RC and getting lost into whatever world I go to when I get something new to learn. Hmmm wonder what she means by that. But anyways as I mentioned...


April 19, 2009  1:12 AM

Windows 2008 Server with HyperV and NIC Teaming Part 3



Posted by: Roger Crawford
HP NIC Teaming, HyperV, NIC Teaming, NLB, Windows 2008 Server

As we get ready to roll this out live I rebuilt the Host servers and had no trouble with Blade1 and the networking and the switches probably because a was there when I did this. So OK I got Blade1 going and the Virtual Servers redid and ready for the live prime time. No biggie I will just redo...


April 11, 2009  12:47 PM

Windows 2008 Server with HyperV and NIC Teaming Part 2



Posted by: Roger Crawford
HP NIC Teaming, HyperV, NIC Teaming, NLB, Windows 2008 Server

This one has been definitely a adventure in getting up and running. In Part 1 of this I talked about what we had to do with the Teaming with HyperV. Well that wasn't the end of the adventure as I thought. I had tested the VS Servers by pinging the IP's which I would get a response from. I also...


April 7, 2009  12:37 PM

Windows 2008 Server with HyperV and NIC Teaming



Posted by: Roger Crawford
HP NIC Teaming, HyperV, NIC Teaming, Windows 2008 Server

I have a client who wanted his server to be fail-over safe from NIC's to switches to his HP iSCSI MSA 2012i. We used the HP NIC teaming for the SAN NIC's and for the HyperV NIC Teaming our first sets of tests went fine and then we started having a problem with the HyperV Servers losing connection...


March 30, 2009  3:48 AM

Windows 2008 R2



Posted by: Roger Crawford
HyperV, Micosoft Windows Server 2008, Micosoft Windows Server 2008 R2

Have you checked out Server 2008 R2 Beta yet? I downloaded it today and have been working on getting it installed. There are 2 things that I am interested in with this build and that is the new features for HyperV and the new features available for the Terminal Services or as MS now calls it Remote...