Just as I’ve finished consolidating all my Physical machines to HyperV guests Microsoft have announced Windows HyperV Server which is a free download.
With the release of the HyperV Linux Componants I’m going to start moving some workloads away from my old ESX 2.5 servers and see if HyperV Synthetic devices work as well as [...]
Working in a Data Center brings with it various challenges that you wouldn’t normally find in most other jobs; we come across demanding solutions, ingenious ‘hacks‘, impressive software and outright weird errors.
Once we’ve crossed a particular hurdle then we need to go about disseminating this new found information to the other SysAdmins.
So far [...]
A few weeks ago I ‘inherited’ a frontend anti-spam solution that was getting crushed under the weight of the Christmas run-up. Emails were taking up to a week to arrive at the back-end system and a lot of spam was getting through too.
The solution consisted of two machines each with Dual Core 2.13Ghz Intel’s, 2Gb [...]
Yesterday I had a nasty case of Y-splitter failure (in future I’m just going to upgrade the PSU rather than go though this again) which caused all four of the 320Gb disks of a RAID5 array to suddenly disappear.
Windows didn’t like that and hung, VMware Virtual Center disliked it even more. Once I recovered the [...]