Clive Watson's Weblog : May 2006

May 2006 - Posts

DFS MOM Pack for Windows Server 2003 R2

Posted Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:22 PM by Clive_Watson

A DFS MOM pack for R2 was released yesterday, you can download it here . Thanks to Paul for the heads up. Read More...

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Another Virtual Server networking question

Posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 5:25 PM by Clive_Watson

Ivan, sent me this question Is it possible to have special channel between virtual machines? For example, I have installed MSFT Virtual Server R2 and 2 virtual machines. If one program in one virtual machine is trying to access some file on it's virtual Read More...

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Virtual Server and NIC teaming question

Posted Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:14 PM by Clive_Watson

Chris sent me this question: I have a load balancing team configured with 2 intel mt 1000 gigabit cards. My guest operating system looses network connectivity If I leave it idle for say 10 minutes or if I close out and come back in after a while. The Read More...

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Virtualization @ WinHEC summary - keynote so far

Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 5:52 PM by Clive_Watson

From BillG's keynote today... There was a Windows Hypervisor demo, which showed a running Windows 2003 Server image imported from Virtual Server R2 (which emphases the transportability of Windows Virtualisation today and going forward). Virtual Machines Read More...

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Carmine = System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Posted Monday, May 22, 2006 10:21 PM by Clive_Watson

This is something I’ve wished I could have blogged about weeks ago, still here are all the details on our System Center Virtual Machine Manager (formally called “Carmine”). System Center Virtual Machine Manager is a standalone server application used Read More...

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Filed under: consolidation, virtualisation, windowsserversystem