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February 2009 - Posts

Installing Windows Server 2008 on a headless server from a USB disk

I am installing Windows Server 2008 on a new server that has no video card and no DVD drive. It's an interesting challenge to make that one work and I'm relying on using a bootable USB disk and unattend files. In my case, it turns out the server has a Read More...
Posted Friday, February 13, 2009 8:37 AM by josebda | 1 Comments

Free eBook on Microsoft Virtualization Solutions

There is a new book on "Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions" by Mitch Tulloch with the Microsoft Virtualization Teams, available from Microsoft Press as a download. At 400 pages and 15MB, this PDF file covers Server Virtualization (Hyper-V), Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 6:55 AM by josebda | 0 Comments

Can you convert an MBR disk to GPT?

I got a question today: Can you convert an existing MBR disk to GPT? This is about the partitioning style of a disk, with MBR being the older one (limited to 2TB) and GPT being the newer one (going up to 18EB). Keep in mind that the GPT partitioning style Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 07, 2009 1:14 PM by josebda | 0 Comments

Step-by-step: Using the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target with Hyper-V (Standalone, Full, VHD)

Overview In this post, I will show all the steps required to run Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V with the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target. We will cover the specific scenario of a standalone Windows Server 2008 server (as opposed to a clustered one) on a Read More...
Posted Monday, February 02, 2009 1:00 PM by josebda | 6 Comments
 
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