• How to create a Windows Server 2008 Cluster within Hyper-V using simulated iSCSI storage

    [Updated May’09: Windows Storage Server 2008 now available to MSDN/TechNet subscribers. Checkout Jose Barreto's Blog for details.] Familiar with Virtual Server 2005 and shared disks for creating virtual clusters?  Well its different with Hyper-V...
  • Cluster node /forcecleanup & Error -2147352567

      This is a not so common issue I can across this week . The background is as follows. You decided to evict a node from your cluster. There is a communication failure between nodes and a warning appears that the cluster was unable to remove clustering...
  • How to P2V Windows 2000 server using SCVMM 2008

      With the economic down turn and the green agenda Virtualisation has become a hot topic with my customer. These days its all about getting the best value for money as possible with your IT budget, so when my customer had a number of servers out...
  • PowerShell – Read an XML configuration file

    I was recently asked a question about PowerShell's ability to read in an XML configuration file at a Virtual Academy I ran last week.  One of the strengths of PowerShell is its ability to perform lots of time saving tasks … one of which is reading...
  • Windows 2008 Clustering & the Cluster Log

      Where is the cluster log in Windows 2008 ? This short answer is its no longer there. On our Windows 2008 cluster node if we navigate to %systemroot%\system32\LogFiles\Cluster your wont find the cluster.log file anymore. Why ? Its been replaced...