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Dell Latitude E6400, STOP 0x101 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

Posted Sunday, April 05, 2009 9:55 PM by Ken
My work recently gave me a new Latitude E6400 (the E6500 was just a bit too heavy) which is a great machine for running virtual machines out of the office. It has an internal 7200 RPM drive, a modular drive (120GB 1.8" 5400 RPM) and I can connect Read More...
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Home Data Centre Upgrade #3

Posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:32 PM by Ken
After adding extra disks to the home "data centre" and then getting a new backup device ( Dell RD1000 ), today I took a punt on upgrading the RAM. When I originally bought my Dell PE SC1430 it was rated at a maximum of 8GB RAM. The latest models Read More...
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Converting from VMWare Server to Hyper-V RC0

Posted Sunday, March 23, 2008 4:06 PM by Ken
This Easter weekend, having a bit of downtime, I decided to convert my virtual infrastructure at home from VMWare Server to Hyper-V. The major blocking issue was a lack of RAID controller drivers from 3Ware for their 9650SE-series cards, but thanks to Read More...
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Windows Hyper-V and Wireless adapters - using RRAS (Routing and Remote Access Service)

Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:33 PM by Ken
I see that Ben Armstrong has posted instructions on how to use Windows Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) to give your Hyper-V virtual machines access to networks via a wireless adapter. However ICS does not appear to work if the network that your wireless Read More...
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Moving a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtual machine

Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 7:32 PM by Ken
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V stores a list of virtual machines in %systemroot%\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\virtualisation\Virtual Machines. In that folder are a set of symbolic links, that are linked to the actual config files for each virtual machine. Read More...
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Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V backup (Dell RD1000 review)

Posted Sunday, January 13, 2008 7:24 PM by Ken
Meta: IIS and Kerberos Part 6 is coming (for anyone interested in IIS still reading this blog) The Windows Server 2008 backup feature no longer supports direct backup to disk (you'll need third party backup software to do that). You can backup to Read More...
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