As I mentioned in a previous post I have decided to refresh my home lab to running Windows Server 2012, part of the installation requirements was installing SQL Server 2008 R2 into the new 2012 environment, easy you may think however it’s not as simple as that because whilst trying to install SQL 2008 R2 [...]
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In my last post I mentioned that I had looked at alternatives to Windows as I wasn’t happy with the direction that Microsoft have taken with Windows 8, don’t get me wrong I really like Windows 7 and think that it’s a great OS but Windows 8 left a lot to be desired where laptop\desktop [...] I have been a Windows guy from a very early age (actually I was a DOS guy before becoming a Windows guy) and it’s with surprise that I find myself in my current predicament. I recently had a go of the Microsoft Windows 8 Consumer Preview and unfortunately found myself really disliking it, don’t get [...] I recently decided to upgrade my vSphere 4 lab to vSphere 5, one of the things I did at the time was consolidate my SQL environments to a single platform (I have in the past had SQL 2005, 2008 and various SQL Express environments up for one reason or another), I decided at this time [...] Last week Microsoft launched the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, rather than installing the preview onto any of my existing hardware I decided to give it a go on VMware Workstation 8 before trusting it to a dedicated machine. As this is pre-release software Microsoft advise that there may well be bugs and application compatibility issues [...] I have been a big fan of the Raxco products for a while now so when I heard that they had a new product about to launch I decided to do a blog post about it. Raxco launched PerfectDisk12 in June of this year but have already released two Service Packs for the product (one [...] I am going through a project at home to centralise my ESXi and Windows Event Logs using Splunk and Snare and part of that process was going through my Event logs to try and fix any niggling issues. Going through my vCenter event logs I discovered some errors in the ADWS logs that I did [...] |
   
Total Metrics:  10 GHz Total CPU  16 GB Total RAM  8,192 GB Total Disk 1 Host(s) 1 RPs 5 VMs 0 vMotions
Power States:  (4)  (1)  (0)
Networking:  2 Physical NICs 2 Virtual PGs
Cluster:
 Colchester DRS: HA:
Current Deviation: 0 Target Deviation: 0 DRS Balance:
previous refresh 153 days, 14 hrs and 0 min. |
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