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Name: Gavin McShera
Date registered: February 16, 2008
URL: http://www.mcshera.com

Latest posts

  1. How to Manage a VMware Infrastructure or VMware vSphere in System Center Virtual Machine Manager — May 18, 2011
  2. Virtualising Exchange 2010 – Database Availability Groups (DAG’s) — May 16, 2011
  3. Virtualisation shootout, the market has choices and moving to IaaS — April 19, 2011
  4. Cannot mount VHD as it conflicts with other disks — April 14, 2011
  5. SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 RTM — March 30, 2011

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Mar
20

SQL 2008 R2 Support for System Centre Products

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I was asked during the week about the support statements for SQL 2008 R2 and System Centre products.  At the time of writing, SQL 2008 R2 is supported for most, if not all, of the System Centre products.  There are certain caveats of course.  Always refer to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ie/systemcenter and the support configurations for each product.  Here is …

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Mar
18

Hyper-V – VM properties hang

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I’ve been building out a number of different test environments over the last few weeks and came across a problem when creating a VM in Hyper-V. The create VM wizard would hang just before prompting for the VM name etc. Turns out I had missed something essential in the FAQ’s. The environment I was building …

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Mar
07

Jump Start: Microsoft Virtualization for VMWare Professionals (March 29-31)

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Announcing Next Jump Start: Microsoft Virtualization for VMWare Professionals (March 29-31) Just one week after Microsoft Management Summit 2011 (MMS), Microsoft Learning will be hosting an exclusive three-day Jump Start class specially tailored for VMWare and Microsoft virtualization technology pros. In support of the “VMWare Compete” initiative, registration for “Microsoft Virtualization for VMWare Professionals” is …

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Apr
06

Living in a Virtual World: Domain Controllers and Time Synchronisation

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The question of how to handle Domain Controllers has been around for quite some time.  The answer really depends on what product you have decided to use as your virtualisation platform.  Personally I have found both Microsoft Virtual Server and VMWare ESX pretty good solutions to my virtual requirements.  Regardless of the product you have choosen, you will …

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Feb
22

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

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Windows Server 2008 failover clusters support Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), iSCSI and Fibre Channel disks as storage options.  So, how would you go about setting up a virtual Windows Server 2008 test cluster using the new Hyper-V virtualisation product?  The method I am about to outline is a little differnt to what you might be …

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