Like most others out there, I have recently started hearing the ESX/VMware vs Hyper-V/Microsoft questions popping up throughout my day. While I have little experience with Hyper-V, R2 certainly brings an impressive amount of features and several compelling arguments for it’s use over VMware’s product offerings. If you are a small to medium sized shop [...]
Last week while working on a Domain Controller for a rarely used domain, I ran into a challenging issue. I couldn’t login to the DC! (Thanks MS for not allowing local logins on Domain Controllers)! RDP responded fine, I could manage it remotely (and this view logs), but could not actually login via RDP or [...]
The fix I posted yesterday appears to work in certain configurations. After hours of troubleshooting, researching, and being frustrated, I have found an alternate fix that appears to work 100% of the time. The directions here are Dell specific, but can easily be modified for any make/moel.
Dell Community Site
Uninstall Windows Server 2003 Scalable Network Pack [...]
Today I setup a Windows Server 2003 32bit system, and windows did not have any drivers for my network card. This system was a Dell M600 blade (which uses the same Broadcom 57XX series NIC as the rest of Dell’s blade offerings, and 9th generation servers). I downloaded the NetXtreme II drivers directly from Broadcoms [...]
If you’ve ever tried running Windows update and received the message:
The website has encountered a problem and cannot display the page you are trying to view. Take the following steps to try solving the problem: Refresh the page. In Internet Explorer, delete your Temporary Internet Files by going to the Tools menu and clicking Internet [...]
As ESX has matured, extending the size of .vmdk disks has become easier and easier. In ESX 3.5, using the VI client, you can simply edit your VM settings and increase the size of the disk. (or you can use the vmkfstools -X command from your hosts service console, if you prefer command line).
Once you’ve extended the disk, [...]
