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Archive for October, 2009
Hi again, found an video that could be very interesting….its about how to migrate Windows XP to Windows7 ….
Click on the picture and enjoy!
Note: open the link in Internet Explorer…there’s no sound in Firefox
Hello there…
In order to install SQL 2008 Express, we have to download it first . Fire up your favorite browser and point it to http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/ . After that, find the box with the SQL 2008 Express, and click download.
On the next step you have the option to register with Microsoft or download the software without registration. I will choose the “no registration part”.
In the new window, choose the version you would like to install. Personally, I will choose “Runtime with advanced services“. By clicking on install, Microsoft will ask to install the Microsoft Web Platform installer. If you dont have it installed, click on the picture to install it.
Choose “Run”, and after the download, again, choose “Run“. Wait for the installtion to finish and look at the top of the browser, a little bar will pop up and ask us if we want to run Active X control. Make sure the publisher is “Microsoft Corporation”. Click on “Run“, and then on Allow.
Now, look at the video of the installation I have made for you. The video will show you the process of installing SQL Server 2008 Express.
After that, all you need to do is run the “SQL Server Configuration Manager” under “Configuration Tools” and configure it the way you want it.
BTW, the track used is La Noche by Coca & Villa .IT’s AWESOME!!!
Have fun…bye!
Today, me and my collegaue managed to configure ISCSI on some backup server we had at the office. Iscsi target is based on OpenSolaris and ZFS . ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager designed by Sun Microsystems. The features of ZFS include support for high storage capacities, integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management, snapshots and copy-on-write clones, continuous integrity checking and automatic repair, RAID-Z and native NFSv4 ACLs. ZFS is implemented as open-source software, licensed under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL). The ZFS name is a trade mark of Sun.
Requirements for running any OS in HyperV that will be stored on Iscsi server are:
1. Iscsi target, obviously
2.Iscsi initiator software ( bundled in Windows 2008 Server)
3. High speed network, atleast 1Gbit.
4. Drive that you connect to the HyperV machine MUST stay in offline mode.
5. Tons of time to configure it
Will you will be able to read more details about configuring OpenSolaris and ZFS on my collegaues blog : toic.org – linux geek blog
So, like we already know, the disk on that we want to install the OS has to be offline ( hint: disk2 ).
Next step is the creation of the virtual machine that will use the disk. I have recorded that process, so you can see how simple it is .
All that you have to do is to install the OS…I didnt do that to the end in the video.
Tommorow we have planned to create a failover cluster with two Windows 2008 servers and see what will happen when one server suddenly get disconnected..ups
Bye, Alesandro
Surfing all over the net, I found a very handy powershell cheat sheet that was put together by Ben Pearce. Anyways, here’s the download link (just click on the picture).
Big hello to the guys from www.bug.hr