Archive for the ‘MS Windows server’ Category

Understanding Virtual network manager in Hyper-V

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

If you like your Hyper-V story to run smoothly your server needs two network cards – my HP DL380 has two gigabit cards – one is used for Hyper-V server to have internet connectivity (updates, remote management …) second one is given to Virtual network manager to be used by virtual machines.

If you did not select any network adapters to be used by Hyper-V during Hyper-V installation you can see your physical two adapters in Network connections.
After you run Virtual network manager and you create new network for example “External network” that is connected to your second physical card your physical card lose connectivity and all protocols and services are unchecked except Microsoft Virtual Network Switch Protocol (and HP Network configuration utility – but this is specific to my case becouse I use HP server). When you finish the wizard you can see that in your Network connections there is another adapter called “External network” – it is now used for your Virtual machines.

HINT! Do not do that remotely if you are not completely shure which adapter is which… If you make a mistake you will need physical access to the machine to change network parameters. :)

Example:
Hyper-V virtual network manager example [docx]
Hyper-V virtual network manager example [pdf]

Hyper-V final version is here… Let’s install it…

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Hyper-V final is ready to be installed so I created a Step-By-Step tutorial how to install Hyper-V final version on Windows server 2008 64 bit server (Hyper-V role works only on 64 bit!!!)

This Step-By-Step have some specific information regarding installing Hyper-V on HP DL380 server which I have at home – so I have explained how to enable virtualization in BIOS (it may vary from bios to bios) and some specific problem HP servers with HP Network configuration utility have when you try to install Hyper-V (server hangs on “Configuring Updates Stage 3 of 3″ on 54% or 75%).

Step-by-step installing Hyper-V final version [docx]
Step-by-step installing Hyper-V final version [pdf]

Additional resources:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/virtualization-consolidation.aspx - Microsoft Virtualization
http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/ - Microsoft Virtualization blog
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F3AB3D4B-63C8-4424-A738-BADED34D24ED&displaylang=en - Hyper-V Final version update
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/950792 - HP servers problem when installing Hyper-V

Portable Powershell even on Windows server 2008 core – it is possible!

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Look at: http://karlprosser.com/coder/2008/06/17/portable-powershell-v1-and-v2-side-by-side-even-on-server-core/

 Great stuff!!!

When you try to enable or update Hyper-V, the computer stalls at “Configuring Updates Stage 3 of 3.”…

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Where it happened? On HP DL380!!!

This problem occurs when the following conditions are true:

• You enabled, disabled, or updated Hyper-V on a Hewlett-Packard (HP) server.

• The HP Network Configuration Utility was installed.

 

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/950792

NTK2008… (fixed links :) )

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

I enjoyed 3 days of NT Konferenca 2008 in Portoroz.

For atendees of my sessions…

Terminalske storitve PPTx

Hands-on workshop – Implementacija tehnologije NAP z uporabo DHCP storitve na Windows server 2008 PPTx

Step-by-step NAP DOCx

Step-by-step NAP XPS

Windows server 2008 NTFS / SMB2.0 changes part III (packet analyses)

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

New SMB 2.0 allows higher speeds when transfering files between Windows server 2008 machines and Windows Vista machines.
On gigabit network we can see a drastical improvement in speed and network performance. SMB2.0 allows ACK packets to be sent only after 16 megabyte of data…

 SMB 2.0 as seen by Wireshark*

*Wireshark – excelent network analyzer

Windows server 2008 NTFS / SMB2.0 changes part II (network usage)

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

You can access harlink-ed files and Directory junction folders over the network… Even if files and folders are not shared (only “linked” to one of your shared folders …)

 Network accessability example

Windows server 2008 NTFS / SMB2.0 changes part I (mklink)

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

 Making SYMLINK without any parameters using MKLINK command

 Making SYMLINKD using MKLINK /D command

 Making HARDLINK using MKLINK /H command

 Making JUNCTION using MKLINK /J command

When you are using this command you should know that …

  • When using without any parameters it makes symlink between two files … Files are accessible only localy on same machine.
  • When using with /D parameter it creates symlinkd link between two folders … linked folder is accessible only localy.
  • When using with /H parameter it creates hardlink between two files … This file is normaly accessible over the network and localy.
  • When using with /J parameter it creates so called Directory junction that makes folder accessible using different name… It works localy and over the network.
    So now you are able to share a folder in which you can put Directory junction folders, that normaly are not shared…

Windows server 2008 CORE + IIS 7.0 + PHP + MySQL + WordPress :)

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

http://windowsmvp.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!80195647FE07388F!485.entry?wa=wsignin1.0

“Realtime” answers… use irc.freenode.net and join #Windows

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

I know you might think IRC is a bit “out”… But… On server irc.freenode.net you can find fantastic channels like:

#Windows – Windows related questions and discussions
#Windows-Server – Windows server realated stuff…
#Powershell – Powershell stuff…

If you want realy quick answers or maybe some advices to folow… Get an IRC client for example mIRC, get connected to server irc.freenode.org and join those channels…