Over the last few weeks at work I’ve been working on host clustered Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 guests. Here’s how I go about setting up a new guest - it’s not particularly complicated but it is very long-winded. Caution: this article contains almost exactly the same information as Microsoft’s guide. I just re-wrote it to make it (a) more specific to my environment and (b) more readable for the people I work with.
A few months ago, I bought myself a Buffalo LinkStation Pro to store all of my home files. Now, whilst this box functions very well as a standalone NAS box, there are some frustrations with it - especially the fact that I can’t stream music and videos directly from it to my Xbox 360. So, when Microsoft announced Windows Home Server, designed specifically to act as the media centre for a home I thought "great!" Now I’ve been invided to the beta, I had a go at getting it up and running…
The last few days I’ve been planning my company’s IT strategy for the next year with our new financial year looming. Having just started with this company, I’ve walked into a role where most of the servers run either on non-server hardware or are many, many years old. However, I don’t really have the budget to replace them all. Enter virtualisation…