Rob's Blog

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.

Read more…

One of the projects I have been working on recently is to try and improve overall application availability, without spending a large sum of money. I’m constrained on the operating systems I can use (mainly restricted to Windows Server Standard Edition but some Linux too) and my budget is non-existent. So, after a bit of reading of what is and isn’t possible, I decided to investigate Microsoft’s Virtual Server in a host clustered environment.

Read more…