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Backups, system failures and peace of mind
Another week in the trenches. I had a primary server at our organization have a major failure. The SAS controller (which provides access to SAS type HDDs) died OR the motherboard to the server itself...
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Installing SQL Server 2008R2 to Windows 7 VM
While installing an instance of SQL2008R2 to a Windows 7 Workstation VM (used by my programmers) on my VMWare vSphere cluster I ran into a problem. While the SQL installation seemed to go OK, it hung...
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If you have outgrown you current ESXi hardware and need to move to another physical machine and you don’t have vSphere you can still easily move all your VMs to the new server. Without additional...
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How to Access Local and USB Hard Drives In Your Hyper-V Virtual Machine
There are dozens of scenarios where you would want to access a physical hard drive from inside your Hyper-V virtual machine ranging from accessing and importing data, dumping data from the virtual...
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Virtual USB-disks on VMware Guests
As anyone who has tried to use a USB licensing key or test USB devices in a VMware/vSphere cluster environment knows that using a USB can be problematic. You may have dozens or hundreds of guests on...
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