My lab consists of pretty basic hardware, but still, it's interesting to see performance benefits using different solutions. So I decided to see if there were any performance differences between using 2008 R2 NFS and Starwind iSCSI as storage for VMs. So I had this XenServer 5.6 FP1 running on a HP ProLiant ML115 G5. Then I had a ML115 G1 model with several disks in it, I decided to do all tests on a basic SATA 500 GB disk [...]
Categories: Virtualization, Windows
Yesterday Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. SP1 does not present any major challenges in deployment. However, here's a short guide to how-to deploy it using silent install switches: Downloading SP1 stand alone installer will give you an ISO-file containing three relevant EXE-files with different versions of the installer: x86, x64 and ia64. Just extract the versions you need to a location of your choice. Possible silent switches for deploying SP1 stand alone [...]
Categories: Deployment, Windows
A customer was running an old 2003 as a print server and we were migrating to 2008 R2. The old Print Migrator 3.1 is a big no-no and it will probably crash your spooler - here's why. After adding the role Print and Document Services -> Print Server role, you can simply right-click and choose Migrate Printers... and the wizard will allow you to export printers from a local or remote server to a file and then simply import it [...]
Categories: Windows
