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Friday Afternoon–hardware time
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2011/11/04/friday-afternoon-hardware-time.aspx'; I spend far too much time in meetings these days. But I try to keep my Friday afternoons free of meetings – and often use this time to update my various servers and try out new configurations. Today it is time to rebuild some of my storage: ... »
Another reason to virtualize (and an appeal for aid)
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2011/01/12/another-reason-to-virtualize-and-an-appeal-for-aid.aspx'; The last couple of days have been very strange and stressful for me. The reason for this is that my home town – Brisbane, Queensland, Australia – is currently being flooded. Thankfully all of my family is safe at this point in time – but it has been a... »
Back from vacation!
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2011/01/04/back-from-vacation.aspx'; After a relaxing December on vacation I am now back at work – and ready to start blogging. Or, at least, I thought I would be ready to start blogging. Instead – I found that I needed to do a spot of cleaning first. You see – somehow,... »
Taking some time off
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/12/04/taking-some-time-off.aspx'; For years now – whenever I have taken some time off from work I have gone through this process: A few weeks before my vacation: “I’m going to get blog posts pre-written for every day of my vacation! No one will even know that I... »
Diagnosing hard disk failure with Hyper-V
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/09/16/diagnosing-hard-disk-failure-with-hyper-v.aspx'; Last week I had one of the hard disks in my Hyper-V server fail. Having had to deal with this a couple of times over the last few years, I had little trouble working through the process of fixing my system, but I thought I would write up the details of my... »
I need to read my own blog more often…
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/07/08/i-need-to-read-my-own-blog-more-often.aspx'; Over the last couple of weeks I have been playing around with some new (for me) server technology. This has been a lot of fun – and I have been learning a lot. However, a couple of days ago things started to go wrong. Specifically I started seeing... »
Talking about Dynamic Memory at TechED US 2010
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/06/01/talking-about-dynamic-memory-at-teched-us-2010.aspx'; Next week I will be hanging out in New Orleans. As well as doing my share of booth duty – and walking around talking to people about virtualization – I will be presenting on Dynamic Memory. Here are the details: ... »
Blog Engine Update
After a bit of turbulence, it looks like we are up and running on the new blog engine. I am really happy about this – as it makes it a lot easier for me to customize the look and feel of the blog without having to hack things up too much. For the time being... »
The Big [re]Build
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tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/10/the-big-re-build.aspx'; A while ago I talked about how I use Hyper-V in my house, and more recently I talked about trying to backup my Hyper-V server. This discussion of backup was actually in preparation for a significant rebuild of my home Hyper-V server, that I undertook a week and a half ago. There... »
Adventures with Hyper-V and Backup
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/02/22/adventures-with-hyper-v-and-backup.aspx'; A while ago I talked about how I use Hyper-V in my house. One of the problems that I identified with my current setup was that I had most of my virtual machines (except for the Windows Home Server) running on the same disk as the system disk for the management operating... »
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