- Posted by ploft on July 21, 2009
Tiered of people bugging you, for the simplest questions they could figure out in seconds using google.com ?
This is the solution to stop that.
So for answering the person bugging you, you just pass out the following URL like the following, just replace with his or her question instead.
Here is an example:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Peter+Loft+Jensen+blog
Or the company (Vertica) where I work:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=vertica+commerce+integration+sharepoint
Setting up you own Let Me Google That For You (LMGTFY) go visit www.lmgtfy.com
It's genius.
- Posted by ploft on May 1, 2009
While everyone is falling on their bum now that Windows 7 has been released in a Release Candidate version, it's worth mentioning that the Client and Server editions for now goes hand in hand, meaning that the Windows Server R2 Release Candidate is also available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers.
Windows 7 will be available for public May 5.
For those of you who fancy servers above clients, here is a kick on to what the Windows Server 2008 R2 will bring.
Interview with Wald Ralston:
http://edge.technet.com/Media/Windows-Server-2008-R2-RC-Interview/
More resources about Windows 2008 R2 here:
http://edge.technet.com/Media/Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-R2-Release-Candidate-RC/
Some of the notable key elements in the R2 edition:
- Hyper-V 2.0
- PowerShell 2.0
- Branch Office
- Power Management
- Posted by ploft on March 20, 2009
I've been running with Windows 2008 for quite some time now, and at the time where DPM 2007 was released I guess Windows 2008 still was kind' a new to people, so no resolution or scenario of this issue was right at hand at the time.
System:
HP ProLiant ML 110 powered by Intel Xeon CPU with 8 Gb memory running 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (Hyper-V role enabled) with SP1 and all latest updates.
Used quite some time searching the web for a resolution to this problem, and most people a who I "ran into" suggested that I should wait for the SP1 for DPM 2007. Doing some more digging it turns out that the Virtual Disk Service (VDS) on the older 2000 and 2003 system had some memory leaks, and kb-articles referring to these scenarios looked a lot like the problems I have on my Windows 2008 system. Chances for an error reoccurring could therefore be somewhat expected. Not key on manually overwriting important system files on a semi-working system which handles backup, I first of all turn to my patience willing to give the SP1 a chance to might fix this issue since Microsoft at this time doesn't have any fixes ready yet.
SP1 came and a lot of improvement in speed generally, but I still see the VDS service consume way to much memory most of the time, but the applications is more responsive and therefore gives a better user experience speed-wise.
In the lack of better suggestions I turn to the physical hardware and installs further 4 Gb memory, maxing out the total memory possible for this machine 8 Gb. Once again it helps - but only for some time. Hence the amount of backup jobs and data being stored, the system slowly grinds back to the same sluggish state that it had in the beginning.
Getting more and more errors and failed backup messages, and I'm guessing the VDS memory leak is affecting the DPM and its ability to successfully backup things.
Today I stumbled over this kb-article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958387
"On a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, a memory leak may occur in the Virtual Disk Service. This problem may occur in the following scenarios.
A memory leak occurs in the Virtual Disk Service when an application uses the Virtual Disk Service to enumerate disk resources. In this scenario, you notice that the memory consumption of the Virtual Disk Service (Vds.exe) increases continually."
Once again - sounds exactly like what I'm experiencing, and this time it's for Windows 2008 - yes baby!
Installed the fix (kb958387) and have been running with this update for a week now, backup jobs are hitting a much higher successful rate than before, and whereas the machine often was slow after just one day in companionship with memory-leaking-VDS. VDS and DPM seems to be better friends now and I don't see any huge unexpected memory usage anymore.
I've been running a couple of weeks with this fix, and yes no more memory slaughtering from the VDS service. Thought I'd just share this with you, so none of you should experience the same annoying scenario with a sluggish DPM server or other backup products using Volume Shadow Service (VSS).
- Posted by ploft on November 4, 2008
Windows Server 2008 R2 Overview
The next version of Windows Server is the R2 of Windows 2008, internally called Windows 7 Server. For now Microsoft expect shipping R2 Q1 of 2010. Some of the new features worth mentioning:
- New active directory level (a lot of changes and improvement since the 2003 that didn’t bring that much to the table – the 2008 R2 does, with Recycle Bin functionality a much richer interface for administrating active directories in larger enterprises.)
- PowerShell v2.0
- Second release of the Hyper-V engine, now real supporting multimonitor RDP’s, and live migration from server to server without any downtime or impact on the guest system.
- Along with Hyper-V, Microsoft had made a lot of effort into making RemoteApp better at supporting video/audio, 2D/3D graphics, and the overall view of software running remotely, making the remote experience a lot more transparent for the users.
- Branch Office caching feature, lowering the traffic between office branches by providing a usage-aware kind-of-proxy.
- Core editions now support the .NET framework (apparently not the complete framework, but the most of it)
- Easier administrating web-application leveraging most of the administration to the IIS-manager, and also allowing you to control SQL databases directly from the manager.
- Support for 64 physical cores (that’s 256 logical cores for a single operating system instance)
Windows 2008 Server R2 offers a lot on the connectivity part, aiming at trouble-free connectivity nevertheless our location, by using Direct Access without the usage of VPN’s.
It’s also worth mentioning the 2008 Server was the last server system from Microsoft shipped with 32bit support. The Windows 2008 R2 Server is only shipped in a 64 bit version.
- Posted by ploft on July 3, 2008
As some of you may know the final release of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V technology has been released. I’ve used the last few weeks reading up on some of the changes and other people’s experiences with Hyper-V. I tried the Hyper-V then it was still in beta and at this time it was clear that Microsoft had made a great product – and I’m saying this, with a slight chance of being called a Microsoft-fan boy, but the specs I’ve seen with Hyper-V should really kick ass.
We’d talked about the possibility of running all our virtual machines and pc’s of a dedicated host-server rather than using them locally on the development workstations where I work. No further detail should be needed, and to make a long story short we decided to take it up for a test, so a HP ProLiant DL 185 was ordered for this purpose.
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