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October 2009 - Posts

Quote of the Month

“Intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time” –F. Scott Fitzgerald Read More
posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:19 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments

Hyper-V Domain Controller Negative Ping Results

This one was a little bit new for me, About 6 months ago one of my customers told me that some times his new virtual Domain Controller is giving a negative ping results. This DC was working fine and it was new installation Windows server 2003 Domain Read More
posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:18 PM by Fawzi | 1 Comments
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XenServer: Why?

There have been lots discussions lately about what’s happening around Citrix XenServer. Perhaps too many. For what it is worth, I was one of the people discussing this on the net (Twitter, Blogs etc) with some other folks. I originally drafted a blog Read More
posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:07 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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VMM Tricks: Remove failed jobs from VMM console

VMM maintains job history for the past 90 days. If you want to remove them manually, we need take the following steps to update directly in SQL DB. These steps are valid when you are using SQL Express for VMM DB. 1. Download SQL Management Studio Read More
posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:54 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Citrix announces Project “Open Door” for customers who want to switch from VMware to XenServer or Microsoft Hyper-V

In July VMware attempted to win those Virtual Iron customers left in the cold by Oracle with an aggressive discount program. Now it seems that VMware has to defend against a similar move from Citrix, which launches today the Open Door program. The Read More
posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:53 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Open Door program, Simple rules to move

20 Percent of Fortune 500 Now Report Using Citrix XenServer as Company Offers Additional Tools to Help Customers Switch BOSTON » 10/14/2009 » Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS) today announced a new program called Project “Open Door” that offers Read More
posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:53 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Hyper-V Virtual Machines could not intialize

This is one of the problems that you may face, When you start the VMs after you rename the host or join the domain you can’t start the VMs on taht host and face a problem that (Could not find a usable certificate) For hyper-V with windows 2008 R2 Read More
posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:50 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Virtual PC Guy’s: Is it a Scalability Issue to run Drivers in the Hyper-V Parent Partition? (Answer: No)

Source I am sitting in the VMworld session “TA3880 – Head-To-Head Comparison: VMware vSphere and ESX vs. Hyper-V and XenServer”.  It is interesting to listen to VMware’s perspective on this. One point that they have raised – which I have heard Read More
posted Friday, October 16, 2009 6:23 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments