January 4th, 2010 | 
Author: Microsoft has loosened the usage rights (SPUR) around Windows Web Server 2008 R2. This is the low cost server license available from Microsoft. In the past you were limited on what could run on this server to only include web servers (HTTP) no database servers, no DNS services, nothing. This meant you needed to opt for the more expensive licenses and many customers would opt against splitting these services out to independant servers for this reason.
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I have a new Dell M4400 laptop that I just got up and running with Windows 7 and thought “WOW! It would be great to boot this thing as Hyper-V server and just run the demos on there … but I have everything installed already!” What to do? The solution turns out to be incredibly simple: Dual boot between Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 using boot from VHD. At the end of the day the only drawbacks seem to be that I’ll lose the ability to hibernate when I’m booted off of VHD and I’ll see about a 3% overhead in disk performance so I took the plunge, I’m pretty pleased with it so I thought I’d share what it took to get up and running and my list of reference articles/sites.
Tags: 3 Blog posts to say “Hey I’m running on my site load balanced using ARR”. This is the third and hopefully last blog post for tonight. I posted two other posts tonight:
- Discusses the first stage of Applied Innovations Cloud Initiative.
- Discusses ARR & Load balancing.
I broke this post up into a series of posts. The first post (just published) gives an overview of ARR in IIS7 and why it’s cool. This post is going to talk about the first stage of cloud computing we’ve deployed at Applied Innovations and the benefit’s of it such that you could use it today to control your own hosted IT Infrastructure costs.
