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Archive for the ‘Server Virtualization’ Category

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.

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Like any die-hard computer geek/junkie, when Vista was first released I moved to a new desktop running Vista. The downside to going to a new desktop is that same old problem “what do I do about my old desktop? I don’t want to (or I can’t) re-install all my programs, documents, etc?”. So for the past year+ I’ve been running two desktops, my current desktop and my legacy desktop and using terminal services to access my legacy desktop.  Over time, I’ve found myself accessing it less and less as I’ve managed to migrate most of the important bits over but I still don’t want completely retire it, so what do I do?  As a huge advocate of virtualization, it was time to virtualize my old desktop. 

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A new version of the Linux Additions for Virtual Server is now available from the Microsoft Download Center via the following webpage:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/virtualserver/downloads/linuxguestsupport.mspx

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Here’s Jess’s top 10 tips and tricks to help optimize your Windows VPS server running on Virtuozzo. 

1. Disable Indexing Service. 
   Unless you’re using the FrontPage search bot you generally don’t need indexing service running and you should disable it.
2. Defrag your drives. 
   Disk I/O is king, especially in a VPS and you should be regularly defragging your drives in your VPS just as you would in a physical server.
3. Don’t run antivirus in the VPS. 
   Antivirus should always be run from the host node and on our servers it is. We use either AVG or McAfee on our hardware nodes.  This doesn’t mean you have to accept virus infected emails. Configure your mail client to allow a suitable delay in email delivery (I recommend 60 seconds if you can, otherwise 30 should be sufficient) and the hostnode antivirus will take care of the rest. 

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I recently posted a blog entry about my ‘informal’ apples to oranges comparison of the different virtualization platforms available for windows. Apparently I didn’t spell it out clear enough that things were not on a level playing field.  Well, guys I did it. I went and pissed off Bob. Sorry Bob.

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