At IT Business Awards in Stockholm today I got selected as the IT-Consultant of the year in Sweden. The award is given by IT24 and the paper IT.Branschen, both published by IDG.
Having worked in this business for over 12 years now, it’s nice to see that someone recognizes not only me but all the people nominated.… Read the rest
Having read a lot lately about the cloud OS, Azure (great video here), Chromium and the rest that’s “in the cloud” I decided to actually test two of the alternatives. For those of you that know me I’m a Microsoft-geek, so I went outside my circles and tested Chromium and JoliCloud.… Read the rest
I recevied an email the other day that made me really happy, it’s from Phil (whose company I won’t disclose).
“THANK YOU for pulling together information on iSCSI target software for Windows… much appreciated.
I was looking to do an iSCSI SAN as a backend for an application and had recently priced out Dell’s Equallogic SAN and am quoted near $50,000 US for 16 TB drives.… Read the rest
How about that for a title about power management? Personally I came across this utility when doing research for a tour. I used it to enable core parking in Windows Server 2008 R2 but couldn’t then figure out that loooong string.… Read the rest
At each event I promise to make the presentations available on the internet. Usually I seem to forget this until someone emails me and wonder what happened with the pptx. Nothing unusual about this time either, except that the guy that emailed me wondered about my presentations from three (3!) sessions.… Read the rest
Boy, that’s a long title. Here’s a video of the demo I did at TechEd Berlin. I’m creating a cluster on Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 with Live Migration, in about 15 minutes. A short rundown of the steps included:
Pre-reqs:
One DC
Shared storage
Two machines with Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Steps:
Join all machines to domain
Install Failover Clustering role on Hyper-V Server-machines
Configure Hyper-V networks on both (same name)
Connect disks to both servers (iscsicpl)
With Failover Cluster Manager, create a cluster with both machines
Enable CSV
Create a machine
Done!… Read the rest
Packed, checked out, came home and had a great weekend with the family. The last days of TechEd 2009 in Berlin were just as great as the first ones. The days were spent in the TLC-area answering clustering questions. This year we had a lot of questions on CSV and geo-clustering, live migration over geo-clusters seemed to be of great interest also.… Read the rest
To quote Ice Cube and the Nike commercial.
I got the news today that I’ve been chosen as one of the three finalists as IT-consultant of the year by IT24 in Sweden.
Yesterday we spent the night at the Springboard party here in Berlin.… Read the rest
Spent the weekend in Berlin as we arrived Saturday around lunch. We’ve done some sightseeing and managed to see Berlins museum of contemporary art (http://worldvisitguide.com/musee/M0289.html) on Saturday afternoon. Sunday we went to the Mauer Museum (http://www.mauer-museum.com) which was very interesting.… Read the rest
When the Core-alternative of Windows Server was introduced in 2008, not a lot of people saw the greatness. A few tried it once, some tried it twice and others got hooked! Fellow administrators often complain that it’s so hard to administer the roles and features of it.… Read the rest