I spent last week in Orlando, Florida, working at the Microsoft booth in the Storage Networking World. I delivered one of the demos there and my demo included the following technologies: Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 iSCSI Software Target Windows Server 2008 Core Install Windows Server 2008 iSCSI Initiator Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Windows Server 2008…
Year: 2008
SNIA Tutorials cover a wealth of Storage knowledge (SNW Spring 2008 Update)
I’m always amazed by the vast amount of knowledge being posted online for free download. If you are an IT Professional who deals with Storage (or if you manage one of them), check out the high-quality tutorials just posted online by the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA). These peer-reviewed, vendor-neutral tutorials, offered by the SNIA Education…
SNW Demo: Windows Server 2008 Core, Hyper-V and Failover Clustering
I will be working at the Microsoft booth in the Storage Networking World next week in Orlando, Florida. I will deliver one of the demos there and my demo includes the following technologies: Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 iSCSI Software Target Windows Server 2008 Core Install Windows Server 2008 iSCSI Initiator Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Windows…
SQL Server 2008 and Unstructured Data
SQL Server 2008 introduces two new options to store unstructured data, in addition to the current BLOB support we have in SQL Server 2005. IMAGE Back in SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 7 days, we used the IMAGE data type to store binary large objects (a.k.a. BLOBs). Large, by the way, is defined as…
Complete reference of all STSADM operations (with parameters) in MOSS 2007 SP1
This is an update to my complete reference of all STSADM operations in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, now including the changes in Service Pack 1. I repeated what I did for MOSS 2007 in MOSS 2007 SP1, using a little scripting to get the list of all commands for STSADM, including the options and parameters…
SNIA Tutorials cover a wealth of Storage knowledge
This blog post has been updated. Check the latest version at http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/04/11/snia-tutorials-cover-a-wealth-of-storage-knowledge-snw-spring-2008-update.aspx —- I’m always amazed by the vast amount of knowledge being posted online for free download. For those in the Storage business, check out the high-quality tutorials offered by the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA). These peer-reviewed, vendor-neutral tutorials, offered by the SNIA…
More on Storage Options for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
As I mentioned in a previous blog post, you can expose storage to a Hyper-V guest in many different ways. After getting some feedback to that initial post, there are two frequent comments that I wanted to address. You can boot a Hyper-V guest from an iSCSI LUN I wanted to highlight that you can…
Restart the VDS service after installing a VDS Provider
In Windows Server 2003 (RTM, SP1, R2, SP2) and Windows Server 2008, you might run into an issue while trying to install a new VDS Hardware Provider. If you simply install the new VDS provider and immediately run DISKRAID.EXE, you will get the message telling you that: “DiskRAID was unable to find any VDS hardware…
Storage options for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008’s Hyper-V has been in public beta for a while now and lots of people have been experimenting with it. One aspect that I am focusing on is storage for those virtualized environments and more specifically the options related to SAN storage. Virtualization terminology Before we start, I wanted to define some terms…
Installing Hyper-V on my HP notebook
I finally took the time to install Windows Server 2008 and the Hyper-V beta on one of my two notebooks.One important step was to confirm that it would support the required CPU technologies.As you probably know, Hyper-V requires a 64-bit (x64) CPU with hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT or AMD-V). First, I needed to confirm exactly…