Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Well, what do ya know?  Apparently, Microsoft loves, my love for SharePoint (and all those other related things I do – SharePoint, Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, IIS, ASP.NET – you know, all those things that SharePoint works with – I think I was ‘built’ to be a SharePoint Guy).     I was awarded with …

BackupExec 12.5 does support agents for backing up ESXi, the kicker is you need to have additional software from VMware in order for the agent to work. As things sit today, you use agents to backup Windows regardless of whether or not the Windows in question is on physical or virtual hardware.  In the case …

Holy Cow. Lame (and probably in SBS and EBS 2008 I bet).   Hibernate is on by default in Windows Server 2008 and creates a hiberfil.sys file, the size of your pagefile/RAM, on the system drive (usually C:).  This meant tonight, I discovered our Exchange Server had 6GB of wasted space (seriously, when would we …

  Beer Me! Ok, I’ve been told I’ve helped a number of people, over the years, with my postings (in newsgroups and such) and my blog (blog.brainlitter.com). And people always tell me oh, I owe you a beer”, or “if you were nearby, I’d drop you a six pack” or “if you are ever in …

Ok, none of this surprised me but it was interesting to discover finally (I always wondered what I’d do if I had a corrupted VM and last night until 4am I got to find out)… So, our old system was on VMware Server v1.0.6. It worked okay, sucked in regards to performance though and didn’t …

  Ok, so we just went through an exercise of moving off of VMWare Server 1.0.6 and onto VMware ESXi. Some pain during this exercise but mostly due to a corrupted VMDK (by the way, chkdsk /R, yes R”, not /F, did the trick on that one). However, once the VMDK was cleaned up and …

Ok, none of this surprised me but it was interesting to discover finally (I always wondered what I’d do if I had a corrupted VM and last night until 4am I got to find out)… So, our old system was on VMware Server v1.0.6. It worked okay, sucked in regards to performance though and didn’t …

Ok, so we just went through an exercise of moving off of VMWare Server 1.0.6 and onto VMware ESXi. Some pain during this exercise but mostly due to a corrupted VMDK (by the way, chkdsk /R, yes R”, not /F, did the trick on that one). However, once the VMDK was cleaned up and successfully …

Ran into some confusion today and found this fella’s blog. Very useful indeed. http://vmetc.com/2008/08/10/whats-the-difference-between-free-esxi-and-licensed-esxi And this ESX vs ESXi comparison:

Thanks to Dave Webb for digging this up for me. I’m posting it, as I end up having to refer to it on occasion… Microsoft allows you to use the same VM licensing with any VM platform, even bare metal VM platforms like ESX. The same licensing that applies to the MS VM’s applies to …