The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Category: Virtualization

  • Dealing with a corrupted self extraction file…

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    Recently I was confronted with a SharePoint 2007 problem (yes, they do exist) that caused me to dig deep in my bag of tricks to pull out information regarding a KB article that I had used in the past to solve the exact same AD FS / SharePoint integration issue. So off I went to…

  • What if Microsoft released Virtual PC x64?

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    Have you ever wondered why Microsoft has yet to release a 64 bit version of Virtual PC? I suppose it’s a question that most of us ask ourselves when we’re setting up an environment to develop code and we’re not too keen on paving our hefty notebooks to run Windows Server 2008 x64 with HyperV…

  • First Thoughts – Rackspace Cloud Windows Beta

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    Blazing fast. There you have it folks, those are my first thoughts with regard to the Rackspace Cloud Windows Beta. Not only is the service fanatical in terms of the Rackers online ready to help out should you run into problems or happen to have a question pertaining to the different servers around the clock,…

  • VMWare Fusion 3.0 – Coming Soon

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    Similar to several other applications, with the introduction of Snow Leopard (Mac OSX 10.6) it’s all about optimization of processor cycles using the 64 bit architecture of the underlying Darwin platform. With this upgrade it several software vendors are working expeditiously to release upgraded applications that better leverage memory and the platform. For virtualization on…

  • Amazon Web Services Management Console

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    Amazon has released their Web Services Management console, eliminating the need for plugins and third party products that are one off solutions for managing Amazon Web Services resources.  Primarily, EC2 has been simplified for end users.  No longer are novice users forced to use something like the Elasticfox plugin for Mozilla Firefox for EC2.  The…

  • EC2 Tips for Windows users…

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    So I won’t claim to be an MCSE or someone that develops custom driver code when for some reason a newly installed components unsigned driver apparently doesn’t work and without it I won’t be able to experience true gigabit Ethernet throughput… but I do know a thing or two about scripting and API hacking. Tip…

  • More impressions on EC2

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    So what more could I ask for than to continue to experiment with the Windows virtual machines available from Amazon Web Services elastic computer cloud? I could ask for more flexibility and ease of use… though I suppose it’s more just getting used to the way that Elasticfox works and how to connect machines together…

  • Amazon EC2 Dev Environment

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    So I figured that I would get my hands dirty with the AWS’s EC2 Windows servers for my development environment for SharePoint.  Can I just say that I’m blown away by the bandwidth that is available to these servers? Running a quick speed test from SpeakEasy.net I received a result back of 91458 kbps download…

  • Not quite Coke Zero…

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    Have you ever looked for something to zero out all of the frivolous extra space that Windows is “holding” for later use?  Then look no further friends, introducing SysInternals friendly and free “SDelete”. Get your copy now, quick and easy… helps to shrink down those EC2 Windows images prior to bundling too. 🙂 Now Playing:…

  • VMWare ESX 3.5i – Lenovo T61

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    BLUF – Attempted to load VMWare ESX 3.5i on a Lenovo T61. Failed to find device to write to in either AHCI or SATA Compatibility modes when attempting to use VMWare ESX Thin Installer. So you’re not familiar with “BLUF”? Bottom Line Up Front… Nonetheless, decided to attempt to pop in a spare 100 GB…