Planning on installing Exchange 2007 SP1 on Windows Server 2008? It's not as easy as you would expect. Being one of the best Microsoft products, I wasn't impressed by the installation. You'll need to follow these steps:
http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/migration-deployment/installing-exchange-2007-windows-server-2008.html
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/556055
Showing posts with label hyper-v. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hyper-v. Show all posts
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Hyper-V Motherboards
Welcome to my Hyper-V blog! I am a consultant in the bay area specializing in Microsoft infrastructure technologies. My focus includes SharePoint, hardware and software virtualization, and remote access (Terminal Services, Citrix, SSL VPN).
Now that Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V is ready, I thought I would share some tips, tricks, and best practices. For my first entry, I am going to discuss lab quality hardware.
With shrinking budgets and economic downturns, many companies do not want to purchase high end Dell or HP servers for a virtualization lab. Hyper-V requires Windows Server 2008 x64, an Intel VT or AMD-V processor, and compatible drivers. If you are looking to purchase lab hardware, you'll need to start with a motherboard.
Hyper-V supported motherboards:
Asus P5BV-E (WHQL, has 2008 Drivers, features 2 NICS!)
Asus M2A-VM (using Vista x64 Drivers, only one NIC)
If you would like to add to the list, please email me with the name, drivers, and CPU you have used. Our lab is running an Asus M2A-VM, AMD 9850, and 8GB of RAM. Consider running a RAID 5 array as disk I/O tends to be the bottleneck for Hyper-V.
Jim
Now that Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V is ready, I thought I would share some tips, tricks, and best practices. For my first entry, I am going to discuss lab quality hardware.
With shrinking budgets and economic downturns, many companies do not want to purchase high end Dell or HP servers for a virtualization lab. Hyper-V requires Windows Server 2008 x64, an Intel VT or AMD-V processor, and compatible drivers. If you are looking to purchase lab hardware, you'll need to start with a motherboard.
Hyper-V supported motherboards:
Asus P5BV-E (WHQL, has 2008 Drivers, features 2 NICS!)
Asus M2A-VM (using Vista x64 Drivers, only one NIC)
If you would like to add to the list, please email me with the name, drivers, and CPU you have used. Our lab is running an Asus M2A-VM, AMD 9850, and 8GB of RAM. Consider running a RAID 5 array as disk I/O tends to be the bottleneck for Hyper-V.
Jim
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