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Unsupported Cluster Configuration

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 Posted in Beta, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Server 2008 | No Comments »

Maybe Michael should go away more often.  I seem to get a lot more done when he's out. Today, I added the third node to the Hyper-V R2 cluster we're currently testing.  When I did, VMM freaked out and all of ...

The subsystem needed…

Monday, April 27th, 2009 Posted in Beta, Microsoft, Server 2008 | Comments Off

So, I'm bee-bopping along setting up a new Server 2008 R2 virtual host, when I get to our SAN software's install.  When I tried to run the executable, the following error was thrown: The subsystem needed to support the image type ...

Server Core Patches

Monday, April 20th, 2009 Posted in Microsoft, Server 2008 | No Comments »

Need to see what patches/hotfixes are installed on Server Core?  There's a command for that: WMIC QFE You can also send this to a text file for easier viewing: WMIC QFE > [FILENAME].txt

2008 R2 High Availability

Thursday, April 9th, 2009 Posted in Hyper-V, Microsoft, Server 2008 | 2 Comments »

Michael and I are probably the only two people in the world that would find this even remotely amusing, but... We're testing 2008 R2's Failover Clustering.  In particular, we're going to test Hyper-V and highly available machines.  So, in Michael's infinite ...

Installation Results

Monday, April 6th, 2009 Posted in Microsoft, Server 2008 | No Comments »

When you run the script mentioned here (to updated a Server Core 2008 install), you'll see a part of the output called "Installation Results."  In the infinite wisdom of Microsoft, they don't seem to feel the need to plainly document ...