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Re: [TUTORIAL] Windows 2008 testing environment using Vmware Player part 3

Adam — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 18:14:51 -0000

There are three ways to get around this annoying problem. You can either download the offline installer for .NET, add an additional adapter to the SQL box and connect it to a bridged adapter JUST for the download (DNS may go weird with the two adapters for the duration). My preferred option would be deploy another box to use as a router. One VM, low spec, two adapters: one connected to the Host Only network and the other to the Bridged adapter either configure it as a router or use it to download the offline installer for use on the SQL box.

Re: [TUTORIAL] Windows 2008 testing environment using Vmware Player part 3

Kiran — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:42:26 -0000

I had to sysprep them, yeah.

I'm currently stuck with SQL Server installation though. For it to install, it need connection to Internet for .Net framework and other requirements. Host only is not providing any internet to any of the VMs. I'm using VMWare Fusion 8 btw. I tried adding another network adapter (bridge), Internet came through but DNS changed. What would you suggest about Internet coming through temporarily for the VMs till I'm done installing certain software.

Re: [TUTORIAL] Windows 2008 testing environment using Vmware Player part 3

Adam — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 22:19:34 -0000

Two things that I can think of, make sure the network is configured the same ie. all using the host only network. Failing that, are all the machines sysprepped and have unique SIDs?
We still have, in 2008, a heavy reliance on service accounts. Whether it is machine or user service accounts and I would love to look at that in more detail too.

Re: [TUTORIAL] Windows 2008 testing environment using Vmware Player part 3

Kiran — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:01:38 -0000

I have followed your instructions, very helpful in setting up DC. I now started adding more computers to DC. Your Template server should have been created once VMWare tools were installed? Saves some time.

I now started using srv01 as template and renaming computer name, assigning static IP and adding computer in DC manually.

I cannot ping SRV02 from SRV01? Is that the default behavior?

I am trying to demonstrate and fix Kerberos double hop issues. Client -> Srv01 -> DB1 -> DB2. Probably service accounts can be another topic for you?

Re: [TUTORIAL] Windows 2008 testing environment using Vmware Player part 1

Adam — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 00:11:49 -0000

Thanks, Kiran. I am in the process of updating these tutorials to Windows 2012. I will keep your comments on mind.

Re: [TUTORIAL] Windows 2008 testing environment using Vmware Player part 1

Kiran — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 22:14:23 -0000

Great writeup. Architecture diagram would help. Visuals are a quick way to understand how or what we are accomplishing. I am trying to use Fusion 8 on a Mac to troubleshoot Kerberos - so setting up a lab environment with AD.

Re: The state of virtualisation and what’s in store

Adam — Thu, 21 May 2015 02:09:18 -0000

Yeah. The "move" was a bit overhyped. As I said, in my observations, there are a lot more people on VMware training and Hyper-V at the moment than Xen (or at least at DDLS there are).
Docker's emergence as the "next big thing" is partly contributable to the news that Windows Server 2016 is going compartment mad ... eventually.
I'm still waiting to get my hands on more concrete details.
Much like the hypervisor (regardless of vendor) there is a performance hit that is paid for in additional redundency ie. recoverability and load balancing. Native will always be faster than having anything inbetween. It looks like marketing are getting their hits in early during the Compartment Wars.

Re: The state of virtualisation and what’s in store

flortballz — Wed, 20 May 2015 21:13:28 -0000

Wait, typo? You say Paypal moved, but the context was VMware, not Xen...Anyway, we shall agree to disagree -- a lot of them were on Xen, and still are, and some are moving to Openstack (which in many ways, isn't a similiar thing anyway).

Docker is nothing new. It might be to the Microsoft space, but we've been using it for a while now in the Unix space ;) It won't just take off now that MS is eyeballing it -- it already has. I still have my reservations; mainly that it just works around a bigger issue of bad upgrade incompatibilities within languages. I'm also always wary of "this amazing magical thing" in the context of performance.

Interestingly, they claim "it enjoys the resource isolation and allocation benefits of VMs but is much more portable and efficient" (https://www.docker.com/what... as opposed to a VM... yeah, I can't see how that's possible. Traditionally, anything "native" is going to be faster than having some "engine" inbetween.

Re: The state of virtualisation and what’s in store

Adam — Sat, 09 May 2015 06:44:06 -0000

Good to hear that I provoked a response.
I have to go on my observations and recognise Xen as not an enterprise solution. I know it's in the market, but nowhere near the other two. While some of the big guys are running Zen as above, Paypal has recently moved FROM VMware to Openstack. The whole Docker phenomenon is going to be the future. Running applications compartmentalised, regardless of the underlying platform, will become the next big thing. Once vendors like Microsoft weigh in, you know it's not going anywhere soon.
Don't get me started on the cloud, I think we're on the same page. However, we face (even in the modern age) a tyranny of geography. Examples are connectivity between Melbourne and Perth where businesses are charged like wounded bulls for bandwidth.

Re: The state of virtualisation and what’s in store

flortballz — Fri, 08 May 2015 23:15:13 -0000

So, I thought I'd chime in here ;)

Firstly, I think a glaring omission here is Xen (and XenServer). I've recently started playing with it again, and I'm in love. Even have it up and running on a older Dell PC across the road from you -- where of course, ESXi would sook and whinge about any number of apparent virtualisation "incompatibilities". I'm planning to move my main desktop PC at home over to it, to get back to the wonderfulness of Xorg/Linux as a desktop, with a tiny domU off to the side for the evil necessity of running a few Microsoft apps.

Keep in mind too that a fair few cloud providers use Xen too (Amazon, Google, Rackspace, etc). Coupled with puppet, docker, et al; what more could one want?

On the topic of "cloud" (I term I loathe more and more every day), remember too that the key issues, at least in Australia, aren't just data sovereignty (a huge topic for me specifically), but also the speed of light. Latency to overseas cloud providers is just not fixable. It's annoying. Stoopid Einstein. And because of our higher costs, we pay considerably more for cloud here.

Two other big issues for us is the cost of comms, and connectivity *to* cloud. We still pay insanely high fees for WAN here, and we have two choices of connectivity to any cloud -- over the Internet, or a private wire. Lets not even get started on the quality of Internet in Australia... so if you go down the private wire route, up go the costs again, and you've then just lost another good reason to move to the cloud in the first place.

Over the Internet implies VPN of course, and in my experience, people still don't have a clue about IPsec, and the vendors love to make it fiddly and only "mostly" interop, so you'll put their box on each end.

I lose faith more and more on a daily basis with VMware products. The mess that is "flex client, not flex client", a stupidly slow web version using Flash (really?!), the bugginess of Orchestrator... hell, we still have no nice way to even remove a LUN, fighting APD issues and having to use PowerCLI! They bought Zimbra for a while, and that had an awesome HTML5 interface that looked quite similar to what the Flash client tried to achieve; why didn't they just use that? Was that not the point of buying it, and then dumping it a year later?

About the only thing they've done right lately in my mind is FINALLY a love to an appliance, and PostgresQL, instead of more MS in the mix. This means moving to 5.5 of course, and shock! VMware provide no official way to migrate from non-appliance; the community once again has to hack together PowerCLI to make it happen. All this enterprise cuteness is great, unless you want to move your cheese.

I can't speak for the MS product space here. Never touched, and doubt I ever will. I'm completely ok with that.

Ok, rant over.

fish (blog.lucid.net.au)

Re: [TUTORIAL] Windows 2008 testing environment using Vmware Player part 3

Adam — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 17:03:11 -0000

It's a bit old, but thanks! I really love writing these detailed tutorials and plan to get back to it soon! Thanks for reading!

Re: [TUTORIAL] Windows 2008 testing environment using Vmware Player part 3

Simon Doubt — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 14:43:40 -0000

This was great - very helpful. Thank you very much!

Re: Distributed File Server (DFS) Reporting

News24 — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 14:34:26 -0000

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Re: [TUTORIAL] Windows 2008 testing environment using Vmware Player part 3

effida — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:02:25 -0000

Hi adam,thank you for your awesome tutorials..I am glad if you can put tutorials how to joining computers to a domain in VMware enviroments. It's means for example I install Windows X in VM Ware and I already have Windows Server 2008 as my server and I want to joining Windows XP to the server.

Re: Vmware Original VM vs Compact Template vs OVF

Adam — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:25:03 -0000

The info is a bit old; it's good to see that someone is keeping up to date though!

Re: Vmware Original VM vs Compact Template vs OVF

Techgane — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:37:22 -0000

Nice article about vmware templates with difference, very good info for me. Am also written a article about How to create OVF Template

Re: Distributed File Server (DFS) Reporting

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Re: Distributed File Server (DFS) Reporting

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Re: Vmware View 4.5 – Overview

Adam — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:21:09 -0000

The good thing about View (and the underlying Vmware deployment) is that I can make full use of the scalability of the solution. This also includes the storage. There have been definite performance improvements in the storage area regarding solid state storage although the cost can still be prohibitive for smaller deployments.

Re: Vmware View 4.5 – Overview

Mike Myer — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:20:21 -0000

Although additional ESX hosts will be required if VMware View was utilized across the organisation the SAN disks and configuration is designed to support a full VMware View environment.

Re: Vmware View 4.5 – Overview

Amber Crumer — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:13:25 -0000

Great, thanks Chris.

Re: [TUTORIAL] WSUS without a domain

Adam — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:17:56 -0000

Steven,

In an enterprise, WSUS is one of those utilities that Microsoft has got exactly right.

However, in a smaller environment, specifically a Workgroup without a domain, I think that WSUS still has a real part to play in patch management!

Thanks for reading,
Adam

Re: [TUTORIAL] WSUS without a domain

Steven — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:59:13 -0000

This is a pretty good overview of the WSUS solution. I found it valuable as I was doing my research for some videos on the subject:

http://winsrvtuts.com/categ...

Re: Distributed File Server (DFS) Reporting

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