Posts tagged Microsoft
Virtualization and you – the business user
Feb 16th
Why virtualize? Better yet, why use virtualized server services for your business?
I’ll try to answer that question in this blog post, though from a service provider point of view, but I’ll try to remove my bias where feasible.
Summary: For many business needs, a virtualized server on a hosting providers infrastucture is very cost effective, very secure, and highly reliable. When those 3 items are combined, the argument to use separate, physical servers becomes moot. Virtualized server services are not for everyone, nor for ever task at hand, but for many, it is the more right solution.
Now that the summary is done, you can can read on for details as to why I think the above statements are true or just head on over to ipHouse and talk to sales and see what we can do for you, or both.
First, virtualization has a few meanings, but for this context, I am talking about the concept of taking a physical server (call it a host) and carving it into many virtual systems (call them guests) running concurrently. Here’s a picture from using VMware atoms to help visualize what I am getting at:
VM -> Host visualization
This allows the ability to spread the cost of a fast and expensive physical server amongst multiple guest systems.
Windows Clustering of SQL Server 2005
Aug 1st
Oh my!
MSCS is not hard to set up and there are many available walk throughs on the Internet.
But now install SQL Server 2005 in failover mode.
Step back a sec, what is failover mode you ask?
It is a smallish cluster of 2 nodes, one active and one standby. This allows a decent amount of redundancy for your SQL server. It matches up with the KISS principle.
So you want to install SQL Server 2005 (and I will now reference it going forward as SQL2K5), so you log into your nodes to get it installed, insert the DVD, and start the walk through.
FAIL
Huh? What is this reference to ‘Task Scheduler’ and the inability to run the remote install?
And now the frustration starts…
