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Exchange 2007 on a VM, and the case of the mysterious Isapi deadlock detected error.
Are you running Exchange 2007 on a VM? Are you experiencing odd warning events in the event log that look something like this? Event Type: Warning Event Source: W3SVC-WP Event Category: None Event ID: 2262 Date: Time: 12:28:18 PM User: N/A Computer: [yourserver] Description: ISAPI ‘c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll’ reported itself as unhealthy for the following…
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Comparing Nehalem and Harpertown running vSphere in a production environment
The good press that Intel’s Nehalem chip and underlying architecture has been receiving lately gave me pretty good reason to be excited for the arrival of two Dell M610 blades based on the Nehalem chipset. I really wanted to know how they were going to stack up against my Dell M600’s (running Harpertown chips). …
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Resource allocation for Virtual Machines
Ever since I started transitioning our production systems to my ESX cluster, I’ve been fascinated how visible resource utilization has become. Or to put it another way, how blind I was before. I’ve also been interested to hear about the natural tendency of many Administrator’s to over allocate resources to their VM’s. Why does it…
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Exchange 2007… Better late than never
Count me in as one of the many Administrators that finally got around to moving from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. Yes, it’s almost 2010, and probably just a few months away from the release of Exchange 2010. I never disagreed with Microsoft’s decision to release Exchange 2007 as a 64 bit only application. …
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Virtualization. Making it happen
It’s difficult to put into words how exciting, and how overwhelming the idea of moving to a virtualized infrastructure was for me. In 12 months, I went from investigating solutions, to presenting our options to our senior management, onto the procurement process, followed by the design and implementation of the systems. And finally, making…