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Thank you to all delegates choosing to attend DTL222 on Monday, it was a real pleasure to have such a big room filled for my first presentation of TechEd Africa 2010! And a special thanks to Cameron Skinner for the original content and Jennifer Marsman for a very thorough write-up of Cameron’s tour – it […]
July 25, 2010
Comments Off on SSD for Hyper-V Build Lab
Turns out Computer Plaza here in Dubai is not as well stocked as this geek would like: two visits and still not able to find a RAID card with an on-board cache. And the RAID cards they do have I can’t find online, so no telling whether they would work on Windows Server 2008 R2, […]
July 13, 2010
Comments Off on USB3, eSATA and old CPUs
Last night I took the plunge: finally purchased a machine for use as a virtual machine host and file server at home. What pushed me over the edge? Windows Storage Server 2008: iSCSI Software Target aside, the file deduplication service will save me tons of space with all the duplicate importing of photos I manage […]
July 8, 2010
This week we discovered our lab hardware may not have enough storage space available for an upcoming project. As a temporary solution, the obvious idea of an external drive came up. And died almost immediately when I was told I cannot connect an external USB disk to an installation of VMWare ESX. I have no […]
June 30, 2010
Comments Off on Long winding road to Lab Management
I got distracted, so now wrapping the Hyper-V WMI API gets a lot more attention than the actual building of VMs. Latest update is on CodePlex: just released an alpha of System.Management.HyperV.dll.
June 27, 2010
Comments Off on TMandou Effect
TMandou linked to my blog! Very intimidating that, so instead of leaving my weekend coding overdose as the last post, here is some macro lens goodness. Enjoy!
June 27, 2010
Comments Off on Raw Lab Management
If you don’t have System Center Virtual Machine Manager, where to start? PowerShell! If you want to do the basics. But I didn’t have the patience to learn as much PowerShell as I needed to, but I did have the patience to learn a lot of WMI… One weekend later, here is my C# library […]
June 5, 2010
The laptop I’m using will only go so far, even with external disks and 8GB RAM. YMMV, but for my purposes I need a second machine. This makes planning network configuration a lot more complicated: Host 1: DC, SCVMM w Library, WSUS, SQL, SharePoint, TFS, Build Controller A, Build Agent A1, Test Controller A, … […]
June 4, 2010
Lab Management relies heavily on System Center Virtual Machine Manager so a lot of my posts will be about enabling automation for building virtual machines. I don’t know why I like automation, but I know automation is a great the only way to get Repeatability: Anytime I have to follow written instructions repeatedly, I will […]
Programming & Photography in Dubai 
November 2, 2010
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