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Comment on How to Move Microsoft WSUS services to another server by Brian Reichert

Brian Reichert — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:12:16 +0000

Why do you do an incremental backup instead of a full of the content directory?

Comment on Install SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP1 & Component Integration for Linux on Hyper-V by thomas

thomas — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:40:04 +0000

fedora 8 on hyper-v is significantly easier. Set the nic to legacy adapter, Load disk (or iso) and proceed as normal. … simple

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Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:42:22 +0000

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Comment on Time Synchronization & NTP on ESX Server by mrvirtualization

mrvirtualization — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:59:51 +0000

Hi mysza78,

I am not sure what the time zone for US East Coast in VMware ESX, but I can help you find it out by following the below instructions.

Find the desired time zone under the directory /usr/share/zoneinfo for example for US/Pacific you will find the file to be /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific for that you will use ZONE=”US/Pacific” as you see its nothing more than the path to the time file in the ESX server. If you follow these steps for your desired zone you should be in the right direction.

Enjoy,
mrvirtualization

Comment on Time Synchronization & NTP on ESX Server by mrvirtualization

mrvirtualization — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:43:05 +0000

Hi Suja,

I would recommend two things:

1- Make sure that you have an updated version of VMware tools installed on these Redhat virtual machines.
2- Ensure you don’t have any other type of NTP/time synchronization enabled by RedHat in addition to the VMware tool synchronization. I am pretty sure Redhat has some method of time synchronization enabled in it & you might need to disable that.

Enjoy,
mrvirtualization

Comment on Time Synchronization & NTP on ESX Server by suja

suja — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:28:39 +0000

Hi, I have configured on the same way, but there is problem with the time in Virtual machines.
I have Virtual machines running RHEL 5, I have synchronized the time through vmware-toolbox , It get synchronize at the same moment but after 2,3 days the time becomes faster. Again I have to run vmware-toolbox to check the options but the in vmware tool properties Time Synchronization between Virtual Machines and ESX Server is always checked in. Also I checked from the ESX Server, Tools.synctime=True . ESX has correct time, It synchronized with NTP Server.
When I check out and Check in the same flag ( Time Synchronization between the virtual machine and ESX Server) from VMware Tool properties, It gets synchronized but again after few days the time becomes faster than ESX Server.

Comment on Time Synchronization & NTP on ESX Server by mysza78

mysza78 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:31:07 +0000

Do you know what would be the time zone for US East Coast. I tried putting ZONE=”America/New_York” but I am still showing CA time :((

Comment on Embarrassing Limitations for Windows 2008 Server Core by themsblogger

themsblogger — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:06:15 +0000

Hi Rob,

I am sorry for not mentioning that into the article, but these quotes were from a Microsoft Windows 2008 Seminar. The speaker answered clearly with the quotes above when was hit about the above questions by one of the attendees. Furthermore, the statements seems to be logically correct and hold true when ever I tried it in our Lab. I am positive the second one will never be fixed as no way they can upgrade a GUI OS to a non GUI one in Windows as they are totally mixed together in earlier Windows versions, but they have to fix the first one sometime if they desire people to use the core installation to run a webserver, which can be a great use for the server core.

Thanks for your comment, and feel free to post later your finding.

ThemsBlogger

Comment on Embarrassing Limitations for Windows 2008 Server Core by Rob M

Rob M — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:45:29 +0000

Quotes from where? You may be correct, but reading this article just made me think that I need to do some research where I can get some actual references that can be verified. From this article, I have to assume that these are all interpretations by the author rather than verified facts (although they are stated as if they were facts).

Comment on How to Move Microsoft WSUS services to another server by Alen

Alen — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:32:58 +0000

Hi Virtualization Guru,
Thanks for your reply, it sounds great and I will follow these steps. Thanks again for this blog and taking the time to help others!