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How to setup XP Mode on Windows 7
Posted by George Khalil in Virtualisation, Windows 7 on Oct 27th, 2009 | 0 Comments
Windows 7 was just recently released to the General Public and has been in the hands of TechNet and MSDN subscribers for a while before that, and one of the features that I have been utilising lately is “XP Mode” which is a glorified version of Virtual PC as we have known it in previous releases. Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7 (not to be confused with Windows Virtual PC 2007) is actually one of two pre-requisites for XP mode with the other being “Hardware-assisted virtualization (HAV)”. HAV are processors with the Intel VT, AMD-V or VIA VT feature which will need to be enabled in the...
Virtualising your SharePoint Environment
Posted by George Khalil in SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, Virtualisation on Apr 14th, 2009 | 0 Comments
To virtualise or not to virtualise? I thought I would provide you with some insight into my SharePoint infrastructure setup and hopefully place some minds at ease when it comes to virtualisation and SharePoint.
First and foremost, all of my servers are running in a virtual environment and have been for quite some time. Virtualisation is handled by VMware Infrastructure v3.5 across 3 beefy ESX Hosts running dual Quad Core Xeon processors with 32GB RAM each connected to a Fibre Channel Storage Area Network with 15K Disks. The ESX hosts are also housing other virtual machines outside of the...
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