So I’ve been working on trying to get the SCCM 2012 RC to work in my test lab at work so that I can test patching in various environments with it. It was a bear to install, with very specific pre-req’s that it doesn’t bother to tell you about until after you’ve gone thru the [...]
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Whoo hoo! As you can tell from the image I’m playing with the SCCM 2012 RC next week. (Systems Center 2012 Configuration Manager). Aren’t you jealous? Looking to see what kind of advances it gives us for patch management. I’ll keep you updated as I find stuff. An update on the CA post… still no [...]
CA Patch Management
Posted in Randomness, Windows on Jan 18th, 2012
Arrgghhh!! I’ve been working for over a week to try to get the CA Patch Management software installed so that I can evaluate it. A pre-req for it is CA IT Client Management (ITCM) and I cannot get the frakking software to install. Let me take that back.. I can get it to install, just [...]
So in my previous post I went through the reasons why you might want to use SQL mirroring and how you could possibly sell the added expense to your management. In this post I’m going to cover the actual SQL commands for doing so. There is a wizard you can run through to actually set [...]
So you’ve made the decision that you want to use SQL Mirroring for your DR solution. You have several options for DR for SQL databases: you can use Windows clustering, log shipping, or mirroring. My preference in any scenario is to just use Windows Clustering, but there are reasons why you could go with another [...]
Started with a new client recently who is using ESX 5 and vCloud Director, so I should be able to branch these posts out a bit! Ran into an interesting problem almost immediately. They’ve got several Organization vDC’s set up and are trying to get them each to authenticate against Active Directory groups using Custom [...]
In my previous post I covered the considerations you’d want to make when adding a 3rd node to your existing shared quorum cluster at a new site. Now that you’ve made the decision and are using EMC RecoverPoint with Cluster Enabler (RP/CE) to manage the data replication and management of the disks and are converting [...]
I was supporting a handful of Windows 2008 (non-R2) 2 node clusters with shared quorum disks. Some had SQL 2008 installed and some were just a vendor application that we supported. For the purposes of this article it doesn’t really matter which so we’ll assume we’re talking about SQL 2008. So the existing configuration was [...]