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Installing MSA2000 MPIO drivers under Hyper-V R2 Standalone

This caused me a few headaches the other night.
 
Start off by enabling MPIO support from the command line – “start /w ocsetup MultipathIo” does the trick;

Next run up the MPIO control panel applet – simply “MPIOCPL” from command prompt

On the subsequent window, browse to “DSM Install” and type the path to your hp MPIO [...]

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VMware Workstation 7 and Server 2008 R2 Guests

I think I found my first bug.
 
Doing a Easy Install on Server 2008 R2 – first it complains that the key is wrong (though that could just be a copy/paste issue lol) then;
 

But the Easy Install has finished!! Powered the VM off and back on again, still the same.
 
Oh well, no VMware tools!

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VMware Workstation 7…..

So I downloaded it and tried it out.
 
I like it – a lot. And it’s the subtle differences that I like.
 
For instance – the added support for Windows 7 Taskbar
 

I have my taskbar vertical (as you can see) – and I like the way I get “Hover Previews” (what is their official name anyway?) [...]

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Microsoft to support ESX-Virtualised 2008 x86…. But only on Opteron hardware?

According to
This
Microsoft have “Passed” ESX. Running Server 2008 x86. On Opteron Hardware (with a max memory of 4gb).
Does this mean Intel-based ESX installations are not supported?
And only 2008 x86???
And on another side-note, Exchange 2007 is now supported under “passed” Virtualization Environments.
Microsoft supports Exchange Server 2007 in production on hardware virtualization software only when all the [...]

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