Cloning a Running Windows 2008 Server to a Virtual Machine

February 9th, 2010  ()  hardware, software › illotus › No Comments

I’m ready to migrate my 1½ year old Windows 2008 installation to a virtual machine and finding out about the options run into Disk2vhd. It’s made by the Sysinternals team at Microsoft and what it does is snapshot of any drive to a VHD, virtual hard disk. The cool thing is that you can clone [...]

Fileserver, part 2 – taping raid card

February 6th, 2010  ()  hardware › illotus › No Comments

I have my server running now with the following hardware: Asus P7F-X motherboard Intel Xeon x3440 processor 4GB Kingston ECC DDR3 6 Western Digital 1,5TB drives, model nro WD15EARS 2 Samsung F3 500GB drives Dell SAS 5/i sata raid card Nexus Edge case The first problem I ran into was no boot, if the raid [...]

Fileserver, part 1

January 24th, 2010  ()  hardware › illotus › No Comments

I have this AMD 4850e/4GB non-ECC RAM/2,6TB/WS2008 serving files and other needs around the apartment. No RAID, no formal backups etc. Some of the more important stuff is on couple of disks and in the cloud etc. At first I intented to buy only 2 more hard drives, adding maybe 2-3TB. Then I got this [...]