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    SSL VPN detection

    If you have the configuration of your machines locked down then you can point the Java proxy settings to a proxy that requires authorization. Then if there is a business need for a group of users to use Java to connect to the internet they can ask for access. This only covers the Java agent...
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    CPU selection for Virtualization

    My mantra when it comes to virtual servers is that you will need more memory than you think and more disk space than you anticipate. Make sure you leave room to grow on both those fronts if you don't max them out to start with. I run 4-6 virtual machines on a dual xeon 2.0 ghz...
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    Can this be done?

    I second the upgrade to gigabit suggestion. Also, you might want to check out iSCSI (I use iscsitarget hosted by sourceforge). I run it under Gentoo with 1.5gig of ram on a 2*800mhz PIII. iSCSI allows for block level access and the drives appear as SCSI drives to the OS. It's performance is...
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    Virtual PC and SATA

    On the USB topic, you can always hook the USB to your desktop or leave it connected to your laptop and access it via a network. I do this all the time with my external backup drive. You don't necessarily have to have access to the USB device from within the Virtual Machine. To clarify the...
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    Virtual PC and SATA

    Thank you. Also note that Virtual Server 2005 R2 is free as well. MS decided that since their roadmap made virtualization part of the OS, they would no long charge for Virtual Server. Now, you can read between the lines and see how this would affect people who are considering VMWare vs...
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    Virtual PC and SATA

    Note, this only applies to VirtualPC/Virtual Server. VMWare has different specs. check with their docs. For Virtual PC Each VM is not its own process. Underneath each VM runs in the same thread. For Virtual Server Each VM gets its own thread of execution. There is a white paper at...
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    Need help understanding SANs

    1) Does that mean the SAN is seen as just another hard drive to the system connected to the switch fabric? Yes, once you have configured the SAN connection and allocated a block of storage to the system, the SAN space will appear as just another drive. You will need to partition and format it...
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    What do *you* use your Dually for?

    Virtual Server: 2* Xeon 2Ghz HT, 2Gig Ram Windows 2003 Microsoft Virtual Server Running 6 VM's right now (Linux, Windows 2000/2003), for work and home infrastructure. iSCSI SAN Server: 2* PIII 800Mhz, 1.5Gig Ram Gentoo/Linux IET (iSCSI Enterprise Target) 800Gig LVM for iSCSI SAN
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    Need drive setup recommendations for a VMWare box.

    If you have the space to allocate your drives all at once go for it. I have to much stuff to allocate them all at once. Doing so would probably cut down on fragmentation. You would only need to worry about it when you allocate new drive files. This is one of the recommendations I have read in...
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    simple question (i hope) - HyperThreading & Windows Server 2k3

    Why don't you just turn off HT? It should be a bios setting. The system would just run in SMP mode with no HT stuff involved. Maybe I missed something, but that would seem to be the easiest solution to rule out HT. Regardless of what you do to pin SQL to specific processors there will still...
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    Need drive setup recommendations for a VMWare box.

    I run MS Virtual Server (company mandate, not mine) and at home I use an iSCSI SAN (Linux 2*PIII 800 1.5Gig ram using IET for the target software running on ATA disks) hosting 1 VM server with 3-6 VM’s, my media server and scratch space for my desktop. At work they have a FC EMC/Dell SAN hosting...
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    simple question (i hope) - HyperThreading & Windows Server 2k3

    Having done this kind of debugging myself (I tend more towards the DBA side of development on both SQL Server and Oracle with a bit of DB2 for good measure) I would say that SQLServer is making some bad decisions. The likely problem is either bad SQL statements or bad optimizer paths. Both...
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    Dev Envinroment - Virtual PC's - need advice

    The company I work for jumped on the VM bandwagon about two years ago. I was part of the architect for the change. We decided that instead of rebuilding our laptops for every project/client we would just install our development environments on VM’s. This had the added benefit of cutting down the...
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