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High-availability for XenServer without Shared Storage

Twitter Question From Pal_Pal pal_pal asked Twitter a question about XenServer:  Does Marathon Everrun on XenServerprovides HA for Windows 2003 VMs without requiring a shared storage???? What is Marathon everRun? According to Marathon’s website: everRun VM completely automates VM availability setup, configuration, fault detection and policy management. Automated setup and configuration eliminates the manual configuration other availability [...]

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XenMotion with HP ProCurve Switches

What good is a high availability solution without testing? Not worth waiting three minutes for, as we found out this morning in a test for a client’s solution implementation. How Does It Work? Our design consists of two HP Proliant servers running Citrix XenServer 5, a Compellent SAN, a bunch of Windows hosts (both clustered [...]

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Cisco IP Phones Daylight Savings Time (DST) Problem

Cisco IP Phones Daylight Savings Time (DST) Problem

Cisco’s Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) isn’t playing nice with the government-mandated changes to the start and end  dates of  Daylight Saving Time (DST) that began on Sunday morning. CSCsy25150: CUCM timezone DST date corner case You can read the full bug report on Cisco’s web site if you’re a member. In short, if your phones are [...]

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Outlook 2007 Efficiency Tips

Outlook 2007 interface is very different from older versions, and it looks intimidating for both novice and advanced users.  The biggest thing to remember is that all the same features from 2003 and previous versions are still there… they’re just hidden.  Not sure why Microsoft made the 2007 version so drastically different from the previous version, but unless the user is [...]

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ThinPrint and RDP on Windows Server 2008

You must keep the RDP connection named RDP-TCP in order for ThinPrint to work on Windows Server 2008.

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