Tech Changes

This past weekend, at the office, we had a major server crash; it happened to be one of our vmware servers. I spent 20 hours recovering, rebuild and getting the back images going. The nice thing about the crash was we got to start our move from vmware to hyper-v early.

Out of the 5 servers we have virtualized, we have already migrated 4 to hyper-v and what a difference it has made. Things are much faster backups seem easier to perform, and the software just feels alot more stable. First machine I used a tool by DavidB @ VMTookKit to convert from VMDK to VHD, subsequent machines I’ve used SCVMM 2008 R2 tools. Microsoft has a 180 Day Trial which is working great. Not to mention Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Core is free.

For backups we have been using diskshadow, task scheduler and some scripts loosely based off of John Kelbley’s scripts and Glo Network scripts.