I started a thread on the Minasi forum today wondering if people would think I was crazy or not.<\/p>\n
I like Windows Server 2008.\u00a0 2003 was excellent and 2008 has jumped way ahead.\u00a0 It’s stable, modular and easy to use, e.g. clustering is a dream.\u00a0 One of the things that got loads of PR was Server Core.\u00a0 I was determined to deploy it in the Hyper-V cluster I’m deploying now.<\/p>\n
I set up a pilot build to work out the kinks of the hardware and the OS configuration.\u00a0 I’ve been having a few hardware issues and troubleshooting them on Core is impossible.\u00a0 Pure, 100% impossible.\u00a0 I can do certain amounts using remote GUI’s but it’s not the same. <\/p>\n
We use HP hardware that’s monitored using OpsMgr 2007 with the HP management packs.\u00a0 You soon discover the SIM agents have V8.0 issues.\u00a0 I tend to disable the remote management and the performance SIM agents because I don’t need them.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the GUI for configuring them is not available in Core and I don’t know of a command line option.\u00a0 HP haven’t publicly documented one that either their search nor Google can find.<\/p>\n
We know that getting Broadcom NIC’s working with VLAN trunks requires an advanced configuration of the NIC.\u00a0 Apparently there’s a script we can write to get this working on GUI.\u00a0 Great – more crap I have to learn.\u00a0 If I was a single function administrator then maybe I could invest several weeks getting to grips with that.<\/p>\n
I made a simple mistake when configuring a virtual switch in Hyper-V on the parent OS NIC (I wanted to be able to get VM’s onto the management network for initial build configuration).\u00a0 My parent OS on that server went offline.\u00a0 I got onto ILO to log on locally on that box.\u00a0 However, what the hell is the command to undo what I did?\u00a0 I could probably find powershell to run it …. but powershell isn’t available on Core!<\/p>\n
So the long and short of it is that I decided that Core is not ready for me yet.\u00a0 MS needs to come up with operational docs for all the roles and features on Core – locally on the machine itself and not via the network\/WMI.\u00a0 And the OEM’s need to catch up too.<\/p>\n
I kicked off a thread on the Minasi forum to see what people thought.\u00a0 I expected to get slammed because Core has been a popular idea.\u00a0 I was shocked (and relieved) to see people had the same experiences as me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I started a thread on the Minasi forum today wondering if people would think I was crazy or not. I like Windows Server 2008.\u00a0 2003 was excellent and 2008 has jumped way ahead.\u00a0 It’s stable, modular and easy to use, e.g. clustering is a dream.\u00a0 One of the things that got loads of PR was … Continue reading “To Core Or Not To Core”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-w2008"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t