OCZ Vertex 2 Bluescreen after resume from Hibernate / Standby

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Thomas Maurer

OCZ Vertex2

Some weeks ago my HP Elitebook 8460w arrived. The first thing I did was installing a new OCZ Vertex 2 SSD and Windows 7 with Servicepack 1, I installed all the drivers from the HP Support Website and everything worked fine.

Now last week I tried to update the firmware on my OCZ Vertex 2 drive. Now with an Intel Rapid Storage driver installed, the OCZ Toolbox could not find the SSD drive and I could not update the SSD firmware. So I uninstalled the Intel Rapid Storage driver and updated the SSD. After I did this every thing still worked fine. But some days later I got the first Bluescreen after I came out of Hibernate. After searching for a solution I could see I am not the only one with this problem.

Now after some research I think I have the solution. This could be the Microsoft MSAHCI driver in Service Pack 1. After I installed the latest Intel Rapid Storage driver everything worked again.

Cisco UCS Hyper-V Cluster – Important Updates for the Hyper-V Cluster – Part 9

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Thomas Maurer

Since we have installed our Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster on the Cisco UCS, Microsoft released some patches for Hyper-V, Windows and Clustering.

There are two really important Updates which I would recommend for Hyper-V Clusters.

The first is Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. Service Pack 1 brings a lot of Hotfixes for Hyper-V, Failover Cluster Feature and other Microsoft Server features. And it brings also a two new features called Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX.
The second one is a hotfix for Servers with Intel Westmere or Sandy Bridge and has a large amount of physical memory. Most of the Cisco UCS Blades will meet this configuration. You can get more information on this Hyper-V hotfix here.

This two updates will bring you a much better experience with your Hyper-V Cluster. It will improve performance, stability and it will add new features.

How to Upgrade System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 to Service Pack 1

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Thomas Maurer

Today Microsoft released System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1. Serivce Pack 1 for Virtual Machine Manager enable the new features from Windows Server 2008 SP1 or Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1 like Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX.

This Guide shows you how you can upgrade System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 to Service Pack 1.

Download System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 from here or from MSDN or your Partner Network.
Start Setup.exe
The installer will automatically find existing installations of SCVMM 2008 R2 and will start the upgrade
The installer finds all installed components
Choose Database connection
Now the update is completed. If you have not installed the latest Updates for SCVMM 2008 R2 you also have to update the Agents on the Hyper-V Servers. If you have already installed the latest SCVMM 2008 R2 updates you don’t have to update the agents.