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    Anyone Clustering Hyper-V R2?

    There is never a need to go OEM if your requirements are clearly pre-defined, and if you purchase wisely and have the skill you can likely outperform an OEM setup as they are built to suit a wide variety of needs not necessarily built for a specific project. SuperMicro is actually highly...
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    Has anyone been able to sucessfully pre-order online?

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20007758-260.html I've been trying since about 10am EST with no luck - always times out when trying to pull up the ATT info on my upgrade eligibility. ATT has fucked over apple so many times - they can't even sell pre-orders because ATT can't get its servers...
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    Moving to Hyper-V in Corporate Environment...setup tips

    We run our exchange and a couple database servers each with their own RAID10/1+0 setups to ensure optimal I/O. DNS. AD, and less intensive servers share a large RAID 5 Lun and our file servers have their own RAID 5 lun as well. Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 makes managing and deploying a snap.
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    Win 2008 server w/ terminal server or w/o?

    Most certainly not true. From my perspective - I support a trading system that gets updated on a frequent basis - new strategies, algos, high frequency trading etc...It's a big app - 400MB plus. Upgrading a whole office worth of PC's compared to rolling out the patch to one or two TS's...
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    Win 2008 server w/ terminal server or w/o?

    Is the EMR system use a fat client? e.g. you install something on each workstation? Does it frequently get updated or patched? Patching 20-30 workstations for a minor fix is a pain. Patching 1 terminal server so all the workstations get the update is simple.
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    Thin client gaming access machine, proof of concept??

    http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2010/03/17/explaining-microsoft-remotefx.aspx Check it out - with RemoteFX they are working towards remote media rich desktop environments - even with full support of 3D accelerated apps. Just no firm release date yet :)
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    Prevent employees from bringing personal laptops and connecting to the network?

    Bingo. pragmatic and it solves the problem.
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    server query. need some advice.

    Sounds like Windows Small Business Server (SBS) would meet your needs. Not sure on if it does VPN though...someone else may chime in if it doesn't.
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    Windows 7 oddness ( file transfers )

    What type of switch are they running through - try hard coding the duplex settinga across all the NIC's or make sure they match either 100 MB Full/Auto across all NICs. Some NIC's can auto-negotiate while others just suck @ it causing them to spend half their time negotiating the specifics of...
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    Processor differences in overclock-ability

    I would go with the 920 (which you can clock to 4Ghz) - get a decent X58 board and then when gulftown drops pop one of those in there and you will be golden.
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    Processor differences in overclock-ability

    as far as bang for you buck - the ideal situation is to get in on the mid level procs with a ton of overclocking headroom. The i920 has been out for a bit, but has the head room to hit those 975 speeds for much less money. The higher end chips typically have less headroom as they have already...
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    B&M Micro Center BYOPC! month!

    all i have to say is price match, price match, price match - MC will price match any egg print out as long as the model is identical. Heck they have price matched off showing my iPhone screen twice!
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    Dell ST2410 24” Full HD Widescreen Monitor $179 free shipping

    1920x1080? Not bad for 189....but 1920x1200 is where its at...
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    B&M Micro Center BYOPC! month!

    MC in cambridge is my local store of choice - I've directed all my friends there and swearing off as many people as I can from best buy or really any other brick & mortar electronics store. I typically do the order online and in-store pickup - which rocks - but on two separate occasions I've...
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    VMWAREstill king?

    Hyper V on 2008 R2 combined with Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is very very slick. VMWare is king of enterprise - but I feel Hyper V is poised to dominate the the small the medium size virtualization setups. Support for clustering for HA and dip its toes into the hyper visor arena.
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