SLES 11 - Filesystemtype recommendations (on VMware)

Hello guys,
SLES 11 gives you the opportunity to choose from several filesystem types.
I am planning to setup some test cases for I/O performance measurement on SLES 11 (on VMware).
We are also running oracle databases on these servers so it's time to choose the right filesystem type for that.
I have already searched for some performance comparisons and only found this one on Oracle 9i:
[Document Oracle 9i - Linux Filesystems|http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/pdf/Linux-FS-Performance-Comparison.pdf]
The basic conditions are:
Oracle 10gR2 and Oracle 11gR2
Filesize up to 20 GB
Async I/O or maybe Direct I/O (need to figure it out) ... Concurrent I/O is not available on Linux AFAIK
SAN storage (IBM DS8000) on which the filesystems will be located
SLES 11 on VMware ESX 4
Is there any suggestion by SAP which filesystem type should be used?
Any performance measurement by SAP?
Thanks and Regards
Stefan

Hello Markus,
> ReiserFS works as well if mounted with "-notail":
Yes, of course. We also set this option from the beginning on SLES 10 and it works.
The questions would be:
Which filesystem is faster for big files (up to 20 GB of each data file)?
Which filesystem is faster with aysnc/direct or concurrent I/O?
But as you already pointed out that Oracle chooses ext2, ext3 und OCFS2 NAS NFS for their tests .. it's hard to find such a performance comparsion with ReiserFS, etc.
Regards
Stefan

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<preaching>
I have to say that i'm not impressed that OES2 SP3 isn't even compiled
against the appropriate kernel, and because of SUSE's kernel RPM
overwrite policy there's no way i can select to boot from a previous
kernel to see if that fixes things. Note to SUSE and other distro
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</preaching>
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Originally Posted by Paul Gear
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> ...
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save it
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.Windows 95 cd
.VMWARE player (it's free) or virtualpc (I recommend VMWARE)
.Magiciso (the free trial version will do)
.a copy of MSCDEX.EXE and oakcdrom.sys (both can be found online)
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create a new virtual machine (make sure to add a floppy image drive if you are using vmware)
step 2
put your dos floppy/image in or mount it and install dos
step 3
download and install the free version of magiciso
open magic iso
go to new - floppy - 1.44
find a copy of mscdex.exe
find a copy of oakcdrom.sys (generic cd rom driver that works with dos.. might have to try another if it doesn't work)
RENAME the oakcdrom.sys to cdrom.sys
drag both these files into magic iso on the floppy disk we just created
save the file
close magic iso
find the file we just saved in your explorer
change the extension from .ima to .flp (if you are using vmware) or .img (if you are using virtualpc)
(if you can't see the extensions you're going to need to change your folder options to show extensions)
google it. it's easy to do
step 4
go back to your virtual machine
mount the floppy image we just created
a:\
copy mscdex.exe c:\
copy cdrom.sys c:\
(don't forget to rename oakcdrom.sys to cdrom.sys in step 3)
step 5
find config.sys in your c drive
type:
edit config.sys
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device=c:\cdrom.sys /d:mscd001
exit and save
step 6
find autoexec.bat in your c drive
type:
edit autoexec.bat
now add a line that says this
c:\mscdex.exe /d:mscd001
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step 7
restart the computer or virtual machine
step 8
we're still not done yet
now move to your c drive and type
mscdex.exe: /d:mscd001 /M:5 /V /L:d /S /K
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step 9
create a blank floppy image either in vmware or magic iso then mount that new one
put your windows 95 cd in the cd drive
type:
d:\
setup.exe
step 10
it should be booting windows 95 now
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it might ask you for windows floppies even if you're using the cd version
which I never understood
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they're all in cab files
so you'd need to extract them 1 by 1 and put them on floppy images to use them.
(huge pain)
but I actually just got it to load the drivers off the win95 cd by just trying it over and over again until
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can't remember, but I'd try both if you're having trouble
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and not virtual pc for this one.
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At work (education level), I'm starting to take charge of windows admin, so beiing a noob admin I'm finding strange behaviours that I hope you can help me solve them all :-)
We've one (big) domain with about 5000 computers (workers and students all together), and around 50000 users (again, workers and students all together) setup like this:
DC-DOMAIN-1:
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DC-DOMAIN-2:
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Checking RootDSE, I see 'domainControllerFunctionaly is Windows 2003' (DC-DOMAIN-2)
So, with this setup, I've noticed these strange behaviours, hope list isn't too big (guess there will be more behaviours but these seemed too odd):
1) On DC-DOMAIN-2, WinServer 2003 eventlog, inside 'Directory Service', I found this warning event ID 1083 (Source NTDS Replication):
Active Directory could not update the following object with changes received from the domain controller at the following network address because Active Directory was busy processing information.
Object:CN=<an user name>, CN=Users, DC=DOMAIN
Usually followed by an information event (eventid 1955) which says:
ctive Directory encountered a write conflict when applying replicated changes to the following object.
Object:
<SAME USER OBJECT THAN PREVIOUS EVENT ID>
Time in seconds:
0
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User Action
Use smaller groups for this operation or raise the functional level to Windows Server 2003.
And having as result that user being blocked in domain.
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At System log:
Error Event ID 5783, Source NETLOGON:
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I've seen Event ID 5783 with DC-DOMAIN-1 too....
Error Event ID 5719, Source NETLOGON:
This computer was not able to set up a secure session with a domain controller in domain DOMAIN due to the following:
The remote procedure call failed and did not execute.
This may lead to authentication problems. Make sure that
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ADDITIONAL INFO:
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At Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-RemoteConnectinoManager/Admin found also this warning:
Warning Event ID 20499 Source TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager:
Remote Desktop Services has taken too long to load the user configuration from server \\DC-DOMAIN-2.fulldns.name for user administrator
3) If I try Group Policy Modeling on DC-DOMAIN-1 (server 2008R2), everything works fine, no matter if I try it against DC-DOMAIN-1 or DC-DOMAIN-2, but if I try this from the Server 2012R2 (the one from point 2), I get this:
Simulation against DC-DOMAIN-2: Gets executed, but all GPO show as inaccessible, empty or disabled.
Simulation against DC-DOMAIN-1: Sometimes it gets executed as DC-DOMAIN-2, sometimes I get an error saying query can't be executed.
4) From server 2012R2, I usually manage printing GPO. If I click on the domain root (GPMC, forest, Domains, DOMAIN-NAME-ROOT) right pane, I get a pop up saying:
'A processing error ocurred collecting data using this base domain controller. Please change the base domain controller and try again'
After closing popup, right pane says something like 'DC-DOMAIN-2.fulldns.name' is the baseline domain controller for this domain.
No infrastructure Status information exists for this domain.
Click the Detect Now button below to gather infrastructure status from all of the domain controllers in this domain.
Pressing 'Detect Now' does nothing, and trying to select New Baseline DC shows again same pop up than before.
5) Last, but not least, I've feeling that GPO takes too much to apply. I've found scenarios in which even after executing 'gpupdate /force' correctly on client computer either local or domain admin, I can't see the new changes (gpresult says it has been
updated though). But couldn't find anything on eventlog that informs about problems with GPOs...
For all these strange behaviours I've noticed in last month that I started checking things as sys admin, I believe domain is damaged, or something is wrong there (not just my new server 2012R2, even if it's running inside an ESX, blehh), so please, any hint
on what to check, what to change, what to fix, would be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Paul,
Honestly, I'm still trying to figure out all broken things reported by tests :( Guess Jesper's suggestion about adding a new 2008 DC to get rid of 2003 and start checking again after that may be best option.
I'll try to summarize list of things I believe are wrong:
running
DCDIAG /V /C /D /E /s:yourdcname > c:\dcdiag.log for every DC, shows different errors. They show things such as:
another domain running here (not administered by us, only relationship is that our users are shared with that domain, nothing else) appear when Printing out pDsInfo (as if they were DC of our domain too, but they do not even share RootDomain). Guess it
may be for a bug old sys admin had when clonning from his 2008R2 template, that forgot to change SID... I already noticed 1 year ago our print server shared SID with those DC, guess there may be more servers sharing SID too :-(
Within Starting test: Replications, I see few messages at Replication Latency Check, such as the one for CN=Schema, CN=Configuration, DC=<ourdomain>:
Latency information for 35 entries in the vector were ignored.
35 were retired Invocations. 0 were either: read-only replicas and are not verifiably latent, or dc's no longer replicating this nc. 0 had no latency information (Win2K DC)
On Services test, I see an
Invalid service type: RpcSs on DC-DOMAIN-3, current value
WIN32_OWN_PROCESS, expected value WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
On SystemLog, I see LOTS of warnings/errors such as:
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x80000002
Time Generated: 07/28/2014 08:21:54
(Event String (event log = System) could not be retrieved, error
0x503)
An error event occurred. EventID: 0xC0000003
Time Generated: 07/28/2014 08:22:18
(Event String (event log = System) could not be retrieved, error
0x3afc)
Missing entries on DNS (we've a static DNS)
netdiag.exe /v > c:\netdiag.log Showed again DNS problems such as our primary DNS pointing to all DC, secondary
DNS pointing just to DC with FSMO roles,...
repadmin.exe /showrepl * /verbose /all /intersite > c:\repl.txt Gave no errors, now I must check in detail
if every replica is correct
And finally,
dnslint /ad /s "ip address of your dc" gave more DNS problems:
One or more DNS servers may not be authoritative for the domain
One or more DNS servers did not respond to UDP queries
One or more zone files may have expired
SOA record data was unavailable and/or missing on one or more DNS servers
Sumarizing, guess it will be better to fix DNS problems, promote new 2008R2 DC to get rid of 2003 one, promote domain to 2008 too, check again for messages and relationship with other domain, and then come back here for support if needed
EDIT: Almost forgot to talk about SYSVOL folder. As said before, there are 426 GPO folders inside Policies. Of them, 375 have an inetres.adm files in it (smallest one 1398 KB, almost all of them 2307 or 2707 kb)....

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thanks in advance!
Dave

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$fwService.FirewallRule[$rowNum].destinationportrange = $_.DstPortRange
$fwService.FirewallRule[$rowNum].policy = $_.Policy
$fwService.FirewallRule[$rowNum].direction = $_.Direction
$fwService.FirewallRule[$rowNum].MatchOnTranslate = [System.Convert]::ToBoolean($_.MatchOnTranslate)
$fwService.FirewallRule[$rowNum].isenabled = [System.Convert]::ToBoolean($_.isEnabled)
$fwService.FirewallRule[$rowNum].enablelogging = [System.Convert]::ToBoolean($_.EnableLogging)
#configure Edge
$edgeView.ConfigureServices($fwService)
Example of the csv file:
Num,Descr,Proto,SrcIP,SrcPort,DstIP,DstPortRange,Policy,Direction,MatchOnTranslate,isEnabled,EnableLogging
0,Allow incoming 80 to webS,tcp,any,any,172.31.31.100,80,allow,in,true,true,false
1,Allow incoming 22 to webS,tcp,any,any,172.31.31.100,22,allow,in,true,true,false
2,Allow all outgoing,any,any,any,any,any,allow,out,true,true,false
Example of invocation:
.\load_firewall_rules.ps1 -s 10.16.1.229 -o "Org" -n "DmzNet" -f .\test_csv.csv

Tiger and Snow Leopard on the same Mac

I need to use some Apps that are Tiger only and so I thought to install Tiger on my MBP using a virtualization software. What would you recommend? VMWare Fusion? Parallels? Any other?
Thank you!

Advanced User wrote:
ah... then
Is there a way to RUN TIGER on my MBP? Anyone?
NO. if you want to run tiger you'll need an older mac. there is NO way to run it on your MBP.
Thanks
Message was edited by: V.K.

Large Deployment Upgrade Checklist

Short checklist to upgrade a large deployment (Maybe it helps somebody to avoid trouble.)
@Filr 1.0.1
Shutdown
@Search 1.0.1
Shutdown
@SQL 1.0.1
Shutdown
create new disc and attach as SCSI 2:0 for backup
Power on
copy mysqlbackup.zip
unzip and run mysqlbackup
Shutdown
Deploy the new OVFs (can be done at the same time)
SQL 1.1
Search 1.1
Filr 1.1
@SQL 1.1
Copy VASTORAGE-Disc from SQL_1.0.1 to SQL_1.1 and attach as SCSI 1:0
Create new disc for VAR (Logs) with SCSI 2:0
Copy backup-disc from SQL_1.0.1 to SQL_1.1 and attach as SCSI 3:0
Adjust CPU/memory/swap/etc to your demands
Power on
Do the upgrade and wait until it is finished
Check if all services are running (@:9443)
IMPORTANT: Create the same User and password for Filr-database access you had before (it ist NOT migrated!!!) in phpMyAdmin (@:9443)
recommended: install vmware-tools
@Search 1.1
Copy VASTORAGE-Disc from Search_1.0.1 to Search_1.1 and attach as SCSI 1:0
Create new disc for VAR (Logs) with SCSI 2:0
Adjust CPU/memory/swap/etc to your demands
Power on
Do the upgrade and wait until it is finished
Check if all services are running (@:9443)
recommended: install vmware-tools
@Filr 1.1
Copy VASTORAGE-Disc from Filr_1.0.1 to Filr_1.1 and attach as SCSI 1:0
Create new disc for VAR (Logs) with SCSI 2:0
Adjust CPU/memory/swap/etc to your demands
double check if you have created the database user (@SQL 1.1 Step 8)
Power on
Do the upgrade and wait until it is finished
Check if all services are running (@:9443)
Adjust the settings for your networkservers (Windows/Netware etc) (@:8443)
Reindex all folders (@:8443)
recommended: install vmware-tools
Your done!
Optional (housekeeping):
Shutdown all appliances (Order: 1.Filr, 2.Search, 3.SQL) and delete the backup-disc @SQL_1.1
Power on again (Order: 1.SQL, 2.Search, 3.Filr)
Delete the old 1.0.1 versions

Great info, thx for posting!
Thomas

?purchase of MBP or new pc (especially re; microsoft office)?

I need to update my laptop. I am a college professor and have a Mac desktop at home. I would really like to use a Macbook Pro for my school presentations and grading programs. However, I am very concerned about the compatibility between the Mac version of Microsoft Office 2003/2008 if I purchase the MPB and the PC version of the Office suite 2004/2007. I must use the pc version at work as other professors share the presentations. They are all written using pc microsoft office 04/07. I have heard mixed reviews about compatibility of the office suite using programs such as bootcamp or parallels. Any thoughts?

I have heard mixed reviews about compatibility of the office suite using programs such as bootcamp or parallels.
Care to elaborate?
I would recommend trying VMware Fusion before you go with running Windows natively (which is all BootCamp is, helps install XP on its own partition).
OpenOffice for Windows is a step ahead of NeoOffice for OS X but works somewhat well with Office suite files.
I don't think Office needs to run natively but if Fusion doesn't work for you, you could go that route.
http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/desktop/fusion
http://forums.parallels.com/
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/2.0.x.html
http://ftp.cusoo.org/MacOSX/INTEL/snapshotsaqua/september11th/
http://www.openoffice.org/
http://www.neooffice.org/

Recommended vmware settings for OES11

Are there any recommendations for virtualizing OES11 with vmware vsphere (ESXi 4.1 or 5)?
1. While installation (near at the beginning) there is a choice for the virtualization type.
The relevant choices are "physical Computer" or "paravirtualized Computer"
Is "physical" really the best choice for vmware, because thats also the setting for fully virtualized guests.
2. SLES11 SP1 support paravitualized drivers for harddisks and usually that is a big performance boost on a suitable server (RAID Controller, SAS Drives, etc.)
What's with OES11 here even if using NSS Volumes?
thanks
Tobi

The bit about the removing and readding the NIC as VMXNET3 is unnecessary:
SLES 11.1 distribution includes a VMXNET3 driver, so you can create the VM
with a VMXNET3 NIC to begin with and have it seen during installation and
before the tools are added.
Can't say I bother with pvscsi. You only see benefits under very high I/O
load. This is outweighed for me by the nuisance value of having disk
drivers that may fail after a kernel upgrade. VMware tools are not very
robust in this respect I find.
regards
Martin
"magic31" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> TFe;2163217 Wrote:
>> Are there any recommendations for virtualizing OES11 with vmware vsphere
>> (ESXi 4.1 or 5)?
>>
>> 1. While installation (near at the beginning) there is a choice for the
>> virtualization type.
>> The relevant choices are "physical Computer" or "paravirtualized
>> Computer"
>> Is "physical" really the best choice for vmware, because thats also
>> the setting for fully virtualized guests.
>>
>> 2. SLES11 SP1 support paravitualized drivers for harddisks and usually
>> that is a big performance boost on a suitable server (RAID Controller,
>> SAS Drives, etc.)
>> What's with OES11 here even if using NSS Volumes?
>>
>> thanks
>> Tobi
>
> Hi Tobi,
>
> No official word on it yet that I've seen, but the way I'm setting up
> and which is looking good:
>
> 1) Install SLES 11 using the installers virtualization type option for
> : Physical Computer
>
> 2) After having installed OES11;
> - install the latest VMware tools
> - remove the eth0 entry in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
> (assuming single nic setup)
> - shutdown the VM and configure the Vm's SCSI controller to run in
> paravirtual mode (pvscsi) and also remove net nic and readd as VMXnet3.
>
> Boot back up again and network and disk drivers should be running as
> optimal as possible.
>
> As a note, for SLES 11 SP1 and up this is a good idea... for SLES
> 10.OES2 (that uses an older kernel) this is not such a hot idea.
> Also make sure you are either running the latest vSphere 4.1 code or
> 5.
>
> Cheers,
> Willem
>
>
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>
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Windows 2008 R2: SLES 11 Sp3 Guest converted from Vmware OVA to VHD, does not boot on Hyper-V: could not find /dev/sda4

Hi
I have a VMWare OVA file with Guest OS as SLES 11 Sp3. I have converted this file from OVA to VHD using Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Solution accelerator. On first boot of this VHD on Windows Server 2008 R2 - Microsoft Hyper-V I get an error that
"Waiting for device /dev/sda4 to appear..
Cannot find /dev/sda4"
I have not even booted this VM once on Hyper-V, and hence not installed any Linux integration Services yet.
What could be the possible reason for this failure? Any suggested solution?
Thanks
Ashwini

Easiest way (and also applies to Hyper-V 2012 R2):
Ok, following properly (originally missed the step to mount the root directory of the converted VM as "/mnt" )
http://nwrickert2.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/rescuing-susie/
Then once chrooted
mkinitrd -d /dev/sda2
generated initrd from kdump WITH Hyper-V drivers & VM is usable!
http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/476780-boot-failure-mkinitrd-does-not-understand-that-dev-sda-has-become-dev-sde
Can't believe that it was so painful to find the right info easily
Just to finish it off, after converted machine boots fine, there is a small
matter of removing tools & fixing networking as per links below:
https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.upgrade.doc%2FGUID-6F7BE33A-3B8A-4C57-9C35-656CE05BE22D.html
http://www.vcritical.com/2010/10/getting-eth0-back-in-a-sles-for-vmware-clone/
All done!!!
Also (unsupported), but works fine is SLES 11 SP1

Recommended NTP Settings for virtual 2008 R2 PDC (on VMWare)

Hi,
Can someone peer-check my settings please for my PDC. We have had time slip issues and this is my proposal:
Read articles and some blogs from Ace Fekay.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/w32time/archive/2009/02/02/group-policy-settings-explained.aspx
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1318
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042
Environment
Domain / Forest FL 2003
All RWDC's / RODC's are 2008 R2
PDC is virtual running on VMware. It is not syncing with ESX host, it is an NTP server syncing extrernally. All other DC's / Clients using NT5DS (Domain hierarchy). Incidentily the ESX host sync with external time source also.
PDC Registry Settings:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameter\
Type: NTP
NtpServer : 1.ntp.org,0x8 2.us.pool.ntp.org,0x8
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpServer
Enabled : 1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Config
MaxPosPhaseCorrection : 3600 (1 hour)
MaxNegPhaseCorrection : 3600 (1 hour)
AnnounceFlags : 5
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient\SpecialPollInterval
set at 900 (15 min)
Run on the PDC:
w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:1.us.pool.ntp.org,0x8 2.us.pool.ntp.org,0x8 /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update
H:\>w32tm /query /status
Leap Indicator: 0(no warning)
Stratum: 3 (secondary reference - syncd by (S)NTP)
Precision: -6 (15.625ms per tick)
Root Delay: 0.1389195s
Root Dispersion: 0.0470948s
ReferenceId: 0xAE85A8C2 (source IP: 174.133.168.194)
Last Successful Sync Time: 14/10/2011 10:37:18
Source: 2.us.pool.ntp.org,0x8
Poll Interval: 9 (512s)
Run on DC's
w32tm /config /syncfromflags:domhier /update (then start / stop time service)
run on clients
w32tm /resync
How does this look?

Hi,
Thanks for posting here.
So have you got any problem with current settings in virtualization environment?
Maybe you can take look the blog post below, some suggestions on how to set NTP service on domain controller in virtualization environment have been discussed in that
for reference :
Virtualization of Domain Controllers part Deux
http://blogs.technet.com/b/janelewis/archive/2008/06/20/virtualization-of-domain-controllers-part-deux.aspx
Virtual Domain Controllers and Time Synchronisation
http://blogs.technet.com/b/pfe-ireland/archive/2008/05/08/virtual-domain-controllers-and-time-synchronisation.aspx
Thanks.
Tiger Li
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