Virtualization for XServe/OS X Server

I currently use VMWare Fusion to virtualize Windows running on my Mac. Is there a version of Fusion that works on OS X Server that lets me run a Windows Server OS Virtualized on an XServe? I've seen Parallels Server, but after the bad experiences I've had with Parallels on the desktop, I'd rather have something from VMWare.
Thanks!

You can run Fusion on OS X Server. It supports headless mode (no local UI) and a VNC server for each virtual machine for remote control. Using the guest OS remote desktop is often faster/easier, but the VNC support will let you see the whole VM including booting. You can even control the VM (power, suspend, etc) through vmrun (command line) and even Automator actions.
See "A Power User's Guide to VMware Fusion" http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-1201

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Server Virtualization for Redudancy

Hello Guys,
I need to know about the hardware virtualization for the redundancy, we have three server, one has EBS database, one has the App server and the other one is the development server, what I want to do is, create a virtual environment which will handle the the problem like if the live DB server is crashed then the virtual server will take its place, can you experts give me any idea what sort of hardware or the software i would need.
Regards

You can run Fusion on OS X Server. It supports headless mode (no local UI) and a VNC server for each virtual machine for remote control. Using the guest OS remote desktop is often faster/easier, but the VNC support will let you see the whole VM including booting. You can even control the VM (power, suspend, etc) through vmrun (command line) and even Automator actions.
See "A Power User's Guide to VMware Fusion" http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-1201

Xserve running Windows Server in a VM

Hi Guys,
We're looking to completely replace 4 servers, 2 are windows servers and the 2 are linux servers. We require to keep running those windows services for clients for now. Can Xserve run Windows Server in a VM properly?

I don't know why any small shop would buy a Windows box to run Windows.
It can be done better on the Mac with virtualization.
Read this link:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2417389&start=0&tstart=45
I'm 145 days of uptime with a 2008 Xserve 2x3.0GHz/12GB/3x1TB/10.6.3/Parallels 5.x running four W2K3 VM's and one NT4 VM. The setup is 2x1TB software RAID-1 in Bay 2/3 with a third 1x1TB in Bay 1, and a 1TB 2.5" USB drive hanging off the back. Utilization with 10 clients is <10%. Yawn.
Scheduled SuperDuper flings the Bay2/3 1TB RAID over to the internal 1TB in Bay 1 and the USB at night giving my a 1 day stale backup of the running VM's.
I can pull the USB out, plug it into my 15" i7, double click on the VM's and run the whole office.
The Parallels Transporter app can often be used to pull your entire server over into the virtual environment on the Mac, so your clients don't even know anything happened.
You will need legit/licensed/bonafide Windows with keys to do this, as Windows will recognize that the hardware has changed and want to be re-activated.
Get Parallels, dump your Windows boxes and don't look back.
If this is your first Xserve though, be prepared.
It's loud and hot.

Repair Utility for xServe RAID?

We have an xServe with an attached RAID consisting of four 350 GB drives. The drives are set up as a RAID. Due to storms/hot weather (air conditioning failed) the server restarted and the RAID powered down. The xServe is fine but the RAID is not functioning. From RAID Admin the drives all show up and are OK but the array is not showing up. Is there any disk repair utility that would be useful on a RAID?
xServe RAID Mac OS X (10.4.6)
xServe RAID Mac OS X (10.4.6)

The fact that it's showing up as spares is a significant problem. The host won't recognize it until the RAID recognizes the array. There is no separate utility to help you with this, other than RAID Admin.
What firmware version is on the array? If it's 1.5, there's a "recognize array" option that you should try. If it's an older version, I'd tell you it would be nice if you could have gone back in time and upgraded the firmware. Since that's not possible, you should call AppleCare (assuming you have got APS&S for Xserve RAID, or the machine is < 1 year old) and inquire about your options.

Hyper-V virtualization for desktop terminal

I am thinking of trying virtualization, remote desktops..... I would like to run 3 to 5 virtual instances of windows 7 or maybe windows 8. I want to have these able to handle good graphics and stream video and also be able to handle email
and web surfing.
What would be reasonable hardware to run all this on?

Hi you would need a host server / workstation that is capable of taking Direct X version 11 graphics cards, so you can use the RemoteFX vGPU features of Hyper-V.
there is a setup guide and hardware recommendations on this blog :-
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2013/11/05/gpu-requirements-for-remotefx-on-windows-server-2012-r2.aspx
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16652.remotefx-vgpu-setup-and-configuration-guide-for-windows-server-2012.aspx
please feel free to ask if you have any more questions.
Cheers,
Mark
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Recommended annual maintenance for xserve/xraid

hello everyone,
i'm coming up on the one year mark for our company's xserve/xraid which serves as a file server and publishing database (mei/k4) for the campus newspaper at NU. really it's been working splendidly, but just recently having come over from os9 (it's publishing people!) i'm ignorant of what annual maintenance is appropriate for the xserve/xraid/osx server in terms of running disk warrior/repair permissions/etc OR should i just let everything be? i'm used to performing a major tune-up every quarter!
osx 10.4.11, server HDs are mirrored and the Xraid is raid 5.
thanks for the advice!
ez chris

Completely agree with the concept, unless the security updates are relevant to your services and your servers are facing the Internet (like web/email/ssh, etc.).
That's for sure - although relevant security updates certainly falls in the 'broke' category and worth a reboot unless you can work around it another way. In my case, though, most of my servers are running custom Java applications and Java updates are the ones that I'm most interested in.
Camelot. Not to hijack the thread to ask something unrelated, but in an old thread you mentioned having some Xserve G5 hw raid cards available. Is that still the case? Am very interested...
Sure. email me - camelot at mac.com

Intel Xserve with Leopard Server 10.5.5 won't let me in via login

A power outage appears to have created some issues with my intel Xserve, running Leopard server 10.5.5
The System identifier light was blinking, so I booted up from the Leopard disk and found out that my mirrored internal array needed to be rebuilt. No problem, 4 hours later, I repair permissions on the mirrored internal array, everything gets "repaired". Change bootup disk to the internal 10.5.5 mirrored array and reboot. System Identifier light stopped blinking, things were looking good.
The login screen comes up and when I put in the admin username and password, the screen does the shake of the wrong login.
What's weird is, on my laptop I can use Server Admin, Workgroup Manager, and the screen sharing for the server....with the admin username and password.
So, I figure, perhaps the mirror rebuild requires me to reset the admin password. So, boot back up from the Leopard Server install DVD, run the password utility. and reset the main account password.
I change the boot drive back to the internal mirror, same thing. I'm stuck. I can't get past the login screen on the actually server....or via the screen sharing...and Server Monitor appears to be stuck at 'waiting for response'. I can, again, use Server Admin and Workgroup Manager on my laptop and make changes to the X server software....but I can't log into the X serve.
My webpage, wiki, etc....are all serving fine. But, I'd like to be able to figure out what I'm doing wrong...log back in and run super duper, etc.
Help...please...

Spent all day with apple support. They said it sounded like the LADP database was corrupted. They had me try to login as root, via an opendir account, etc. No luck.
So, they suggested I do a fresh install of the Leopard server on an external drive. Did that. They then suggested I use my laptop and the workgroup manager app to log in to the xserver, export users, groups and computers....and to copy over the library/collaboration folder to the external "clean install" of Leopard server.
Did that and followed the instructions to "relink" the metadata.plist files in each group, to the GUID to the groups in workgroup manager. First issue, they weren't different GUID strings.
Well, that didn't work...kept getting file not found error. When trying to access the domain.com/groups/groupname...it should've asked for authentication. And let me into that wiki...but no, apache error page.
So, they had me create a new "test" group....added a user. Start and stopped the web...etc. This didn't create a new wiki entry (when we replaced my custom index.html to the default index where groups/wikis/blogs populate automatically at the main). And, there's no new "test" folder in the library/collaboration files.
They then said "well, it must be because you don't have reverse DNS configured right, that's why the new wikis won't set up". I've contacted dyndns.com...but I don't think that's the problem.
So, I've rebooted my xserver to the internal drive. The wiki and blog is still there, still accessible the way I like....I still can't login to the xserver.
So, I'm wondering, if anyone knows a way I can boot up my xserve in the target drive mode, hook up my laptop and replace / swap whatever admin files so that when I boot up my xserve, I can login again.
There has to be a way to hard fix a hidden file? Replace a DB? Some awesome terminal command to get me in and fix the admin account / password....
Or, does anyone know if the reverse DNS issue applecare cites is legit? Doesn't make sense how, the same public ip and domain name, that's worked for some time...suddenly doesn't???
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Can I use boot camp or other virtualization software with Snow Leopard Server?

Can I use boot camp or other virtualization software with Snow Leopard Server?

Boot Camp is not virtualization; it boots Windows natively on the Mac hardware. So Boot Camp would be irrelevant to running Snow Leopard Server. Parallels and VMWare Fusion both have at least "experimental" support for running Snow Leopard Server in a virtual machine on Mac OS X, though I don't know how robust it is as of this time. You might ask for opinions on the Parallels or VMWare forums.
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Accessing Xserve with Lion Server from Windows 7 PC via VNC Viewer

Hello everyone-
At work we have an Xserve running Lion Server that we are trying to access from a Windows PC runnig Windows 7. We have turned on Screen Sharing on the Xserve and we are using RealVNC's VNC Viewer client to access the Xserve.
Everything works OK except the Control key is not being passed through to the Xserve, so you can't to teh usual copy/paste commands etc.
I have checked on the Web but found nothing to resolve this problem. The settings in the RealVNC client are set to pass through special keys, but it is as if the VNC server on the Xserve isn't seeing them.
Does anyone have any ideas?
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Can port 25 be used for SSL-enable SMTP server ?

Hi,
Our customer is using port 25 for a SSL-enabled SMTP server without certificate. When our email client tried to connect to it, the following exception thrown:
DEBUG SMTP: exception reading response: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?
Since we don't want to ask our customer to change their port configuration unless absolutely necessary, we did some tests with our own SSL-enabled SMTP server that uses certificate. Here is what I got:
1) with port 25, got the same exception as above;
2) with port 465, worked fine;
3) with any other randomly pick up valid port, worked fine.
This made me wonder if 25 is for non SSL SMTP server ONLY. By the way, I'm using Javamail 1.3.4 and JSDK 1.4.2_02. My question is whether we can configure javamail so that port 25 can be used by SSL-enabled SMTP server?
Your help will be appreciated.

Yes, port 25 is intended for non-SSL servers only, although that doesn't
prevent a client from making a plain text connection and then using the
STARTTLS command to switch the connection to SSL/TLS. JavaMail 1.4
supports that usage.
You can configure JavaMail to use port 25 for SSL connections if you
really want to. JavaMail 1.3.x requires you configure an appropriate
socket factory to get SSL connections; you can configure whatever port
you want for use with that socket factory.

Create a defaut view for the MS Project Server 2010 client

Dear Forum,
how can I create a defaut view for the MS Project Server 2010 client?
I saved a template and set a default view under File -> Options ->Project View. I also did the same in the checked-out enterprise global. If I then close the client and re-open it my default view changes back again to the previous one (not the view
I set as a default view).
What explains this behaviour and what can I do? Any hints?
Thank you very much for your help!

Scheduler007 --
The view you selected by clicking File > Options > Project View is the default view for every new project you create from a blank project template. This is a global option, so setting it from the checked out Enterprise Global file serves no purpose.
When you select a view as your default view, you will see that view applied to the blank project that is opened when you launch Microsoft Project 2010, and you will see it applied if you create new blank projects. If you create enterprise templates for
people to use in your organization, you should simply apply the view to the template that you want as the default so that users will see this view immediately when they create a new project from the template. In addition, if you apply a view to an open
project, close and check in the project, and then reopen the project, you will see the last view applied in that project (as Guillaume correctly points out).
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Error when installing 9.0.1.4.0 patch set for the Oracle Database Server.

Hi to all.
Currently, i am trying to install patches for portal server.
The server OS is Sun Solaris 8.
We are using Oracle9iAS.
Now, we are installing 9.0.1.4.0 patch set for the Oracle Database Server.
We managed to install the patch, but have problem with the Post Install Action.
We managed to run
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-@rdbms/admin/catpatch.sql
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-CONNECT / AS SYSDBA
-update obj$ set status=5 where type#=29 and owner#!=0;
-commit;
But, when we come to the next command, which is to shutdown, it gives us like
this..
SQL> update obj$ set status=5 where type#=29 and owner#!=0;
1402 rows updated.
SQL> commit;
Commit complete.
SQL> shutdown immediate
Database closed.
Database dismounted.
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-01219: database not open: queries allowed on fixed tables/views only
We tried to startup the database..it gives us this error..
SQL> startup
ORA-01081: cannot start already-running ORACLE - shut it down first
So, we tried to shutdown again..
SQL> shutdown immediate
ORA-01089: immediate shutdown in progress - no operations are permitted
I been informed that this is maybe a Database problem related. Any ideas?
Best Wishes,
Rushdan Md Saad.

Patchsets could be obtained (only) from http://metalink.oracle.com
You need to have valid CSI for access.
P.S: Sorry Werner, I didn't see you post.
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Error occurred in deployment step 'Uninstall app for SharePoint': The remote server returned an error: (502) Bad Gateway.

Installed SP 2013 Foundation in my Hyper-V machine
Created and done all the steps mentioned here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shariq/archive/2013/05/07/how-to-set-up-high-trust-apps-for-sharepoint-2013-amp-troubleshooting-tips.aspx && http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/fp179901%28v=office.15%29.aspx
for self signed certificate
copied those two certificates in my local machine(base machine) D drive
(D:\Cert)
Both VM and base machine are in same domain
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Just created and hit F5 to run in my base machine, but getting this error
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Please help me to resolve this issue, trying to figure out from last 2 days
Thanks in Advance
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Hi Harminder,
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Resolution:
Open the AppManifest.xml file and change the version.
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Node id does not exist for the current application server id on forms

Hi,
We have a Two node RAC setup on which Oracle e-business suite R12.0.6 is setup
We have CP and DB on two RAC nodes and Forms and Web on two separate server(non-RAC)
while opening oracle forms we are getting" Node id does not exist for the current application server id "
on checking Concurrent manager logfile we founf no error, we matched Application Server id from DBC file of all the 4 nodes with application table
Fnd_nodes... which matches ( there is no mismatch of application server id) .
We have also tried commenting the application server id in dbc file and executed adgendbc.sh to regenarate dbc file but we are facing the same issue.
Also tried to clear setup with fnd_conc_clone.clean setup and again executing autoconfig on db and application tier but no result yet.
Can some one guide as to which file has this message "Node id does not exist for the current application server id "
and what could be the reason for this.
Help is appreciated.
Regards,
Milan

I already tried the mentioned metalink note id but it did not work.What did you try exactly?
Can u help out as from where am i getting the message "Node id does not exist for the current application server id" It is already mentioned in the doc referenced above -- From the dbc file under $FND_SECURE directory.
i mean from which file does the above message comes.Please clean FND_NODES table as per (How to Clean Nonexistent Nodes or IP Addresses From FND_NODES [ID 260887.1]), run AutoConfig on the database tier then on the application tier and check then.
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How to add License Key For Integration Tool kit For SAP in Linux Server

Dear Experts,
We are Using BO XI R3.1 SP3 Enterprise Version ,Integration Tool Kit For SAP,Live Office.
The Server is Linux Server.
But while generating reports in Infoview it is giving error like ""_check that you are licensed to access SAP Data Source_".
So we came to know that license Key might Expire for Integraton Tool Kit For SAP in Bo Server.
So can you tell me how to add the license key For BO XI R3.1 SP3 Integration Tool Kit For SAP in Linux Server.
Thanks & Regards,
Venkat

On Unix / Linux you should be able to leverage the response from Raphael and change:
Location＝%BOBJDIR%/bobje/data/.bobj/registry/software/business objects/suite 11.5/sap/keycode/.registry
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