15/06/09

Worked on final presintation to be done next week wont have a fully working cluster with the game on it but at least we tried!! Should be a good presintation next week.

08/06/09

Still having issues with the graphical restrictions of server 2008 and are still unable to get it working properly on the cluster

25/05/09

Continued to try to get stronghold working on the cluster. it seems to be a directx issue.

18/05/09

Continued to try to get stronghold working on the cluster. We decided to get notepad working on the cluster as a test and we were able to do this with ease. The problems with clustering stronghold are due to the graphical restrictions of server 2008

11/05/90

Had a go at getting quake working at the start of the class but then gave up after a while as we decided to try and get the actual base game that we are using onto the cluster working instead

04/05/09

Continued trying to get quake working woth our 2008 servers without success

06/04/09

continued to try to get quake to run on the cluster may turn out to not work since there are a few video restrictions when working with server 2008

30/03/09

Finished configuring the servers so that they will run in a cluster. Started to add quake 3 into the cluster fo0r testing.

23/03/09

Started configering the 3 machines (one virtial 2 hardware) so that they will work in a cluster.

Spent this class installing server 2008 on the 2 hardware machines and the one virtual machine that will be our Domain Controller

16/03/09

Tried to get things working in VMware again. At the end of this class we decided that we had spent too much time on trying to get arround the restrictions of a virtial machine have have decided that next week we will try to get some hardware machines.

09/03/09

Tried our best to use vmware server working. Its proving to have lots of restrictions and at some point we may have to give in and use hardware machines.

Jason 23/02/09

Installed server 2008 in 3 different virtual machines: datacenter server core installation (command line only) and datacenter full installation (with GUI). Was decided that we probably wont use the server core installation. Visio not installed did network diagram in word (for now) hope to have visio next week and hope to install virtual server and see if it is of any use to the project.

Jason 16/02/09

Research on server 2008 and ways that clustering can be done in virtual machines. Found out that in the past people have used VM ware instead ov microsoft virtual pc 2007 sp2. Tried to find out if there is a way that we van use VPC. Found that virtual server may be a solution to the problem. will download and hopefully install next week. Viseo and Server 2008 still not provided to us.

Jason 16/02/09

Research on what people had done for this project in the past i.e. clustering firewalls etc. Asked mark to upload server 2008 onto the shared drive for next week and for mike to install visio so that network diagrams can be done

09/02/09

Mostly checked out the requirements of Windows server 2008 as well as research on the method that the people that did the same project last year used i.e. clustering etc. and posted them on the wiki. I feel that the networking side is lacking direction...