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WE"RE DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

20/06/2009 and 21/06/2009

Worked with other group members to finish off the portfolio booklet

Fred, Robert and Catherine worked on the powerpoint as well as the booklet
Fred did some last edits.

YEAH

16/06/2009

Today in class our group started work on the power point for the project presentation. In terms of our severs they seem to working quite well although they can't run stronghold.
Our group also started work on the booklet.

update 08/06/2009

In this lesson our group was able to get the servers working after we found out that stronghold was working due to the config files being heavily edited. Mahbod came to the conclusion that we use another copy as he was the one who configured the original version. Althougha few issues came up but overall the servers seem to be working pretty well.

update 1/06/2009

Was told to start some work on the portfolio, although I have to collect some of the diagrams and notes from other memebers to include in the Networking Team A portfolio. I also asked Fred if he could take a few print screens while he was running the servers, I may include these in the portfolio. The print screen present how the clusters are configured/setup and how iSCSI is created.

ISCSI definition
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci750136,00.html

site also states how iSCSI functions.

update 20/04/2009

Was told that ISA was not necessary although if I were to do it I wouls still run into a few issues one being that A our group changed the images into Virtual Pc types and B the old images I had expired and quite useless right now. So for the day I just assisted Fred, Julien and Jason on any tasks they needed me for while working on the servers.

update 20/04/2009

On this day I used the old virtual 2008 server machines to to install ISA.

Although a Few issues came up one being that the server image that I was using expired.

ISA DESCRIPTION
Microsoft's ISA Server (Internet Security and Acceleration Server) is the successor to Microsoft's Proxy Server 2.0 (see proxy server) and is part of Microsoft's .NET support. ISA Server provides the two basic services of an enterprise firewall and a Web proxy/cache server. ISA Server's firewall screens all packet-level, circuit-level, and application-level traffic. The Web cache stores and serves all regularly accessed Web content in order to reduce network traffic and provide faster access to frequently-accessed Web pages. ISA Server also schedules downloads of Web page updates for non-peak times.

18/05/2009

Had started some work on the previous ISA servers although the group has decided not to use them.
Although the images are uslesss now as they work through VMWare in comparison of the of the other servers which work in Virtual PC so either way they will be useless.

More work was done on the Clusters to get the gaming LAN issue to work

Robert Made a design for his websevers and also for the cluster servers the documents might be useful for the our group design portfolio.

11/05/2009

Our group was able to extend the expiration date of the clusters, to about 30 days which should be adequate enough.

Mahbod also started assissting with the servers.
To fix the Quorum Disk isssue had to be reinstalled, at first there were a few complications with the installtion but after a while it starting working.

Had a few more issues with the servers not being to access any of our gaming networks.

Although after testing we able to get games running on the machines.
Their were also some issues when Fred, Jarrad, Julien and Jason were trying to run Stronghold.

04/05/2009

Worked on clusters with team although many problems came up
The Quorum disks running on the XP Virtual image has expired (That will need to be made again)
The clusters running windows 2008 are about to expire


Positives
We were able to increase performance of the clusters and able to run them properly for now with the use of the software Starwind .
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/

Also we downloaded direct X software for the test gaming machine. Proper test should be able to be done soon after resolving the clusters and quorums issue.

6/04/2009

Was assisting Fred, Jarrad, Julien, Jason and Daryl with setting up the cluster servers.
Made plans for project portfilio.
Some plans were produced for daryl and myself to use the old Windows 2008 servers we had on our drives that were runnning as test servers and install ISA.

Fred and Jason were also able to get a gaming machine to test out the games and see if the LA N options were available within the network.

30/03/2008

For this week I tried assisting Fred and Jason in physically setting up the network for the cluster servers. A few problems were faced primarily the primary server was running as an virtual image, therefore anytime we restarted the client (the real machine) the virtual image had to restart. It appears that our group may not be using virtual box anymore.

Also did some prac work for IIS and ISA to prepare for working on webservers and the clusters.

23/03/09

Worked on ISA prac for servers
Further study reveals we might not be able to use Virtual PC. We will try to go with Virtual box instead, research reveals it appears to be more effective with games and Efficiency. Installtion was started by Fred, meanwhile Jason and Fred both tried to get test machines.

16/03/09

Still worked on the webservers and tried to do a bit more rearch into the cluster servers. New source of information reveals we may have some issues using Vmware. Daryl and myself also continued to look at tha blogs.

We might have to redo the servers on VPC

Kenneth 9/3/2009

Today I continued working on prac webservers through vmware. I also continued on more reasearch for setting the servers up.

Also reasearched info for IIS

DG

Worked on setting up windows server 2008 on 2 virtual machines. This was done on vmware.

23 feb 2009

Started working on the 2008 enterprise servers, first machine went wrong during setup due to incorrect configured settings. Virtual machines were installed on vmware and required approximately 16 gig of space. 2 server machines were procduced in the end. Daryl worked on 2 servers machines as well.

sites used as guides
http://www.svrops.com/svrops/articles/Win2008VM.htm

http://www.pythian.com/blogs/1461/building-a-windows-server-2008-cluster-part-1

asdas

Researched information on setting up webservers. No problems were present at this time. Some ideas for hosting ventrilo have been thought further investigation is required though.

09/02/2009

Researched information for server 2008. Started a page on wiki that defines information on server 2008 and its specific requirements. Continued research on clustering networks. Some complications did come up : internet was starting to decrease in speed that or not load the webpages and Fred accidently deleted my page.