Windows 2008 Server Acting Up Slow on VMWare [Fix]

Apr 182011
 

Not too long ago I started testing  Windows 2008 server and see how applications that I use on Windows Servers behave. As soon as I got the W2k8 up and running there was two things I noticed and that bothered me quite a bit.

Windows 2008 Server Login Screen

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One was that server response was very slow when I opened console in VMware, so slow that  it took me almost a minute to click on My Computer, C drive and go to Program files , even though server had few CPU’s and few GB of memory assigned. I mean Windows 2003 and other servers were just fine, so after bit of a digging around VMWare Forums I found one solution that fixed Windows 2008 running slow on VMWare.

Here is how I fixed it:

Go to

C:\Program Files\Common Files\ Drivers\wddm_video\

If you have those folders, that means that Virtual Drivers are installed on W2k8 server if you don’t, please install it before you proceed.

I am assuming you are familiar with the Windows enough and know where Device Manager is? Well go to Device Manager, find your Video Card under Display.

Right Click and Click Properties. Then go to Driver Tab and click Update Driver…

Window will popup asking you if you want the driver isntalled automatically or you can chose the installation folder. Go with the option 2.

Click on Browse and point it to the location we talked about above and click next.Windows 2008 Server should find the video card drivers and install them. After you are done with installing the drivers, please reboot the VMware instance.

That solved my problem with Windows 2008 servers being slow on VMware , I hope it will solve yours too.

Second issue I faced, which unfortunately I have not yet been able to resolve is the RDP session being slow on Windows 2008 Server.  When I open VMware console W2k8 server is acting ok, no delays whatsoever, but when I use RDP to connect to W2k8 server, omg that thing runs like Windows 98 on 133mhz and 32GB ram! Not kidding…

Am actually writing this article in hope that some of you W2k8 experts might be able to solve this 2nd issue  of mine and share some information in commenting section below, as to what I  can do to speed Windows 2008 server RDP session up.

If you had chance to play with Wk28 , like it? Hate it? Sucks? Love it?

Remote from your iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch via VNC to any Operating System (+Giveaway)

Apr 042011
 

As a tech guy who has been in tech industry for over a decade now, I am always in  different places doing some sort of web-development and most of my time I spend remoting into my servers whether that is from home or some other place.

Now that technology has advanced, I can remote to my web servers and home pc’s straight from iPad 2 and iPhone 4 which I recently got for birthday (April 1st!). Today I would like to introduce you to one of the best remote applications for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch basically any iDevice that runs on iOS 3+  and that app name is Remoter.

I downloaded bunch of remote apps for my iPad 2 and waisted my money so to say, but with Remoter everything paid it self off.

Remoter (Remoter: Remote Desktop VNC – iTunes Link) application allows you to remote into ANY operating system that has VNC (I use TightVNC) or SSH.

With SSH (I am more of a linux guy) you can do pretty much everything you would do on any linux machine, it gives you all the controls that you could possibly use as you would be upfront of that PC.

Same thing goes with Windows and OS X , as I said above you can remote to any operating system, and use it just like you would use it when you are upfront of that computer.

About the GIVEAWAY:

Since I have been using Remoter for two weeks, I contacted developers and gave great feedback on what amazing application they built, in return I have been given redeem codes that will allow winners to install remoter for free. Current price on remoter is 99c which is cheap considering that other applications run for $10-$20!

To win free redeem code, all you really need to do is tweet this article , and the winner will be chosen randomly. We have 3 codes to giveaway, so your chances to win this are really high. I will chose the winner tomorrow after 5PM (CST)

Some snapshots I took of my demo servers with remoter (there is still stuff to read under pix):

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Now that I got your attention, I would like to say that with this tool you can , type, move mouse, right and left click, view it full screen on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

Anyway, hope you are going to win this cool remote desktop application , so tweet this and stop by tomorrow, winners will be announced via Twitter (52.000 followers) and in commenting section below.

UPDATE: Winners are @dreamartist @dolton @suhastech