Tag: VM

VirtualBox SQL FCI – Given Network Name Is Unusable
By Art on April 19, 2017

The other day I needed to test some HADR requirements on my local machine so using VirtualBox, I created a 2 server Windows 2012 R2 failover cluster with shared storage provided by FreeNAS and a domain controller. All was good at the windows level so I proceeded to install a SQL cluster next but part way through the setup of […]

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Unable to activate a Windows 2003 VM on Hyper-V behind a proxy
By Art on June 25, 2012

Ok, so this is not strictly a post about SQL itself (and it’s about a fairly old OS), but I did run into this problem myself a couple of weeks ago whilst creating a very specific build to test some functionality and seeing as it took me a little bit of googling, I wanted to jot the fix down as […]

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