We make extensive use of Hyper-V within Basefarm and I recently encountered a strange problem when doing maintenance on a 5 node windows cluster running the hyper-v role. For reasons I won’t bore you with here (pre-production testing basically), I had been evicting and adding nodes to my host level windows cluster, but when trying […]
Here’s something I was looking at this morning, which is not an uncommon problem I think. I was doing some disk cleaning for a customer and some extremely large files that we needed to remove were locked and inaccessible even by a local administrator on the machine. There are multiple reasons why this can occur, […]
Läste artikeln “HP: Vi lämnar pc-branschen” & I senaste laget för HP på IDG. Det är nya tider, likheten med IBM’s drag för några år sedan är uppenbar. Få trodde på deras teori att fokusera på tjänster istället för hårdvara. Och nu med facit i hand så förefalller deras spåkula visat vägen framåt. PC-tillverkning är […]
(We’re hiring – https://www.basefarm.com/sv/jobb/Lediga-tjanster-Sverige/ Drop us a line if you’d like to come and try our technical test!) We’ve been expanding quite a lot recently, which is a good thing of course, but also means that you often need to spend a fair amount of time doing recruitment and interviews. I find this side of […]
This weekend it is once again time for DreamHack – the world’s largest LAN-party. The event runs from 18th to 21st of June and for 72 hours gamers, coders and hackers from all over the world will gather in Jönköping, Sweden to compete in e-sports, creative competitions or just to hang out with likeminded people. […]
I’ve written previously about the dangers of VLF fragmentation, but the problems I’ve actually experienced before were always related to log based operations, i.e. recovery phase after a crash or database mirroring, but last week I saw an alternate issue where doing a full restore from IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). At the start I […]
In Part 1, I looked at how one could identify that a large blocking chain was causing resource exhaustion in SQL Server leading to a cluster failover. Being as we were working retrospectively, we were lacking data to analyse what actual condition was causing the blocking chain to begin with. This post address that area […]
Here at Basefarm we offer a number of different levels of SLA and support, which can be tailored to customers’ individual needs. One of the highest levels that we offer is called Basefarm Application Management. At this level we take full responsibility for the operations of the infrastructure but also the customer developed applications and […]
Here at Basefarm we run a large number of 24×7 business critical systems for our customers. So when one of our windows customers recently encountered an unexplained SQL Server crash on one such system, it was something that got our highest attention. In my long experience with SQL Server (I’ve been working with it since […]
Now Basefarm has it’s own company blog! Our blog Above the clouds will be a corporate blog for the entire Basefarm Group, which means that employees from all Basefarm countries will blog. I’m Elin who write this very first blog post and have pull the strings to make this blog real. The blog will mostly […]