bluebottle

Server 2008 Notes Part 2

Continuing on from part 1, I've been less impressed with Server 2008.

• Random crashes have continued, still haven't managed to pin down why or how. Almost all of my hardware is on the Windows HCL, the two which aren't are the Intel ICH8 chipset (which Windows found a driver for anyway), and my Nvidia 8800GT (which I've installed the Vista64 driver). It seems to crash less after being up for a while. Since the crashing is hard resets, it's almost certainly driver / hardware related, but I'm pretty stumped.
• Hyper-V is pretty sucky. Performance is below even VMWare for any OS but Server 2008, and it seemed to make my system less stable too. Server 2008 Performance is very good though. There are promised improvements coming for Vista Business, but they aren't here yet.
• Using 6gb of RAM instead of 3gb has made no difference to the feel of the system. Or maybe it has, and Server 2008 is just significantly slower than XP32.
• The server manager tool is nifty, especially the performance viewer:

I'm undecided as to whether to keep Server 2008, move to Vista Business x64, or back to XP32. They all seem roughly equally acceptable right now.

Comment (0)