Joel Francisco http://www.joelfrancisco.com geek stories and photography misadventures Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:06:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Virtual SAN = iSCSI Software Target http://www.joelfrancisco.com/2011/12/21/virtual-san-iscsi-software-target/ http://www.joelfrancisco.com/2011/12/21/virtual-san-iscsi-software-target/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:56:24 +0000 Joel http://www.joelfrancisco.com/?p=701 At long last, i can test clustering, failover and hyper-v all at the same time. Wondering why just now? because i cannot find any free Virtual SAN that can do the trick. And all these technologies require shared storage. Thanks to Microsoft, we have the iSCSI Software Target which turns a computer running Windows Server into a storage device which provides shared block storage.

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

Download from here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=19867

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Nightshot at Dubai Creek

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This was taken at home with 1 strobe with umbrella setting. I feel that the monochrome setting would emphasize this picture better. :)

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this was shot at home when she was 6 months old! :)

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My 6-month daughter Claire on 1 of the home photo shoots with uncle japs and me :) We really think baby photography could be a good biz :D

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Al Ain Zoo

more pictures here!

]]> http://www.joelfrancisco.com/2010/06/06/summer-al-ain-wildlife-park-resort/feed/ 0 My little angel, Claire Elizabeth http://www.joelfrancisco.com/2010/03/14/my-little-angel-claire-elizabeth/ http://www.joelfrancisco.com/2010/03/14/my-little-angel-claire-elizabeth/#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:10:30 +0000 Joel http://www.joelfrancisco.com/?p=332 My little angel has finally arrived! My wife and I had been blessed with our first daughter Claire Elizabeth. Thank you God for answering our prayers! We return all the glory unto You.


Clairebear1

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