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The node on which your VPS is hosted is having Windows 2003 SP1 OS template which is having few drawbacks, so we have migrated all VPses on new hardware node having latest hardware configuration and Windows 2003 SP2 with all Microsoft's Security Updates and Hotfixes.
Microsoft claim performance improvements for SQL throughput. SP2 also introduces SNP (Scalable Networking pack), which increases network and application performance by freeing up CPU cycles and by using processor resources more efficiently.
If you use IPSEC, then Service Pack 2 improves Server and Domain Isolation by reducing the number of IPsec filter sets that needs to be managed from potentially hundreds of filters, to as few as 2 filters. If you are not using IPsec, then this may encourage you to deploy it ! The MMC will upgrade from MMC v 2.0 to MMC 3.0.
The procedure for migration is :
- Stop existing VPS
- Migrate the data
- Then run "vzcfgt" script and start the VPS
This procedure takes 25-30 minutes (also depends on the size of the VPS). We have faced some issues while migrating so we have rebooted the hardware node once.
Anyhow we have to do this migration because we were receiving complaints from other VPS customers and also we were not able to run latest Virtuozzo updates. Now you will find Virtuozzo 4 (latest Virtuozzo version) and Windows SP2 installed on your VPS.
We can understand that you have faced some downtime because of this migration but please believe, our aim was just to provide you with a permanent solution.
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