great for a change… what did we learn? IIS and Tomcat integration still sucks, load balancing in the plugin is so neat and simple.. VMWare bare metal virtualisation and physical redundancy rocks all the time, IIS (7.x) has come a long way since the “dark days”..
…and should have known about the free awesome(!) www.cloudshare.com instant-on virtualisation before spending time and reinstalled my laptop with Windows 2008 Server trial 😉