A word… Having worked with many clients over the years, the commonality between many of them an under-utilization of automation. Even the biggest of Microsoft shops fall short when it comes to automation, regularly being confused about the options they have and often fear of introducing a new tool to
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SMA Runbook: SCVMM Logical Networks into HP OneView
This SMA Runbook will add any new or missing logical network definitions (i.e. VLAN’s) in SCVMM and to HP OneView appliance. As well as having a “working SMA deployment”, the prerequisites for this Runbook are 5 SMA Variables (Assets) which are: VMMServer HPOneViewAppliance HPOneViewUsername HPOneViewPassword HPOneViewLoginDomain We use Active
Read moreAdd networks to HP OneView 3.00 using REST API via PowerShell
I recently had the task of creating a PowerShell script to call REST API for adding Networks to an uplink set in HP OneView. A quick overview of the environment. Our enclosures have 4x FlexFabrics, 2 used to plumb an access port to the LOMs and 2 used
Read moreSCVMM and Datastores
Was cleaning out some old PS scripts recently and found this one in my toolkit. This one will appease some of those out there who came to Hyper-V from another virtualization technology and are familiar with the term datastore… We use SOFS storage so our VM paths are all SMB shares but I’ve
Read moreUpdating uri’s for HA WAP deployment via PowerShell
Another quick one, just to share…. 🙂 For a HA WAP deployment you will need to update each service of the pertinent url to ensure they are using the NLB endpoint rather than going direct to one of the servers.. This is one that catches a few people out when
Read moreAzure Connector for WAP(Pheonix) fails to create VM “Error in CheckCheckVmCreation()”
Another quick one (becoming a habit..) In deploying and testing Azure Connector for Windows Azure Pack found here, deploying a virtual machine can sometimes fail with an obscure status message of: “Error in CheckCheckVmCreation()” This is because the parameters of the resource creation are rejected.
Read moreNVGRE Rebuild – Warning 26926
Had a quirky one recently where by a client was rebuilding a NVGRE gateway (as per this post) failed with the below warning. Warning (26926) Unable to set up Remote Access server to support multi-tenancy mode. (Remote Access server and the host are not configured for multi-tenancy.
Read moreHyper-V 2012 R2 NVGRE Gateways Rebuild
Fast publish… will revisit later Scenario: Existing NVGRE gateways manual deployed. Working fine for ages. NAT resources failed to come online HyperV Network Virtualization Gateway role failed FOCM below Cluster resource xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx of type ‘Nat’ in clustered role ‘HyperV Network Virtualization Gateway’ failed The Windows NAT Driver service
Read moreWAP – Deploying a VM Role, some VM’s prompt for product key
Simple one that new WAP users often miss when deploying VHD’s for VM Roles. When deploying a VM role with multiple instances, some instances get stuck during deployment with the VM waiting for a product key to be entered. Although the solution is clearly discussed here on TechNet I find that
Read moreMigrate Logical Networks from VMM to VMM with PowerShell – The Export
Fast publish! Had to migrate logical networks from an existing VMM 2012 instance into a new shiny VMM 2012 R2 deployment. This is the export from the existing VMM. The import script will follow shortly: Import-Module virtualmachinemanager # all Logical network definitions $LogicalNetsdef = Get-SCLogicalNetworkDefinition Foreach ($def in $LogicalNetsdef){
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