Ok, so this has been something that’s been brewing for years now… Having worked with many clients who have had Hyper-V issues related to VMQ, and spending a lot of my time debating incorrect/stale blog posts, I feel it’s time to set to story straight. So please excuse me if
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MS Ignite Tour – Sydney
Excited to be speaking at Microsoft Ignite The Tour in Sydney. For those coming along, below are my sessions and demo times slots… If you see me make sure you come up and say hi!
Read moreAdventures of a Cloud Operator: SQL Resource Provider on Azure Stack – Step 1: Deployment
This is for SQL Resource Provider (RP) 1.1.24.0 which is now superseded by 1.1.30.0 literally the next day after I executed the install. The only reason for posting this blog is to give a baseline for my update SQL RP post. The exact same install process will work for any
Read moreAdventures of a Cloud Operator: Highly Available App Service 1.4 on Azure Stack – Step 1: Design considerations
You’re a cloud operator for an Azure Stack Integrated system and for whatever reason you have the task of deploying the App Services Resource provider… In this blog series, I’m going to take you through the considerations and deployment processes I went through for the App Services resource provider on
Read moreAdventures of a Cloud Operator: Highly Available App Service 1.4 on Azure Stack – Step 2: Deployment
You’re a cloud operator for an Azure Stack Integrated system and for whatever reason you have the task of deploying the App Services Resource provider… In this blog series, I’m going to take you through the considerations and deployment process of the App Services resource provider on an Azure
Read moreAdventures of a Cloud Operator: Setup your Cloud Operator environment – Quick Tip!
Quick tip for all potential Azure Stack Cloud Operators As you’d be aware, essentially the majority of the Azure Stack extended setup requires PowerShell. Not only does managing Azure Stack require PowerShell, it requires specific modules, tools and PowerShell profiles… Oh, did I mention Azure Stack management requires PowerShell? This
Read moreAdventures of a Cloud Operator: Monitoring Azure Stack with SCOM
I recently had the task of enabling monitoring of an Azure Stack Integrated System using System Center Operations Manager. Below I will go through the process of how this is done and what to consider a long the way. Firstly, RTFM Secondly, you probably don’t need this blog post as
Read moreAdventures of a Cloud Operator: Registering Azure Stack as CSP
So, if you’ve found your way here you have got yourself an Azure Stack Integrated System and need to register it as a Cloud Solution Provider (CSP). Before we registered we needed to identify the type of subscription we want to use. The choice is a CSP or APSS subscription.
Read moreSCVMM custom VM properties extended
One day I was working on our fabric and thought it would be nice to be able see which Logical Switch each VM was connected to. So I started to extend my good old datastores script and before I knew it, it had morphed out of control to include Logical
Read moreSCVMM Standalone to Highly Available – what you need to consider…
So you have a standalone instance of SCVMM and you want to make it highly available. Firstly, well done for recognizing the important of SCVMM and embarking on this journey There are many guides out there on the step by step so I won’t reinvent the wheel here. What I
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