Quick tip: You find yourself with duplicate HA roles for a virtual machine and you’re unable delete the problematic resource… Symptoms: Duplicate cluster roles for a virtual machine. When attempting to delete, you get the error: Error code: 0x8007012f The file cannot be opened because it is in the process
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SMA Runbook to set VM custom property… (or run PS script)
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
Read moreLight up your Hyper-V Datacenter in minutes with OMS
In a recent project, the management were keen to see some dashboards and insights into their organizations shiny new infrastructure. Whilst SCOM gives some great data and statistics, it’s not overly helpful in demonstrating the high level view to management out of the box. This is where Microsoft Operations Management
Read moreQuick tip – Disabling ISO Media Sharing in SCVMM
Hello there! I often get asked if it’s possible to disable VMM users from ‘sharing’ ISO’s from the library when attaching to a VM. You can do this via applying a pre-configured Capability Profile and the Cloud and Virtual Machines. Note: Capability Profiles can only be assigned to Clouds, not
Read moreManaging a Hyper-V Datacenter– Converged Networking and RDMA
Server 2016 brings great new feature called Switch Embedded Teaming (SET). A great overview of SET can be found in this TechNet article. But to summarize, SET basically allows a Virtual Network Adapter to access the features available by RDMA. I won’t go into too much detail on RDMA, there
Read moreManaging a Hyper-V Datacenter – Extra thoughts & tuning..
I will add to this post over time with anything I can recall that has helped in the tuning of the many environments I’ve worked on… Edited: 30/11 – Thoughts on Dynamic Optimization Before I continue, as usual I’ll try not to repeat what you can already find out there,
Read moreMythbusting: The truth about blades…
Hi all, this has been a long time coming but I wanted to share my thoughts and experiences on virtualization, Hyper-V and blades. Before we get started, I wanted to put this in context and give some reasoning as to the purpose of this post. Over the last 5 or
Read moreSMA 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 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 moreApplying updates (cab & msu) by batch file…
Another one from my toolkit.. Basically run this batch file from a folder with the required update files and it will install them all. Once it is finished it will prompt for any input to restart the server. Enjoy! Dan @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION FOR /R “%~dp0” %%A IN
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