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2012 R2 2016 Hyper-V Quick Tips SCVMM Windows Server

Quick tip – Disabling ISO Media Sharing in SCVMM

15/11/2017 Dan 0

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

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2016 Hyper-V Quick Tips SCVMM Uncategorized Windows Server

Managing a Hyper-V Datacenter– Converged Networking and RDMA

13/10/2017 Dan 0

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

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2012 R2 2016 Hyper-V Quick Tips SCVMM Software Defined Windows Server

Managing a Hyper-V Datacenter – Extra thoughts & tuning..

10/10/2017 Dan 0

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,

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Azure Powershell Quick Tips Windows Server

Quick tip: Add second NIC to ARM VM using PowerShell

19/09/2017 Dan 0

  This is one I use regularly, so thought it might come in handy for you.. Assumption here is you are connected via PowerShell to your intended subscription..   A few key points: The VM will need to be stopped to execute Check the Azure VM sizing to see how

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2016 Powershell Quick Tips Windows Server

Export DHCP and import Reverse DNS zones using PowerShell

31/08/2017 Dan 0

  Had a fun one for a client recently whereby they were standing up some new DNS servers for a segment of their network. The forward lookup zones were very easy, import csv and PowerShell them in without much fuss at all..   Next came the Reverse DNS Zones. Now

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Azure Pack Hyper-V Powershell Quick Tips SCVMM Windows Server

SMA Runbook: SCVMM Logical Networks into HP OneView

10/04/2017 Dan 0

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

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Azure Pack Powershell Quick Tips SCVMM

Add networks to HP OneView 3.00 using REST API via PowerShell

11/01/2017 Dan 0

  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

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Powershell Quick Tips SCOM

Disable all alerts for a SCOM management pack using PowerShell

10/01/2017 Dan 1

So use this wisely… This script will use Out-Gridview to prompt the operator for the management pack to disable the alerts for and the override management pack to save those overrides in. Enjoy! Dan First, the script to do this for all monitors: Import-module operationsmanager $SCOMServer = “<SCOMServerName>” New-SCOMManagementGroupConnection -ComputerName

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Powershell Quick Tips SCOM

Create empty overrides Management Pack for SCOM via PowerShell

10/01/2017 Dan 0

Along the same line as this post, the below will create an empty overrides management pack based on a source management pack and client number These are meant for the SCOM operators to use for consistent management pack naming. Enjoy Dan! $ManagementServer = “SCOM01” $orgmanagementpackname = read-host “Enter Search Criteria”

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Powershell Quick Tips SCOM

Create empty custom Management Pack from SCOM via PowerShell

10/01/2017 Dan 0

Found this one in my toolkit recently and thought I’d share. It’s a little old so the code could do with some optimizing.. What it does: Prompts the script runner for a client number and then asks them to confirm the name for new management pack. If the operator types

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