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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Quick 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 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 moreHyper-V Cluster LBFO method for VM Guest switches – Hyper-V Port is best!
Just a quick note to share my experience in NIC teaming algorithm with 2012 R2 hosts and Hyper-V and hopefully dispel some myths.. Many documents/blogs recommend the load balancing algorithm to be Dynamic by default. In my experience this is not the optimal configuration. For NIC teams that are
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.
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