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 moreS2D and CSV balancer – my take on things…
The question: To enable or disable CSV balancer in S2D? Before we continue, I want to clarify the Cluster AutoBalancer and CSV Balancer are separate things. Cluster Autobalancer is relating to cluster roles, or in this case the VM’s. CSV balancer is about the CSV storage. Info on each can
Read moreInstalling Azure Site Recovery Agent (i.e. running an exe/script) on a Hyper-V host using SCVMM
From time to time I have the requirement to deploy/update a basic app or run a script on my Hyper-V hosts. This is relatively simple using remote PS session or if you have SCCM managing your fleet. But sometimes you need to just push something out fast and luckily SCVMM
Read moreAnother S2D build blog… with a SCVMM twist (public draft)
WORK IN PROGRESS Editors Note: this is still a working document as my priorities have to be on other work right now, but in the interest of sharing I have made this available now… If you find any issues or errors let me know – thanks for reading! There
Read moreSCVMM console crashes when opening VM host properties
Error: “VMM cannot use [Logical Switch] to create a virtual switch a there are no uplink port profile sets present on this logical switch” Environment: SCVMM 1801. Symptom, right click on a Hyper-V host and after a couple of seconds the below error. After clicking OK, VMM crashes. The
Read moreS2D on HPE Gen10 LFF – The BOM
A few months ago we placed an order for some slick HPE Gen10 hardware to replace our existing storage service. Our trusty Server 2012 R2 Storage Spaces with DL360 Gen8’s and DataON enclosures has served us well, very well, but it’s time to move on to the latest and greatest…
Read moreAll-Flash and Storage Spaces Direct…
An interesting solution brief of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure from DataOn got my cogs ticking on a topic that has bugged me for a while… All-Flash storage. Firstly, this DataON solution is a seriously slick contender… a 3M IOPS 4-node HCI in 8U. The tech geek in me would be quite pleased to
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
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