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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Had a few queries from clients and colleagues who get confused on the workflow for creating a Logical Switch and Port Profile. This quick post is to just run through that process. More info on the design decisions around Logical Network […]
Scenario: SQL01 – SQL 2016 RTM install (At this point in time I still recommend SQL2014 for DPM2016) DPM01 – Data Protection Manager 2016 RTM install When ‘check and install’ get the below error. Clicking on OK then closes the installer […]
Hi there, I have been wanting to share my fun times had with the Capacity and Performance solution in OMS for a while now, but have struggled to find the time.. Luckily for you I found a few moments today to have […]