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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Another quick one, just to share…. 🙂 For a HA WAP deployment you will need to update each service of the pertinent url to ensure they are using the NLB endpoint rather than going direct to one of the servers.. This is […]
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 […]
Had a quirky one recently where by a client was rebuilding a NVGRE gateway (as per this post) failed with the below warning. Warning (26926) Unable to set up Remote Access server to support multi-tenancy mode. (Remote Access server […]
Fast publish… will revisit later Scenario: Existing NVGRE gateways manual deployed. Working fine for ages. NAT resources failed to come online HyperV Network Virtualization Gateway role failed FOCM below Cluster resource xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx of type ‘Nat’ in clustered role ‘HyperV Network Virtualization […]
Simple one that new WAP users often miss when deploying VHD’s for VM Roles. When deploying a VM role with multiple instances, some instances get stuck during deployment with the VM waiting for a product key to be entered. Although the solution […]
Fast publish! Had to migrate logical networks from an existing VMM 2012 instance into a new shiny VMM 2012 R2 deployment. This is the export from the existing VMM. The import script will follow shortly: Import-Module virtualmachinemanager # all Logical network […]