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 […]
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 one from my toolkit.. Basically run this batch file from a folder with the required update files and it will install them all. Once it is finished it will prompt for any input to restart the server. Enjoy! Dan @ECHO OFF […]
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 […]
So… RDS is not one of my core competencies but there’s something about RDS that I just enjoy. Not sure what it is, delivering a good user experience? Who knows? Anyway… This has been a sitting as a draft for almost 2 […]
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 […]
How to create a custom service monitor and automatically restart it For this little demo, we will be using the Print Spooler service and targeting Windows Operating System This will target all version of Server and Client OS […]
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 […]