Updated in Mar 2023: Ignore the May 2022 update, I was right all along. Microsoft actually change the default VMQ in Azure Stack HCI deployments, so that says all I need to know. **** ALWAYS change base processor to core 2 (or […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Quick Tip!! So I was asked to create a custom property that gives a quick overview of the total size for the virtual disks on a VM So, leveraging of my DataStore script, I came up with the below.. Enjoy Note: This […]
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 […]
Another fast publish! (I really should get back and clean these up…) Recently upgraded one of our Hyper-V clusters and had to migrate workloads to a new Hyper-V cluster. The naming conventions of our logical switches etc were different so when migrating […]
* Fast publish post – be nice.. In my Cloud OS demonstration environment recently I had a host in the cluster reporting “Needs Attention” status and refreshing the host cluster failed with “error 2912”. The Hyper-V Host was in “Needs Attention” status […]