Quick tip for all potential Azure Stack Cloud Operators As you’d be aware, essentially the majority of the Azure Stack extended setup requires PowerShell. Not only does managing Azure Stack require PowerShell, it requires specific modules, tools and PowerShell profiles… Oh, did I mention Azure Stack management requires PowerShell? This
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Adventures of a Cloud Operator: Monitoring Azure Stack with SCOM
I recently had the task of enabling monitoring of an Azure Stack Integrated System using System Center Operations Manager. Below I will go through the process of how this is done and what to consider a long the way. Firstly, RTFM Secondly, you probably don’t need this blog post as
Read moreAdventures of a Cloud Operator: Registering Azure Stack as CSP
So, if you’ve found your way here you have got yourself an Azure Stack Integrated System and need to register it as a Cloud Solution Provider (CSP). Before we registered we needed to identify the type of subscription we want to use. The choice is a CSP or APSS subscription.
Read moreSCVMM custom VM properties extended
One day I was working on our fabric and thought it would be nice to be able see which Logical Switch each VM was connected to. So I started to extend my good old datastores script and before I knew it, it had morphed out of control to include Logical
Read moreSCVMM Standalone to Highly Available – what you need to consider…
So you have a standalone instance of SCVMM and you want to make it highly available. Firstly, well done for recognizing the important of SCVMM and embarking on this journey There are many guides out there on the step by step so I won’t reinvent the wheel here. What I
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 moreSCVMM Host Not Responding. Error 2912– WinRM & The request is not supported (0x80070032)
Quick and dirty answer – Windows Updates relating to CredSSP updates for CVE-2018-0886 The fun story time answer I’ve seen this one a few times now so thought it best to share with you all as many clients have gone around and around in circles with this one. The
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
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