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2016 Hyper-V SCVMM Software Defined System Center Windows Server

SCVMM console crashes when opening VM host properties

13/06/2018 Dan 0

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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2016 Hyper-V S2D Software Defined Windows Server

S2D on HPE Gen10 LFF – The BOM

04/05/2018 Dan 0

A few months ago we placed an order for some slick HPE Gen10 hardware to replace our existing storage service. Our trusty Server 2012 R2 Storage Spaces with DL360 Gen8’s and DataON enclosures has served us well, very well, but it’s time to move on to the latest and greatest…

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Azure Powershell Quick Tips

Azure Application Gateway with WAP and HTTPS using PowerShell

30/04/2018 Dan 0

So over the last year or so I’ve had a lot of fun extending client environments to Azure. One of the methods I’ve used has been leveraging Azure Application Gateway (AAG) with Web Application Firewall (WAF) to protect these services. The AAG’s with WAF have been a very fast and

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Blown away – I received a Microsoft MVP award.

02/03/2018 Dan 0

Today I was received an email advising that I’d been awarded the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award from Microsoft in Cloud and Datacenter Management. Needles to say, this was a very humbling moment. I am still at a loss for words, so I don’t really have anything more to add

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2012 R2 2016 Hyper-V Powershell Quick Tips SCVMM Uncategorized Windows Server

Unable to delete duplicate cluster resource for Hyper-V VM

12/01/2018 Dan 0

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 be opened because it is in the process

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2016 Azure Pack Hyper-V Powershell Quick Tips SCVMM

SMA Runbook to set VM custom property… (or run PS script)

10/01/2018 Dan 0

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 often fear of introducing a new tool to

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2016 S2D Software Defined Windows Server

All-Flash and Storage Spaces Direct…

07/12/2017 Dan 0

An interesting solution brief of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure from DataOn got my cogs ticking on a topic that has bugged me for a while… All-Flash storage. Firstly, this DataON solution is a seriously slick contender… a 3M IOPS 4-node HCI in 8U. The tech geek in me would be quite pleased to

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2016 Azure Hyper-V OMS Quick Tips SCOM

Light up your Hyper-V Datacenter in minutes with OMS

23/11/2017 Dan 0

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 the box. This is where Microsoft Operations Management

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2012 R2 2016 Hyper-V Quick Tips SCVMM Windows Server

Quick tip – Disabling ISO Media Sharing in SCVMM

15/11/2017 Dan 0

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 Profiles can only be assigned to Clouds, not

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2016 Hyper-V Quick Tips SCVMM Uncategorized Windows Server

Managing a Hyper-V Datacenter– Converged Networking and RDMA

13/10/2017 Dan 0

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 go into too much detail on RDMA, there

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