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 Application Gateway with WAP and HTTPS using PowerShell
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
Read moreBlown away – I received a Microsoft MVP award.
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
Read moreUnable to delete duplicate cluster resource for Hyper-V VM
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
Read moreSMA Runbook to set VM custom property… (or run PS script)
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
Read moreAll-Flash and Storage Spaces Direct…
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
Read moreLight up your Hyper-V Datacenter in minutes with OMS
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
Read moreQuick tip – Disabling ISO Media Sharing in SCVMM
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
Read moreManaging a Hyper-V Datacenter– Converged Networking and RDMA
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
Read moreManaging a Hyper-V Datacenter – Extra thoughts & tuning..
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 repeat what you can already find out there,
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