Issues getting output from Hyper-V Tools or Failover Cluster Manager
Hello, a few weeks ago i had some issues at a client where Failover Cluster Manager would not repsond when trying to anything. It would just hang and eventually fail. Even Hyper-V manager or the normal Powershell tools where hanging and taking forever. Doing a simple...
Adding a new Cache device and you setup your cluster with -CacheDeviceModel and now the new device wont be used as Cache?
Hello Everyone, it's been a while since my last blog post. So i thought id share something i came over in our Azure Stack HCI(Former S2D) slack channel. https://azurestackhci.slack.com Someone said that they had a new Node that when they added that node to the...
Day 1 update for Azure Stack HCI from Ignite
Hey everyone, there has been a few announcements toady at Ignite for Azure Stack HCI There are some relay big ones. Stretch Cluster Support for Azure Stack HCI in Windows Server vNext The first one is that Stretch Cluster will be available in vNext, i am guessing this...
MVP award and speaking at Experts Live Europe in Prague
Last week i was honored to receive the MVP award for Cloud and Datacenter for 2020/2021. MVP Award This has been a goal of mine for this year and i am so thrilled that came trough. As this all so new to me i am so looking forward to seeing what this will benefit me...
Configuring Azure Update Management for Virtual Machine Manager
With VMM 2019 we got the possibility to setup Azure Update Management for all new VM's being deployed with VM Templates in VMM. I see a great value in this as you do not need to setup a local WSUS server to do patching. And for any hoster you can easy have 1 single...
How to configure System Center VMM Part 15 – Guest OS Profiles
Welcome back for Part 15 of this System Center VMM series, in this post I will talk to you about Guest OS Profiles As with Hardware Profiles, Guest OS Profiles can be used with deployment of new Virtual Machines. If you use templates these can be good to use along...
How to configure System Center VMM Part 14 – Hardware Profiles
Welcome back for Part 14 of this System Center VMM series, in this post I will talk to you about Hardware Profiles One of my most used features of VMM is Templates of Virtual machines, within a template or during deployment of a virtual machine you can use Hardware...
How to configure System Center VMM Part 13 – Patching Hosts
Welcome back for Part 13 of this System Center VMM series, in this post I will talk to you about Configuring the Update server and how to patch your hosts Now that we have created some baselines let's look at how we can patch our Hyper-V servers. Patching Now that we...
How to configure System Center VMM Part 12 – Update Server and Baselines
Welcome back for Part 12 of this System Center VMM series, in this post I will talk to you about Configuring the Update server and how to create baselines for patching. To be able to patch Hyper-V hosts with VMM you need 2 things, a WSUS server connected to VMM and...
How to configure System Center VMM Part 11 – Bare Metal Deployment
Welcome back for Part 11 of this System Center VMM series, in this post I will talk to you about Bare Metal Deployment. In all the previous posts i have been talking about things that needs to be ready before you can do Bare Metal Deployment(BMT). BMT is how you...