RedHat 6.3 VM may loose Network connectivity after a live migration
Hi, recently, I had an issue with a RHEL 6.3 VM with the latest Integration Components 3.4. After live migration of the VM to another node, it was not reachable over the network anymore. Usually, the...
View ArticleHyper-V Powershell module not installed during Bare Metal Deployment
Hi, I just had an issue that my 2012 Hyper-V Hosts did not have the new powershell commands available. (get-vm, etc) I installed the Hosts using SCVMM 2012 SP1 (beta) using Bare Metal Deployment...
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Howto move a Linux VM from Vmware to Windows Azure VM
Hi, I just had a interesting task I'd like to share: Customer had some Linux CentOS 6.3 VMs running on VmWare ESX. The task was to convert this machines to Windows Azure VMs. Here are the steps we...
View ArticleUsing Port ACLs in Hyper-V 2012
Hi, recently, I had an issue where it was needed to carefully control which machines can talk to each other by using a feature in Server 2012: Port Access Contol Lists (ACLs) The feature is described...
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Building a teamed virtual switch for Hyper-V from SCVMM
Hi! A common question today is how to setup your cluster blades with (10GB) Ethernet connections. How do I configure that correctly with the following requirements: A LBFO (Load Balanced FailOver) Team...
View ArticleAchieving over 1-Million IOPS from Hyper-V VMs in a Scale-Out File Server...
Hi, I'd like to point you to a Whitepaper from your Development Group that impressively shows how to build High Performance Hyper-V Clusters today....
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Getting started with virtual Fibre Channel inside a Hyper-V VM
Hi, recently I had to build an environment with Hyper-V virtual fibre channel. As I’m not a SAN expert I had some key learnings that I’d like to share with you. A good lecture is...
View ArticleVerify all SCVMM Host Agents are up to date
Hi, now that UR8 is available, I modified my script slightly to also check if the DHCP Extension is correct. If it is shown in red, please manually update it on every host. Usually, I expected that...
View ArticleCompliance Scan from SCVMM fails with Error (2927)
Hi, recently, I had some occurrences of the following error while scanning the compliance state of particular hosts or clusters from SCVMM: Error (2927) A Hardware Management error has occurred...
View ArticleErrors discovered during backup of VHDS in guest clusters
Hi, with Windows Server 2016 we introduced VHD Sets to create a shared virtual disk to be used with guest clusters. We also introduced production checkpoints to create application consistent backups....
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