What you as enterprise customers uniquely expect from a public cloud platform. These are “must haves” that I always get when I asked: Integration – So you can integrate with your existing apps and infrastructure. Heterogeneity - So you can...
I understand that there is a lot of competition when you consider all the cloud platform players out there. When I looked at what makes Microsoft unique in this space, is the fact that no other company has the complete...
Microsoft Azure Site Recovery was first introduced in January 2014, and helps customers to protect important services by coordinating the replication and recovery of System Center 2012 private clouds at a secondary location. Azure Site Recovery provides three key functions:...
On my various engagements, often come to the conversations what are the challenges that I see IT facing and how the cloud innovation can help address lot of those challenges.
In the last few years, we have seen an explosive growth in the use of the public cloud. While most of the initial adoption was seen by startups and smaller organizations, most of the new growth will come from larger...
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Microsoft just release the Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager. From all the bug that this rollup is fixing, it’s also introducing some new features.
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After Scott Guthrie announce the new enhancements on Azure, last May, I was very excited with one in particular. Multi Site-to-Site VPN. This enhancement comes at the best time. Because I have 2 datacenter and I want to connect both...
After my session at TechEd about Best Practices for Virtualizing and Managing Microsoft SharePoint 2013 with Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2 one of the questions that I got was where I can find the Hyper-V...
On System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager (SCOM) (with UR2) starting to appear Critical Alerts coming from System Center Advisor (SCA) saying that my System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) (with UR2) “WinRM is not functional or not...
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If you have a Hyper-V Cluster connected through iSCSI to a storage solution and sometimes you get errors that your CSV volumes went offline. In some cases, the Windows Failover Cluster is able to recover and bring online automatically and...
In a failover cluster, virtual machines can use Cluster Shared Volumes that are on the same LUN (disk), while still being able to fail over (or move from node to node) independently of one another. Virtual machines can use a...
When do you need to see what updates had been installed on your Hyper-V server, you can use this PowerShell cmdlet to list all the updates. Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_QuickFixEngineering | select description,hotfixid,installedon
One of features on Windows Server 2012 R2 that was improved since the last version is network virtualization. Virtual networks are created by using Hyper-V Network Virtualization, which is a technology that was introduced in Windows Server 2012.
On the previous version of Windows Server (prior Windows Server 2012) you have to download and install MultiPath I/O (MPIO). Since Windows Server 2012 MPIO is a feature that you can enable. Because it’s a feature that comes with the...
Sometimes when you deploy an Hyper-V Server you don’t know if you miss any configuration or if you are following the best practices regarding security, configuration or even supportability of Hyper-V Server in case you need some help from Microsoft...
In some medium/large organizations, it is common practice to have different access levels for systems, such as administrator, help desk, support and auditor. When implementing virtual machine using Hyper-V Servers, it is also important to reflect these access levels as...
As a virtualization administrator, you will come across a lot of scenarios where you will need to create, modify, move, export, and other tasks to manage your virtual machines every day. In some examples, you will need to change a...
Working with PowerShell can be very common for daily tasks and Hyper-V Server management. However, as there is more than one server to be managed, sometimes it can be difficult to log on and run the PowerShell scripts (most of...
Cluster, Hyper-V Replica, Storage Migration, and other features makes for a higher availability for Hyper-V virtual machines, but it is impossible to provide 100 percent assurance in any system.
Previous versions of Hyper-V (like 2008, 2008 R2 and 2008 R2 SP1) had complications and incompatibilities with the built-in backup tool, forcing the administrators to acquire other solutions for backing up and restoring.
Server Core has many installation benefits, but there are a few situations where the GUI is better and provides more options; for example, when we need to troubleshoot a problem on the server. Even with the handy tools from the...
With all the benefits that Server Core bring such as performance, security and so on. But without the GUI, it’s not easy to do the daily management and maintenance of Hyper-V. If you want to change the computer name or...
Hyper-V 2012 R2 Server is the free version of Hyper-V and it offers all the components and features that are available in Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V. It is a Windows version containing only the Hyper-V bits and the...
Constrained delegation allows live migrations to be started using any remote management tool and might help in providing more flexibility to move your VMs.
For several times I have just ending up to explain how we should handle with networks on SCVMM in different scenarios. Here is the base that I use to planning SCVMM networks for all scenarios.
