Posts, a podcast and video series about Microsoft Azure by Marcos Nogueira.https://azurecentric.com/https://azurecentric.com/posts/update-rollup-5-for-system-center-2012-r2-virtual-machine-manager/https://azurecentric.com/posts/update-rollup-5-for-system-center-2012-r2-virtual-machine-manager/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.Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverhybridscvmmhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/software-defined-networking-with-windows-server-and-system-center-jump-start/https://azurecentric.com/posts/software-defined-networking-with-windows-server-and-system-center-jump-start/Free online event with live QA with the WAP team: http://aka.ms/WAPIaaSWed, 02 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverwindows-azure-packhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/scom-alert-winrm-is-not-functional-or-not-the-right-version/https://azurecentric.com/posts/scom-alert-winrm-is-not-functional-or-not-the-right-version/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…Tue, 27 May 2014 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverhyper-vscomscvmmwinrmhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-plan-your-system-center-virtual-machine-manager-networks/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-plan-your-system-center-virtual-machine-manager-networks/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…Tue, 01 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-servernetworkingscvmmhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/server-management-and-automation-with-windows-server-2012-r2/https://azurecentric.com/posts/server-management-and-automation-with-windows-server-2012-r2/Datacenter infrastructure has become complex: Multiple industry standards are confusing hardware vendors, and customers are looking for guidance on how to best automate their…Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverhyper-vrsathttps://azurecentric.com/posts/system-center-2012-r2-infrastructure-overview/https://azurecentric.com/posts/system-center-2012-r2-infrastructure-overview/The notion of infrastructure provisioning is about enabling enterprises and service providers to provision physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure that meets key…Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverorchestratorapp-controllerscvmmhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/whats-new-in-system-center-2012-r2-virtual-machine-manager/https://azurecentric.com/posts/whats-new-in-system-center-2012-r2-virtual-machine-manager/During the last TechEd North America, Microsoft wraps off what will be the new System Center 2012 R2. The upgrade follows the impressive number of new features on Windows…Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverscvmmhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/overview-of-networking-with-windows-server-2012-r2/https://azurecentric.com/posts/overview-of-networking-with-windows-server-2012-r2/Windows Server 2012 R2 makes it as straightforward to manage an entire network as a single server, giving you the reliability and scalability of multiple servers at a lower…Sun, 23 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverhyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/overview-of-storage-with-windows-server-2012-r2/https://azurecentric.com/posts/overview-of-storage-with-windows-server-2012-r2/Storage solutions play a critical role in the modern datacenter. Windows Server 2012 R2 was designed with a strong focus on storage capabilities, from the foundation of the…Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverbackuphyper-vstoragehttps://azurecentric.com/posts/statistics-of-a-nic-teaming/https://azurecentric.com/posts/statistics-of-a-nic-teaming/If the UI window is sufficiently tall a statistics tile appears at the bottom of the Team tile and the Adapters and Interfaces tile. These statistics windows reflect the…Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverfailover-clusternic-teaminghyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/modifying-a-nic-team-through-gui-and-powershell/https://azurecentric.com/posts/modifying-a-nic-team-through-gui-and-powershell/Within the UI, modifications to the team can be done by selecting a team in the Team tile, right-clicking on the team, and selecting the Modify Team action. Selecting Modify…Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverfailover-clusterhyper-vpowershellnic-teaminghttps://azurecentric.com/posts/creating-a-nic-teaming/https://azurecentric.com/posts/creating-a-nic-teaming/Both of these will cause the New Team dialog box to pop-up.Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverhyper-vnic-teaminghttps://azurecentric.com/posts/scvmm-2012-sp1-update-rollup-2/https://azurecentric.com/posts/scvmm-2012-sp1-update-rollup-2/Yesterday Microsoft added Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager to System Center 2012 SP1 Update Rollup 2 release.Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverscvmmhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/the-components-of-the-nic-teaming-management-ui/https://azurecentric.com/posts/the-components-of-the-nic-teaming-management-ui/The NIC Teaming management UI consists of 3 primary windows (tiles): The Servers tile The Teams tile The Adapters and Interfaces tileWed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverhyper-vnic-teaminghttps://azurecentric.com/posts/windows-server-2012-nic-teaming-tools-for-troubleshooting/https://azurecentric.com/posts/windows-server-2012-nic-teaming-tools-for-troubleshooting/NIC Teaming and the powerful administration tools in Windows Server 2012 are very powerful tools that can be misused, misconfigured, and may cause loss of connectivity if the…Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverhyper-vnic-teamingtroubleshootinghttps://azurecentric.com/posts/nic-teaming-on-virtual-machines/https://azurecentric.com/posts/nic-teaming-on-virtual-machines/NIC Teaming in a VM only applies to VM-NICs connected to external switches. VM-NICs connected to internal or private switches will show as disconnected when they are in a team.Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-servernic-teaminghyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/overview-of-nic-teaming-lbfo-in-windows-server-2012/https://azurecentric.com/posts/overview-of-nic-teaming-lbfo-in-windows-server-2012/NIC teaming, also known as Load Balancing/Failover (LBFO), allows multiple network adapters to be placed into a team for the purposes of bandwidth aggregation, and/or traffic…Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-servernic-teaminghyper-vhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/update-for-scvmm-2012-sp1-on-windows-server-2012/https://azurecentric.com/posts/update-for-scvmm-2012-sp1-on-windows-server-2012/If you are using System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1 (SCVMM) to manage storage and assign LUNS, there is a collection of updates that may improve this…Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverscvmmhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/dynamic-optimization-on-scvmm-2012/https://azurecentric.com/posts/dynamic-optimization-on-scvmm-2012/SCVMM 2012 introduced the ability to constantly monitor and rebalance load on clusters by using “Dynamic Optimization”. How Dynamic Optimization works, will help understand its…Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverscvmmdynamic-optimizationhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/storage-and-continuous-availability-enhancements-in-windows-server-2012/https://azurecentric.com/posts/storage-and-continuous-availability-enhancements-in-windows-server-2012/Windows Server 2012 will provide a continuum of availability options to protect against a wide range of failure modes in different tiers – storage, network, and compute. These…Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-create-a-cluster-in-a-restrictive-active-directory-environment/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-to-create-a-cluster-in-a-restrictive-active-directory-environment/In Windows Server 2012 there have been several enhancements to how Windows Server Failover Clusters integrate with the Active Directory. In this post we going to discuss some…Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverfailover-clusteractive-directoryhttps://azurecentric.com/posts/how-scvmm-2012-manage-storage/https://azurecentric.com/posts/how-scvmm-2012-manage-storage/The key piece within the new storage architecture for SCVMM 2012 is the Storage Service. This service is part of SCVMM 2012 and will not be available separately. The storage…Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMTwindows-serverscvmmstorage