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Migrate your VMs to Azure with Site Recovery

March 6, 2017March 10, 2017 Darryl Leave a comment

In this blog post, we’ll discuss how to migrate your on-premises virtual machines to Azure – focusing mostly on Azure Site Recovery – along with key prerequisites but also limitations. Site Recovery Migrating virtual machines to the cloud can be painful and complicated unless you use the right tools for the job. Microsoft offers a […]

No disks with supported bus types found to be used for S2D

November 18, 2016March 6, 2017 Darryl Leave a comment

I had some HP DL380’s to test Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) and walked into the following error: Enable-ClusterStorageSpacesDirect : No disks with supported bus types found to be used for S2D At line:1 char:1 + Enable-ClusterStorageSpacesDirect + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (MSCluster_StorageSpacesDirect:root/MSCLUSTER/…ageSpacesDirec t) [Enable-ClusterStorageSpacesDirect], CimException […]

Resize Storage Spaces Direct Volume

October 6, 2016March 10, 2017 Darryl 2 Comments

In this blog post I will show you how to resize a Storage Space AKA virtual disk based on Storage Spaces Direct.The first thing is to understand that Multi-Resilient volumes are created differently comparing to a Parity or Mirror volume. A Multi-Resilient volume makes use of two tiers instead of one and therefore when expanding […]

Inconsistent parameters PolicyStore PersistentStore and Dhcp Enabled

May 19, 2016March 6, 2017 Darryl 7 Comments

This error was driving me crazy! I was trying to configure a team NIC with a new IP address but it would give the following error: PS C:\users\Darryl\Desktop> new-NetIPAddress -InterfaceIndex 100 -IPAddress 192.168.0.10 -AddressFamily IPv4 -PrefixLength 24 new-NetIPAddress : Inconsistent parameters PolicyStore PersistentStore and Dhcp Enabled At line:1 char:1 + new-NetIPAddress -InterfaceIndex 100 -IPAddress 192.168.0.10 […]

Azure Backup and Site Recovery in Public Preview

April 4, 2016April 4, 2016 Darryl 1 Comment

Although the many //Build/ announcements where overshadowing the news, Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup for v2 machines (ARM) are in Public Preview! There have been some changes, in the “old” portal you’d have to create a vault based on what you wanted to do, ASR or Backup. In the new portal ASR and Backup […]

Azure Stack – The Fabric Layer

January 5, 2016January 26, 2016 Darryl Leave a comment

With more and more details coming available on Microsoft Azure Stack we can see the direction Microsoft is taking and giving us a peek under the hood of Microsoft Azure itself. Azure Stack will be consistent with Azure and Microsoft is bringing the Azure bits to your datacenter with Azure Stack, we will get the […]

Error 803 Virtual Machine Already Exists

November 9, 2015 Darryl Leave a comment

I copied a virtual machine and imported it again in Hyper-V using a Unique ID. When refreshing the host in Virtual Machine Manager I hit the error below: Error (803) Virtual machine Darryl ASR already exists on the virtual machine host other cluster nodes Recommended Action Specify a new name for the virtual machine, and […]

Windows Server Container Manager

October 28, 2015October 28, 2015 Darryl 2 Comments

Since Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3 we have the ability to play around with containers. The containers are managed through Powershell and a offical GUI Management tool is (still?) lacking. Introducing Windows Server Container Manager >>>>>>>>>> DOWNLOAD <

Hyperconverged with Windows Server 2016

June 2, 2015March 22, 2018 Darryl Leave a comment

There has been a lot of development the last couple of years on the Hypervisor and Storage landscape. Where in the past we did big investments in separate infrastructure for Compute and Storage Array Network (SAN), now we see developments that beholds a combined infrastructure for both. While the big vendors not seemed “All-in” on […]