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
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
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
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
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 […]
Windows Azure Pack Tool
Windows Azure Pack Tool enables you to execute tasks through a simple menu. – Download here – Download here – Download here – Download here –
Scale-Out File Server – Symmetric and Asymmetric storage
Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) is a feature that is designed to provide scale-out file shares that are continuously available for file-based server application storage such as Hyper-V. Scale-out file shares provide the ability to share the same folder from multiple nodes of the same cluster. In this blog we assume you already have played around […]
WAP – SQL Named Pipes Provider Error
SQL Database as a Service is a very cool feature of Windows Azure Pack. Because the SQL servers are probably internet facing you want to deploy them as secure as possible, maybe even in a different VLAN/Subnet than your WAP servers. “A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The […]
Get-MgmtSvcRelyingPartySettings bug fixed
In Windows Azure Pack UR4 I discovered a bug concerning the Get-MgmtSvcRelyingPartySettings cmdlet. I’m proud to say this is fixed in the upcoming UR5 release which also contains the following features and bugfixes: – Differencing disks are now optional in the VM Role when used with VMM UR5. (This got the fourth highest number of […]
Get Blocksize of Cluster Shared Volumes
WMI command to get the blocksize / clustersize of disks and Cluster Shared Volumes. get-wmiobject win32_volume -ComputerName . | FT Name,Blocksize You could also use this within a Powershell script.