Windows Server 2016 Networking – Multiple DCB priorities

When configuring DCB on Windows Server 2016, you can create policies to tag specific traffic with a specific priority to let DCB handle the right QoS. For more info how this works, please see this blog series: https://www.darrylvanderpeijl.com/windows-server-2016-networking-rdma-dcb-pfc-ets-etc/ When you have multiple types of traffic that you want to separate into DCB priorities, e.g. Storage and […]

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VMM Logical Switch – Unknown error (0x80078005)

Walked into this issue when trying to deploy a logical switch from Virtual Machine Manager: Error (2912) An internal error has occurred trying to contact the ‘Cluster1-Node1’ server: : . WinRM: URL: [http://Cluster1-Node1:5985], Verb: [INVOKE], Method: [GetFinalResult], Resource: [http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/wmi/root/scvmm/AsyncTask?ID=1001] Unknown error (0x80078005) Recommended Action Check that WS-Management service is installed and running on server ‘Cluster1-Node1’. […]

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Windows Server 2016 Update settings

In Windows Server 2016 there are no GUI options available to change the update behavior. In this blog I was outline the different ways to change the Windows Server 2016 Update settings. Windows Server 2016 Update settings Windows always looks at registry keys located in the following hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU Typically there is a key named […]

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

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     […]

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Inconsistent parameters PolicyStore PersistentStore and Dhcp Enabled

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 […]

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