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.
Scale-Out File Server – DNS Settings
Scale-Out File Servers (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 will go deeper into DNS Settings […]
The configuration registry database is corrupt (0x800703F1)
Got the following error when creating a VM template in Virtual Machine Manager: Error (2912) An internal error has occurred trying to contact the vmms01 server: : . WinRM: URL: [http://vmms01.mgmt.local:5985], Verb: [INVOKE], Method: [LoadSubkey], Resource: [http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/wmi/root/scvmm/P2VSourceFixup?RegFileName=C:\Users\SVC_VMM\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp6AB5.tmp] The configuration registry database is corrupt (0x800703F1) Recommended Action Check that WS-Management service is installed and running on […]