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Public Beta VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager
Finally VMware realized that ESXi is not the only one bear metal hypervisor on the Earth and couple days ago VMware informed about public BETA test for upcoming VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager...
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VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5 has been released with new features:Support for virtual machine hardware version 10 (62TB disks, virtual SATA controllers, etc.)Support for RedHat KVM virtual...
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Unable to add Windows 2008 to AD
From time to time anyone can make stupid mistake, typo or just simply make a wrong assumption. This time it was me . Whenever I tried to deploy VM with Windows 2008 R2 or with Windows 7 it never got...
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vCAC 6 series – Part 10 – Prepare for provisioning
There are several ways to deploy virtual machines with vCloud Automation Center 6.0 and vSphere.Link CloneProvision a space-efficient copy of a virtual machine called a linked clone. Linked clones are...
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Nutanix basics – Nutanix Foundation – part 2
Nutanix Foundation 1.2.1 – part 2In first part of Nutanix Foundation series I blogged out how to configure and prepare your Nutanix Foundation VM for deployment on Nutanix blocks.Prepare Nutanix block...
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Cannot add library server in SCVMM 2012 R2
Cannot add library server in SCVMM 2012 R2 Few days ago I deployed SCVMM 2012 R2 U5 failover cluster. When SCVMM run on failover cluster installation process skips the SCVMM Library configuration...
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Generation 2 virtual machine support on Azure
I’ve seen some information about Hyper-V Generation 2 virtual machines are now supported on Azure. Asking around and looking at MSFT official documentation or several blog posts I got confused. Some...
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How to make Hyper-V Virtual machine highly available
Maybe this is silly topic but for someone who spent 8+ years working with VMware technology jumping over to Microsoft software stack it is not always easy :-). General thinking and assumption was: When...
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WAPack – The current user does not have administrative privileges
I spent some time at my lab to build up private cloud based on Microsoft Windows Azure Pack running on top of Nutanix and Hyper-V. I have to admit it went better then I was expecting. Obviously, I hit...
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Expand VHD Hyper-V virtual machine disk
When you run virtual machine on Hyper-V in cluster mode – protected by Hyper-V HA services you have to use Microsoft failover cluster manager to Expand VHD Hyper-V virtual machine disk drive. Shutdown...
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Download System Center technical Preview 2
Microsoft release Technical Preview 2 for its flagship products. Below you can find links you can download VHD and play with. System Center Technical Preview 2 Virtual Machine Manager – Evaluation...
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Unable to upgrade the deployment. The requested VM size ‘A9′ may not be...
While working with Azure Site Recovery manger and performing failover test for many, many times I faced several issues. Below is one issue and workaround I would like to share with you. Failover...
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Yesterday morning I tried to login to SCVMM 2012R2 and I got below error. I logged it to MSSQL server over SQL Management studio to check out if availability groups are fine. After around 10 minutes of...
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Install Linux VM on Hyper-V 2012 R2
Quick guide how to Install Linux VM on Hyper-V 2012 R2 Some time ago Microsoft “kindly” allow their customers to run Linux workloads on Hyper-V. There are several Linux distribution supported on...
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Deploy F5 BIG-IP VE on Hyper-V
Quick and easy step by step guide how to Deploy F5 BIG-IP VE on Hyper-V What is F5 – I think I don’t have to explain here. Since some time F5 released Virtual Edition for their flagship product...
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Remove tenant user from Windows Azure Pack
The only way (known to me) to remove tenant user from Windows Azure Pack is by using Powershell. Below simple script to remove tenant user from Windows Azure Pack. Run it from one of the Windows Azure...
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How to install updates on Hyper-v cluster running on the Nutanix
If you have Nutanix in your datacenter you are free to choose between three different hypervisors, Acropolis Hypervisor aka AHV (Nutanix KVM based hypervisor), Microsoft Hyper-V 2012R2 and VMware ESXi...
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Deploy Microsoft failover cluster on Nutanix
Microsoft Failover Cluster is supported on Nutanix. I will use fileshare witness as quorum. Therefore, first step is create container on Nutanix and add Microsoft failover cluster nodes to container...
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Configure LiveMigration network on Hyper-V running on Nutanix
Microsoft Networking best practice advice to run LiveMigration traffic on separate VLAN. Personally I think this is very good idea to isolate different traffic types (management, VM, SVC,...
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Create Hyper-V failover cluster on Nutanix
Hyper-V is one, out of three (VMware ESXi and Nutanix Acropolis aka. AHV are on the support list too) hypervisors supported by Nutanix. There are two ways you can create create Hyper-V failover cluster...
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