For purposes of High Availability of the encryption keys SCVMM uses, Microsoft recommend storing them in an AD container. During setup you are asked for the location where you want these keys to be stored. I got the following error while setting up SCVMM in my home lab: I went through setup logs and saw […]
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After a gotcha moment this morning, I thought I’d blog about software iSCSI port bindings in vSphere 6.x using the Web Client and a distributed switch. Here it is: First things first, why would you even bind a iSCSI adapter to a vmk adapter? By default, there’s only a single path, you’d do this so […]
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I had this issue with one host not booting off the virtual media ISO file. I tried a number of ISOs thinking it might have something to do with the files themselves but none worked. Looking at the iLO logs, I saw some strange timestamps: First, the date’s are totally out of whack. Then I […]
Read More →Here’s another quick one – this one add a new host to existing Windows 2012 R2 failover cluster:
Read More →We are all trying to automate something, aren’t we?! Here’s a quick one I did to add an existing cluster to SCVMM 2012 R2:
Read More →I’ve had the need to automate the renaming the network adapters and edit DNS settings of numerous Hyper-V hosts (think dozens). PoSh to the rescue: Note – A similar script exists somewhere in wild out there, this one is a modified version of that.
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I had this annoying error while trying to get the cluster service going on a 2012 R2 host that had its cluster ungracefully blown away. Turned out doing so leaves the remnants of the cluster in AD and elsewhere. This host also had the McAfee AV managed agent installed on it. I tried to remove […]
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Haven’t we all had those outrageous claims and demands from application vendors and sometimes managers?! My machine’s running slow, I need 16 vCPUs and 64GB RAM. Yeah, right. NO!! I recently dealt with one such claim from a vendor – OMG! My machines are repeatedly breaching 90% critical alarms. Increase my RAM allocation or reserve […]
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