Error (25252) Virtual Switch … is used by VM virtual network adapters in host… Recommended Action Disconnect the virtual network adapters from the virtual switch and retry the operation. You get the above error when trying to remove a Logical Switch from a host. Be sure you want to do this though! This will result […]
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While setting up my home lab, I did not bother/think to check if the NAS was going to hibernate itself or its disks after a period of inactivity. Sure enough after I built my cluster + SCVMM + what not, the hosts would drop their disks – PDL. Fix? The disks were meant to hibernate […]
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This post is an attempt at explaining SCVMM networking concepts in the simplest way possible. From what I’ve observed, most articles (MS official and not) out there go in depth and given the convoluted nature of SCVMM networking it’s easy to flounder in the sheer volume of information. Without further ado.. First, leave your vSphere […]
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or rather networking in general on this switch.. As good and easy to use this SMB grade switch is, there’s a bit to do to get things going and not all of it is very straightforward/easy to find in the interface. I have the following requirements: Hyper-V hosts are on the 10.0.10.0/24 subnet, VLAN 10 […]
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This morning I attempted to upgrade a 2012 R2 machine to 2016 TP and was surprised it isn’t supported. Here’s an inplace upgrade attempt after booting the machine off the 2016 iso: Notice how it lets me choose the upgrade option But then throws the following: I tried to run the upgrade from within the […]
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I had been having the itch to get myself a full blown lab with physical hosts, switches, a NAS et al for a while. A physical setup at home let you lab up anything you wish to, including some really cool stuff such as using PernixData’s FVP, play with switches (VLANs, jumbo frames), etc.. – […]
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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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