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Introducing 10Gbps & Integrating It into Your Network Infrastructure (Part 4/4)
This is a 4th post in a series of 4. Here’s a list of all parts: Introducing 10Gbps Networking In Your Hyper-V Failover Cluster Environment (Part 1/4) Introducing 10Gbps With A Dedicated CSV & Live...
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Assigning Large Memory To Virtual Machine Fails: Event ID 3320 & 3050
We had a kind reminder recently that we shouldn’t forget to complete all steps in a Hyper-V cluster node upgrade process. The proof of a plan lies in the execution . We needed to configure a virtual...
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Data Protection & Disaster Recovery in Windows 8 Server Hyper-V 3.0
The news coming in from the Build Windows conference is awesome. The speculation of the last months is being validated by what is being told and on top of that more goodness is thrown at us Hyper-V...
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Active-Active File sharing with SMB 2.2 Scale Out in Windows 8 Rocks
Introduction Wow. That’s what I have to say. WOW! I configured a two node virtual machines cluster running Windows 8 Server Developer Preview to test the SMB2 Scale Out functionality and I smiling. In...
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Error 12711 & The cluster group...
The Issues I recently had to go and fix some issues with a couple of virtual machines in SCVMM 2008 R2. There was one that failed to live migrate with following error: Error (12711) VMM cannot complete...
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Using Host Names in IIS in Combination with a KEMP LoadMaster
At a client the change over of a web site from old servers to new ones lead to the investigation of an issue with the hardware load balancer. Since that web site is related to an existing surveyors...
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Direct Connect iSCSI Storage To Hyper-V Guest Benefits From VMQ & Jumbo Frames
As I was preparing a presentation on Hyper-V cluster high available & high performance networking by, you guessed it, presenting it. During that presentation I mentioned Jumbo Frames & VMQ...
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Anti Virus & Hyper-V Reloaded
The anti virus industry is both a blessing and a curse. They protect us from a whole lot of security threats and at the same time they make us pay dearly for their mistakes or failures. Apart from...
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Integration Services Version Check Via Hyper-V Integration/Admin Event Log
I’ve written before (see "Key Value Pair Exchange WMI Component Property GuestIntrinsicExchangeItems & Assumptions") on the need to & ways with PowerShell to determine the version of the...
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NIC Teaming in Windows 8 & Hyper-V
One of the many new features in Windows 8 is native NIC Teaming or Load Balancing and Fail Over (LBFO). This is, amongst many others, a most welcome and long awaited improvement. Now that Microsoft has...
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Unable to retrieve all data needed to run the wizard. Error details: "Cannot...
I was recently configuring a Windows Server 2012 File server cluster to provide SMB transparent failover with continuous available file shares for end users. So, we’re not talking about a Scale Out...
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Assigning Large Memory To Virtual Machine Fails: Event ID 3320 & 3050
We had a kind reminder recently that we shouldn’t forget to complete all steps in a Hyper-V cluster node upgrade process. The proof of a plan lies in the execution . We needed to configure a virtual...
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Data Protection & Disaster Recovery in Windows 8 Server Hyper-V 3.0
The news coming in from the Build Windows conference is awesome. The speculation of the last months is being validated by what is being told and on top of that more goodness is thrown at us Hyper-V...
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Active-Active File sharing with SMB 2.2 Scale Out in Windows 8 Rocks
Introduction Wow. That’s what I have to say. WOW! I configured a two node virtual machines cluster running Windows 8 Server Developer Preview to test the SMB2 Scale Out functionality and I smiling. In...
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Error 12711 & The cluster group...
The Issues I recently had to go and fix some issues with a couple of virtual machines in SCVMM 2008 R2. There was one that failed to live migrate with following error: Error (12711) VMM cannot complete...
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Using Host Names in IIS in Combination with a KEMP LoadMaster
At a client the change over of a web site from old servers to new ones lead to the investigation of an issue with the hardware load balancer. Since that web site is related to an existing surveyors...
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Direct Connect iSCSI Storage To Hyper-V Guest Benefits From VMQ & Jumbo Frames
As I was preparing a presentation on Hyper-V cluster high available & high performance networking by, you guessed it, presenting it. During that presentation I mentioned Jumbo Frames & VMQ...
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Anti Virus & Hyper-V Reloaded
The anti virus industry is both a blessing and a curse. They protect us from a whole lot of security threats and at the same time they make us pay dearly for their mistakes or failures. Apart from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Integration Services Version Check Via Hyper-V Integration/Admin Event Log
I’ve written before (see "Key Value Pair Exchange WMI Component Property GuestIntrinsicExchangeItems & Assumptions") on the need to & ways with PowerShell to determine the version of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NIC Teaming in Windows 8 & Hyper-V
One of the many new features in Windows 8 is native NIC Teaming or Load Balancing and Fail Over (LBFO). This is, amongst many others, a most welcome and long awaited improvement. Now that Microsoft has...
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