I recently did a 2 Nodes Storage Spaces Direct Hyper-Converged deployment on top of DELL EMC PowerEdge R740xd Ready Nodes. In this quick blog post, I would like to share with you my experience and […]
Introduction Physical disks often experience errors of varying severity, from errors that the disk can transparently recover from, without interruption or data loss; to errors that are catastrophic and can cause data loss such as […]
Introduction In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft added a new type of storage called Storage Spaces Direct (S2D). S2D enables building a highly available storage systems with local attached disks, and without the need to have […]
Introduction Since Hyper-V inception back in 2008, you can configure a virtual machine to use a dynamic or a static MAC address for any given network adapter. By default, Hyper-V use dynamic MAC address – which means […]
Introduction If you are regularly deploying Windows operating systems, the combination of Microsoft WinPE and Windows PowerShell tools work together to speed up the deployment of Windows Server. There are also other tools of course you […]
Introduction In Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, Microsoft introduced a new feature called Virtual Secure Mode (VSM). VSM is what enables feature like Device Guard and Credential Guard. Credential Guard and Device Guard delivers unparalleled […]
Warning! This article is written for lab and demo purposes, it’s not supported to be used in production and is neither supported by Microsoft, HPE nor myself. Introduction In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft added a […]
Hello folks, After a successful release of my first book Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook – Second Edition, I am delighted to announce that my second book is published as well. Over the past one year and a half, I’ve been […]
Introduction A while ago, I wrote a blog post on how to create a Two-way Mirror Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012 R2. In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft introduced a new storage solution called Storage […]
Microsoft just announced a big change for Windows Server and System Center with a faster release cadence. The Future of Nano Server The future of Nano Server is all about containers. In the next release […]
With the release of Windows Server 2016, Microsoft introduced a new type of teaming approach called Switch Embedded Teaming (known as SET). SET is a virtualization aware virtual switch, and it’s different from the traditional […]
Introduction You deployed a new shiny Storage Spaces Direct cluster and everything is running smoothly. During the planning phase, you missed to add an additional network that you might use to isolate certain type of […]
I recently did a 2 Nodes Storage Spaces Direct Hyper-Converged deployment using SSDs & HDDs on top of HPE DL380 Gen9 servers. I used the following hardware configuration: 2 Nodes Cluster – Hardware Platform HPE […]
Introduction Recently I was upgrading some Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V hosts to Windows Server 2016. I have Storage Tiered Spaces with mirroring resiliency deployed on those Hyper-V 2012 R2 hosts. For info about Storage […]
Introduction If you have been in IT for while, you probably aware about how power is important for your Datacenter. I’m not sure about how many times I’ve read or been told that power is […]
This is a short blog post about my experience in deploying System Center Data Protection Manager 2016. I am involved currently with several DPM projects on upgrading System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 to […]
Introduction In the previous version of Hyper-V, whenever you upgraded your host to a new release, the moment Hyper-V sees your virtual machines, the VM configuration version will be upgraded automatically behind the scenes. This […]
Introduction In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft added a new type of storage called Storage Spaces Direct (S2D). S2D enables building highly available storage systems with local attached disks, and without the need to have any […]
Introduction In the previous post, I showed you how to install Windows Nano Server on HPE ProLiant Gen9 servers. When creating a Nano Server image in Windows PowerShell or using the new graphical user interface […]
Updated 10/01/2017: [Adding the following two sections: “Updating Nano Server with HPE Drivers”, “Applying Latest Windows Updates”, and “Adding Nano Server Roles and Features”]. Introduction With the release of Windows Server 2016 and System Center […]
Today’s post is not related to Virtualization or Cloud topic. If there is one thing irritating me when I log on to Windows Server is Server Manager. When you logs on to a server, the […]
Introduction On October 12th, Microsoft released Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 for public (GA). With the release of Windows Server 2016, we also get the first version of Nano Server. First version? Yes, […]
Big day to Microsoft folks! At Microsoft Ignite last month, the Windows Server team released Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 to the public. This is was the Retail version of Windows Server 2016 […]
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