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Rolling Cluster Upgrade in System Center 2016 TP3 VMM
One of the best features in Windows Server 2016 will be the Rolling Cluster Upgrade capability. Even better you can orchestrate it with the System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager. The requirements are very low. Your servers only need a baseboard management controller, you must have also a prepared VHD in your VMM library with…
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Bare-Metal Provisioning Hyper-V Cluster in System Center 2016 TP3 VMM
In System Center 2012 R2 VMM you can do a bare-metal provisioning of a single Hyper-V host or of a Scale Out File Server cluster. Now in System Center 2016 TP3 VMM you can do a bare-metal provisioning of a Hyper-V cluster too. In the Fabric section click on Create in the ribbon bar and…
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Convert Standard Switch to Logical Switch in System Center 2016 TP3 VMM
How often have I rebuild the Hyper-V Switch configuration in the last few years at customer sites? I cannot remember. When ever I implemented VMM or checked the VMM installation at a customer I designed or redesigned the Logical Network configuration and with that the Logical Switch configuration. In System Center 2012 R2 VMM you…
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Connect Windows Server 2016 TP3 Network Controller with System Center 2016 TP3 VMM
Today Microsoft released Windows Server 2016 TP3 and System Center 2016 TP3. -> http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2015/08/19/what-s-new-in-windows-server-2016-and-system-center-2016-technical-preview-3.aspx Finally with the release of Technical Preview 3 we got a guide on how to set up the Network Controller role in Windows Server 2016. -> https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt282165.aspx In TP3 you are able to set up a single node Network Controller. Multi…
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Using Veeam FastSCP for Microsoft Azure for on-premises workloads
This month Veeam released the RTM version of FastSCP for Microsoft Azure. -> http://www.veeam.com/blog/fastscp-microsoft-azure-available.html I really like the tool for my Microsoft Azure VM workloads. But you can use the tool also for your on-premises VM workloads. Just make sure you have enabled Windows Remote Management and the Port 5985 is open. You can easily…
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Azure Site Recovery InMage Scout with VMware Series – Linux Protection
In the first blog post of this series I have given you an overview of the InMage Scout architecture. In this blog post I will show you how to set up the protection for a Linux VM. After you have successfully installed your Linux Master Target start the vContinuum console. Navigate to Administrative Tasks and…