Tag: Storage
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Using managed disks with Azure DevTest Lab
Currently the Azure DevTest Lab service does not let you use managed disks during the VM deployment, because it does not support them. When you have the need for managed disks in an Azure DevTest Lab, you can use the environment capability with Azure Resource Manager templates. Create an Azure Resource Manager template for a…
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Microsoft Azure – managed disks and port 8443 issue
Managed disks are new and maybe you have run into a deployment error with VMs using managed disks. The reason for that is mentioned in the notes, directly at the beginning of the documentation. VMs with Managed Disks require outbound traffic on port 8443 to report the status of the installed VM extensions to the…
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Why you should use managed disks on Microsoft Azure?
Two weeks ago, Microsoft has announced the next milestone for the Azure IaaS platform, managed disks. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-general-availability-of-managed-disks-and-larger-scale-sets/ Why are they so important and why you should use them? These questions will be answered in this blog post and I will also provide some more details about managed disks. First of all and this is…
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Deploying Storage Spaces Direct on a Single Node SOFS Cluster
In my previous post on how to deploy Windows Server 2016 TP3 onto an SD card I introduced you to my new server system. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/how-to-deploy-windows-server-2016-tp3-onto-an-sd-card/ The reason why I bought this system was to play around with Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2016 TP3. Regarding the testing guide Microsoft recommends four servers to…
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How to deploy Windows Server 2016 TP3 onto an SD card?
A few weeks ago I bought a HP Microserver Gen8 (Intel Celeron G1610T, 2,3GHz, 2GB RAM) to continue to use the four 1TB Hitachi HDDs from my previous NAS system and 12GB RAM that are left over from other systems. The main reason for buying the HP Microserver is to play a bit with Storage…
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Virtual Machine Manager – Live Migration Fehler – SMB 3.0 Storage
Seit Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V fokussiert Microsoft zunehmend SMB 3.0 als Storage für Hyper-V VMs. Mit einem SMB 3.0 Storage ist es möglich eine Live Migration zwischen zwei Hyper-V Clustern mit hochverfügbaren VMs vorzunehmen. Dafür muss man ansonsten die VM aus der Hochverfügbarkeit nehmen und eine Shared Nothing Live Migration vornehmen. Allerdings gibt es an…