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Cloud Computing, Cloud Native & Kubernetes

Month: August 2015

  • Working with vNIC Consistent Naming in System Center 2016 TP3 VMM

    Windows Server 2016 TP3 Hyper-V includes a very interesting feature that got several names out there vCDN, Consistent Naming of Virtual Network Adapters and Virtual Adapter Identification. Only the last two are a good wording for it, because it is not Consistent Device Naming. In this blog post I use the following wording vNIC Consistent…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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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