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Windows Azure Pack – PowerShell tenant API
Thanks to the Public Tenant API hosted on public services tier, the tenants can use PowerShell to manage Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Web sites and so on. In this topic I will explain how to run...
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Generate NanoServer VHDX image easily with PowerShell
The last month I have presented how to generate a NanoServer VHDX image from the Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2 ISO. If you have read the topic, you have seen that there are a lot of steps. So...
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Rename VM’s Network Adapters automatically with Virtual Machine Manager 2016
The next version of Hyper-V comes with a new feature called Virtual Network Adapter Identification. This feature enables to specify a name when a network adapter is added to the virtual machine and to...
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Working with PowerShell Direct
PowerShell Direct is a new feature provided by the next release of Windows Server that enables to run PowerShell commands from Hyper-V hosts in a virtual machine. It works without the network and so...
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Get started with Windows Containers
The next release of Windows Server that should be released in 2016 comes with a new feature called Windows Containers. Containers already exist in the Linux world and enable to make OS virtualization....
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Getting started with Azure IaaS in Resource Manager
In November 2015, Microsoft has released for everyone the new Azure portal based on Resource Manager (ARM). Resource Manager is a new way to deploy and manage resources in Azure. Deployed resources...
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Deploy highly available IaaS service in Azure Resource Manager
When you deploy production VMs and so production services in Azure, you often want high availability. Sometimes Microsoft makes operations in Azure Datacenter that can impact the availability of your...
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VM Start Order in Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5 brings a new feature called VM Start Order. It enables to make dependencies between VMs or groups of VMs to start the server in the good order. Think about a...
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Shared virtual hard disks in Hyper-V 2016
Microsoft brings a new feature to Hyper-V in Windows Server 2016 called VHD Set. This type of disk enables to share virtual hard disks between several servers to implement guest cluster. In this topic...
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Windows Server 2016 TP5: Bugcheck 0xc000021A
If you have implemented a lab (I hope so not in production J) with some Windows Server 2016 TP5, you certainly had a bugcheck 0xc000021A after updating and rebooting the system. This topic aims to help...
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How to deploy a converged network with Windows Server 2016
If you read the news regularly, you probably have heard something about converged network. This is a model where the same network adapters are used to handle several kinds of traffics such as storage,...
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Fault Domain Awareness with Storage Spaces Direct
Fault Domain Awareness is a new feature in Failover Clustering since Windows Server 2016. Fault Domain Awareness brings a new approach of the high availability which is more flexible and Cloud...
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Cluster Health Service in Windows Server 2016
Before Windows Server 2016, the alerting and the monitoring of the cluster were managed by monitoring tools such as System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). The monitoring tool used WMI, PowerShell...
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Rename VM’s Network Adapters automatically with Virtual Machine Manager 2016
The next version of Hyper-V comes with a new feature called Virtual Network Adapter Identification. This feature enables to specify a name when a network adapter is added to the virtual machine and to...
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If you have not SC Virtual Machine Manager, you have no access to VM Template to deploy standard virtual machines. But SC Virtual Machine Manager leverages existing mechanisms to deploy and specialize...
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Real case: Storage Spaces Direct physical disk replacement
This week I was in Stockholm to build a Storage Spaces Direct cluster (hyperconverged model). When implementing the cluster, I have seen that a physical disk was failing. I’ve written this topic to...
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Deploy Hyper-V from USB stick with unattended file
When you have few Hyper-V hosts and when you have not the System Center products, you have to deploy your nodes from a USB stick or from PXE services such as WDS. These deployment methods often imply...
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RDS 2016 Farm: Create Microsoft Azure networks, storage and Windows image
This topic is part of a series about how to deploy a Windows Server 2016 RDS farm in Microsoft Azure. In this topic, we will see how to deploy the Microsoft Azure networks resources, the storage...
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Deploy a 2-node StarWind VSAN Free for VMware ESXi 6.5
StarWind VSAN Free provides a storage solution for several purposes such as store virtual machines. With VSAN Free, you can deploy a 2-node cluster to present a highly available storage solution to...
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RDS 2016 Farm: Deploy RDS 2016 farm in Azure
This topic is part of a series about how to deploy a Windows Server 2016 RDS farm in Microsoft Azure. In previous topics, we saw how to deploy networks, storage and virtual machines in Azure. We added...
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