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Maarten Wijsman
My name is Maarten Wijsman and I’m currently working at Wortell. Wortell finds inspiration in technological developments on the Microsoft platform. At Wortell I’m currently fulfilling the function as Senior Infrastructure Engineer shifting my focus more and more to Hyper-V. It this role I’m responsible for designing and deploying Hyper-V environments which meet the customers’ demands and wishes. My main goal with the blogs I will be writing for Hyper-V.nu is sharing my experiences from the field with you and hopefully learn from your comments and/or remarks. Follow me via @myhyperv or @hypervnu or send me an email "maarten at hyper-v.nu"!
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Posts by Maarten Wijsman
Recommended post W2K8R2 SP1 Clustering and Hyper-V Hotfixes
Jan 12th
LAST UPDATE: 12-01-2012
One of the visitors of this blog asked the question if we could publish a list of recommended post Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 hotfixes related to either Clustering or Hyper-V. Well here it is!
For a complete overview of what was rolled-up in SP1 take a look at the Excel sheet (Updates in Win7 and WS08R2 SP1.xls) which can be found on here.
Note I. Microsoft will release hotfixes if an issue occurs that needs to fixed before releasing a roll-up update or a service pack. However, the hotfix in question is intended to correct only the problem that is described in the article. Apply the hotfix only to systems that are experiencing the problem that is described in the articles. The hotfix might receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next software update that contains this hotfix.
Note II. Updates can be applicable to Windows Server 2008 R2 (RTM) and/or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.
Release Notes Important Issue – Hyper-V Replica
Jan 3rd
In the release notes available via this link there is an issue explained regarding Hyper-V Replica.
Hyper-V Replica
While configuring replication that uses certificate-based authentication on servers joined to a domain, if you provide a short name for the primary server while adding authorization entries, enabling replication will fail. To avoid this, identify servers using their fully qualified domain names.
While configuring replication on servers joined to a domain, if you provide a short name for the Replica server for certificate-based authentication, enabling replication will succeed, but the pre-requisite check prior to a planned failover will fail. To correct this, update the Replica server name with the following Windows PowerShell cmdlet:
Set-VMReplication -vmname "<Name of VM>" -recoveryservername "<FQDN of replica server>"
Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) 6.5 available!
Dec 7th
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is an agentless, automated, multi-product planning and assessment tool for quicker and easier desktop and server migrations. MAP provides detailed readiness assessment reports and executive proposals with extensive hardware and software information, and actionable recommendations to help organizations accelerate their IT infrastructure planning process, and gather more detail on assets that reside within their current environment. MAP also provides private and public cloud planning assessments, and server utilization data for Hyper-V server virtualization planning; identifying server placements, and performing virtualization candidate assessments, including ROI analysis for server consolidation with Hyper-V. Other significant new features in MAP 6.5 include the discovery of active Windows devices, Software Usage Tracking for Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP), and the discovery of Oracle instances on Itanium-based servers with HP-UX to assist in the planning of migration to SQL Server.
MAP is one of the tools provided by the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, and Security Compliance Manager provide tested guidance and automated tools to help organizations plan, securely deploy, and manage new Microsoft technologies—easier, faster, and at less cost. All are freely available, and fully-supported by Microsoft
Download Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) 6.5 here
SCVMM 2012 failover cluster, EventID 1 and 19999
Dec 1st
Today I encountered an issue that some might categorize as “DUH!”. For others it might be a handy tip and a warning to not install SCVMM 2012 RC in a high availability configuration as I did. This configuration was not intended to be this way but for some reason I ended up with it. Lucky me!
Checking VM Additions in SCVMM 2012
Nov 11th
Before, the only way to check what the version of the “VM Additions” of a VM were was to fabricate a script and run it remotely or on the VM locally. Luckily the people at Microsoft have integrated a column in SCVMM 2012 in the “VMs and Services” section where you can now select “VM Additions” to show the version number of the “VM Additions”.
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Release Candidate RELEASED!!!
Sep 9th
Overview
System Center 2012 cloud and datacenter management solutions empower you
with a common management toolset for your private and public cloud applications
and services. System Center helps you confidently deliver IT as a Service for
your business. Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Release Candidate (RC) is key to
delivering the promise of the System Center 2012 release. Virtual Machine
Manager 2012 enables you to:
with a common management toolset for your private and public cloud applications
and services. System Center helps you confidently deliver IT as a Service for
your business. Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Release Candidate (RC) is key to
delivering the promise of the System Center 2012 release. Virtual Machine
Manager 2012 enables you to:
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta Documentation
Aug 23rd
Besides the excellent information regarding SCVMM 2012 Beta on this blog here is some very usefull information if you are playing around with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta!
Overview
This download provides technical documentation for the Beta release of VMM 2012.
VMM 2012 Beta Documentation — last updated March 22, 2011
VMM 2012 Beta Known Issues — last updated April 4, 2011
VMM 2012 General Troubleshooting Guide — last updated March 22, 2011
Another great resource for information is the Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Community Evaluation Program Application or the System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012 Beta Resource Page.
Microsoft Assessment Planning Toolkit and ISA / TMG
Jul 20th
Since the 15th of this month Microsoft Assessment Planning (MAP)Toolkit 6.0 is available for download.
Usually MAP is being deployed in an environment behind a TMG which can include domains and workgroups. The setup of MAP is pretty straight forward. Just read the Getting Started Guide and you are on your way.
But what if you have an environment with a perimeter network which also needs to be assessed by MAP? The Getting Started Guide talks about firewalls but these are the local firewalls on your servers and clients. How will you be able to also assess those computer objects in the perimeter network?
What else did we see at the Windows Server 8 sneak preview?
Jul 19th
Yesterday and today a lots and lots of blogs paid attention to one of the new features which will be build-in to the next version of Windows Server edition, codename “Windows Server 8”. The new feature was shown at the WPC11 and it was mentioned here officially for the first time. Basically this feature, Hyper-V Replica, makes it possible to replicate a business critical VM offsite for e.g. DR without anything else than Hyper-V. No expensive hardware needed! Looks really promising and I can’t wait to play around with it!
But while looking at this footage, click here and fast forward to about 37min., something else caught my attention.
Apparently in codename “Windows Server 8”, within the Hyper-V Manager, the “Virtual Network Manager” has been replaced by a “Virtual Switch Manager” and a new action option has been introduced called “Virtual Storage Manager”.
Hyper-V Mannager Windows 8 Server on the left, on the right a screendump of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.
What will be the new features of the “Virtual Switch Manager” be? What we already “know” from screen dumps of Windows 8 Client is that Virtual Switch Extensions and Network Resource Pools are part of the “Virtual Switch Manager”. What else?! And what about the new features for the “Virtual Storage Manager”? Anyone?
All in all we will be looking at our crystal ball for the time being and after the BUILD conference in Anaheim later this year we will probably know more!
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