Ever wanted to try out the integration of your On-Premise Hyper-V virtual infrastructure and Azure? Here are the steps how to do this. You need to have System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 and App Controller with SP1 (Beta) in place. The installation of these will not be discussed. Create an Azure subscription The first... Continue Reading →
Blue Screen when running Check Disk on a Windows Server 2008R2
Scenario I had a problem with a Windows Server 2008R2 (Virtual Machine o a Hyper-V Cluster) which was the home for a SQL Server 2008R2: Everytime the server restarted it did a checkdisk on the C-drive. And every time the result was a Blue Screen: When I did a Check Disk from another server with... Continue Reading →
Snapshots of Hyper-V VM with DPM fails on new cluster node
Scenario After adding a new node (4th) to an existing Hyper-V Cluster, DPM backup jobs failed on VM's that where hosted on the new node. For this cluster I use hardware snaphots on a Dell Equallogic SAN. So the "HIT Kit" from Dell was installed on the server and all the other required components to... Continue Reading →
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