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Numerous sources have reported that KB3161606, an update rollup for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 (WS2012 R2), are breaking the upgrade of Hyper-V VM integration components. This has been confirmed & Microsoft is aware of the situation. As noted below by the many comments, Microsoft eventually released a superseding update … Continue reading “Don’t Deploy KB3161606 To Hyper-V Hosts, VMs, or SOFS”
In this post I will show you how to set up a Scale-Out File Server using Windows Server 2016 Storage Spaces Direct (S2D). Note that: I’m assuming you have done all your networking. Each of my 4 nodes has 4 NICs: 2 for a management NIC team called Management and 2 un-teamed 10 GbE NICs. … Continue reading “Setting Up WS2016 Storage Spaces Direct SOFS”
Microsoft has released (another) update overnight (what a week!!!) that deals with a Hyper-V scenario. This one is for when a Hyper-V host may be unable to reconnect to the Windows Server 2012 Cluster Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) share after an unplanned failover of one of the SOFS nodes. Once again, this is niche. I’ve … Continue reading “KB2937634 – Hyper-V Host Unable To Reconnect To WS2012 SOFS After Unplanned Failover”
I thought I’d write a post on how traffic connects and flows in a Windows Server 2012 R2 implementation of Hyper-V with the storage being Hyper-V over SMB 3.0 on a WS2012 R2 Scale-Out File Server (SOFS). There are a number of pieces involved. Understanding what is going on will help you in your design, … Continue reading “Flow Of Storage Traffic In Hyper-V Over SMB 3.0 to WS2012 R2 SOFS”
Say you need to add a disk to a Scale-Out File Server where you are using Storage Spaces on a JBOD. You add some disks to the JBOD … and then what? You browse into Failover Clustering and there’s no way to add a disk there. Instead, open up Server Manager, connected to on of … Continue reading “Adding A Disk To A SOFS Clustered Storage Pool”
In this post, I’ll show you how I created a Windows Server 2012 R2 SMB 3.0 Scale-Out File Server that uses Shared VHDX to create a simulated JBOD for clustered Storage Spaces. This is completely unsupported for production, but is nice for the lab to demo, teach and learn. Shared VHDX allows us to build … Continue reading “Creating A Virtual WS2012R2 SOFS with Shared VHDX & Storage Spaces”
It turns out that Microsoft has been doing some things that are not Surface-related. Here’s a summary of what’s been happening in the last while … Hyper-V Microsoft Loves Linux Deep Dive #2 – Linux and FreeBSD Integration Services Core Features: Talking about the services that are integrated into Linux guest OSs on Hyper-V. Shared … Continue reading “Microsoft News – 19 October 2015”
One of the biggest hitting articles on my site, written in 2009 (!!!) is “Can You Install Hyper-V in a VM?”. The short answer has always been “yes, if you know how”, but the long/compelete answer continues with “the hypervisor will not start and you will not be able to boot any virtual machines”. This … Continue reading “Windows 10 Build 10565 Makes Nested Hyper-V Virtualisation … Possible!”
Setting up a Nano Server VM requires running some PowerShell. The instructions that I found out there aren’t that clear for a non-PowerShell guru , are wrong, or are incomplete. So let me clear up everything by showing you exactly what I am using to deploy Nano Server as a Windows Server 2016 (TPv3/Technical Preview … Continue reading “Create a WS2016 Nano Server Hyper-V VM”
Wow, the year is flying by fast. There’s a bunch of stuff to read here. Microsoft has stepped up the amount of information being released on WS2016 Hyper-V (and related) features. EMS is growing in terms of features and functionality. And Azure IaaS continues to release lots of new features. Hyper-V The Mysterious Case of … Continue reading “Microsoft News – 28 September 2015”
