Let me tell you a story... Once upon a time there was a junior admin with a lot of hopes, willingness to learn and full of joy. He did go on an adventure into Windows world. One path he took lead him to a kingdom called SBS. There were 2000 and 3 castles in that … Continue reading From SBS2008 to Office 365 and Windows 2019
Why Adding a disk to a VM is not a big issue. I can use Hyper-V console or Windows Admin Center or PowerShell. But because I need to do it on a frequent basis and it's boring I wanted to find a better way. Just a reminder - how to add VHD to a VM: … Continue reading Add disks to a VM
A quicky Hyper-V clustered hosts. Storage of some VMs migrated from one host to another. On rare occasions migration failed. Reason is now irrelevant. But after this - there are some empty folders left on Clustered Shared Volumes: \\SomeHVHost\c$. ├───Planned Virtual Machines ├───Snapshots ├───Virtual Hard Disks └───Virtual Machines There are also other situation where there … Continue reading Get-EmptyFolder
AntiAffinity Part 1 covers some theory and GUI configuration. Part 2 focus on setting Preferred Owners with PowerShell. Part 3 explained logic behind Possible Owners in PowerShell function. Part 4 (this) will cover the last step - setting anti-affinity groups. Part 5 will describe reporting of current configuration in the cluster. Today is a quick … Continue reading AntiAffinity Groups in Failover Cluster. Part 4
Possible Owner Part 1 covers some theory and GUI configuration. Part 2 focus on setting Preferred Owners with PowerShell. Part 3 (this) will explain logic behind Possible Owners in PowerShell function. Part 4 will cover the last step - setting anti-affinity groups. Part 5 will describe reporting of current configuration in the cluster. Today let's … Continue reading Possible Owner in Failover Cluster. Part 3
Preffered Owner Part 1 covers some theory and GUI configuration. Part 2 will focus on setting Preferred Owners with Powershell. Part 3 will explain logic behind Possible Owners in PowerShell function. Part 4 will cover the last step - setting anti-affinity groups. Part 5 will describe reporting of current configuration in the cluster. In first … Continue reading Preferred Owner in Failover Cluster. Part 2
Quicky Another quicky to get all VMs from your hosts/cluster and display some basic information about them like CPU, memory, disk count and size. I can get it using Windows Admin Center or using PowerShell https://gist.github.com/mczerniawski/0d5f252eacbb411bedc09e0a647e46d7 The output looks like this:
