Failover Clustering

Physical Disks are Missing in Disk Management

August 31, 2018 // 0 Comments

In this post, I’ll explain how I fixed a situation where most of my Storage Spaces JBOD disks were missing in Disk Management and Get-PhysicalDisk showed their OperationalStatus as being stuck on “Starting”. I’ve had some interesting hardware/software issues with an old lab at work. All of [...]

Feedback Required By MS – Storage Replica in WS2019 STANDARD

June 1, 2018 // 0 Comments

Microsoft is planning to add Storage Replica into the Standard Edition of Windows Server 2019 (WS2019). In case you weren’t paying attention, Windows Server 2016 (WS2016) only has this feature in the Datacenter edition – a large number of us campaigned to get that changed. I personally wrecked [...]

Talking Hyper-V & Azure At Upcoming Community Events

March 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

The last 12 months of my existence have been a steady diet of Azure. My focus at work has been on developing and delivering a set of bespoke Azure training courses aimed at our customers (MS partners) working in the Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP) channel. As of last week, my calendar became a lot [...]

Ignite 2016 – Storage Spaces Direct

September 30, 2016 // 13 Comments

Read the notes from the session recording (original here) on Windows Server 2016 (WS2016) Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) and hyper-converged infrastructure, which was one of my most anticipated sessions of Microsoft Ignite 2016. The presenters were: Claus Joergensen: Program Manager Cosmos Darwin, [...]

Ignite 2016 – Discover What’s New In Windows Server 2016 Virtualization

September 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

This post is a collection of my notes from the Ben Armstrong’s (Principal Program Manager Lead in Hyper-V) session (original here) on the features of WS2016 Hyper-V. The session is an overview of the features that are new, why they’re there, and what they do. There’s no deep-dives. A Summary [...]

Webinar: What’s New in WS2016 Failover Clustering & Storage

August 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

We’ve only just wrapped up our webinar on Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V, and we’ve just announced our next one, this time focusing on high availability and storage in Windows Server 2016. This is a huge release for these areas and there’s lots to cover … and show in demos (I am definitely mad [...]

Webinar Today: Reducing Costs By Switching From VMware to Hyper-V on DataON Cluster-in-a-Box

August 23, 2016 // 1 Comment

I’m presenting in a webinar by DataON Storage later today at 6PM UK/Irish time, 7PM Central Europe, and 1 PM Eastern. The focus is on how small-medium businesses can switch to an all-Microsoft server stack on DataON hardware and greatly reduce costs, while simplifying the deployment and [...]

Webinar Recording – Clustering for the Small/Medium Enterprise & Branch Office

August 9, 2016 // 2 Comments

I recently did another webinar for work, this time focusing on how to deploy an affordable Hyper-V cluster in a small-medium business or a remote/branch office. The solution is based on Cluster-in-a-Box hardware and Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V and Storage Spaces. Yes, it reduces costs, but it [...]

KB3172614 To Replace/Fix Hyper-V Installations Broken By KB3161606

July 26, 2016 // 10 Comments

Microsoft released a new update rollup to replace the very broken and costly (our time = our money) June rollup, KB3161606. These issues affected Hyper-V on Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 (WS2012 R2). It’s sad that I have to write this post, but, unfortunately, untested updates are still [...]

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Aidan Finn, IT Pro

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