PowerShell what?! What is PowerShell Direct? It is a new feature that allows you to manage your virtual machine directly from the Hyper-V host. This feature was shown at Ignite and I was really excited about it. So imagine you have provisioned a VM, you want to manage it off…
We all have seen all the great new announcements about Azure Stack, System Center 2016, Server 2016 and off course Nano Server. In this post i am going ahead of preparing the new Azure Stack in my environment. In Azure Stack you can create Compute and Storage resources. The details…
This post is not talking about recovering from a failed data center or Azure Site recovery procedures. No, it’s just “simple” recovery when everything went down for whatever kind of reason. I mean, we are humans and we make mistakes. Even in an environment as Azure they make mistakes. Remember…
One of our customers was building a billing solution for their Azure Pack environment. We just finished the implementation of the fabric and the configuration of Azure Pack. We started testing and all worked fine. We also configured the integration between SCOM and VMM for usage and configured usage in…
Welcome back on part 4 of the blog series for installing highly available Azure Pack Websites Cloud. Part I: Introduction and installing the first servers Part II Adding secondary Website Controller Part III: Adding Website Front Ends and Publishers Part IV: Adding Website Worker Roles Part V: Post configuring Azure…
Hyper-V NVGRE Gateways are used to allow Virtual Networks in Hyper-V to connect to the internet or establish a VPN connection to the tenant’s on premise environment. An NVGRE Gateway Cluster is configured as a 2 node cluster. You can download a Service Template in VMM to deploy the Gateway’s…
I was struggling with the PowerShell API for Azure Pack. I imported the publishsettingsfile as described in this post. In the past when I wanted to get all the VM’s I could simply run: Get-WAPackSubscription "Mark Scholman" | Select-WAPackSubscription Get-WAPackVM And that would give me all my VM’s running on the Azure Pack Subscription. But…
Welcome back on part 3 of the blog series for installing highly available Azure Pack Websites Cloud. Part I: Introduction and installing the first servers Part II Adding secondary Website Controller Part III: Adding Website Front Ends and Publishers Part IV: Adding Website Worker Roles Part V: Post configuring Azure…
Welcome back on part 2 of the blog series for installing highly available Azure Pack Websites Cloud. Part I: Introduction and installing the first servers Part II Adding secondary Website Controller Part III: Adding Website Front Ends and Publishers Part IV: Adding Website Worker Roles Part V: Post configuring Azure…
Part I: Introduction and installing the first servers Part II Adding secondary Website Controller Part III: Adding Website Front Ends and Publishers Part IV: Adding Website Worker Roles Part V: Post configuring Azure Pack Websites In this blogpost we are going to build a highly available Azure Pack Websites Cloud.…
