Introduction Before we begin, I want to point out that I am not an AI or LLM expert. My cursory knowledge of how these things work is from watching a few YouTube videos, browsing Wikipedia, and attending niche workshops. The point of this short essay is to give you an ELI5 and ELI20 view of […]
tl;dr – click here to jump to the bottom and get the script. Quick History on Deduplication The current version of Deduplication has been around since at least Server 2012/2012R2. Starting in Server 2016, Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) has had the ability to use dedup on CSVFS_NTFS (and CSVFS_ReFS in Server 2019). This same version […]
tl;dr – As of August 9, 2022, you need to configure Simultaneous Live Migration settings from Get-Cluster and not local to each Hyper-V host. Read more about it here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/failover-clustering/new-cluster-wide-control-for-virtual-machine-live-migrations-in/ba-p/3709680 Deep Dive If you are running Server 2022 or HCI 21H2 and you recently updated to a KB released after August 9, 2022, you may […]
If you have been testing Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI, you know that the current Windows 10 and Windows 11 Multisession images do not activate. There are a number of reasons for this. Windows 10 / 11 Multisession is technically only supported on Azure hardware and operating systems (not traditional Windows Server). When […]
I recently had to scale a 2-node Azure Stack HCI 21H2 cluster out to 4-nodes. This is a relatively painless process if: You previously registered your HCI cluster using a Service Principal You have a repeatable and automated way of configuring your network and storage settings One day, I will write another post and go […]
We’ve all done this before: Create a VM Mount a bunch of VHDX all the same size Go into the OS and struggle to figure out which VHDX is which I just did this to myself when creating a Commvault Media Agent VM on RHEL 8. I needed 3x VHDX, all 2TB in size, mounted […]
Introduction We been testing AKS on Azure Stack HCI since Private Preview last year and are now running production workloads in a few on-prem clusters. During this time, we have tested new features as each new release pumps them out (we’ve also fell prey to some bugs, but thankfully the awesome PG team has saved […]
Introduction In October 2021, I was fortunate enough to get my hands on an early release of the Azure Virtual Desktop Private Preview for Azure Stack HCI (AVD on ASHCI from hereon out). You can read about the announcement at Microsoft Ignite here. Like many of the hybrid offerings Microsoft has been pumping out since […]
(That’s what I like to call “Title Gore”! Hope the SEO was worth it!) We have a Windows Server 2019 environment that hosts a number of isolated Virtual Networks. One of those Virtual Networks is home to 2x IIS web servers, serving up some APIs and webapps on HTTPS (443). Both of those IIS virtual […]
If you’ve used VMM in the last decade, there is no doubt that you’ve run across this gem of an error: This error may appear when you do any sort of Hyper-V host management (adding servers to VMM for management or deploying VM templates). For me, it randomly started to appear one day out of […]