Cannot Live Migrate CSV due to Event ID 5162 – “Data Integrity Scan is in progress”

tl;dr – The Quick Fix Despite what the error message may say, there is no scan actually in progress. Instead, you need to clear some bogus Dirty Region Tracking (DRT) flag by kicking off a Data Integrity Scan for Crash Recovery on the owning node of the CSV: The job may take awhile to complete; […]

How to Install SCVMM 2022 UR2 Guest Agent on Newer Linux Distros (Rocky Linux 9 and other RHELatives)

tl;dr – The Quick Fix Make sure you have initscripts installed on your image. To do this, simply run dnf install initscripts -y And then your install will work perfectly fine! This ensures /etc/init.d and the things that monitor it actually are created. The SCVMM Guest Agent installer was written a very long time ago […]

Repairing Cluster Health and SDDC Resources in an Azure Stack HCI or Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) Cluster

TL;DR – How to Fix! If your Health service is in a Failed state, you most likely cannot get your SDDC Management service to start up. You also probably cannot manage the cluster via Windows Admin Center (WAC). It also means you cannot run the Stop-ClusterPerformanceHistory command, as that relies on these services to be […]

Configure Custom Deduplication Jobs on Windows Server and Azure Stack HCI

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 […]

Configuring Parallel / Simultaneous Live Migration settings has changed in Server 2022 and Azure Stack HCI 21H2

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 […]

How to “Vertically Scale” AKS on Azure Stack HCI Node Pools… when you technically can’t

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 […]

Azure Virtual Desktops on Azure Stack HCI – First Impressions and Configuration Walkthru

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 […]