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; […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]