Cisco UCS Hyper-V Cluster – Configure Blade Servers – Part 4

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Thomas Maurer

After we have installed the Cisco Blade Servers we now have to do some configuration on the Hosts.

First I activate Remote Management like Remote Desktop, Remote MMC and Powershell.

I add a Firewall rule for Remote Disk Managment

 netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Remote Volume Management" new enable=yes

After adding this firewall rule, I install the Multipath I/O feature
```
 ocsetup MultipathIo 
```
Now you can use the MPclaim command-line tool to manage Multipath I/O
To view all detected enterprise storage:
```
 Mpclaim -e
```
Add MPIO support for Fibre Channel devices:
```
 mpclaim.exe -r -i -d < _VendorID> < _ProductID>
```
Important: Note that the vendor string length is 8 characters, the product string length is 16 characters, and both fields are padded with spaces as needed.
More Information about the MPclaim command-line tool
With diskpart you can now see the disks. And you can format the disks with NTFS. Important after that you should take the disks offline to use them in the cluster.
In the Configuration Menu enable the Cluster Feature.
On each note the all Cluster disks offline.
```
select disk 2
disk offline
```

In the next post we will configure the Network Adapters of the Cluster notes and create the virtual networks.

Install and configure IPv6 on Windows Server 2003

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Thomas Maurer

On Microsoft Windows Server 2003 there is no GUI to configure IPv6. So this article should show you how to configure IPv6 on a Windows Server 2003.

Install the IPv6 Protocol in the Network Adapter Properties or Control Panel
Open the console
Type “netsh” this is a command line program to configure network adapters
Here are some demo configurations

int ipv6
reset
add dns interface=”<Interface Name>” address=<IPv6 primary DNS IP Address>
add dns interface=”<Interface Name>” address=<IPv6 secondary DNS IP Address>
add route prefix=::/0 interface=”<Interface Name>” metric=0 nexthop=<IPv6 Gateway IP Address>
add address interface=”<Interface Name>” address=<IPv6 IP Address>

int ipv6
reset
add dns interface=”Local Area Connection” address=fec0:0:0:0:ffff::1
add dns interface=”Local Area Connection” address=fec0:0:0:0:ffff::2
add route prefix=::/0 interface=”Local Area Connection”metric=0 nexthop=fe80::1
add address interface=”Local Area Connection” address=fe80::2

int ipv6
reset
add dns “Local Area Connection” fec0:0:0:0:ffff::1
add dns “Local Area Connection” fec0:0:0:0:ffff::2
add route ::/0 “Local Area Connection” fe80::1
add address”Local Area Connection” fe80::2

Cheatsheet: Configuring a Server Core installation #1

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Thomas Maurer

After setting up my new hardware for my LAB, I thought about installing my Hyper-V Servers as Server Core installations. After reading two minutes in some blogs and the Microsoft TechNet I decided to use the Core Editions.

Basically the setup is the same as the none Core Edition or GUI Edition. But after the installation you have to configure the server without a GUI, your only way to do the basic configuration is the command promt. Btw if you close the command prompt, you can easily recover the prompt by pressing CTRL-ALT-DELETE, click Start Task Manager, click New Task and type cmd.exe.

To do the basic configuration of your Windows Server 2008 (R2) Core, you need the following commands:

Checkout the existing Hostname / Computername:

hostame or ipconfig

Change the Computername / Hostname:

netdom renamecomputer <ComputerName> /NewName:<NewComputerName>

Change the Computername / Hostname without writing the old name:

netdom renamecomputer %computername% /NewName:<NewComputerName>

Show network interfaces:

netsh interface ipv4 show interfaces

Set Static IP Address, Subnet Mask, and Default Gateway (ID is the shown number in the Idx column when you show your network interfaces):

netsh interface ipv4 set address name="<ID>" source=static address=<StaticIP> mask=<SubnetMask> gateway=<DefaultGateway>

Set DNS Server (index= is the priority of the DNS Server):

netsh interface ipv4 add dnsserver name="<ID>" address=<DNSIP>index=1

Join a Domain:

netdom join <ComputerName> /domain:<DomainName> /userd:<UserName> /passwordd:*

Add a Domain User to the local administrator group:

net localgroup administrators /add <DomainName>\<UserName>

Change or set the product key of your server:

slmgr.vbs –ipk<productkey>

Active the server licence:

slmgr.vbs -ato

If activation is successful, no message will return in the command prompt

Configure the firewall:

netsh advfirewall

netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Remote Administration" new enable=yes

Enable Remote Desktop:

cscript c:\windows\system32\scregedit.wsf /ar 0

Restart the Computer:

shutdown /r /t 0

Open Task Manager with the command prompt:

taskmgr

List event logs:

wevtutil el

Find something in the event log:

wevtutil qe /f:<text>

List running services:

sc query

or

net start

List running tasks:

tasklist

to active Powershell type:

powershell

For the most of this simple tasks there is also a configuration tool, which makes it very easy to do your first configuration with Windows Server 2008 Core Edition. The Tool is called sconfig, and its very simple, just start the program with the following command: