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Cluster
39 articles
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How to install and set up an Azure Stack HCI Host
A couple of months the Azure Stack HCI team announced a new version called Azure Stack HCI version 20H2, which is currently in public preview. As part of the Azure Stack portfolio, Azure Stack HCI is…
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Learn about Windows Server Cluster Functional Levels
A couple of weeks ago, I released a blog post about Hyper-V VM Configuration versions to give an overview about the version history of Hyper-V virtual machines. After that I had the chance to work with…
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Configure CSV Cache in Windows Server 2012 R2
In Windows Server 2012 Microsoft introduced CSV Cache for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and Scale-Out File Server Clusters. The CSV Block Cache is basically a RAM cache which allows you to cache read IOPS in the…
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Private Cloud Virtualization and Storage Poster and Mini-Posters
Yesterday Microsoft released the Windows Server 2012 R2 Private Cloud Virtualization and Storage Poster and Mini-Posters. This includes overviews over Hyper-V, Failover Clustering, Scale-Out File Server, Storage Spaces and much more. These posters provide a visual…
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Recommend Hotfixes and Updates for Hyper-V and Failover Clusters
I the last couple of releases I always posted the pages where you could get the list of Recommended Hotfixes and Updates for Windows Server 2012 Failover Clusters and List of Hyper-V and Failover Cluster Hotfixes for…
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Manage SOFS Cluster and File Shares from Virtual Machine Manager
In the past months I did several blog posts about Hyper-V over SMB and Storage Spaces. In small environment management of such a Scale-Out File Server Cluster can be a simple thing because you don’t have…
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Hardware, Hosting, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, PowerShell, System Center, Virtualization, Windows ServerHyper-V over SMB: Scale-Out File Server and Storage Spaces
On some community pages my blog post started some discussions why you should use SMB 3.0 and why you should use Windows Server as a storage solution. Let me be clear here, you don’t need Windows…
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How to Install a Highly Available SCVMM Management Server
Since System Center Virtual Machine Manager is starting to get more and more important and starts to be a critical application for your environment especially if your are using Hyper-V Network Virtualization and SCVMM is your…
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How to configure Availability Sets in Virtual Machine Manager
Microsoft first introduced Availability Sets in Windows Azure and with System Center 2012 SP1 this feature also came to the Private Cloud. Availability Sets are used to keep virtual machines separate from each other so they…
