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PowerShell advanced function (cmdlet) – Report all VMs with disconnected NICs in the specified Virtual Machine Manager
This is very simple function to report all virtual machines in the defined System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) with disconnected network adapters or with network adapters without specified VLAN. Examples Report Get-RvSCVirtualNetworkAdapter -VMMServer firstVMM, secondVMM, thirdVMM -NoVMNetworkOrNoVLan | Out-GridView Code Function Get-RvSCVirtualNetworkAdapter { <# .SYNOPSIS Get network adapters of virtual machine on defined SCVMM […]
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How to disable Virtual Machine Generation Identifier (VM Generation ID) on Domain Controller on Hyper-V 2012
What is VM GenerationID identifier? Very simple description of the VM Generation ID is that Generation ID is a protection of your Active Directory against restore of a checkpoint (snapshot) of a virtualized Domain Controller (DC). As you can imagine if you restore a checkpoint of a DC (you do not restore a backup, you […]
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Building highly available shares, DFS namespaces and replication topology (DFS-R) – Part 5 – DFS Replication
At this moment client is able to access one of the defined shares on one of the defined File Server but the data are not consistent because replication was not configured yet. It is also possible to configure DFS-R for directories that are not included in DFS Namespace but the following guide describe DFS Namespace with […]
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Building highly available shares, DFS namespaces and replication topology (DFS-R) – Part 4 – What is replication? How DFS-R works? Can I use it as backup?
Backup All types of replication (file replication – DFS-R, Hyper-V Replica, Volume replication – vNext) are not a backup. The reason is that if you do a mistake then the mistake is replicated to all servers. Replication is great for disaster recovery (DR) when for example a plane crash on your datacenter. Replication is also great […]
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Building highly available shares, DFS namespaces and replication topology (DFS-R) – Part 3 – DFS Namespaces
In order to ensure highly availability of the namespaces It is a good practice to have multiple servers that holds DFS Namespaces. It is a common practice to add DFS Namespace role to existing servers (for example Domain Controllers or existing File Servers) but Contoso’s administrators will use the best practice and they will use […]