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Building highly available shares, DFS namespaces and replication topology (DFS-R) – Part 2 – File Servers
In the previous articles I described how to configure File Server role in a Windows Server cluster. For this setup I will choose standard standalone File Server in each site but of course it is possible to follow previous articles and build a cluster in each site. Virtual machine File Servers are VMs that run…
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Building highly available shares, DFS namespaces and replication topology (DFS-R) – Part 1 – New site in Active Directory
In the following series of articles I will describe you how to build File Server in order to have highly available shares and how to define DFS namespaces and how to set-up replication between two sites. In the previous articles I described how to build standard File Server clusters. In the following articles I will…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – VM Template to deploy VMs with Dual-Stack static IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
In this article I will show you how to modify our current Virtual Machine Manager configuration to create VM Template that will produce virtual machines with Dual-Stack IP addresses. IPv4 and IPv6 address will be assigned from the two IP Pools. Modify Logical Network Site and add IPv6 subnet. fd12:3456::/64 Create new IP Pool for IPv6 addresses.…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Templates – New VM from the VM Template
In the previous article we created template that is assembled from the VHDX and profiles and now we will use it to create new virtual machine. Create VM from the existing template Create Virtual Machine Choose VM Template and you will not have to apply any profiles because the template already contains the configuration that may…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Templates – Create new VM Template
In the previous article we installed operating system to the blank disk and now we will use this new VM or it’s virtual disk (VHDX) to create a template. Create clone from the existing VM The process creation of the VM Template will destroy the original VM because the Sysprep will remove VM’s identity. If you do not want…