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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Create Virtual Machine in the Cloud
Now it is a good time to create a first VM in the new cloud. Cluster Share Volume storage In the case you are using CSV and you do not have storage device that is managed by VMM (you have same configuration like I have) you may need to modify configuration of the cloud. Select the […]
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Networking – Set VM Network on the virtual machine
Add VM Network to the VM VM – Properties – Hardware Configuration – Network Adapters – <One of the network adapters> Not using network virtualization (Hyper-V isolation)… Connectivity (o) Connected to a VM Network Select VM Network. Select Logical Switch. Select Port Classification. Using network virtualization (Hyper-V isolation)… Connectivity (o) Connected to a VM Network […]
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Library Servers – Share ISO for your VMs
Be able to share your ISOs for your VMs There are more possibilities how to connect ISOs to virtual drives. One of the possibility that guarantee that your ISO is always available even after migration to another host is to set that ISO is copied to the VM. It is a foolproof possibility but it also makes […]
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Building guest (virtual) Failover Cluster on Hyper-V host with Windows Server 2012 R2 – Part 2 – Install and configure cluster
Prerequisites of Failover Clustering Domain join Join to the domain. PowerShell $domain = ‘ad.contoso.com’ $userName = ‘UserWithPermissionsToAddComputerIntoDomain’ $password = ‘Your-Password’ | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force $login = ‘{0}\{1}’ -f $domain, $userName $credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($login, $password) Add-Computer -DomainName $domain -Credential $credential -Restart Configure storage Online all disks on all nodes. Initialize and format disks on one […]
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Building guest (virtual) Failover Cluster on Hyper-V host with Windows Server 2012 R2 – Part 1 – Create virtual machines
This article will guide you through how to build guest (virtual) cluster using Hyper-V on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2. Functional Failover Clustering is the first step before installation of clustered File Server or AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instance on Microsoft SQL Server etc. You can use this guide on a single Hyper-V host or on the Hyper-V […]