Intro As an early adaptor of Operation Management Suite (OMS) I have seen great progress over the last years, what once was a simple SCOM add-on has now grown into a mature product on its own. Recently I noticed that 3rd party providers started to offer prebuilt OMS solution packs and the one that catched my eye […]
For my customer I had to set up the VMM Delegated Administrator role for their Tenant Operations team in order to gain ‘connect to console’ functionality (without providing too much additional rights in the VMM console). Setting up delegated user roles is in fact very easy to follow: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg696971.aspx Trying this out in the QA environment […]
Preparing your AD can (and will) save you a lot of time if you do it properly. Heating up Google servers told me that there is very little or no info to be found regarding this part, so here is my input to whoever wants to read up on it. Design your infrastructure Before you start with the […]
At last ! This was something I was missing in our private cloud setup, we imported Management Packs for most of the environment’s building blocks, except for the storage spaces part as Microsoft did not release anything until now. As workaround,we have built and imported a custom written MP (ours was based upon known Event-IDs listed in Storage Spaces […]
After installation of the private cloud fabric, we noticed SMB Client 30308 alerts on one of our Hyper-V nodes when live migrating VMs:
Today I received a customer notification that their Windows Azure Pack Portal for Tenants was no longer available and the webpage was showing ‘500 internal Server Error’. This error code is pretty general, but we soon noticed that on the ADFS part, the certificate for signing the tokens was automatically renewed and as the new ADFS […]
What is Nano server? Nano server is a new installation option in Windows Server vNext that provides the lowest possible Windows footprint possible, significantly smaller even than Server Core. This is possible through a significant refactoring of the operating system and is focused around two key scenarios: Born-in-the-cloud applications Cloud platform – Hyper-V and Scale-out File Servers […]
This script checks the health and capacity of a Storage Cluster based on Windows Server 2012 R2 Scale-Out File Servers. It is written by Jose Baretto (MS storage guru) and should be present in your private cloud environment as it gives you good feedback on the storage healt. By default it will run and compare […]
Pretty awsome interactive architecturale drawing from a private cloud, hovering your mouse over the object will give you more info on the bits and pieces
Datacenter Firewall is a new service included with Windows Server Technical Preview. It is a network layer, 5-tuple (protocol, source and destination port numbers, source and destination IP addresses), stateful, multitenant firewall. When deployed and offered as a service by the service provider, tenant administrators can install and configure firewall policies to help protect their […]