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Recommended Hotfixes for Hyper-V Failover Cluster based on Windows 2008 R2 SP1
Microsoft released KB2545685 with official “recommended” patches for Hyper-V Failover Clusters which...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 06/01/2011
Running Failover Cluster with Windows 2008 R2 SP1–Microsoft Cluster Team recommends strongly to apply KB2531907!
Clustering Team has published an post on their blog where they strongly recommends to apply hotfix...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 05/21/2011
Every 20 min an Event 1069 and 1558?
DISCLAIMER: Event 1069 is an generic event therefore you should check and decide by your own if this...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 05/15/2011
Alle 20 Minuten ein Event ID 1069 und 1558?
HINWEIS: Da der Event 1069 sehr “generisch” ist und auf unterschiedliche Fehlerquellen zeigen kann,...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 05/15/2011
Powershell–How to write your own custom functions in Powershell?
How to write your own functions within Powershell? As most of you knows, Powershell is a really...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 05/15/2011
SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 is RTM
WOW – Finally SP1 for Windows 2008 R2 + SP1 for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 04/15/2011
VMMUpdate – How to (automatically) check for available updates for SCVMM, Hyper-V and Failover Cluster?
Jonathan Jordan (Support Escalation Engineer) has released an really helpful tool to check the patch...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 04/11/2011
Microsoft ISCSI Target Version 3.3 for public download available!
Microsoft has today announced the availability for their own ISCSI target software solution, which...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 04/04/2011
How to configure Windows NLB in (HA) Virtual Machines based on Hyper-V?
Here is some useful content when deploying Windows Network Load Balancing “NLB” within your Virtual...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 03/31/2011
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1 Available Now!
SCVMM Team has announce today the availability of SP1 for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 03/24/2011
Hyper-V Failover Cluster–Step-by-Step Guide Rolling Upgrade SP1
With SP1 for Windows 2008 R2 / Windows 7 there are great benefits - which I personally think is a...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 03/07/2011
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1–RTM!
Finally Microsoft Server Team has announced SP1 RTM for Windows 2008 R2 which does also include...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 02/09/2011
RemoteFX and Hyper-V–How can I verify if “SLAT” is working?
SLAT (Second Level Address Translation) is going to be more and more important since VDI and Remote...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 02/09/2011
SCOM and SCVMM Integration–VMM Service Account Requirements
I have now seen many times problems when I need to configure the VMM integration into SCOM also to...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 02/04/2011
Common Cluster Property - ShutdownTimeoutInMinutes
When you initiate an shutdown on a failover cluster node the cluster service issues an...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 02/04/2011
Microsoft TechDay Online–Webcast und Expertenchat
Microsoft veranstaltet zwischen dem 21.02.- und 23.02.2011 die Techdays Online welche Themengebiete...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 02/02/2011
Microsoft Windows Failover Cluster–VM Failover Policies
I’m very often asked or have seen confusion around the configuration option’s and possibilities for...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 01/20/2011
SCVMM 2008 R2–Rollup Package
If you are installing an fresh SCVMM R2 installation also check out the following rollup packages...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 01/11/2011
Hyper-V and AZMAN Permission
Hi there, a very interesting scenario where I personally think Microsoft does have here some room...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 12/17/2010
Recommended Hotfixes – Failover Cluster, SCVMM, Hyper-V
Here is a list of technet/KB articles where you can find a summary of the recommended patches around...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 11/21/2010
TechEd 2010 in Berlin and Offline Sessions around Clustering, Hyper-V…
personally I was invited from Microsoft to be an MVP Cluster expert at the TechEd 2010 in Berlin and...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 11/21/2010
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Edition
Some of the benefits for the usage of core edition’s are: Reduce the attack and servicing surface...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 11/20/2010
Whitepapers around Windows Server 2008
Here you can find all relevant whitepapers which are published by Microsoft around Windows Server...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 11/20/2010
Free eBooks around Microsoft Technologies
Here are some useful ebooks which are available for free: Free eBook: Moving to Microsoft Visual...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 11/20/2010
How to configure NPIV to use SAN Deployment with SCVMM?
As SCVMM does support NPIV virtualization (N_Port ID) on Fibre Channel SAN environments here are...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 10/22/2010
Terminal Services aka Remote Desktop Services Step-by-Step Guide’s available
Here is an summarized list of all step-by-step guides from Microsoft around deploying Terminal...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 10/21/2010
AV Exclusion’s in Windows Server Environments
All of you had in the past faced issues where the root cause was an AV system which locks files,...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 10/15/2010
Failover Cluster – Powershell - General
For building automated tasks on a failover cluster you can use the powershell cmdlet’s which are...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 09/12/2010
Microsoft Free Component Posters – Hyper-V, RDS….
Very useful posters to have a one shot overview of all relevant components of an technology like...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 09/12/2010
VM MASS DEPLOYMENT with Powershell – Hyper-V
As you already know powershell is really useful in several scenarios where you need to automate task...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 09/12/2010
Microsoft Support Solution RSS Feeds for Windows Server/Client available
Back from my vacation and starting again with blogging some useful information's for you :-)...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 09/08/2010
Yes I did it …… Most Valuable Professional - MVP for “Cluster” 2010
Hi All, 01.07.2010 ~ 16:45 (GMT+2) a really great moment right now…… I’m officially announced as an...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 07/16/2010
Failover Cluster – CSV – Netzwerk Protokoll Konfiguration
Einer der “meisten” Fehler, was ich immer wieder bei Kunden Problemen gesehen habe ist, das die...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 06/17/2010
Hyper-V – Patchliste verfügbar
Microsoft führt eine aktuelle Liste auf der Technet Seite wie.z.b welche Updates auf den Hyper-V...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 06/05/2010
Hyper-V - Architektur Überblick kostenlos verfügbar
An alle Hyper-V Virtualisierungsfan’s, Microsoft eine sehr “coole” Architektur Übersicht erstellt,...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 06/05/2010
Hyper-V R2 – Intel X5500 Prozessoren – Bluescreen STOP “0x00000101 - CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT” -> KB975530
Microsoft hat für die Intel X5500 (Nehalem) Prozessor Serie einen “out-of-band” patch KB975530...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 05/25/2010
Quick and “Dirty” :-) Windows 2008 useful Cluster Links
Failover Cluster Step-by-Step Guide: Configuring the Quorum in a...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 05/20/2010
Hyper-V Powershell – Shutdown VMs - Part 1
Da in letzter Zeit die Anfragen in Bezug auf die Nutzung von Powershell für Hyper-V, erhöht haben,...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 03/26/2010
How to use /MAXMEM in Windows 2008 as boot.ini is gone ?
For load testing a.e. scalability testing scenarios I had very often the need to ramp up the RAM...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 03/19/2010
Short Note : Internet Explorer 9 - for “Platform Review” available for download and testing
Microsoft had published an (I call it an) sneak preview on the IE9 development status. There really...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 03/17/2010
Understanding Domain and Forest Level’s in Windows Server environment
Microsoft has since active directory publication (2000) different domain and forest level’s...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 03/11/2010
HYPER-V R2 Networking – How to configure management and VM networks
Hi All :-) I see very often confusion around the configuration of the hyper-v networking and the...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 02/26/2010
Network Performance Improvements with Hyper-V
Microsoft has published an very interesting powerpoint from WINHEC (“Ali Dabagh”) around networking...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 02/26/2010
MSI Extractor – LesMSI aka “Less Msierables”
I just want to let you know about a really great tool called “lessmsi.exe” developed by Scott...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 02/18/2010
Feature Overview in different Hyper-V SKUs
Dear Hyper-V Experts, as you already know there are several differences in the feature set of the...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 01/30/2010
Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V Best Practice – Whitepapers
HYPER, HYPER :-) If you are planning to implement an Hyper-V virtualization server in your...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 01/30/2010
Deutsche Hyper-V Newsgroup – Experten geben Rat
Hast du generelle Fragen zu Hyper-V ? Möchtest du Tipps und Tricks über den Einsatz von Microsoft...
Author: Ramazan Can Date: 01/27/2010