Category: Microsoft

SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 Server Naming Issue


My colleague found that – SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 does not like to be installed in a server with ‘-’ in the server name. And someone had the exact same issue described as here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/virtualmachingmgrsetup/thread/46fd012d-f5ac-4025-aac1-29f62f1c6124/ More info about installing SCVMM 2008: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc764327.aspx  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc764295.aspx

A Post File Cluster Migration Issue


We migrated several file service resources from Windows 2008 R2 cluster A to B. Everything was fine until last week. Couple error messages were logged in the event viewer. Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering Date: Date_Time Event ID: 1207 Task Category: Network Name Resource Level: Error Keywords: User: SYSTEM Computer: Computer-name.domain.com Description: Cluster network name … Continue reading A Post File Cluster Migration Issue →

Hyper-V Best Practices


1) Change the default VM folder from C partition to other drives. 2) Rename the external NIC to avoid confusion. 3) Standardize the virtual networks friendly name other you have to reconfigure the NIC after the VM migration. 4) Backup Authorization Store C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V\InitialStore.xml 5) Enable RDP, or use VMConnect to connect remotely to non-Windows servers. … Continue reading Hyper-V Best Practices →

Windows 2008 Cluster Quorum Configurations


In Windows Server 2003 cluster, the quorum resource could become the single point of failure as nodes could not function if they can not communicate to the quorum resource. This limit has been removed in Windows Server 2008 cluster, as now it supports 4 quorum modes which are enabled by the newly added ‘Voting Algorithm’. … Continue reading Windows 2008 Cluster Quorum Configurations →