jantorep, Author at jtpedersen.com IT made simple

Storage Spaces Direct Rolling Cluster Upgrade to Windows Server 2019

September 21, 2018September 21, 2018jantorep

I have been quite on the blog front for a while as when we got home from summer holiday in early August we had lots of water in the 2nd floor bathroom floor which had run down a crack in the floor into the living room underneath. So I have spent almost every free hour after that figuring out where the water was coming from by removing walls. And finding a lot of rot in the construction where the water came in. And the water damage in the living room also kicked off a total renovation of the living room. As the insurance does not cover everything we will need to do some stuff our self.

But today i found some time to write this blog post for you, and it’s about Upgrading your S2D cluster to 2019 🙂

Storage Issues when rebooting a S2D node after may patches

August 15, 2018jantorep

Lately we have seen alot of Event ID 5120 with a status code of STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT or STATUS_CONNECTION_DISCONNECTED during rebooting a node.

Here is a statement from Microsoft about the issue and what to do when rebooting a node.

What’s new in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 1807

July 25, 2018July 25, 2018jantorep

So VMM 1807 was just released yesterday and there is not a lot of new features in this version, as I think the VMM team is focusing on support for RS5(2019) and new features for it.

In this version it’s an upgrade from 1801 to 1807. So to install 1807 you will need to have 1801 already installed.

Best practice planning a Storage Spaces Direct Cluster 2-16 nodes Part 2 Extending a cluster

July 9, 2018jantorep

Welcome back

In this post we will talk about how to extend your existing S2D cluster and what to think about when extending a S2D cluster.

In my previous post we built a 4 Node S2D cluster based on the following HW

Backing up your DPM2016 Server with a 2nd DPM server

July 9, 2018jantorep

So you have a DPM server and are thinking, it could be nice to have a offsite backup of my backups.

There are 2 ways to go. You can enable the DPM Azure Cloud backup. Wich is a nice feature. But it’s more for having a longer retention of your backup. And you will need to either reinstall the DPM server or install the Azure Backup Server somewhere and connect it to the Recovery Service Vault to restore the data.

Best practice planning a Storage Spaces Direct Cluster 2-16 nodes Part 1

June 24, 2018jantorep

Hi everyone, I am back with another Storage Spaces Direct post. This time I would like to talk to you about planning S2D clusters from 2 node to a 16 node cluster. What you need to think about when doing your planning. This will be a multi part series covering 4 nodes, adding additional nodes. All Flash, Hybrid, MRV and the big one a 16 Node setup.

Backup problems with Backup Exec and CSV ReFS volumes

June 8, 2018June 8, 2018jantorep

So i have been working on this case for about 4 weeks. Where a client have been having issues with CSV’s becoming unhealthy and Cache drives going into Lost Communication during backup. We have a MS Support case but as the client do not have Premier Support it’s taking a while to get trough 1st line and getting it escalated.

Patching Storage Spaces Direct

June 8, 2018August 8, 2018jantorep

Hello Everyone

I have been starting over and over on this blog post since nov 2017 wich coinsided with me chaning jobs, wich i again just did in april of 2018 to work soly with S2D, VMM, Azure Stak and other datacenter products. So i thought it was time to get this done.

Build Your own DIY home lab Part 2: The “Server Room”

May 27, 2018May 27, 2018jantorep

So a while ago i started on a blog post series i had hoped to be able to update with you on a regular basis. That did not happen as the new job was quite hectic and i was not able to get the funding i needed for the new S2D lab. So i ended up getting the old HP DL380 G6 servers from my then old job.

After the Nordic Infrastructure Conference i was approached by a company about a new exciting new job working on S2D, VMM, SCOM and Azure Stack as main focus. After some interview’s i decided to join CTGlobal which i started with in April. So now i thought it was time to revive this series. Since then my S2D cluster has been running very good. Upgrading it to Insider Build 17083 which is the last Insider Build that is supported on VMM 1801. New blog post cumming as soon as the VMM team releases a build for RS5 Windows Server 2019.

Unable to Bare Metal Deploy new S2D host from VMM with both physical Mellanox nic

May 5, 2018May 5, 2018jantorep

4 weeks ago i started my new job at CTGlobal here in Norway. Where i will be focusing on S2D, VMM, OMS, Azure Stack and other datacenter solutions. As we are deploying S2D with VMM we wanted to build an easy to use but robust way of configuring VMM and deploy the physical hosts for S2D and configure them all the way til we create the cluster and enable S2D. Deploying the host require BMC deep discovery of the host. It detects everything from disks, controller, network cards and so on. In my home lab i have Mellanox CX3 cards and are using them for host mgmt and SMB, so i am using a setSwitch with this. And configured this in the script.