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Built-in Firewall rule issues

December 7, 2020jantorep

Hello everyone, a quick and short blog post here. As most of you know for services built in to the windows server os there are default firewall rules that get’s enabled if you install the role or feature and you configure it.

Like Radius, Hyper-V Replica, and so on. In the last few weeks i have had issues with Radius and Hyper-V replica firewall ports not working even tho the default rules where enabled.

Changing already used logical networks in Virtual Machine Manager

October 22, 2020jantorep

So i had a question yesterday about how do you change a subnet mask on a logical network that is already beeing used. Well the short answer is it can’t be done in VMM GUI. So i decided i needed to have a look at how i could do this. Read more to see how

Manually adding a patch to WSUS

October 22, 2020October 22, 2020jantorep

So this week there was a new Cumulative Update out that i wanted to test on a Storage Spaces Direct cluster. But as im using WSUS and VMM to patch my clusters i needed that patch to be in WSUS and it’s not. It will still take a few days before that patch get’s synced to WSUS, and i did not want to manualy update my nodes.

I googled and found a few posts about this but none that was good enough and it took me a while to find something relevant. So i decided i should share with you how you manually ad a Windows Update KB to WSUS.

Issue installing Hyper-V and Failover Cluster features

October 15, 2020October 15, 2020jantorep

So i just setup a new Azure Stack HCI cluster on Windows Server 2019 with the September Cumulative Update and it was throwing a We couldn’t complete the features Undoing changes Don’t turn off your computer.

Memory usage on Azure Stack HCI/Storage Spaces Direct

October 7, 2020October 15, 2020jantorep

Hello everyone, it’s been a while since my last post. So i thought i should share some something i could not find any other explanation on. And that is…..

My server is using 50GB+ of memory and i have no VM’s on it. Why is it doing that? Well there are a few explanations for that.

What’s new for Azure Stack HCI

July 21, 2020July 21, 2020jantorep

Hello Everyone, it’s been a while since my last blog post. But boy do i have a great post for you today.

Today at Microsoft Inspire, it was announced a new Server SKU called Azure Stack HCI.

Issues getting output from Hyper-V Tools or Failover Cluster Manager

March 24, 2020March 24, 2020jantorep

Hello, a few weeks ago i had some issues at a client where Failover Cluster Manager would not repsond when trying to anything. It would just hang and eventually fail.

Even Hyper-V manager or the normal Powershell tools where hanging and taking forever. Doing a simple Get-VM, Get-Storagejob or any powershell command related to Hyper-V or Storage Spaces Direct would hang for ages, and maybe give out a response after 10-20 min.

Adding a new Cache device and you setup your cluster with -CacheDeviceModel and now the new device wont be used as Cache?

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019jantorep

Hello Everyone, it’s been a while since my last blog post. So i thought id share something i came over in our Azure Stack HCI(Former S2D) slack channel. https://azurestackhci.slack.com

Someone said that they had a new Node that when they added that node to the cluster, the new Cache devices would not bind to the Capacity drives on that cluster. The reason for this is when the cluster was created, it was run with Enable-ClusterS2D -CacheDeviceModel. When doing so you tell the cluster that the only allowed Cache device is this model.

Day 1 update for Azure Stack HCI from Ignite

November 5, 2019November 5, 2019jantorep

Hey everyone, there has been a few announcements toady at Ignite for Azure Stack HCI

There are some relay big ones.

MVP award and speaking at Experts Live Europe in Prague

October 8, 2019October 8, 2019jantorep

Last week i was honored to receive the MVP award for Cloud and Datacenter for 2020/2021.