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Installing #S2D without #RDMA

Jul 17, 2017 | Hyper-V, HyperConverged, S2D, Scripts, Windows Server | 0 |

A client recently came to me and wanted us to flatten his hyper-converged appliance, and replace...

VMware Storage and PowerShell #MVPHour #PowerShell

Jul 11, 2017 | Scripts | 0 |

Well I’ve been buried lately under a lot of LUNs. Spring is over and a customer I’m at has forgotten to do their spring cleaning! Needless to say, the LUN presentation and maintenance to their VMware clusters is a mess! In order to audit the system and ensure things were going in my favor, I wrote quite a few PowerShell code blocks/1 liners.

Dave’s Cool Tools Part 3 #PowerShell FTP Downloader Script PSFTP #mvphour #Canitpro

Jun 29, 2017 | Cool Tools, Scripts | 0 |

Hey fellow IT Pro’s in today’s blog post we will look at a super quick and dirty way...

UPDATE MELLANOX NIC FIRMWARE AND DRIVER FOR NON-RDMA STORAGE SPACE DIRECT CLUSTER SERVERS #STORAGEPACEDIRECT #POWERSHELL #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP #MELLANOX

Jun 27, 2017 | Hyper-V, S2D, Step-by-Step, Windows Server | 1 |

Today, let’s talking about how to step by step to update Mellanox NIC firmware and driver for non-RDMA Storage Space Direct Cluster Servers. You can easy to do via follow steps.

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 35 – Did you say #S2D for Free? #MVPHour #StorageSpacesDirect .@MS_Ignite

Jun 23, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

Eliminating Maintenance Contracts will pay for Storage Spaces Direct! One of the games our...

Active Directory – When was this user/computer Created #PowerShell #MVPHour #

Jun 22, 2017 | Scripts, Windows Server | 0 |

A pretty simple request came across my desk today. I was requested to send a report of users that were created after a specific date. Do you remember the Windows Server 2003 and prior? Before PowerShell? We had to use what I’ll term loosely as “wonderful” LDAP queries. Also the query result was pure text, we couldn’t do anything easily with it short of magical text parsing! Well here is my PowerShell script I quickly whipped up!

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 34 – Patching Offline S2D Labs with Cumulative Updates #MVPHour #StorageSpacesDirect

Jun 22, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

Hey Storage Spaces Direct fans, over the course of the past few months we have been showing you...

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 33 – Is Apple is causing the worldwide DRAM & NAND Shortage? #MVPHour #Apple #StorageSpacesDirect

Jun 21, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

Hey Storage Spaces Direct fans, I have now had 3 separate customer cases where their Storage...

NON-RDMA STORAGE SPACES DIRECT STRESS TEST STEPS and RESULT – #WINDOWSSERVER #S2D #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

Jun 20, 2017 | S2D, Step-by-Step, Windows Server | 1 |

Today, I am going to do stress test for NON-RDMA Storage space direct servers, the customer use their existing Cisco Catalyst 4500-x for Storage space direct servers, as we know, it doesn’t support DCB and PFC function, so, we will focus on stress test result for Storage space direct servers without enable RDMA and see how’s the performance.

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 32 – @MellanoxTech Hidden Device Manager Settings #StorageSpacesDirect #MVPHour #HyperV

Jun 20, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

Hey Networking fans, I’m back again this time with a really cool little trick to determine...

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 31 – @MellanoxTech Capture RoCE v2 or Infinniband Traffic with #WireShark and IBDump.exe #StorageSpacesDirect #MVPHour #HyperV

Jun 17, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

Hey Networking fans, I’m back again this time with a really cool little trick to capture...

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 30 – @MellanoxTech System Snapshot 2.6 Documentation #StorageSpacesDirect #MVPHour #HyperV

Jun 16, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

Hey Networking fans, a few posts back we dug into the Mellanox PowerShell providers that come as...

MINIMAL DOWNTIME MIGRATION OF WINDOWS SERVER ROLES – PART 3 #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

Jun 16, 2017 | Step-by-Step, Windows Server | 0 |

Ok, it’s time to demote existing Windows server 2003 and migrate all Windows server roles to new Windows server 2012 R2, there are no down time for Part1 steps and Part2 steps, but we need to schedule down time for Part3 steps to cut over all services.

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 29 – The Death of #StorageSpacesDirect on #NanoServer #MVPHour #HyperV

Jun 16, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

Hey Storage Spaces Direct fans, I some very unfortunate news for you. Nano Server + Storage...

MINIMAL DOWNTIME MIGRATION OF WINDOWS SERVER ROLES – PART 2 #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

Jun 15, 2017 | Step-by-Step, Windows Server | 0 |

After done for Active Directory Preparation, now we need to install a new Windows Server 2012 R2, export data from existing windows server 2003 and then import to new Windows Server 2012 R2.

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 28 – @MellanoxTech #PowerShell Reporting Script #StorageSpacesDirect #MVPHour #HyperV

Jun 15, 2017 | S2D, Scripts | 1 |

Hey Storage Spaces Direct fans, I know we have had a lot of chatter going on regarding...

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 27 – @MellanoxTech Physical Port Mapping #StorageSpacesDirect #MVPHour #HyperV

Jun 15, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

Hey Networking fans, I have been working with Windows infrastructure for a very long time now and...

UPDATE – June 27, 2017 – Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 26 – @MellanoxTech Firmware Bug CX3-PRO #StorageSpacesDirect #MVPHour #HyperV

Jun 14, 2017 | S2D | 1 |

Important UPDATE: June 27, 2017 – by Dave Kawula Hey folks –> We have an active...

MINIMAL DOWNTIME MIGRATION OF WINDOWS SERVER ROLES – PART 1 #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

Jun 14, 2017 | Step-by-Step, Windows Server | 0 |

As we know Windows Server 2003 was end support on July 14, 2015, but there are some customers still using it for some reasons. Today, my customer asked me to migrate their Windows server 2003 to Windows Server 2012 R2, there are many windows roles on that server, let’s follow below steps to migrate it with minimal downtime.

STEP BY STEP MIGRATE EXCHANGE FROM ON-PREMISES TO OFFICE 365 PART 16 – MOVE MAILBOXES BETWEEN ON-PREMISES WITH EXCHANGE ONLINE #OFFICE365 #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

Jun 13, 2017 | Office365, Step-by-Step | 3 |

You can use the remote move migration wizard on the Office 365 to move existing user mailboxes between the on-premises organization with the Exchange Online organization

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 25 – Zero Downtime Migration to S2D #StorageSpacesDirect #MVPHour #HyperV

Jun 12, 2017 | S2D, Step-by-Step | 0 |

You have your new Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct hyperconverged HyperV Failover Cluster built....

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 24 – Planned Power Outage of S2D #StorageSpacesDirect #MVPHour #Hyper-V

Jun 12, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

One of the challenges with any hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is that sometimes you need to...

STEP BY STEP MIGRATE EXCHANGE FROM ON-PREMISES TO OFFICE 365 PART 15 – ENABLE MRSPROXY SERVICE AND CREATE MIGRATION ENDPOINT #OFFICE365 #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

Jun 12, 2017 | Office365, Step-by-Step | 0 |

Prior to performing on-boarding and off-boarding remote move migrations in an Exchange hybrid deployment, we recommend that you create Exchange remote migration endpoints. The migration endpoint contains the connection settings for an on-premises Exchange server that is running the MRS proxy service, which is required to perform remote move migrations to and from Exchange Online.

STEP BY STEP MIGRATE EXCHANGE FROM ON-PREMISES TO OFFICE 365 PART 14 – CONFIGURE ON-PREMISES EMAIL SERVER RECEIVE CONNECTOR TO RELAY EMAIL #OFFICE365 #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

Jun 11, 2017 | Office365, Step-by-Step | 0 |

By default, Exchange 2010 does not allow clients to use the SMTP service for anonymous relay, so we need to configure a Receive Connector for this purpose.