Tag Archives: VMM

The next version of Hyper-V comes with a new feature called Virtual Network Adapter Identification. This feature enables to specify a name when a network adapter is added to the virtual machine and to retrieve this same name inside the VM. This feature can be also managed from Virtual Machine Manager 2016 (Technical Preview 3 where I’m writing this post). ...

The Windows Azure Pack Update Rollup 6 has been released today. After upgrading my lab, it’s time to try some new VM Clouds features. So in this topic, I’m going to talk about Gen2 VM deployment though VM Role. Before playing with this new feature, I have updated Virtual Machine Manager, Service Provider Foundation and Windows Azure Pack to Update ...

When Hyper-V is implemented in cluster, Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) are required to store Virtual Machines. These shared volumes can be LUNs (iSCSI, FCoE, Fiber Channel and so on) or SMB shares (Scale-Out File Server). In this topic I will implement a shared storage from a QNAP NAS. Moreover QNAP provides an SMI-S provider so I will use it to ...

Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) is able to manage Microsoft updates and the compliance of the fabric servers as Hyper-V hosts, VMM servers, PXE servers, Library servers and so on. For that VMM must be connected to a WSUS. When VMM is connected to a WSUS, the updates are visible in the VMM console and can be added to an update ...

IP Address Management (IPAM) is a set of tools that enables to plan, deploy, monitor or manage the IP address space. IPAM is able to manage address spaces or virtual address spaces from Virtual Machine Manager. IPAM provides also a centralized interface from the Server Manager. The first feature of IPAM is the Address Space Management (ASM) that enables to ...

When the Windows Azure Pack is installed for production, the access to the cloud services should be accessible 99,9% of the time. To implement this service level, the Windows Azure Pack has to be deployed with high availability mechanisms as Load-Balancing, SQL AlwaysOn and so on. The below schema shows the Windows Azure Pack deployment in high availability that I ...

For the first time, I used in a real project IP Pool in Virtual Machine Manager 2012R2. Before that, I used as everyone a DHCP server or I set manually the IP addresses in network configuration. But this time I used IP Pools intensively to avoid these constraints. So in this topic I want to share you my happiness about ...

Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part1 – Introduction Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part2 – Prepare Networking Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part3 – Prepare OS deployment Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part4 – Hyper-V host provisioning To finish this series of articles about Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2, I ...