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Systems Center - Virtualization: January 2015

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Systems Center - Virtualization. Monday, January 19, 2015. PowerShell to Retrieve OS Image family from Azure. Azure is an ever changing. At times I have PowerShell that provision certain image from the Azure Library, but the naming of the image keeps changing. Once the Azure account is established to the local server PowerShell, I would use the script below to retrieve example all Windows 2012 family in Azure. Once that’s done, I’ll just display by key in. End result looks like this :. TS SCCM - Ben Teh.

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Systems Center - Virtualization: March 2014

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Systems Center - Virtualization. Friday, March 28, 2014. Unable to Backup using DPM or Local Windows Backup–missing VSS. Here’s the scenario :. Two Windows Server 2012 running Hyper-V. Backup software : DPM 2012 SP1. When the VM resides on Host1, the DPM can backup VMs with no issue. However when the VMs resides in Host2, the DPM fails to backup. Checked on the Host2 and found many errors of 8194. Diskshadow set context persistent. Diskshadow set verbose on. Diskshadow Add volume D: alias VolumeD. Creati...

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Systems Center - Virtualization: Class 20409B - Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center

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Systems Center - Virtualization. Friday, July 31, 2015. Class 20409B - Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center. Just finished conducting a 5-days class on Server Virtualization using Hyper-V and System Center. During class, I shared real life scenarios on how it was implemented, what are the obstacles they will face if planning were not done properly in the first place before rolling out. Feeling happy that the students went back with knowledge. Posted by Bernard Khoo. In toda...

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Systems Center - Virtualization: January 2014

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Systems Center - Virtualization. Tuesday, January 28, 2014. DPM–How to Mark Tape as Free. Sometimes we hit the issue of having difficulty of marking the Tape as Free in the DPM Library. The tape is label as “Unknown” at times and can’t mark it as Free in the DPM Console. Then I scout around and found that I need to do this in PowerShell. Copy the following Script ( in green. Into a Notepad and place into a directory in the DPM server. Rename it as a powershell extention. I name it as. If ($media -is [Mic...

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Systems Center - Virtualization: August 2015

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Systems Center - Virtualization. Thursday, August 13, 2015. Azure Recovery Services–backup increased to 54TB limit. Earlier last month I shared on how to configure the DPM 2012 R2 with Azure Recovery (Backup Vault). Microsoft Azure recovery Services team has officially released the backup per protection group from 1.7TB limit and now to 54TB. Limit on 12th Aug 2015. The news release is here. Keynote : Azure limit, ASR, Azure Recovery Services, DPM, SCDPM, storage limit.backup limit. Posted by Bernard Khoo.

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Systems Center - Virtualization: April 2013

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Systems Center - Virtualization. Thursday, April 4, 2013. How to Create Fixed Disk in VHDX using PowerShell. I’m going to share with you on how you can create the VHDX with Fixed Disk using PowerShell. It’s fun and fast. Firstly launch the PowerShell. Key in the following command :. New-VHD –Path “ C: ClusterStorage Volume1 ServerVM Virtual Hard Disks ServerVMDisk2.vhdx. 8221; –size 50GB. Note : make changes in the yellow. Highlighted in your environment. Please include the quotes “ ”. The Result as :.

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Systems Center - Virtualization: December 2014

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Systems Center - Virtualization. Wednesday, December 17, 2014. How to Write into Event Viewer (using PowerShell). I’m into a situation that I want to write the activity that was carried out into the Event Viewer (say the Application). I’ve a PowerShell script but has incorporated the following in the beginning and the end of the script. First I need to register the event into the server’s event viewer. I call it as “InFront Maintenance”. In the PowerShell, I only execute once to record it down. Write-Eve...

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Systems Center - Virtualization: November 2013

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Systems Center - Virtualization. Wednesday, November 20, 2013. Remove Hidden Devices (does not display devices that are not connected). I was having issues of booting up the VM. It was corrupted of the XML for the VM. So I re-created a new VM but attach back the Hard Disk from the old VM. The steps are the following that I do :. Type devmgr show nonpresent devices=1. Type start devmgmt.msc. Then click Show hidden devices. Remove the unnecessary devices (e.g. the Microsoft Hyper-V Network Adapter). I foun...

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Systems Center - Virtualization: Upgrade Windows Server 2012 R2 Evaluation Version to License/ Full Version

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Systems Center - Virtualization. Wednesday, July 22, 2015. Upgrade Windows Server 2012 R2 Evaluation Version to License/ Full Version. I had been doing a development or lab environment with Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter Evaluation copy. Lots of work has been done. Note : This does not work for Domain Controllers running on evaluation license). The following are the steps that I want to share. Would gather the information for the volume licensing. Key in the command as below in the command prompt. Next get t...