Sonntag, 30. Juni 2013

Hyper-V Managemen Pack MP for System Center Operation Manager 2012 and 2012 SP1

With this community driven MP for Hyper-V you can go deeper with System Center Operation Manager.

  • VMs Integration Services Version monitor
  • Hyper-V Replica Health Monitoring Dashboard and States 
  • SMB Shares I/O latency monitor  
  • Hyper-V Hypervisor Logical processor monitoring
  • Hyper-V Hypervisor Virtual processor monitoring
  • Hyper-V Dynamic Memory monitoring
  • Hyper-V Virtual Networks monitoring
  • NUMA remote pages monitoring
  • SLAT enabled processor detection
  • Hyper-V VHDs monitoring
  • Physical and Logical Disk monitoring
  • Host Available Memory monitoring
  • Stopped and Failed VMs monitoring
  • Failed Live Migrations monitoring

Link to Codeplex

What's new in System Center 2012 R2

System Center 2012 R2 App Controller
System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager
System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager
System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator
System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager
System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager

To use Powershell to download all SC 2012 R2 preview VHDs ...use vniklas blog

Dienstag, 25. Juni 2013

Default cluster sizes for NTFS

What is the standard Block size for NTFS ?
link 


Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster and Hyper-V Hotfix List


Do you know this moment: Are all patches deployed by WSUS for my Cluster, or are this event log entries from a bug ?


Actual Hotfixes:

KB 2799728 Virtual machine enters a paused state or a CSV volume goes offline when you try to create a backup of the virtual machine on a Windows Server 2012-based failover cluster
v1 dont install: there are a lot of memory leaks reported
v2 intermediate version but not final: link for the new KB 2813630 but be aware of ODX and disable it if you need to ! There are still errors with v2
Please follow this forum link we expect a v3 stay tuned. "The Windows team is investigating other issues found during testing and not included in this release.  However they wanted to get this fix published since the memory leak issue is fixed and provide immediate relief"
v3  new release from Microsoft :Update that improves cluster resiliency in Windows Server 2012 is available will replace v2 (KB2813630) with v3 (KB 2838669)
v4 the KB2838669 was replaced with KB 2870270

One other thing to think about is that a LUN (CSV) created under Windows 2008R2 should not be used. Create a new LUN (CSV) with Windows Server 2012 (R2)

  1. Open a Windows PowerShell session as an administrator.
  2. Check whether ODX is currently enabled (it is by default) by verifying that the FilterSupportedFeaturesMode value in the registry equals 0. To do so, type the following command:
    Get-ItemProperty hklm:\system\currentcontrolset\control\filesystem -Name "FilterSupportedFeaturesMode"
  3. Disable ODX support. To do so, type the following command
    Set-ItemProperty hklm:\system\currentcontrolset\control\filesystem -Name "FilterSupportedFeaturesMode" -Value 1


KB2796995 ODX Fix for Microsoft Server 2012 link

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Microsoft cluster Patch that is released for Windows Server 2012 Part1 link

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster Patches Part 2 link
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Patches link
Microsoft Windows Server 2008R2 Hyper-V Patches link

Windows Server 2012 R2 / System Center 2012 R2 Preview released

Download your Testversion incl. Key here:
Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview

Download your System Center 2012 R2 Preview here:
System Center 2012 R2 Preview

Download Windows Azure Pack here:
Download Windows Azure Pack


Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track Information Updated for Windows Server 2012 and System Center Service Pack 1

The Fast Track Information was updated to Windows Server 2012 and System Center Service Pack 1

The Download starts here:
Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Fabric Architecture Guide
Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Fabric Management Architecture Guide
Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Deployment Guide