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Volodymyr Perishko
  • Volodymyr Perishko
  • January 23, 2024

The idea Behind Node Fairness in Hyper-V: How it works and why you need it?

How does it work? Being triggered, the Node Fairness service determines the current workload on the cluster hosts. If needed, it automatically migrates VMs to the less loaded host. After the start, the cluster service checks the host for two factors: If the average host CPU load exceeds the tolerated threshold If the average host memory utilization is higher than the tolerated threshold In case either of these criteria is met, the VM gets live migrated to the less loaded host. Neither guest system nor services do experience any downtime.
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Ivan Ischenko
  • Ivan Ischenko
  • March 8, 2018

Simplify storage management with Microsoft Systems Center VMM (SCVMM) and SMI-S

SMI-S or ‘Storage Management Initiative – Specification’ is a standard of a storage management (surprise!) which gives you a chance to administrate the storage layer using ‘Common Information Model’ and Web-Based Enterprise Management technologies and logic. The main point of SMI-S is to provide a single standard to manage various storage systems from different vendors pretty much in the same way. In this article (?) we will show you how to manage your storage using SCVMM 2016 (Server Center Virtual Machine Manager) through SMI-S, and how this whole thing works in general. We’ll use VSAN from StarWind as a reference distributed storage platform, but the primary scope of this document is to cover the subject in general, so any SMI-S compatible storage will work.
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Charbel Nemnom
  • Charbel Nemnom
  • February 28, 2017

How to Deploy Software-Defined Networking with VMM SDN Express for SCVMM 2016?

Microsoft announced the release of VMM SDN Express for System Center Virtual Machines Manager 2016 to simplify their Software-Defined Networking (SDNv2) deployment infrastructure. In short, VMM SDN Express is basically a VMM PowerShell script and parameter file that help you to deploy a production-ready Software-Defined Networking on top of Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition and SCVMM 2016, and without you having to move through multiple wizards or having to wait for a long time.
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Charbel Nemnom
  • Charbel Nemnom
  • December 9, 2016

How to Deploy and Manage Software-Defined Networking using SCVMM 2016 – Part III

In Part I of this series, we created the tenant virtual network and connecting two VMs to it using System Center Virtual Machine Manager, and then we validated that both VMs can route between each other. In Part II, we created a public Virtual IP Address (VIP) on the Software Load Balancer (SLB) using VMM console and PowerShell through which we were able to access a website on the virtual network. We also created Site-to-site (S2S) VPN to a Remote site.
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Charbel Nemnom
  • Charbel Nemnom
  • December 8, 2016

How to Deploy and Manage Software-Defined Networking using SCVMM 2016 – Part II

In Part I of this series, we created the tenant virtual network and connecting two VMs to it using System Center Virtual Machine Manager, and then we validated they can route between each other. In this blog post Part II, we will be creating a public Virtual IP Address (VIP) on the Software Load Balancer (SLB) MUX using SCVMM and PowerShell through which you can access a website on your virtual network. We will also create Site-to-site (S2S) VPN to a Remote site. Please make sure to check Part I so you can have an overview of the infrastructure and the VMM Logical Network that we are using throughout this series.
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Charbel Nemnom
  • Charbel Nemnom
  • December 7, 2016

How to Deploy and Manage Software-Defined Networking using SCVMM 2016 – Part I

Software Defined Networking (SDN) in Windows Server 2016 provides a method to centrally configure and manage physical and virtual network devices such as routers, switches, load balancers and gateways in your datacenter. Virtual network elements such as Hyper-V Virtual Switch, Hyper-V Network Virtualization, and RAS Gateway are designed to be integral elements of your SDN infrastructure. Please note that you must install Windows Server 2016 Datacenter edition for Hyper-V hosts and virtual machines (VMs) that run SDN infrastructure servers, such as Network Controller and Software Load Balancing nodes. However, you can run Windows Server 2016 Standard edition for Hyper-V hosts that contain only tenant workload virtual machines that are connected to SDN-controlled networks.
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Oksana Zybinskaya
  • Oksana Zybinskaya
  • November 3, 2016

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Stack in the Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016 enables building a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) with new layers of security and Azure-related approach for hosting business applications and infrastructure. The new Software-Defined Network (SDN) Stack  provides dynamic security and hybrid flexibility by enforcing network policy in the Hyper-V Virtual Switch using the Azure Virtual Filtering Platform (VFP) Switch Extension. Instead of programming network configurations into a physical switch,  the new Microsoft Network Controller delivers the network policy to the Hyper-V Hosts using the OVSDB protocol and is programmed into the VFP extension of the vSwitch by a Host Agent which enforces the policy.
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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • October 26, 2016

Install SCVMM 2016 on Windows Server 2016 Server Core

In a previous article, I explained how to install SQL Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016 Server Core. Through this blog post, I’ll explain to you how to install SCVMM 2016 RTM, on a Server Core. This last version is compatible with SQL Server 2016.
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Charbel Nemnom
  • Charbel Nemnom
  • October 13, 2016

What is Key Storage Drive in Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V?

Security is a critical requirement of any organization’s system. With the release of Windows Server 2016, Microsoft puts a lot of efforts around security and added a lot of new features. One hot feature that will add a lot of benefits to any small, medium and enterprise business environments is Shielded Virtual Machines and Key Storage Drive (KSD). Be sure that’s going to help you to increase the security whether you are a service provider or enterprise customer.
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