In this blog post I’m going to discuss Azure Extended Networks, why you might need them (but ideally shouldn’t) and how to set them up. What are they? Azure Extended Networks enable you to stretch an on-premises subnet into Azure to let on-premises virtual machines keep their original on-premises private IP addresses when migrating to […]
Author: hciharrison
Extending OS Volumes for Virtual Machines
Ever tried to extend an OS Volume / system partition for a virtual machine but couldn’t, even though you expanded the VHDX? A likely reason is that the VM’s OS was deployed with a Recovery Partition and the additional space is not accessible to the OS Partition. What’s causing this? The ‘Recovery Partition’ is located […]
Defender Status Reporting
In this post I am going to explain what I’ve done to report on the status of Microsoft Defender on cluster nodes. Why? The reason I spent time on this, is that I couldn’t find an easy way to see if (and check that) Defender was running and being updated regularly. I don’t use SCCM […]
Virtual Disk Repair Times
On S2D Clusters, here is a small code snippet that I find useful to see how Virtual Disk repairs are going after rebooting a node or replacing a disk. It will also attempt to estimate the remaining time left (shout-out to Russell Workman for that addition):
VM Storage Performance
On S2D Clusters, here is a one-line PowerShell that I find useful to see which node is seeing the highest IOPS:
WAC via Proxy
Windows Admin Center is an excellent Management Tool and an ideal way to manage your Azure Stack HCI clusters. I first started using it in anger in 2019, but quickly encountered and issue in that there was no obvious way to allow it to talk out via a proxy server? Now if you’re anything like […]
GPO Update Error
Problem Running gpupdate resulted in errors like below: PS C:\> gpupdate /forceUpdating policy… Computer policy could not be updated successfully. The following errors were encountered: The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows could not apply the registry-based policy settings for the Group Policy object LocalGPO. Group Policy settings will not be resolved until this event […]
All New Site
Welcome to my all new technical blog site. My aim is to share my experiences, thoughts and opinions in the hope it helps you