If you manage Azure Local clusters (or any Windows Failover Cluster with Hyper-V and Cluster Shared Volumes), you’ve probably noticed that CSV ownership doesn’t always stay perfectly balanced after maintenance, patching, or node reboots. One node can end up owning multiple volumes while others sit idle. This creates unnecessary I/O coordination overhead and can quietly […]
Category: Operations
Expand Data Disks for Azure Local VMs
Introduction Azure Local virtual machines (VMs), formerly known as Arc VMs, are VMs deployed from Azure via the Azure Resource Bridge (ARB) to Azure Local instances. These VMs are natively Arc-enabled and administrators can manage them using Azure management tools including the Azure portal, the Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, and ARM templates. There are three main […]
Lifecycle Management & Releases
Continuing on from my blog post on 23H2 Solution Updates, I wanted to provide a bit more information on Lifecycle Management and Releases for Azure Stack HCI (see previous post here: https://www.hciharrison.com/azure-stack-hci/azure-stack-hci-23h2-solution-updates/ From version 23H2 of Azure Stack HCI, updates are released in a different way from previous versions. In this post we are going […]
Azure Stack HCI 23H2 Solution Updates
Prior to version 23H2, updating your Azure Stack HCI Clusters was a case of installing the monthly Windows Cumulative Updates, updating the hardware updates when new versions were available, and keeping any Arc related components updated, such as the Azure Connected Machine agent that connects the Cluster Hosts to Azure via Azure Arc. Windows Admin […]