Unable to RDP into Azure VMs
After patching all the Windows Server in Azure, a colleague calls me in panic, because their users, could not access their VMs through RDP. They...
Tag: Windows Server 2012 R2
How to extend Azure Service Fabric to on-premise?
You can deploy a Service Fabric cluster on any physical or virtual machine running the Windows Server operating system, including ones residing in your on-premises...
Virtualizing Your Data Center with Hyper-V and System Center
Free online event with live Q&A: http://aka.ms/virtDC Wednesday, February 19th from 9am – 5pm PST If you’re new to virtualization, or if you have some...
Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) errors on Hyper-V Cluster
In a failover cluster, virtual machines can use Cluster Shared Volumes that are on the same LUN (disk), while still being able to fail over...
Integration between Hyper-V Network Virtualization and Windows Server Gateway
One of features on Windows Server 2012 R2 that was improved since the last version is network virtualization. Virtual networks are created by using Hyper-V...
MPIO on Hyper-V Server
On the previous version of Windows Server (prior Windows Server 2012) you have to download and install MultiPath I/O (MPIO). Since Windows Server 2012 MPIO...
Restoring Hyper-V and Virtual Machines using Windows Server Backup
Cluster, Hyper-V Replica, Storage Migration, and other features makes for a higher availability for Hyper-V virtual machines, but it is impossible to provide 100 percent...
Backing up Hyper-V and virtual machines using Windows Server Backup
Previous versions of Hyper-V (like 2008, 2008 R2 and 2008 R2 SP1) had complications and incompatibilities with the built-in backup tool, forcing the administrators to...
Enabling and disabling the graphical interface in Hyper-V Server Core
Server Core has many installation benefits, but there are a few situations where the GUI is better and provides more options; for example, when we...
Managing a Hyper-V Server Core installation using sconfig
With all the benefits that Server Core bring such as performance, security and so on. But without the GUI, it’s not easy to do the...