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Microsoft announces their support and contribution to the OpenCompute project
On the brink of Open Compute Project Summit 2040 (OCP Summit V) starting tomorrow morning, Microsoft today announced the contribution of their cloud server designs to the Open Compute Project. Interestingly enough, Bill Laing was scheduled to present a keynote tomorrow at the summit. This was surprising to me as Microsoft has been traditionally quiet about elaboration […]
Tags: microsoft, OCP, Open Compute, opencompute
Posted in Cloud, Coud Security, Microsoft, OCP, Open Compute, Virtualization | No Comments »
Cannot add second DAG node in Exchange 2013
Building an Exchange 2013 DAG in my lab, I was having problems adding a second DAG node. I was getting various errors: There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper… Error: This operation returned because the time-out period expired… And even more in the DAG logs:
Tags: Clustering, DAG, endpoints, Exchange, Exchange 2013, hash, interface, microsoft, time out, timeout period
Posted in Microsoft, Virtualization | 2 Comments »
Tintri VMstore Wish List
For the past two years, Tintri’s VMstore product has been my preferred VMware storage solution. The most complicated portion of the installation of the product is the rail kit. It took me just a couple of installations to add a hammer to my tool bag in order to bang the rails into place. The ability […]
Tags: deduplication, hammer, iops, microsoft, nfs solution, rail kit, roadmap, storage solution, tool bag, usability
Posted in Hyper-V, Tintri, Virtualization, vmware | No Comments »
Corefig for Windows Server 2012 Core and Hyper-V Server 2012
I’ll admit it. I have spent very little time learning PowerShell. I fall back to the comfort of the Explore shell or using other peoples PowerShell scripts. For those of you diving into Microsoft Server Core can attest, not knowing PowerShell is kind of an issue. Server Core lacks a GUI and configuration needs to […]
Tags: computer settings, control panel, core features, little time, microsoft, microsoft server, network settings, open source community, shell, windows server
Posted in Powershell, Windows Server 2012 | 1 Comment »