• IT Systems Engineering

    Getting Started with SCVMM 2012

    April 15, 2013 /

    After I installed SCVMM I wanted to get up and running quickly. At that time I wrote this document. However after using VMM for a few months I fouund what I did wrong. I re-installed VMM and now I have updated this document to reflect the changed. Here are the updated steps: Start SC VMM manager on the VMM server (At least once start the VMM manager on the VMM server, later on you can install and use it from your own Workstation.) Authenticate to the localhost using the admin account (I was already logged on using an admin account so I chose the option – “Use current…) On the…

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    Presenting LUNs to Hyper-V 2012

    April 9, 2013 /

    Here are my notes on presenting a LUN from a 3PAR 7400 SAN to a Hyper-V 2012 server running no GUI. The SAN is connected to the server via Fiber. There is a FC switch in between which has been properly configure, zoned, etc. Multiple paths to the same LUNs are configured for redundancy and speed so we need MPIO. Procedure: 1. Install MPIO feature and reboot the Hyper-V server Note that I did not run the mpiocpl GUI or the mpclaim command as I described here earlier. You may have to do that. 2. From  inside the SAN management console, present a LUN to the Hyper-V server. Note: while…

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    Device management using PowerShell

    April 8, 2013 /

    There are some cmdlets available for device management. They are useful on a server core type installation like Hyper-V 2012 First you need to download and import the cmdlet modules from here Then you can run commands like get-device. However a more useful command is: Get-Device | Sort-Object -Property Name | ft Name, DriverVersion, DriverProvider, IsPresent, HasProblem –AutoSize More command examples are here

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