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Migrate SMA database to new SQL Instance
Today I had to move the SMA database to a new SQL instance and I did NOT manage to find the information via Google or Bing (probably the operation is not so common yet :)). In this blogpost I will describe the steps necessary to successfully perform this operation. …
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SMA Runbook jobs stay Queued SOLVED! Plus some installation issues SOLVED as well!
Today I was configuring SMA (Service Management Automation) and was confronted with a strange issue. All runbooks stayed queued and never were assigned to the runbook worker. After some investigation I saw an error event in the SMA event log (Microsoft-ServiceManagementAutomation/Operational). …
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Live Migration Blocked by NPIV ports still in use Solved!
Working with virtual Fibre Channel on Hyper-V is really easy until you need to troubleshoot things. There doesn’t seem to be any out of the box tools to investigate and troubleshoot NPIV and vSAN related issues besides tracing. The problem with tracing at this point is that only Microsoft has the symbol files to convert the trace files into readable format which means you have to go through Microsoft support. …
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MAC Conflict caused by SCVMM Software Defined / Converged Networking SOLVED!
One of the more popular methods these days of configuring Hyper-V host networking involves the use of software defined networking (SDN) because of the flexibility it brings. More and more often I see new systems being bought for Hyper-V purposes with 2 or 4 10GBe ports instead of a multitude of 1GBe ports. …
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SCVMM 2012R2 Bare Metal Deployment Hyper-V 2012R2 takes forever SOLVED!
One thing I noticed post upgrading a Private Cloud to the 2012R2 wave was that Bare Metal Deployment was seriously impacted duration wise. “Getting Ready” took over half an hour!!! …