Tag: server-2016

• Veeam Console Not Opening (06 Apr 2022)
  Everyone loves loathes a software update. We all know they’re needed to fight the everlasting war agains vulnerabilities and bugs. We all love the new features becoming available, after they were promised years ago. These positive gains, are still often...
  
  
• Remote Powershell scripting using VS Code on a Mac (26 Jul 2020)
  Being a Microsoft centric engineer with a Mac OS laptop has raised plenty of eyebrows during meetings. I’m sure there have been times people have internally questioned my credentials. Who can blame them? Walking into a meeting to talk about...
  
  
• Intel CPU Vulnerability (05 Nov 2018)
  A new vulnerability has just landed for Intel CPU’s that are still using Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT). CVE-2018-5407, or commonly known as PortSmash.
  
  
• Hyper-V CPU Scheduler Types (24 Oct 2018)
  Recent security vulnerabilities within CPU’s has resulted in a need to change some fundamental CPU scheduling within Hyper-V, so to keep VM’s secure. Microsoft has an article outlining the different schedulers, that now available. This blog article is to help...
  
  
• S2D Cluster Updates - October 2018 (22 Oct 2018)
  In my previous blog article, I spoke about how recent updates had introduced some serious bugs and reliability issues for S2D.
  
  
• S2D Cluster Updates - May 2018 (05 Oct 2018)
  There is nothing more frustrating that doing all possible due diligence, raising the relevant Change Requests, completing testing, just to have a routine Windows Update fail.
  
  
• S2D Manual Cache Rebind (30 Jul 2018)
  Sometimes things don’t go quite to plan. Whilst deploying a cluster with P3700 Intel drives, we had a situation where we needed to disable the cache as the drives were failing. This is a well documented issue that arose with...
  
  
• S2D Storage Jobs Failing (21 Jul 2018)
  From time to time, a Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) storage job, whether this is a Virtual Disk Repair, Physical Disk Removal or Storage Pool Rebalance/Optimization, will suspend or fail for some reason. When this happens, we need to understand why...