In the past I’ve never noticed much gain from going to a fixed disk over dynamic so I decided to finally put it to the test. I tested with two different disk arrays, one a slow SATA using storage spaces (RAID1+0) and another using SSD in straight RAID 0. Each array has 4 disks. Each […]
Read More →Archive for May, 2015
Cannot add shared web worker role to Windows Azure Pack Websites
Ran into this issue after the CU6 update. Turns our it is an issue with the update. I believe Microsoft is pushing everyone to the new MMC console instead of the web portal for admin tasks. This could be part of that effort. If you are seeing these errors when adding a new web worker […]
Read More →Powershell to get all MAC addresses of each virtual machine on a host and export to tab delimited file
This will spit out the MAC address and name of each virtual machine on a host to a text file. You can then clean the file up and throw it in Excel. I had to use this to clean up duplicate MACs in two different clusters because I’m a bad sys admin and didn’t change […]
Read More →Use powershell to turn off IPSec Task Offloading on all Virtual Machines on a host
I know you came here to copy and paste so here it is. Run this on each host. Works on stand alone and in clusters. Get-VM | Get-VMNetworkAdapter | Set-VMNetworkAdapter -IPsecOffloadMaximumSecurityAssociation 0 Very simple. Gets all virtual machines on a host, then their network adapters, then?disables IPSec task offloading. This is equivalent to unchecking the […]
Read More →The mother of all disk benches! 4 disk SSD array, server SSD array, storage spaces
I built a new disk array for my Hyper-V lab at home. Overkill? Yeah, but I got tired of waiting for VM’s to boot, or build from deployment. When I study or learn something new I need efficiency! Plus there was a sale on 256GB drives and I found a little 4 disk hot swap […]
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