Windows 2016 Containers are an isolated, resource controlled and portable Operating environment irrespective of the application and operating configuration that on host server Operating environment. Such containers have existed for a long time on Unix-like operating systems, but their usage for application deployment increased following the release of Docker as an open source project in … Continue reading Windows 2016 containers for portable application environment
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Windows Server 2016 VMs Disks are not getting online after reboot
Folks, I have been facing this issue very random on our Windows server 2016 Virtual machines running on VMware platform. Interestingly, none reported the same to Microsoft (as mentioned by the assigned technician) Here what we found out, (all credits to http://www.happysysadm.com/2010/11/disk-is-offline-because-of-policy-set.html) 2 possible caused behind this behavior, How VMware virtual machine disk file presented … Continue reading Windows Server 2016 VMs Disks are not getting online after reboot
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016 new features and enhancement.. Agenda: Licensing change Server Editions Nano servers Server Walkthrough Containers IIS 10.0 PowerShell 5.0 Active Directory Fail-over Clustering Please post questions for more!
VMware ESX Storage Troubleshooting
As far as I am concerned, the biggest challenge for a VMware administrator is storage related issues and its troubleshooting. As title said, it is not a trouble shooting steps. There were numerous storage issues and troubleshooting steps varies case by case. It will be tough to go through all of those. Below article just … Continue reading VMware ESX Storage Troubleshooting
Memory Leak and utilization troubleshooting tools and usage!
Hello Friends, As far as I am concerned this is one of the most toughest part of my job till today. There is no perfect answer of an actual performance issues. Mostly some assumptions and correlating reports from some of the below tools give a fade view of what actually happening in terms of High … Continue reading Memory Leak and utilization troubleshooting tools and usage!
Blue Screen (BSOD) with driver Error 0x00000050 on Windows 2008 Servers
(Please note: Just sharing this since I have seen occurring frequent BSOD on few of 32 bit Windows 2008 servers running on VMware, where VMware tool and VM hardware version latest. Please consider this as a solution only if memory dump analysis match with dll or EXE below and with same OS version, ) Issue: … Continue reading Blue Screen (BSOD) with driver Error 0x00000050 on Windows 2008 Servers
Active Directory Forest Restructuring :: Part 2
Go to Part 1 Prepare source domain for migration One of the most important and foremost task part of AD migration is preparing our source domain. Preparing source domain including proper cleanup of source domain avoid any unwanted resource moved over to new forest and fix any outstanding administrative or security models. Prepare POC environment … Continue reading Active Directory Forest Restructuring :: Part 2
Active Directory Forest Restructuring :: Part 1
Go to Part 2 Thought of doing little help with AD migration and forest reconsolidation. Here I am taking an example of an AD forest restructuring due to some specific reason, it was a single domain forest with some split domain complication the internal domain owned by another organization. We have done this quite some … Continue reading Active Directory Forest Restructuring :: Part 1
SQL Service pack failed due to .Net security issue (no error)
Our SQL DBAs was facing some issue with upgrading the SQL Service pack 3 with CU 6 on Windows 2008 R2 server. Whenever they ran the setup the black CMD screen runs and disappears, no error or events reported. When we look at the SQLsetup Logs. You can find it from Temp folder, by running … Continue reading SQL Service pack failed due to .Net security issue (no error)
Windows Failover Cluster Process and Guidelines
Windows 2012 R2 failover /multi-subnet failover clustering Purpose This document provides the policies, process to Plan, implement and deploy failover cluster on Windows 2012/2008 R2 Manage, maintain and secure Failover cluster including a multi-site cluster Identify the challenges and Risk and troubleshoot common problems Scope This document provides information about requirements and recommendations for … Continue reading Windows Failover Cluster Process and Guidelines
