MINIMAL DOWNTIME MIGRATION OF WINDOWS SERVER ROLES – PART 2
After done for Active Directory Preparation, now we need to install a new Windows Server 2012 R2, export data from existing windows server 2003 and then import to new Windows… Read more »
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MINIMAL DOWNTIME MIGRATION OF WINDOWS SERVER ROLES – PART 1
As we know Windows Server 2003 was end support on July 14, 2015, but there are some customers still using it for some reasons. Today, my customer asked me to… Read more »
Windows 2016 Server mysterious shutdown issues
Do your Windows 2016 Servers have mysterious shutdown issues? Today, I tried to troubleshooting windows 2016 mysterious shutdown for my client, I found it was NT Authority\System that shutdown the… Read more »
VEEAM TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS – ADD WINDOWS SERVER 2016 CLUSTER TO VEEAM BACKUP & REPLICATION
As we know, Veeam Backup and Replication Software is a powerful and easy-to-use for backup and availability solution, I would like to share a troubleshooting tip with you today. You… Read more »
UPDATE MELLANOX NIC FIRMWARE AND DRIVER FOR NON-RDMA STORAGE SPACE DIRECT CLUSTER SERVERS #STORAGEPACEDIRECT #POWERSHELL #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP #MELLANOX
Today, let’s talking about how to step by step to update Mellanox NIC firmware and driver for non-RDMA Storage space direct servers. You can easy to do it via follow… Read more »
HOW TO IN-PLACE UPGRADE 2003 WEB SERVER
My customer asked me to upgrade their Windows 2003 web server last week, as we know, Windows Server 2003 extended support ended on July 14,2015, Microsoft will no longer issue… Read more »
HOW TO EXPAND WINDOWS SERVER 2003 SYSTEM VOLUME SPACE
Today, my customer asked me that is it possible to expand system volume disk space for their Windows Server 2003 virtual machine? The answer is Yes, we can do it without any 3rd party tools. You just need a Windows Server 2008 or up to help this. Let’s follow the step by step to do it.
CONVERT DE-DUPLICATED MBR DATA VOLUME TO GPT DATA VOLUME WITH FREE TOOL
As we know, one of the benefits of deduplication is that by reducing the used space on a data volume, it makes backing up that volume faster, which enables longer… Read more »
NON-RDMA STORAGE SPACE DIRECT STRESS TEST STEPS and RESULT
Today, I am going to do stress test for NON-RDMA Storage space direct servers, the customer use their existing Cisco Catalyst 4500-x for Storage space direct servers, as we know, it doesn’t support DCB and PFC function, so, we will focus on stress test result for Storage space direct servers without enable RDMA and see how’s the performance.
Here we will use VMFleet and DISKSPD tools to test the performance, VMFLeet is a basic collet bunch of PowerShell scripts to easy create VMs and run stress tests. Let’s follow the steps to do.
DHCP SERVER FAILOVER CLUSTER WITH CISCO CALLMANAGER /IP PHONE
Today, let’s talking about how to configure DHCP Cluster with Cisco Call manager service (TFTP services). DHCP server failover cluster feature provides the ability to have two DHCP servers provide… Read more »
DHCP Migration – Windows Server 2003 (2008) to Windows Server 2012 R2
Microsoft was ending support for the Windows server 2003 operating system on July 14, 2015, but still have some customer are using Windows server 2003 and need us to migrate… Read more »
DEPLOY A SERVER AS A DR DOMAIN CONTROLLER AT AZUER
It’s time to know how to deployment a domain controller server as a DR DC at Azure. I assure you have an Azure VM with windows server 2016 already. If don’t, just go to my previously posts and follow steps to build a new one.