5-Nine Cloud Security is a security solution for Microsoft Cloud OS and Hyper-V. This solution provides an firewall, an antivirus and an IDS (Intrusion Detection System) to detect malicious attacks. Cloud Security can secure a multi-tenant Hyper-V environment to protect each tenant VMs and hypervisor. Moreover the Hyper-V hosts are protected with agentless antivirus. 5-Nine Cloud Security can be integrated ...
Read More »Implement 5-Nine Cloud Security 5.1 in Windows Azure Pack
5-Nine Cloud Security is a security solution for Microsoft Cloud OS and Hyper-V. This solution provides an firewall, an antivirus and an IDS (Intrusion Detection System) to detect malicious attacks. Cloud Security can secure a multi-tenant Hyper-V environment to protect each tenant VMs and hypervisor. Moreover the Hyper-V hosts are protected with agentless antivirus. 5-Nine Cloud Security can be integrated ...
Read More »Implement a Hyper-V Cluster from VMM 2012R2
To support the high availability of Virtual Machines, a Hyper-V Cluster is often implemented. In a high density environment, Hyper-V hosts are almost always managed from Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). VMM enables to centralize the management of your fabric (virtual network, storage and Hypervisor). So VMM is able to manage Hyper-V cluster from implementation to management. In this topic I ...
Read More »New Altaro Webinar: What’s news in Hyper-V vNext
Altaro organizes a new Webinar about Hyper-V in vNext Windows Server version and new features: We’re warming up for the release of Hyper-V vNext and we’ve invited Microsoft Hyper-V MVP, Aidan Finn and Microsoft Sr. Technical Evangelist Rick Claus to take you through what’s coming up in a new Altaro webinar, hosted by our very own MVP Andy Syrewicze! Looking to get ...
Read More »Upgrade your SOFS to Windows vNext with Rolling Cluster Upgrade
The next release of Windows Server will provide a new feature called Rolling Cluster Upgrade. In other words, it will be possible to have nodes running on Windows Server 2012R2 and Windows Server vNext in the same cluster. This will ease the migration of all nodes in a cluster to the next Windows version and so the upgrade of the ...
Read More »Compact VHDX of all virtual machines on Hyper-V
On my hyper-v lab, I have often free space problems because I want to create a lot of Virtual Machines but I have not enough storage. Of course I have created all my VHDX in dynamic to try to save space but this has not been enough. So I said to myself: “Romain why do you not trying to compact VHDX ...
Read More »Manage fabric servers updates from Virtual Machine Manager 2012R2
Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) is able to manage Microsoft updates and the compliance of the fabric servers as Hyper-V hosts, VMM servers, PXE servers, Library servers and so on. For that VMM must be connected to a WSUS. When VMM is connected to a WSUS, the updates are visible in the VMM console and can be added to an update ...
Read More »Windows Azure Pack – Authenticate tenants with AD FS
By default, Windows Azure Pack provides an Authentication site for tenants. This authentication site can be replaced by an AD Federation Service (AD FS) to allow tenants to log on Windows Azure Pack portal with their own Active Directory credential. Below there is an example of how to authenticate tenants with AD FS: Fabrikam and Contoso forests represent two customers ...
Read More »Windows Azure Pack – Website gallery issue
I had an issue with the WebSite Gallery in my Windows Azure Pack installation. When I opened the Website Gallery I had this issue: So to check why the service didn’t work I looked into the debug log of MgmtSvc-WebAppGallery. I saw this event: To be sure that the web service Web App Gallery worked, I opened the database to ...
Read More »Windows Azure Pack – PowerShell tenant API
Thanks to the Public Tenant API hosted on public services tier, the tenants can use PowerShell to manage Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Web sites and so on. In this topic I will explain how to run PowerShell commands across the public tenant API. Verify the Public Tenant API site configuration To follow this topic, you must have a working Windows ...
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