This topic aims to explain the Quorum configuration in a Failover Clustering. As part of my job, I work with Hyper-V Clusters where the Quorum is not well configured and so my customers have not the ...

These CA management accounts are important to increase the security level of your PKI. PKI is a security component and should be managed by security officers. But it is not always the same security ...

Last week, Microsoft announced the final release of Windows Server 2016 (the bits can be downloaded here). In addition, Microsoft has announced that Windows Server 2016 supports now a 2-node ...

This can occur even if Node.js is correctly installed and the OpenAI API key is set properly. We investigated the issue and found a working solution. Below is a step-by-step guide. Download Visual C++ ...

These days I’m trying in depth Windows Server 2019. Today I chose to pay attention to Remote Desktop Services. The goal of my lab is to deploy a RDS Farm with all components and with the new HTML5 ...

When Windows Server 2016 has been released, the data deduplication was not available for ReFS file system. With Storage Spaces Direct, the volume should be formatted in ReFS to get latest features ...

I will not cover the entire SCOM installation, but just the part of Databases configuration. Note that the Availability Groups (one or two, depending of your architecture) must be created before the ...

This week I deployed a Nutanix cluster based on VMware ESXi 6.5u1. I wanted to share with you how to re-image the Nutanix nodes to VMware ESXi. Usually Nutanix blocks are shipped with nodes imaged on ...

In the previous parts of this series, I have talked about encryption and signature algorithms and why Public Key Infrastructure exists. Next I have shown you step by step how to install a simple ...

If you are using Microsoft Azure, you may have noticed that currently there are two Portals: This topic is not intended to teach you everything about the Azure Resource Manager template. I write this ...

In a previous topic, I have described how to deploy a VMware vSAN cluster. VMware vSAN enables to create a hyperconverged cluster in the vSphere environment. The last time we saw how to deploy this ...

StarWind VSAN Free provides a storage solution for several purposes such as store virtual machines. With VSAN Free, you can deploy a 2-node cluster to present a highly available storage solution to ...