Fixed a small typo.

@IRJ This would be a heck of a guide if you ever get the time to do it

@Obsolesce said in Hyper-V Node Failover Cluster Control: @JaredBusch said in Hyper-V Node Failover Cluster Control: @Obsolesce said in Hyper-V Node Failover Cluster Control: @DustinB3403 said in Hyper-V Node Failover Cluster Control: How can I migrate my VM's from Host 1 to Host 2 and ensure that the VMs don't attempt to automatically migrate back to their preferred host? Migration? It's definitely not automatic in the least. Planned failover? There's a checkbox to uncheck if you don't want automatic reverse replication and the VM to automatically start up. Could that be what you meant? Of course it is. In an actual cluster. Which involves System Center Configuraiton Manager (SCCM). @DustinB3403 used the word cluster, but he does not have one. Oh shit, I missed that it was about a cluster. I was thinking Hyper-V Manager, right-click, live migration. Totally spaced there. Yeah, that was my point, it is not a cluster.

I've have used that ProfileWiz before by ForensiT, works really well.

@bbigford said in How would you move an IIS workload from on site to a VPS: I'll have to look into that, as I'm not sure how I can just copy the application folder though since it's an install on Windows. Normally it is just a folder that contains the app. Presumably the app needs a datasouce as well, though. Where is that located? What kind of web app is this? ASP.NET? PHP? Java?

This is timely. THanks

@fateknollogee said in how do I migrate my KVM settings to a new desktop: Can you "virsh dumpxml vmname" while the vm is running? Yes.

qemu-img is actually what HyperCore OS uses internally when it is doing both import and export of VM's to/from HC3. As a result, if you use the "foreign VM import" process referenced above, it leverages the fact that if you simply rename a vmdk for example to a qcow2 file extension (that HC3 expects) and then import it, qemu-img will actually detect that the disk contained in file is really a VMDK and do that conversion automatically for you saving a step! One other benefit of letting HC3 do the conversion is that it will convert to the right qcow2 format for that HC3 version automatically. if you are doing the pre-conversion using qemu-img on windows (or linux for that matter), you may want to run the qemu-img info on an empty HC3 exported qcow to see what flags it has and try to match them. depending on the version of HC3 and version of qemu for windows you are using I have seen cases mostly with older versions of HC3 where you need to specify the compat version to match something like this: qemu-img convert -p -O qcow2 -o preallocation=metadata,compat=0.10 source-image.qcow2 output-image.qcow2 (this was an older version of HC3) On a very new version of HC3 as of this post it looks like compat: 1.1. I got tired messing with stuff like that and the extra step so now I always start with renaming the virtual disk files to .qcow2 extension and try letting HC3 figure it out first at least which generally works. (VHDX may be the exception ... and of course you have to get into the "right" vmdk format in some cases as there are lots of different vmdk formats) Another tip / FAQ - if you ever have a .OVA file, generally a virtual appliance, that is just a tar archive that you can expand and inside there will be a virtual disk file, usually .vmdk but sometimes .img format that you can convert/import into HC3 using the above processes. Of course ALL of this is just getting HC3 to see the virtual disk. The OS on that virtual disk has to have the right drivers_ active_ to be able to boot on HC3 which either means that it has virtio drivers pre-installed and set to boot (if "performance" drivers are selected when creating the VM) or IDE drivers (if "compatible" drivers are selected ... and for windows mergeide.reg was run before migration.) Linux is generally just automatic but Windows will result in a 7B BSOD if a driver for the boot disk isn't active on the imported virtual disk.

@dustinb3403 said in Exchange migrations, scenarios to hope you're never in.: User abuse is the only bug we can't fix with technology. Good to know eseutil was able to correct the issue. Even that was just very weird. The status had stopped updating and processes associated with it quit doing anything for around 20 minutes. We were both wondering what was going on when I was like "I'm going to ctrl+c it." So the cancel current command actually kicked off a whole bunch of activity that went quite quickly compared to what it had been running at before and actually repaired the DB. We were both more than a little confused over that one.

Sorry, he posted that for me and no I did not see that. I think that is a good answer on what to do and will go forward from there. Thanks.

@dashrender It is SA

Maybe this earlier discussion will help. https://www.mangolassi.it/topic/13392/import-xenserver-export-into-scale-cluster

@JaredBusch said in SSH Keys and migrating to a new device: @wirestyle22 said in SSH Keys and migrating to a new device: @JaredBusch Thanks. This is great Again, you want a unique private key on every device, in order to lock things out discretely. Otherwise if you simply had the same private key everywhere, you would lose all access form every device just because your laptop was compromised and you had to lock out the public key. So this process is really only something that should ever happen on a profile migration. Ya it's a big advantage to having automounted home directories or having LDAP store the keys. You can easily revoke and add another key and have it work everywhere. Or using Kerberos instead of pub/priv keys. I realize @JaredBusch knows this, but for others who may not.

@DustinB3403 said in Print Services - Migrate from one server to another: @IRJ people have a hard time reading labels that could save their life, I don't expect my users to read any announcements coming from IT. Edit: mostly because I know they don't care, they just need it to work. ^ this, so much this! My users only read my email today because they already knew the phones were having issues, and now they knew that I also knew. But a future notice, they won't remember for the most part 20 mins from now it's all good, again, mostly just flipping shit.

You can use the upgrade tool which is even easier if you are on a current version of owncloud. Even though the article doesn't say anything about updating from owncloud, the first article I posted does say you can use this method on current owncloud servers. You just switch the update channel and search for updates. https://nextcloud.com/blog/get-up-to-date-with-the-new-nextcloud-updater/

OK, finally got that solved using this, and guess what the results are.... Failed the test. Yay..... now lets see what Microsoft has to say about the results...

Someone looking at this thread had a hard time figuring out how to open the registry editor after booting to CLI mode from the 2008 R2 media. from the command line, type regedit and hit enter, it will load.

@DustinB3403 said in Microsoft SQL Express 2005 - Complete Database Backup - help: @coliver said in Microsoft SQL Express 2005 - Complete Database Backup - help: @DustinB3403 said in Microsoft SQL Express 2005 - Complete Database Backup - help: And I have a feeling the software is crap... that or I'm just doing this wrong.. You might be doing it wrong. The basic/free version is very limited, from what we saw. What are you having issues with? Oh sorry I'm not trialing that backup software yet. I'm using the built in tools from the application vendor to try and restore a .BAK into a clean installation. Oh, I see.

I created a shared mailbox and then I manually added the contacts (there are only 14 of them) to it. This makes the contacts visible to any user with access to the shared mailbox. However, I also wanted to used these "shared" contacts in some distribution groups, which doesn't appear to be possible.

One wrinkle you should be aware of (this needs to be fixed in our web UI!) -- if you change the ZT-managed range from /24 to /23 or /22 you will also need to change it on all the devices. We should add a feature to renumber automatically since right now it's tedious.

I've successfully migrated several Ubuntu VMs from ESXi and XenServer to HyperV 2012 by exporting the VM and then using Starwind's VHD converter. I've not had to run any scripts on the Linux VMs before shutting them down and exporting.

@olivier FWIW, I just retested on the latest next-release with the same results. If I disconnect / reconnect the server from within XO, the "ghost" VM is now gone.

So I've got my SR reattached, just need to figure out how to import the VM's from the SR.

@JaredBusch said: @art_of_shred said: I'd say that is a good bit of information to have, but who is going to be moving PBX VM's midday? For me it was good to know that it works that smoothly, not because I plan to ever move one during the day. But because if I HAVE to move one during the day, I will be confident that it will work. You did notice I up-voted your post? I was just messing with ya. Yeah, that was a valuable test, for sure.

How did this go?

Good way to think of it. Clean install is a little extra work today in exchange for a "known" or nearly known environment. An in place upgrade means carrying risk with you, maybe a little, but some that might bite you later. Or maybe the next IT guy, just leave the headaches for him

Sorry for the confusion- its a development server, but i still need to make sure that these are updated with minimal downtime. I am trying to push the AD changes to some other time at least wait for the dev team to complete the tasks in hand, but not very sure if they will stop it just for us