Remote management in Windows Server 2012/2012R2

by ezs | Sep 12, 2013 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

I remember a few years ago talking to the marvelous Jeffery Snover about PowerShell – and my mind was blown. The possibilities of scripting, remotability, the modular design – were all magical and innovative.

This week I’ve been updating servers on my Hyper-V infrastructure – most of them are server core – reducing the memory and patch requirements significantly.

Using a PowerShell I’ve been able to upgrade them all to Windows Server 2012 R2 with minimal fuss and effort.

Linux upgrades

by ezs | Sep 11, 2013 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

I took advantage of the enforced, unplanned outage to update SLES 11 from SP2 to SP3.

All good – the only tiny gotcha was running the MySQL upgrade manually at the end.

Otherwise – looks happy so far.

udev, SLES and Hyper-V

by ezs | Sep 11, 2013 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

I got bitten by the udev GUIDs when I did the move/upgrade/move back of my on-prem blog server this morning.

What should have been a simple evacuation of some VMs, upgrade the host to Windows Server 2012 R2, move the old VMs back in place – turned into another episode of handcrafting grub entries and checking that everything mounted back up correctly.

I got bit by this before – and I need to drill into the best practices for using SLES 11/udev in a virtual environment.

Re-testing Azure

by ezs | Aug 6, 2013 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

After an initial set of testing in 2011 – I am back testing the Azure IaaS capabilities for the blog.