Ignite Australia 2017 Content

Here you’ll find all System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2016 related content to my session I presented at Ignite 2017 on the Gold Coast.

Here’s the recording of my session: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/Australia-2017/INF335

There are two sections of videos, the first one has the “setup” videos, all the steps I took to get a guarded fabric / shielded VMs up and running plus the steps for using Windows Server 2016 SDN with VMM 2016.

The second section is my demo videos from the presentation with voice narration.

At the end I also have all the resource links from my deck: to sessions at Ignite 2017 Australia, recordings of sessions at Ignite US 2016, links to various parts of the VMM documentation, SDN troubleshooting links etc.

Configuring a Guarded Fabric and Shielded VMs in WS and VMM 2016

Configuring VMM 2016 for Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Demo 1 – Configuring a Nano Server Hyper-V host in VMM

Demo 2 – Configuring a Nano Server VM in VMM

Demo 3 – Bare Metal Deployment on to four Dell R 730xd servers

Demo 4 – Configuring a storage QoS policy in VMM

Demo 5 – Creating a Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) cluster in VMM

Demo 6 – Deploying a shielded VM in VMM

 

Resource Links

Related Ignite AU Sessions – Recordings:

INF 212 Deploy, configure, and remotely manage Nano Server – Ben Armstrong (Tue 14:30)
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/Australia-2017/INF212

INF 325 Hybrid Networking: SDN features in Windows 2016 & Azure Networking (Wed 15:30)
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/Australia-2017/INF325

INF 326 Tomorrow: Azure Stack. Today: Azure Pack – Daniel Apps (Wed 17:00)
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/Australia-2017/INF326

INF 231 What’s new in Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V – Ben Armstrong (Thu 8:15)
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/Australia-2017/INF231

INF 436 A deep dive into Storage Spaces Direct – Stephane Budo (Thu 17:00)
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/Australia-2017/INF436

Related Ignite US Sessions – Recordings:

BRK3166 Manage your software-defined datacenter using System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2016/BRK3166

BRK3314 Build and operate a software-defined datacentre
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2016/BRK3314

BRK3122 Microsegment and secure your networks with the Azure inspired Software Defined Networking
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2016/BRK3122

BRK3188 Dig into cloud networking performance, monitoring, and diagnostics
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2016/BRK3188

BRK2169 Explore Windows Server 2016 Software Defined Datacenter
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2016/BRK2169-TS

BRK2167 Enterprise-grade Building Blocks for Windows Server 2016 SDDC: Partner Offers
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2016/BRK2167

VMM 2016 resources

Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager (24/1)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3209586/update-rollup-2-for-system-center-2016-virtual-machine-manager

Perform a rolling upgrade of a Hyper-V host cluster to Windows Server 2016 in VMM
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center-docs/vmm/manage/manage-compute-rolling-upgrade-hyper-v

Deploy & Manage Nano server-based Hyper-V hosts or VMs in VMM
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center-docs/vmm/manage/manage-compute-add-nano-hyper-v

Manage Storage Spaces Direct in VMM
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center-docs/vmm/manage/manage-storage-spaces-direct-vmm

Scenario – Deploy guarded hosts and shielded virtual machines in VMM
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center-docs/vmm/scenario/guarded-overview

Tools for creating answer files etc.

https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/GuardedFabricTools/0.2.0

Manage Storage Replica in VMM

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center-docs/vmm/manage/manage-storage-replica

Set up a Software Defined Network (SDN) infrastructure in the VMM fabric

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center-docs/vmm/scenario/sdn-overview

Step by Step screen videos on Deploying HGS, Shielded Fabric, Shielding data files, creating a Nano server host/VM VHDX, setting up SDN etc.

http://TellITasITis.com.au/Ignite

Troubleshooting SDN

Workflow

Triage – Summarize the problem and collect data; narrow down failure component

Root-Cause – Analyze the data to determine specific reason for failure

Fix – Update configuration

Monitor – Use SCOM

Tools

In-box Diagnostic Cmdlets

• HNV Diagnostics:  https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt490472.aspx
• NC Diagnostics: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt490456.aspx

GitHub diagnostic scripts

Traces https://github.com/Microsoft/SDN/tree/master/Diagnostics

Troubleshooting Guidance on TechNet:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-docs/networking/sdn/troubleshoot/troubleshoot-windows-server-2016-software-defined-networking-stack

Nano server image builder

http://aka.ms/NanoServerImageBuilder

Microsoft Virtual Academy Shielded VM / Guarded Fabric deployment video

https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/deploying-shielded-vms-and-a-guarded-fabric-with-windows-server-2016-17131