Storage Spaces Direct is typically run on hardware, but it can also be virtualized. In this guide we are going to create 4 node Storage Spaces Direct cluster inside Hyper-V.
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How to attach physical disk to VM inside Hyper-V
There are times when you have to add physical disk directly to the VM (like Storage Spaces Direct for example). You can do that inside Hyper-V, assuming you don’t have RAID controller in the way. In this short guide, I will show you how to add physical disk to the VM inside Hyper-V on Windows Server 2019.
Read MoreHow to create Server to Server Storage Replica
Storage Replica is great feature baked into Windows Server 2019. It enables volume replication between servers, cluster or even on the server itself. It is great disaster recovery solution at no additional cost.Today, we are going to look into server to server scenario, and configure it.
Read MoreMaking Exchange 2019 Edge role highly available
I already wrote about Edge role in Microsoft Exchange environment, and if you can – I would suggest you implement it in your environment, it is not mandatory, but it is very useful. It is only component in the whole Exchange 2019 series we haven’t made highly available (yet). In this guide, we are going to configure additional Edge role, so that we have completely highly available Exchange server.
Read MoreHow to create IIS (webserver) cluster / Highly Available IIS for Exchange Services (ARR)
Ok, so in my previous guide we made Exchange OWA/Autodiscovery highly available via ARR which is module inside IIS. We installed ARR inside separate VM in DMZ and everything is working nice. But, now we have machine with IIS and ARR on it as single point of failure. We now need to make our IIS highly available, so if we need to for example apply patches to it, our Exchange services don’t go down.
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