About MSDTC and Troubleshooting it
MSDTC – Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator. This fellow has caused me many hours of troubleshooting. This post is a set of troubleshooting step I have successfully been able to perform. This is my notes regarding MSDTC. Index About MSDTC MSDTC – CID issues Uninstall MSDTC Install MSDTC Install MSDTC – Could not install MSDTC – […]
Add Shared Storage to Failover Cluster (iSCSI vhdx)
Sooner or later you will need more disks in your cluster. This post will describe how to add a virtual disk with iSCSI in a Windows Failover Cluster. Setup in Hyper-V. Note. This post builds upon several other posts. You can backtrack them from this post: https://www.raspberryfield.life/2019/04/08/shared-storage-with-iscsi/ [2019-04-15] TL;DR Add Virtual Disk in your iSCSI […]
How to Create a SQL Cluster – A Summary
This post is a wrapper post for several earlier post I have written. If you follow along the posts, one at a time, you will soon know how to create a SQL Server. The series of post builds up from a very basic level. However, you should have at least an elementary knowledge of Windows […]
Install SQL Server on a Failover Cluster
In this post we will look at how to install SQL Server on a Windows Failover Cluster. By doing so, we are trying to achieve High Availability in our environment. If one of the SQL servers fails or are by purpose taken offline for maintenance, the other server (node) will take over and the database(s) […]
Create a Windows Failover Cluster
This post describes how to create a Failover Cluster with two Windows Server 2016 virtual machines in Hyper-V (Lab environment). Info. This post is tagged with “my notebook”. That means, that the purpose of the post is mainly for me to remember something I did. The information here might be incomplete, hard for others to […]
Shared Storage with iSCSI
In this post we will look at how we can create a shared storage between two Windows 2016 Servers in Hyper-V. A shared storage is required if we want to cluster the servers (nodes). TL;DR Create a server with iSCSI target feature.Create virtual disk and iSCSI target.List iSCSI initiator.Connect to a target from another server […]
Orchestration and Automation
Orchestration in IT is a term that is used by a variety of systems and people can mean different things in different contexts. When a company is trying to transform a manual business process into an ‘auto magical IT process’ it is either a type of automation or orchestration they are trying to achieve. Some […]
Sega Mega Drive / Genesis 6-Button (X,Y,Z) Controller
In this post we will look at how to interface with a Sega Mega Drive 6-button controller. I will use an Arduino pro Micro (Leonardo) board to imitate the protocol between a Sega Mega Drive console and the controller. The button presses will be converted to keyboard presses. The Arduinos in the Leonardo series can […]
Install BizTalk Server 2016 on a single machine
This post is about how to set up a lab environment for BizTalk Server 2016 locally on your PC. BizTalk is an integration platform from Microsoft. Index Background Briefly about BizTalk Prerequisites BizTalk Server 2016 Requirements Install Windows Server 2016 Install Visual Studio 2015 Install Visual C++ redistributable package Install SQL Server 2016 SQL Server […]
Brief look at Active Directory and Domain Controller
In this post we will look at Windows specific things as Active Directory (AD) and Domain Controller (DC). These are techniques to group windows machines together, so you can manage them centrally. For instance, you don’t have to run around in the office with a disk to install software, one by one on the computers. […]