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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

create a 3.2TB vhdx fixed disk takes 10 hours

create a 3.2TB  vhdx fixed disk takes 10 hours

what a wait

10 hours on a windows 2012 hyper-v


Sunday, March 19, 2017

Hyper-V - shutdown VM - status shows "merge in Progress..."

Hyper-V - shutdown VM - status shows "merge in Progress..."


what the hell

i dont even recall i ever did a snapshot on this VM

its is a dynamic vhdx

it took about 1 hour to do this

server 2012 Hyper V

Monday, March 13, 2017

azure OZ upload speed sucks to dropbox

azure OZ upload speed sucks to dropbox

what a surprise

in Azure cloud -- OZ

I downloaded windows 2016 from VLSC at 50Mbps/s . that's ok

when I upload the ISO to dropbox via firefox web internface

dear the speed is 4Mbps

what a shocker

Saturday, March 4, 2017

you may not mix RDS 2016 and RDS 2012 R2

you may not mix RDS 2016 and RDS 2012 R2
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-docs/compute/remote-desktop-services/rds-in-azure

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-docs/compute/remote-desktop-services/rds-supported-config

  • Use Windows Server 2016 for your Remote Desktop infrastructure - the Web Access, Gateway, Connection Broker, and license server. Windows Server 2016 is backward compatible for these components - so a 2012 R2 RD Session Host can connect to a 2016 RD Connection Broker, but the reverse is not true.
  • For RD Session Hosts - all Session Hosts in a collection need to be at the same level, but you can have multiple collections. You can have a collection with Windows Server 2012 R2 Session Hosts and one with Windows Server 2016 Session Hosts.
  • If you upgrade your RD Session Host to Windows Server 2016, also upgrade the license server. Remember that a 2016 license server can process CALs from all previous versions of Windows Server, down to Windows Server 2003.