Wally-Palooza (#ConfigMgr, #SYSCTR)

Welcome to my "Wally-Palooza 2014" blog post! If you have been working in Configuration Manager (or SMS) for years I’m sure that you know Wally Mead. If not, allow me to introduce him with this statement – I believe that Wally is pound-for-pound the best Configuration Manager advocate on the planet. If you don’t know…

Debugging which drive is dying in a storage pool and monitoring for it in Operations Manager (#SYSCTR, #SCOM, #WindowsServer)

As part of my lab, I have one server which provides storage for the Hyper-V servers with SMB3. The server uses Windows Storage Spaces to storage for each of the nodes of my Hyper-V cluster. Recently I started experiencing extreme issues with performance with some of my virtuals. After some digging I started finding indications…