Building my Orion Server [Scripting Edition] – Step 2

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In Step 1 of this series, I showed off the PowerShell scripts that I use to create a new Orion Server VM on Hyper-V.  Now we are on to configuring the disks.

As before, we have a boot drive and 4 additional drives which will contain various data files.  We first need to bring the disks online and initialize them.

If you installed from an ISO, you should either remove the device from your virtual machine before this point, or change the drive mounting to a letter other than D, E, F, or G. I’m generally a fan of changing it to Z:.

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Building my Orion Server [Hyper-V Scripting Edition] – Step 1

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This is part 1 of a multi-part post on updates that I’ve made to How I Build an Orion Server.  Primarily, it will be three parts.  If you have VMware, I’ve also got a script edition for that as well.

  1. Building my Orion Servers in Hyper-V
  2. Configuring the disks on the VM after OS install
  3. Configuring the VM with the new disks

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Day 1 – Learn

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Never stop learning. — twinspar I’ve tried to live by this simple core belief since I was very young. Continuing to challenge your brain is crucial to keeping happy in life (and in your career). In fact, one of my favorite hashtags to review every so often if #TIL (today I learned…). In IT, it … Read more

Day 0 – Prepare

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Prepare!

When Leon mentioned this Word-a-Day challenge to me, I was intrigued. He’d mentioned that something like this is a commitment that requires foresight and planning – hence the Day 0 topic – Prepare. I then did what I do whenever I have a task like this presented before me, I ask my wife.

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Spider my Orion Pages with PowerShell & SWQL

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A few days ago, I spoke before a small group of people about what I’d been doing with the Orion SDK.  I mentioned that I had created a Spider-Orion script that I use to navigate to every page in my install.  When I mentioned this script several people asked where it was published.  The short answer – here.

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Where are my Exchange 2016 Performance Counters?

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So in my lab, I’ve got a handful of Exchange Servers and I’m monitoring them with my SolarWinds Orion Server. I did all the basics that I normally do when troubleshooting an Application Template that doesn’t seem to be pulling data properly and then I finally got on the server itself and checked for the … Read more