This post is some of my experiences with getting the SolarWinds Orion database running on a SQL Server hosted on a Linux-native system.
Amateur TV Repairs
As many of you know, the missus and I have recently moved. When we finally got the TV setup in the bedroom, we found an error on the screen.
Converting Linux VHD’s to VHDx
Virtual Hard Drives are the nuts and bolts of Virtualized Servers. This includes Linux Servers, but converting the hard drives provided some interesting findings.
After reading a bunch of the Microsoft documents about running Hyper-V for performance, there’s a big push to move all machines From Generation 1 to Generation 2 and Hard Drives to the VHDX Format.
Building My Orion Lab
So, I normally need to build a Lab for my SolarWinds Orion. If I’m doing this on my own machine and don’t have the luxury of a Windows Deployment Server (WDS), and I’ve built a custom hard drive for my Windows Servers, then I use a PowerShell script to do this work for me. (Seeing a pattern here?)
Creating a Windows Server Hard Drive “Template” for Hyper-V
This may not be the “official” way to create a template for Hyper-V according to Microsoft, but if you are running in an environment without SCCM or WDS (or on your personal machine), I’ve found that this process works very well.
This is fairly simple list of tasks, but it’s very long. Thankfully, you’ll only need to do this once and then you can re-use the image as many times as you like. I update mine once a quarter (to get the newest updates).
Tweak where it’s appropriate for your build.
Configure IIS Logging
I always move my IIS logs to a different drive, and I almost always include all fields. This is something that annoys me since I have to do it over and over again. Just like everything that I have to do over and over again, I wrote a script to do it for me. The … Read more
Moving SolarWinds Logs to a new Drive
I built a script which facilitates changing the default logging location for most SolarWinds programs in a SolarWinds Orion installation. Not every log can be moved, but this script does change the majority of the log locations and also takes a backup of the original file beforehand. The important part is the RegEx that is used … Read more
Removing Default Web Site & Application Pool
I’m always sick and tired of having to remove the IIS Default Web Site and DefaultAppPool after I’ve installed the Web Roles in Windows Server 2012 R2. So, I created a short script that will remove them. DISCLAIMER: These materials are provided “AS IS” without any express or implied warranty of any kind.