Amazon EC2 Systems Manager is a collection of capabilities that helps you automate management tasks such as collecting system inventory, applying operating system (OS) patches, automating the creation of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), and configuring operating systems (OSs) and applications at scale. Amazon EC2 Systems …

The AWS Server Migration Service simplifies and streamlines the process of migrating existing virtualized applications to Amazon EC2. AWS SMS allows you to automate, schedule, and track incremental replications of live server volumes, making it easier for you to coordinate large-scale server migrations. Presently this …

On starting to look at learning using Ansible to manage Windows hosts, first step was to setup a test lab. Setup an Ubuntu 14.04 or CentOS 7 and a Windows 2008 R2 virtual machines. Install Ansible (Ubuntu) apt-get install software-properties-common apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible apt-get update apt-get install …

In a newly deployed Windows Server 2012 HyperV environment with around sixty nodes, running a couple of hundred Windows Server 2012 virtual machines running various applications. We found the EMC VMX storage which underpinned this became massively busy with Write IO at around 3am, the Write IO was mostly coming from …