Honolulu is a browser based management tool set that helps in the administration of Windows servers, failover clusters and hyper-converged clusters in your environment. Microsoft has released the evalution version few days back. You can download the .msi package from https://aka.ms/HonoluluDownload . The application manages Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 through the Honolulu gateway that you can install on a Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10. The gateway uses Remote PowerShell and WMI over WinRM to manage the servers. If you are having Windows Server 2012/ 2012 R2 in your environment and planning to manage them using Honolulu then you will need to install Windows Management Framework (WMF) version 5.0 or higher on those servers.
The installation is very much straight forward. For the purpose of testing I installed it on a Windows Server 2016. Below screenshot shows the home screen which displays all the available connections. You can use the Add button to add stand alone servers, failover clusters and hyper-converged clusters. Here I have a Failover Cluster with four nodes.
You can set the credentials required to manage your servers and clusters using the Manage As option. Once you select that option, it will ask you to provide the username and password.
You can also set the preferred owners and start up priority for your virtual machine by selecting the VM and clicking Settings button.
Preferred Onwers and Startup Priority
Failover and Failback policy
Virtual machines
This shows the total number of virtual machines and its state. The resource usage shows the total cluster resource utilization. I think it would make more sense if Microsoft adds the resource usage information in the cluster overview page. You can click on VIEW ALL EVENTS to view the events page.
Events
To manage any of the cluster member nodes, you can select the respective server and click Manage as shown below.
Nodes
It will redirect to server manager page where you have multiple options to manage your server.
Server manager
You can use the server manager page to add/ remove roles and features, manage services, create/ enable/ disable firewall rules, create vswitches, install windows updates, restart the server etc.
Reference: Microsoft
You also have a drop down option on the home page to select installed solutions.
Now lets have a quick look at the failover cluster overview.
You can view various details as shown below.
Disks
Networks
Roles
You can also set the preferred owners and start up priority for your virtual machine by selecting the VM and clicking Settings button.
Preferred Onwers and Startup Priority
Failover and Failback policy
Virtual machines
This shows the total number of virtual machines and its state. The resource usage shows the total cluster resource utilization. I think it would make more sense if Microsoft adds the resource usage information in the cluster overview page. You can click on VIEW ALL EVENTS to view the events page.
Events
To manage any of the cluster member nodes, you can select the respective server and click Manage as shown below.
Nodes
It will redirect to server manager page where you have multiple options to manage your server.
Server manager
You can use the server manager page to add/ remove roles and features, manage services, create/ enable/ disable firewall rules, create vswitches, install windows updates, restart the server etc.
Reference: Microsoft
