Hi Experts,
My team did something wrong in the snapshot files of our VMs that eventually made them corrupted. Now, booting the base disk, doesnt show up the files that we are looking for, they appear to be on the corrupted snaps and we need to recover them. Has anyone been in this situation? What are the ways you guys did to recover the files in the corrupted snapshot files? Is it still possible to recover them? Please advise.
Thank You!
Noctis0791
Is there a trick to editing route tables in a Windows 10 VM in Hyper V? I have a virtual switch associated with a virtual network adapter in the Windows VM. I need to interface this to a network emulator in another VM in Hyper V. From a non virtual machine I would normally use "route add...". However, whenever I try to do this in the Windows 10 VM I get an error message: "The route addition failed: Element not found". Any suggestions? Thanks.
1 Hyper-V host with a 4-port NIC running Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Core
Domain Controller VM and client VMs running on it, connected through an Internal vSwitch. DC runs DHCP. Client VMs connected to this Internal vSwitch get DHCP from DC fine.
Flat 192.168.0.x network, looking to keep it as simple as possible for now.
I would now like to connect wireless clients to this DHCP network.
I have a wireless router that I turned into a bridge by disabling its DHCP and uPNP, and setting a static 192.168.0.x IP for it.
What should I do to enable clients connecting to this bridge to grab an IP from this DC?
(I've tried various things, but don't want to clutter this thread with my (likely faulty) actions, for now.
Thank you for all guidance.
Hi, we have recently created a Hyper-V server but after a few days of use we can no longer take backups. If we restart the VM the checkpoint still fail but if we restart the
host they begin to work again. Is there a way of releasing whatever process is using the file so we can take checkpoints for backup again? I've attached a screenshot of the error.
Is there an easy way to find out what process is using the avhdx checkpoint file and can this be deleted to allow the checkpoint process to run. Also the VM does not show it has
any checkpoints in the HyperV manager so assume these are created as part of a backup process.
Hello,
Microsoft Admin Center states it supports Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 and I must upgrade to Powershell 5.0+.
Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 ships w/ 4.0 and fails to upgrade to 5.0 or above.
It state the OS is not supported.
Any ideas? I can't find anything about this searching online for the past 2 hours...
Thank you!
Hello
novice here,so bare with me as I'm not fluent yet in all the technical therms and aspects.
i recently started learning for a mcsa certificate,
in class we use vmware; i make a windows10vm and a server2012 VM,
i assign the server an ip from the range i see in the subnet address(VMware-virtual network editor)
i set up ADDS,DHCP,DNS on the server and in "edit/virtual network editor"",i put both the sever and the win10 on a VMnet-nat and use local DHCP to distribute ip addresses.(i think it was nat,maybe local host?)
i try to do the same with hyper-v but having issues,i guess i didn't fully understand how those switches work.
i added an internal switch and put both the machines on it, but when using ipconfig, i see i get different range of ips for both the server and win10 and i wasn't able to have the server distribute an ip to the win10vm nor connect to its local domain with it.
i get these kind of ips:169.254... saw it was apipa - not sure what that means.
I'd appreciate the help.In a very simple windows 2012 r2 RDS server there are two setting which seem almost the same. If someone could explain the difference that would be helpful.
Both are accessible from the RDS Overview panel.
#1 is found in the Deployment Overview panel where there is a RD Licensing icon. If one adds a RD License Server via that icon, the server will appear in the adjacent Deployment Servers list.
#2 is exposed via Tasks list when you choose Edit Deployment Properties. The four deployment properties that are exposed there include an entry for RD Licensing, which allows you to again specify the FQDN for a RD License Server and to choose between licensing per device or per user.
HyperV server 2016 Core
I changed the names of the networkcards (4x onboard)
When i checked it with
Get-NetAdapter ill see everything correct
Name: Port1
InterfaceDescription:AD-Server
Now i like to create a virtualswitch in HyperV manager
Ill choose an ExternalSwitch , and theni have to choose the network adaptor
There ill see :
Intel Gigabit Network Controller
Intel Gigabit Network Controller #1
Intel Gigabit Network Controller #2
and not the names ill see on the server with powershell
In the windows admin center - devicemanagement - networkcard , ill see also the correct names,
there is no place to find that "intel" name on the server...
what do i have to change to see the correct names in the virtualswitch creator?
Henri
I part-time manage a branch office IT infrastructure. (More formally, I am developer who has unofficially assumed the IT role.) There are other sites within the company running a common domain. Originally we were not connected via site-to-site VPN to other sites, so we created our own separate domain. After a number of years things have changed and we are now connected and are moving our IT infrastructure to the common domain. This has been progressing for a few months, generally fairly smoothly.
We also have two Hyper-V hosts, one running Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter. I set it up a number of years back and until now have not had any problems. Recently I noticed one of our VMs that I had moved from the old domain to the new domain a few weeks back had failed to register its IP in the DNS. Checking the event log indicated KMS failures. I naively tried to re-activate it: slmgr /ipk 74YFP-3QFB3-KQT8W-PMXWJ-7M648. The screen turned black and indicated that Windows is not genuine.
I have checked several of the other VMs, but there does not seem to be any significant issues so far. Please note that the VM host is still in the original domain. Googling around I found this, I found this indicating to check the SRV record for _vlmcs._tcp. The domain had changed, so this was pointing to the old domain. (Still available if necessary.) I updated it in the new domain DNS. I have also verified that the VM host server is available over port 1688 via telnet.
I then ran the above slmgr /ipk again. It indicates that the key was successfully applied, but Windows still indicates that the environment is not genuine. I'd appreciate some help in resolving this.
Here is the output for slmgr /dlv on the Hyper-V VM host.
(Please let me know if this contains any keys that I should not post here and I will gladly edit it.)
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And here is the same output for the problematic VM client.
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---------------------------Original Issue: Was the VMMS services stops and starts every minute
Issue now: VMMS services is missing by running the vmms /regserver
On a Windows Server 2012 R2 host server how can we get the vmms service back into windows services? Can we do this without uninstalling the Windows Role Hyper-V.
What has happened is the /regserver has deleted the service and we need to put it back any suggestions will be welcome.
Hi all,
I would like to know if it is safe to change my host PC name while running Hyper-V
Will my VMs be affected by this change?
Thanks in advance
One of the Hyper-V VM shows configuration error in SCVMM console, but VM is running fine in Hyper-V host. There is no issue with the VM, its working fine. But due to configuration error in SCVMM console backups are getting failed.
Repair option is not able to fix this issue, other options are greyed out. How can I remove the VM from SCVMM and re-add it.
Any help on this will be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Abhishek
VM snapshot deletion Job is stuck at 50% for windows server 2012R2 VM. Snapshot size is only 110GB and it has been 5hr still job is running. VM is running fine, any suggestion how to fix this without downtime.
Abhishek
I have been using Hyper-V for a while now on single servers. I decided to expand and use a failover cluster. I have two host servers of identical hardware that are connected to our EMC SAN via dual 4Gb fiber channel cards. The shared storage as well as Quorum disk are on the EMC storage. The shared drive (G:) shows up on both hosts and the Quorum disk shows up on only one of them (I am guessing by design of the failover Clustering).
I have had multiple VMs disappear and have had two of them completely deleted (as in VHD and config files completely gone). The disappearing ones usually happen on reboots and the deleted ones happened when we tested a failure of Server-01 and pulled the power plug.
I have looked at many different posts about symbolic links, etc. I even tried to rebuild one, but was befuddled when I found that my configuration file directories had zero .xml files (only VMRS and VMCX files).
The storage of the config files and VHDX files are both on the EMC storage.
G:\Configuration_Files\SERVER_NAME\SERVER_NAME\Virtual Machines\ID#.vmcx & ID#.VMRS
G:\Virtual_Hard_Disks\SERVER_NAME\xxx.vhdx
Never, have I seen this behavior in Hyper-v until I began this project.
Dear all:
Windows expects to have a Pagefile. So if I configure replication for a guest and I don't want to replicate the Pagefile, which is constantly changing, I will have to create the page file on a separate disk which is excluded from replication.
However, there is a problem: If you suspend that guest machine and resume it or you shut it down and restart it, sometimes it freezes. This happens from time to time, say one out of three times. It ONLY happens if the Pagefile is on a separate virtual disk.
Why would that happen? Well, according to https://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/excluding-paging-file-from-hyper-v-replication/"Relocating the paging file to a VHD connected SCSI controller is not supported" and that is what I did, since I had no other choice: this is a hyper-v generation2 guest, which does NOT SUPPORT or offer IDE-connected virtual disks.
Furthermore, https://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/hyper-v-page-file-settings/ explains: "you cannot place a virtual machine’s swap file on a VHD that is attached to the virtual SCSI chain. This is because the SCSI driver is synthetic, so it doesn’t load until after the virtual machine’s operating system has attempted to initialize its page file. You must place swap files for virtual machines on VHDs attached to the IDE chain."
If that is true, who can tell me what I can do to exclude the Pagefile from replication, if possible at all?
(Ah no, I don't want to run a gen1 machine :-)
Dear Sir/Madam,
The Windows patches were failed to apply on the secondary Hyper-V host server yesterday. Tried 3 times but still fail. Please give advice to this issue. The patches list is stated as below. Thanks.
2019-04 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4493446)
2019-04 Security Only Quality Update for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4493467)
2019-04 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 11 for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based systems (KB4493435)
Best Regards,