Migration/Live Migration fails with shared storage (SMB), but not all the time
I have 2 Hyper-V Hosts using shared storage via SMB. I'm having intermittent issues with migrations failing. It'll either go through the motions of doing the whole move and fail and/or when I try to...
View ArticleMMC missing on Hyper-V Core install
I'm trying to import a certificate on my primary hyper-v server.Part of the process is running 'mmc' from the command prompt on the server.When I RDP onto the Hyper-V server and run mmc from the...
View ArticleV2V conversion using 5nine converter
How long it will take for 5nine converter for a 65gb hard disk from VMware to Hyper-V?Can anyone advice?
View ArticleManage Hyper-V Server Core 2012 through virtual switch
Hello folks,I've got four physical NICs configured as a NIC team and connected to a virtual switch. I tested the configuration using a Linux Live-CD and the network is working fine. But now the problem...
View ArticleEnable Hyper-V Replica SMB3 share - General Access denied error (0x80070005)
Hi,We have 2 datacenters with 1 cluster in each site. We want to setup hyper-v replica from DC1 to DC2 and from DC2 to DC1 for specific VMs.Virtual hard disks are in both locations stored on SMB3...
View ArticleMoved Hyper-V 2012 VM to Hyper-V 2012 R2 long ping respond, slow connection
Hi,I have two Hyper-V server, one in 2012 and the other in 2012 R2. I use SCVMM 2012 R2 and begins to move all my VM(host 2012) to my new host 2012 R2. Some of the VM begins to have slow network...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 Suported Guest Server\Client OS
Hi All,Is there a definitive list of guest OS support for Hyper-V 2012R2, like this handy one for...
View ArticleLive migration Vnic on hosts randomly losing connectivity HELP
Hello Everyone,I am building out a new 2012 R2 cluster using VMM with converged network configuration. I have 5 physical nics and teaming 3 of them using dynamic load balancing. I have configured 3...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Generation 2 Boot Issue!!! (Windows Repair Bootloop! )...
Hello people, I'm having the following with the GEN 2 in Hyper-V 2012 R2. Issue: After bouncing my GEN2 Hyper-V VM I get this. Then I get the Windows Repair and nothing happens after this point! Does...
View ArticleExpand Shared Disk
I have a guest cluster of two nodes using a shared vhdx. What is the practice for expanding the shared disk? When I try to expand it the regular way, I get the following error message:the requested...
View ArticleNo snapshots of VM, but still 2 files remaining
Hello,i am a VM which did have snaphots.I have delete the snapshots from the hyperv-console. (server 2012R2).Still i am having these 2 files for this server :I cannot move/delete these files.The first...
View ArticleRegistering guest os toward host licensing quota
Hello All,As I understand from my research, server 2012 standard comes with 2 free virtual operating system environments which are down gradable. If I were to create a new VM with server 2012 standard...
View ArticleUpdate my integrationdisk
Hi, i have a 2008R2 Hyper-v installation. On it 2 test servers with Windows 2008R2. So far so good.Now i installed a new Virtual Windows 2012R2 server on it, and i want to use my mouse. When i try to...
View ArticleHyper-V Replica Networking question
HiJust looking for some best practice guidance here, I have two standalone hyper-v hosts in my HQ (192.168.50.x) one replicating to the other then in my DR site I have extended replica to here...
View ArticleVM cannot access Internet when host is connected to VPN
Hello everyone,I have a little problem with my Hyper-V network. I use internal switch (external seems to have problems when I want to access the host via RDP and host has Wifi only).Now attached is my...
View ArticleRandom Network Adapters showing up in VM's
I have an odd issue I've been trying to tackle for a while now and am no closer to solving.I"m running 2 Hyper-V Hosts currently not in a cluster (to likely change soon). Each host has 2 Physical NIC's...
View ArticleUnable to create a VM from Disk2VHD image - 2008 R2
Hi,I have created a VHD using Disk2VHD tool and it is unable to boot. I have attached the VHD to new virtual machine and VM is keep getting the start-up repair wizard. When the VM booted for first time...
View ArticleMAK for Pooled Win7 VDI Desktops
Is it possible to use MAK licensing for Pooled Windows 7 Desktop Collection to activate the OS and Office or is KMS the only licensing model supported with single image VDI collections?
View ArticleWin 2012 guests in Hyper-V not starting after migration to SSD
Hi, I have a hp laptop with I-5, 8GB RAM and 1TB diskRunning Win 8.1 Pro , installed 4 Win 2012 servers eval VM, created domain ,installed SQL2012 clusterwhile 4 system powered up I see a lot disk...
View ArticleControl Disk Usage Per Virtual Machine? Windows Server 2012 R2
Hi,Is there a way to control disk usage per virtual machine by a fixed value or percentage (i.e. Disk: reads/writes/total b/sec) on Windows Server 2012 R2?
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