Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V guests lose NIC after recent Windows Update
Hi Folks,I have a Windows 2008R2 Hyper-V server with 20 guests. They have been using a standard network adapter for 2 years. Last night after running this months windows updates on a number of the...
View ArticleUse Storage Spaces hosted by Hyper-V nodes with failover clustering
I have 2 2012 Hyper-V hosts in a failover cluster. I have 2 JBOD storage shelves. I am connected via 10GB from both Hyper-V hosts to the JBODS. I have 1 HDD in shelf 1 and 1 HDD in shelf 2 (for shelf...
View ArticleHyper V Server 2012 very picky about storage during installation.
i am trying to install and test out Hyper V Server 2012 as i have being a VMware ESXi user for a very long time now.I have a HP Proliant Microserver with a 4 x 1TB HDDs Raid5 array running on a HP P212...
View ArticleHyper-V Fabric and Fabric Management Cluster
Dear All...........Would appreciate understanding of following:What is the difference between Fabric Cluster and Fabric Management Cluster?What virtual machines should be part of Fabric Cluster and...
View ArticleEnabling the DEP and CPU virtualization in BIOS without going to BIOS
Is there any way of enabling the DEP and CPU virtualization in BIOS without going to BIOS.I have misplaced my BIOS password.
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 Hyper-V event id's 20144 and 15130
Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V.After installing the May 2014 MS updates we can no longer start any of the guest VM's. When attempting to start a VM the following is logged in the event logs:Event id 20144...
View ArticleDR Site, HW-replication or Hyper-V Replica?
Hi all,I have a customer that has already bought licenses for the replication of data between their two sites.They want to include Hyper-V VM's to that replication for DR-purposes.The question is,...
View ArticleHelp me spend 20k on VDI/Virtualization/all-in-one Cluster. What would you do?
I want to buy hardware for VDI, virtualization and general cloud-services. (hardware will be colocated.) I need some help/advice on my current setup; I already have a (semi-succesfull) IT company, I...
View ArticleRoute all traffic from host to UTM appliance
Hi,I have a single Hyper-V 2012 R2 host, which is configured with 2 physical NICs:1 x private IP for private LAN1 x public IP for managementAnd a virtual switch added with a public IP^ This is from a...
View Article2008R2 to 2012R2 => Failover Cluster Manager not found ..gray out feature.
Hello everyone, I just upgraded from our Hyper-V host running Windows Server 2008R2 to 2012R2, I didn't get any errors during the upgrade and everything looked fine except that the failover cluster...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 RDS web access , stuck at loading virtual machine
we have installed Windows 2012 RDS 2012 R2 on single server , the installation successfully completed and added two windows 7 professional Service 1 virtual machines , when we connect through web ,...
View ArticleMaking Changes to Parent VM does not Update Children
Hi guys,I'm setting up Hyper-V on server 2012 R2. My intention is to have a parent VM, with many child VMs that my users log on to. Any changes to the parent VM should propagate to the children. The...
View ArticleConnection to Virtual server stopped working via manager and RDP
HiAt first, sorry for my EnglishI have trouble with our Hyper-v server. There are 2 virtual servers running on it. One Domain controller and one Application server. It working fine, but it stopped...
View ArticleNewbie question: How do a create a Virtual Network for my VM to connect to...
HiIm new to Hyper-V and PowerShell. My challenge is: Im renting a server from So You Start, and i have installed Hyper-V server 2012 R2 on it.On this server i need two VMs. I've managed to create my VM...
View ArticleUnable to install NIC's - Invalid data error
Hi,I am unable to install the drivers for my NIC's on server 2012 getting the error 'Invalid data'It has previously been working fine on all adapters but I needed to uninstall the network cards as when...
View ArticleConfiguration file is on local non clustered disk. Need to make all files HA
I've realized that we have a few Machines that have their configuration file on one of the HA nodes on the following path:C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V\Virtual Machines\Obviously not a...
View ArticleHyper V and networking
currently have a few hyper v vm servers running on one host. My issue is that the physical nics are getting dhcp addresses from my dhcp server, however I have static addresses on my vmhosts all using...
View ArticleHyper-V encountered an error while Configuring the network on Vmachine
Hi all, i am novice in window server 201, I learning from a ebook.While i doing the step of creating virtual machine , i got this errorHyper-V encountered an error while configuring the network on...
View ArticleBitLocker on CSV Volume Before and After
Dear All, I would appreciate, if someone could list down steps or provide link to any article which shows you how to configure BitLocker for a CSV volume. I have read many articles, but most...
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