Occasionally one or more of my VMs "cannot be found" by the Remote Access...
We are running a Server 2008 R2 with 13 Windows 7 VMs and a virtual SBS 2011 server. WE have clients at remote offices that use the Remote Access page to connect to a VM so they can run an SQL based...
View ArticleHyper-V services can't be restarted !!
Hello,First, I have to say that I am a newbie to Hyper-V.I have hyper-v on windows server 2012 r2 in a lab environment. I am trying to benchmark the performance of VMs with different OSs by measuring...
View ArticleBSOD - Critical Process Died
I am running Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 (Server Core) on three servers. Unfortunately none of them have identical hardware configurations - thus I can't easily tell if there is some compatibility...
View ArticleCluster Validation - Validate Network Communication failure HELP
Hi, I have a eight node cluster which is all up running and working a treat but when I run the Cluster Validation I receive this warning for each host. I have also included the top few lines of the...
View ArticleAccidentally turned my computer into a server while trying to install hyper-v...
Hi Guys,I was trying to enable hyper-v for my computer, but as I don't have windows 8 pro it wasn't visible in the windows features dialog. I found hyper v on my uni's dreamspark server, though, so I...
View Articlenetwork virtualization and physical LB
Hi,How do you add a pc in a Hyper-v virtual network (HNV) as a resource in a physical load balancen?Let's say that i have 10 web servers in a HNV in subnet 192.168.1.0/24, and my load balancer in...
View ArticleHeartbeat Network inside Hyper-V Failover Cluster
Dear All, I need to build an SQL Server 2012 SP1 Two-node cluster inside Hyper-V Failover Cluster. There is only one virtual switch in the Hyper-V Failover Cluster environment which is...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012/2012R2 NIC Teaming Mode
Hi,Question 1:In Windows Server 2012 the following teaming mode was recommended for Hyper-V NIC teams:Teaming mode: Switch Independent Load balancing mode: Hyper-V Port All Adapers ActiveIn a session...
View ArticleHow to load OS in hyper-V VM
I am new to Hyper-V. The Host OS is Server 2012R2 Data Center. I have created 2 VMs with load OS later option. The VM configuration has a Virtual hard disk and the physical host CD/DVD device. I am...
View ArticleConnect specific Virtual network port with Specific physical network card.
We have a Hyper-V core installation hosting a number of Windows 2008 R2 VM's. There are 6 physical network cards installed in the physical server.On one of the VM servers we run a website that clients...
View ArticleActivating VM with Server 2012 R2 Standard
Hi allI have a new test server with Server 2012 R2 Standard, problem is when I try and use get a VM of Server 2012 R2 Standard up and running it say that the VM is not activated and asks for a key. The...
View ArticleNeed help setting up a virtual switch setup for my lab.
Hi, I used to be able to get this to work. But, I'm not able to anymore. I have two network cards in my PC.#1 Is what I use for everyday use and it's configured to use :IP: 192.168.0.2GW: 192.168.0.1...
View ArticleOptimal configuration for Live Migration with multiple 1-GBit-NICs in Hyper-V...
We have a Hyper-V cluster running on Windows Server 2012 R2. Each server has 8 1-GBit-NICs. Four of them are used for guests, 1 for the cluster network, 1 for the management network, and 2 are...
View ArticleLive migration fails on Windows Server 2012R2 Cluster
Hello,We've been trying to set up our new Server 2012R2 cluster but somehow live migration won't work. We've been running on 2012 for a while now and use the same setup with converged network...
View ArticleCovert 12TB fixed VHDX to Dynamic
I need to convert a 12 TB fixed VHDX to Dynamic. Right now there is only about 1.2 TB of data on the vhdx. When I convert will it automatically shrink the vhdx file to 1.2 TB. Or do I need to run...
View ArticleRestoring a Hyper-V backup using Windows Backup
After a scare this past weekend, I decided to test out my backups by doing a restore of a Hyper-V guest. Good thing, because I'm running into an issue. We have two Windows Server 2012 servers acting as...
View ArticleIntegration Components Download
I would like to update the version of IC that our guests are running. MS does not go out of their way to advertise the location of any IC downloads other than the Linux IC. So... Where can I go to...
View ArticleIOPS capped on a VM within Hyper-V
quick question ... we get 100,000 IOPS once we used SQLIO against a VHDX file . ( let's say disk2.vhdx) from inside a VM , we mount the same disk as a secondary disk and run SQLIO against it ; we get...
View ArticlePoor Performance with Converged Fabrics
Hi Guys,I'm having some serious performance issues with Converged Fabrics in my Windows Server 2012 R2 lab. I'm planning on creating a Hyper-V cluster with 3 nodes. I've built the first node, building...
View ArticleMassive Fibre Channel Performance dropoff after installing Hyper-V Role
Hi all, using direct attached fibre-channel disk we see throughput of approx. 500-800MB/s if we copy/paste a 28GB file to the same disk. Once we install the Hyper-V Role, and re-test, we see a...
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