Massive 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...
View ArticleHyper-V 2008R2 Cluster only backup a Windows 2012 VM with saved state
Hello,We have a 3 node Hyper-V 2008R2 Cluster with 20 VM's. We have also now some Windows Server 2012(r2) VM's on the cluster. The problem is that the backup of these VM's are only done trough saved...
View ArticleGuest OS Windows 7 for remote access
We are setting up 4 VM's with Windows 7 OS for staff access on a Dell PowerEdge R320.We had all of the VM's working as specified above but had to re-install Server 2012 Standard because the factory...
View ArticleBackup and Restore VM
I have a host server that has a C: drive and a D: drive. Right now I only have one VM running and it is located on the D: drive. I need to reformat the disk that the D: drive is on. For some reason it...
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Device Manager for Hyper-V server 2012 R2
Hi ,We have 2 server running Hyper-v Server 2012 R2 and we are able to RDP and remotely manage it through server manager from a windows 8 system. But unable to see the Device manager.I am getting the...
View ArticleP2V Windows 2000 Server
I would like to p2V a Windows 2000 SP4 running on a Dell PE 750. I have searched many forums and no one seems to have an answer to do this and suggest other ways to get around this, right on MS...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 redundancy questions
Let me start by saying I have Microsoft SQL failover cluster experience. I also have built 3 Hyper V servers and used them for a while, but I still consider myself relatively new to virtualization.I...
View ArticleCan I convert a Physical SBS 2003 installed system to a Hyperv Guest ?
Current app only works on Windows 2003 & 2008- app currently in beta for 2012, expected october, so we want to ride it out!We have a SBS 2003 installation with flaky hardwareWould be able convert a...
View ArticleMove saved state .bin and .vsv file to another drive
On Win 2008r2 I have Hyper-V running Exchange 2010sp3. The .vhd and snapshots in Hyper-V point to the Q: drive. I don't have any snapshots. The .vhd is indeed on Q:. Hyper-V is set to save state on...
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Delayed write errors on Server 2012 VM
The configuration is a Windows 2012 server running two 2012 servers as VMs. Dell server with PERC 170 controller and 4 disks in One VM seems fine, but the other is throwing a lot of ntfs errors, not...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server Backup/Hyper-V Fails. Hyper-V VSS...
I made an astounding discovery this morning.I have an hp ML350 server with three RAID 1+0 drive arrays that offer three logical disks for use. There is no clustering or SAN involved, just three simple...
View ArticleServer 2012 Hyper-V replica resync fails...
A couple of weeks ago we had an outage that prevented a replica from sending changes. When the outage was resolved, the guest required a resync. The changes were so large that upon starting the...
View ArticleHardware configuration for Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V role + 2 guest VMs
I'm planning the deployment of a Windows Server 2012 R2 domain and need some virtualization advice, particularly when it comes to RAM and disk configuration.My current plan is to purchase one copy of...
View ArticleWindows 8 Hyper V export ov vm
I am studying for my Installation and Configuration of server 2012r2. I am trying to create a lab environment using Hyper-V on windows 8.1 pro.First problem I'm having is the program becomes...
View ArticleSlower IO on Windows 2003 Guest OS on Windows 2012 R2 as Host OS
Hi AnyoneIs there a possibility Guest Windows 2003 virtual machine has slower IOPs running in HyperV Windows 2012 R2 as host OS.
View ArticleMachine created in Hyper-V not initialize
is sp1 is required to run service pack 1 to use hyper-v if yes then why hyper-v is given in normal r2
View ArticleFailed to get the disk information
Hello,I'm getting the following error message on a Hyper-V server: Log: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS-Admin Type: Error Event: 15268 Agent Time: 2014-06-06 09:51:01Z Event Time: 07:50:19 AM 6-Jun-2014...
View ArticleVM client hijacks internet from another VM
Hi,I'm running 2008 R2 Enterprise, we have 3 VMs (2 server 2008 R2 and one Server 2003 R2) that are all running nicely. They can be seen on the network, can see the internet and can be accessed via the...
View ArticleIs possible to open and attach virtual disk of running VM ?
Hello,I am trying to find how to open and attach virtual disk of running VM for our utility which needs to read content of disk. I tried to open it with VIRTUAL_DISK_ACCESS_ATTACH_RO but it returns...
View ArticleHyperV 2012 R2 Replica question
Hello,We have 2 HyperV 2012R2 Servers. Each of them, for load balancing, runs different VMs. Can we set them to replicate to each other their VMs?If so, what shall we consider?Best regardsKostasKostas...
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