Current best practice for Time service settings for Hyper-V 2012 R2 Host and...
I am trying to find out what the current best practice is for Time service settings in a Hyper-V 2012 environment. I find conflicting information. Can anyone point me in the right direction. I have...
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Hello Community On WS2012 R2 Evaluation I have installed Hyper-V. Now I created a VM in one folder then I created the VHD in another folder. I chose "Generation One". I right click the VM...
View ArticleServer 2012 R2 & Hyper V install
Have some VMware experience but completely new to Hyper V. We have a new DL380 G9 server we want to install Hyper V on so we can use & learn on in-house for future installs. Have a question about...
View ArticleSlow IDE Performance
Hi, I have approx 800 virtual machines, on a FailoverCluster, connected using FC to a Compellent SAN (50% SAS, 50% SATA). some Windows 2003 R2, some Windows 2008, some Windows 2008 R2, some Windows...
View ArticleKeystrokes don't apply to the Hyper-V VM only the host
Hello Community From dvd I installed WS2012 R2 Evaluation on a physical machine. Then I installed Hyper-V and created a VM which and then installed that same WS2012 R2 Evaluation dvd onto the VM....
View ArticleDPM online backup causes Hyper-V Manager uptime resets
We are experiencing resets of the uptime counter in the Hyper-V Manager when backups are taken by the DPM (r2)The VMs that suffer from the issue are all on a new R2 cluster that uses another SOFS...
View ArticleNetwork adapter vanishes every 15-20 days from 2008 R2 Guest VM.
Hello All,I have server 2012 R2 host server installed with Hyper-V role. I have configured a guest VM with server 2008 R2.There are 2 NICs on host.Both are Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet adapters....
View ArticleCPU Wait time per dispatch on a Server 2012 R2 Core.
I have a Hyper-V Cluster of 9 Server 2012 R2 core Hosts. I need to measure the CPU wait time, but when I use the remote performance counter a lot of the counters for Hyper-V is missing. How do I...
View ArticleVirtual Switches sudenly stop functioning.
Several months ago we got a call from a client with a standalone 2012 R2 HyperV host: Absolutely NO network traffic was going through any of the virtual switches, yet we could see no errors or warnings...
View ArticleDirect access to NIC
Hello,I have Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V activated.I want my Linux VMs to have direct access to the NICs, without interference of Hyper-V (probably no Virtual Switches). Is it possible?I read...
View ArticleVHD size incresing 50GB a day while guest drive remains same size
I have a 2008r2 Server VM dedicated to running Microsoft SQL server 2008r2 with 4 VHD's (each corresponding to a drive on the server). VM's are hosted on a SAN using a cluster shared volume. I have 2...
View ArticleI need to manage some 2008 R2 hypervisors from my Windows 8.1 system.
I need to remotely manage some Win 2008 R2 server VM's from my Windows 8.1 Wrk what version of the hyper V- manager should I download and install? The Version that came with my system throws an...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 general administration and configuration questions
My company is moving heavily into virtualization. We have about 50 HW servers and 2 HyperV 2008 single hosts. I just built a pretty beefy Hyper-V 2012 clustered server and connected it to a brand new...
View ArticleCannot connect to the virtual machine on Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
Hi,I got an error message randomly when I connect Hyper-V Server 2012 via Hyper-V Manager in MMC. The message said: Cannot connect to the virtual machine. please retry. But I can see all status on my...
View ArticleNLB Hyper-V
Hello all Environments - Hyper-V 3 nodes Node 1 (0 VM) Node 2 (2 VM) Node 3 (0 VM) - Virtual Machine 2 VM(VM 1 and VM 2) - Machines Other 1 Physical Machine - NLB 1 NLB(members VM1 and 1 Physical...
View ArticleHyper-V Replica - Restore VM
Dears,I have a little information about below, and I kindly wants your help.I am using Windows 2012 R2 cluster with Hyper-V replica broker from my main site to DR site.I have 2 VMs in main site failed...
View ArticleHpyer-v Replication setup problem 0x8007138E
Hi,I'm trying to enable replication on a VM that is part of a windows 2012 hyper-v cluster to a standalone hyperv 2012 server. Everytime i run the replication wizard i get to the end of the process and...
View ArticleP2V Conversion wont boot
Hi all,I have recently started playing around with Virtual Servers and have done a P2V conversion which comprises 3 partitions.One system reserved, one drive C and one drive D.The conversion works...
View ArticleReduce Hyper-V Machine Size
Hello All,I have created Hyper-v machine in windows server 2012 environment. And install exchange server in that hyper-v machine. Hyper-v machine hdd configured by dynamic disk. now the size is...
View ArticleVirtualised Multi-Instance SQL Server Cluster - Processor Resource Management
Hi - We're in the process of implementing a multi-instance SQL 2014 guest cluster on Windows 2012 R2. To our dismay, it seems that Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) is deprecated in Windows 2012...
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