Best practices for VHDX: Dynamic vs. Fixed size disks
Hello,We are in the middle of a project where we roll out about 500T of disk space literally all across the globe, all virtualized on Hyper-V 2012 using DAS storage. As you all can imagine, using...
View ArticleHyper-V servers
Hi,Is there a way to list all hyper-v servers (physical machines which are running hyper-v) from powershell? There is a way when all servers have at least one VM but what to do with does that do not...
View ArticleHyperV VM gets DHCP from but no external access
I've WS2012 with HyperV installed on my lab PC, the PC has only one NIC so I added a USB Ethernet adapter for testing.When a VM connects using the USB Ethernet adapter, it gets an IP Address by DHCP...
View ArticleCorrupt I-Beam and Wait Cursors on Windows 7 Guest
I have an application that draws corrupted I-beam and Wait cursors. There may be other cursor modes affected, but I haven't investigated them. The client is a Windows 7 x64 guest running on Hyper-V...
View ArticleNo Internet access on VM's
I have two 2008 R2 Enterprise SPK1 VM servers that that cannot access the Internet. Each of these servers reside on two different physical Hyper-V 2008 R2 Enterprise servers, other VM servers on these...
View ArticleHyper-V Server 2012 - Does Not Allow for Secure Boot?
Hyper-V Server 2012 (server core) does not appear to support Secure Boot? Is this true?Various webpages imply that Windows Server 2012 (and Windows 8) both support Secure Boot which would imply Secure...
View ArticleAdvice for Home Hyper-V 2012
Hi,I have installed Hyper V Core at home for a test environmentI have installed 5 VM'sVM#1 - Linux Based Router (Untangle) for routing my Internet Traffic. (requires 2 NIC's - 1 to connect to my DSL...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 Hyper-V over SMB3 on SAN infrastructure
Hi,Can somebody provide me with a reference architecture of a Hyper-V cluster implementation over SMB3 with a SAN? Microsoft is putting everything up to shift us to SOFS/Storage spaces but the storage...
View ArticleClustering and my NIC setup
Hi,I am looking to deploy a Hyper-v Server 2012 cluster. I have two physical NICs on each server, one for the external public internet, and one for the internal network.Is this sufficient for...
View ArticleWindows server 2012 Hyper-V backup
Hello,I have to two Win 2012 Hyper-V hosts configured for VM replication. One is the primary host and the other one is the replica host. I'm using Windows Server Backup to run scheduled backup of all...
View ArticleHyper V Test Lab - Hardware
I have a fair idea where I want to go with my hyper-v lab, but I thought I'd post what I was up to and see if anyone had some input that may help myself and others down the road.The MS TLGs are an...
View ArticleGet-childitem with recurse and create folders in a different directory
I've got a folder containing child folders which I am doing a get-childitem -recurse on. My script at the moment is zipping the top level file in the script but I need it to do a little more.For...
View ArticleHyper-v VM location path chnage!
Hi I have recently relocated a VM VHD to to new location i.e. a different storage mount point. Basically what i did was shutdown the VM> Copied to vhd file new mount point location under same...
View ArticleLive Migration Failing
Hi all,I just migrated my cluster from 2008 to 2012 using cluster migration. But when i try to test live migration, each vm gives following error:The Virtual Machine Management Service failed to...
View ArticleSplit a file path to remove up to first "/"
IS there a way to remove the first part of the URL as follows:$url = "c:\scripts\test"So that I just have "test" ?I've tried replace and also split but nothign seems to work. So far I have$newtoplevel...
View ArticleAlternative reason for Replica server failed to authorized the connection...
I wanted to put this out there to save the next person who runs into this will save time on researching it as I found nothing at all relating to this. I can successfully enabled Replication between...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 (Free) setup routing between Virtual Networks
Hi,I'm trying to set up a POC so VDI, what i'd like to do is run my VM's on a Virtual Network with a really short DHCP lease, without having to drop the lease time for my Production network. Normally i...
View ArticleProduct key for HyperV 2008
I have downloaded the ISO file from MSDn of HyperV server 2008 . In MSDN its given that no product key is required. however, while installing from the setup file, its asking for the product key. Any...
View ArticleHyper-V VM Replica Export - Possible?
Hello All, I have two Windows 2012 hyper-v nodes, not clustered, set up to replicate a couple of VMs using Hyper-v Replication. There's one vm that has three drives which equate to about 1 terabyte of...
View ArticleHyper-V Network Adapter Error 31 After Migration
Migrating servers from 2008r2 Hyper-v cluster to new 2012 Hyper-v Cluster. All 140 servers have migrated with no issues until my last one.It is our secondary domain controller. It is running 2008r2...
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