How to deploy an application packaged as a Hyper-V Export (.ZIP) file
I need to write a procedure for deploying an app to a Hyper-V host from a .ZIP file containing:A .vhd file of the app running on its CentOS operating systemA configuration (.xml) file containing...
View ArticleHyper-V incremental backups
Hello.In a Hyper-V 2012 R2 cluster, with multiple nodes, I witness the following behaviour. When a VM migrates to a different node, all VMs on that node are backed up full. Even though the schedule is...
View ArticleWhat is recommended size of System drive to keep operating system files ,...
Hi ,I want to setup hyper-v host with 128 GB RAM , Windows 2012 R2What is recommended size of System drive to keep operating system files , paging files and Memory Dump?I tested to using 150 GB ,...
View ArticleSlow migration rates for shared-nothing live migration over teaming NICs
I'm trying to increase the migration/data transfer rates for shared-nothing live migrations (i.e., especially the storage migration part of the live migration) between two Hyper-V hosts. Both of these...
View ArticleHow to specify only possible owner of the VM in Hyper-v cluster (Windows 2012R2)
Good day,Wewant to preventthe migration of virtual machinesbetween the cluster nodes in indows 2012R2 Hyper-V cluster.How to specify only possible owner of the VM in Hyper-v cluster (Windows 2012R2)...
View ArticleIs possible to install Hyper-V on windows 7 Enterprise ?
Is possible to install Hyper-V on windows 7 Enterprise ? if yes 64bit or 32bit?
View ArticleWS2012R2 - Storage Device version mismatch 6.0 vs. 4.2 - Linux Guest
I have a WS2012R2 Hyper-V host that has a vendor provided Linux based vhd. When that guest boots I get:"A storage device in 'Server' loaded but has a different version from the server. Server version...
View ArticleServer 2012R2 looses vEthernet switches and cannot stop a starting Vm.
We have three 2012R2 Host Servers in a Failover Cluster, there are 14 Hyper-V VM’s in the cluster.Yesterday Host3 went down because 3 network adapters disappeared. That left 2 servers (Host1 and Host2)...
View ArticleHyper-V host crash and live migration - what happens?
Hello there, it would be great if you could help me understand how live migrationworks on a sudden host crash of a cluster node. I know that the cluster functionality mounts the vhd file on another...
View ArticleHow to configure Hyper V VM replication between 2 different sites (located...
Hi all, I would like to know how to replicate VM's between 2 different sites which are entirely located at different parts of the cities and also they are on different domains. Both Servers are running...
View ArticleHyper-V & SOFS Cluster Heartbeat - Separate Subnets?
As a rule of thumb, is it best to separate cluster network traffic for Hyper-V clusters and SOFS clusters fromeach other, or can I have the same VLAN carrying traffic from both clusters?Many thanks.
View ArticleThe Famously Annoying "Slow" Hyper-V Guest (Running RDS)
Hi All,Over the past several weeks, have had a handful of users complaining slowness at random times when connected across a WAN to an 2008 R2 RDS Server running on Hyper-V. Users in the same location...
View ArticleVeeam Backup solution
Hi,We already have a backup solution in place which is IBM Tivoli storage manager. We noticed that Tivoli storage manager is not suitable for backing up virtual environment. Since we are using this...
View ArticleHyper-V - 2 node cluster goes down if one server shutsdown
Hi all,I built a 2 node cluster with tiered storage and then I started doing some tests:* Drain one node and all the VMs moved to the other node, perfect* shutdown the drained node.The entire cluster...
View ArticleMerge process when shutting down a VM (Can it be stopped with no issues?)
I'm having a mail server downtime to complete critical updates and also add a 2nd network adapter.I'm aware at this point that this server is currently running on a 1.6TB avhd file (and I see the...
View Articlenetwork issue
Hello,I have setup two HyperV server. each have two NIC. One NIC is connected directly from one server to other server No router in between that. And another NIC is connected to External network.Now I...
View ArticleMicrosoft VHD HBA - Driver missing
Hi Forum,I'm struckling with a Hyper-V server.For some reason i setup new VHD's because of a missing driver (i presume).I've tried removing the role and adding it again, but the device "Microsoft VHD...
View ArticleHow to verify if backups are set up and running on Hyper-V with Ubuntu 12.04...
I have Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V installed and Ubuntu 12.04 running on a VM.I would like to be able to verify if Windows Server Backups are in fact backing up the Ubuntu VM.From within...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 - Hyper-V-Cluster: Access denied while taking...
Hello,we've migrated our VMs from an Win 2008 R2-Cluster to a newly installed 2012 R2-Cluster containing 3 nodes.Storage is a HP lefthand 4730 connected via iSCSI, MPIO is not used.After installing...
View ArticleVM with 1GB RAM in Hyper-V server gets restarted while Updating glibc rpm
I created a linux RHEL 6.1 based VM in Hyper-V server windows 2012R2.VM settings are given below:-Start up RAM=1GB.Max RAM=2GB(dynamic expandable).RAM type=dynamicWe are trying to upgrade old version...
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