Unable to enable Hyper-V on Windows 10 build 10130
Hi,I did a clean install of the Windows 10 Insider Preview build 10130.After that, I tried enabling Hyper-V features (via the enable Windows Features). It said it required a restart and upon...
View ArticleDo I need to use Sysprep to clone VMs on my personal lab?
I’m a programmer and I’m trying to build up my personal Lab. I have a machine with Hyper-V Standalone Server 2012 R2 installed. I need to create VMs which will be used for testing applications,...
View Articleprocedure to activate virtual server
Hi,We have installed 2012R2 standard server and activated same.In same server we have installed a virtual server with hyper-v, now we want to activate same.How can we do same, from were to get key to...
View ArticleHyper-V integration API
Hi, Is there a way to integrate to the Hypervisor level of Hyper-V. As it exist in VMware products and others. For example: Integrating to the networking layer to monitor the network traffic that goes...
View ArticleHyper-V Manager, when left open, keeps allocating more and more memory
Very weird.Hyper-V Manager 2012R2, when left open, keeps allocating more and more memory. I've seen it grow until over 2.5 Gbytes !!! Closing it then wil make it release the memory slowly, and when...
View ArticleProblem with time sync from HyperV
Hi, My system clock is incorrect by 3 minutes. I can 100% blame it on HyperV time sync. I am running Windows 2012 r2 for domain contollers and HyperV. I have 3 domain controllers. Two on HyperV and...
View ArticleiSCSI support on Hyper-V storage pool?
Hi,We are now designing a solution related to storage pool creation from ISCSI LUN. In this situation, we created 3 x 3TB iscsi LUN on SAN storage and presented to the Hyper-V cluster. We can create...
View ArticleGeneration 1 or 2 disks
We are about to migrate from VMware to Hyper-V. We are having a debate on whether to use Genteration 1 or 2 disk. I have been reading there are some issues - Gen2 only suppost Serve 2012r2 and...
View ArticleWhen is Microsoft going to pucblish tools for Windows 2008 R2 and Windows...
We use a lot of the "old school" tools simply because we have found no updated tools to use for system admin or audit functions on Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012 servers. Most of the functions now...
View ArticleShould I use a simple Virtual Hard Disk or iSCSI in my configuration?
Hey guys, quick question. I have a system running Server 2012 and I've got 3 Hard Drives attached to the system:100GB SSD (OS Only) 500GB SSD (DATA) 2TB USB 3.0 Drive (DATA)If I have 5 VMs and I want...
View ArticleHyper-V performance monitoring
Hi,Whats the best way to monitor Hyper-V guest performance.We got a system spread across application servers, sharepoint servers and SQL servers on various Hyper-V hosts performing very poorly and need...
View ArticleBidirectional Replica Between Local Hosts
Firstly, the only goal for this setup is to have a quick way to have all VMs up and running in the case of a hardware failure on either host.Is it possible to have VMs 1,2, and 3 running on host A...
View ArticleChenge location of BIN files
Hi,The questions seems to be simple: I`d like to change location of bin file, which is created by hyper-v on the same location as vhdx. I know that there is a gui for that in Settings > Management...
View ArticleVm's lose network connectivity when moved to a specific Hyper-V host.
Hello folks.I've been bashing my head on this one for a while... I have a 5 host hyper-v cluster 2012 R2 with all the patches and using latest ProLiant support pack. 4port 1gb nic's. All host share...
View ArticleHyper-V Live Migration of a VM with 2 vhdx Files on different HDDs gives an...
Hi,need your Help :-)...I have:2x WS2012R2 Hyper-V Host, both in Domain, Live Migration enabled WS2012R2 VM as Guest with 2 SCSI Harddrives (Gen 2 VM) connected as vhdx Files.One vhdx is direct in...
View ArticleChange location of BIN files
Hi,The questions seems to be simple: I`d like to change location of bin file, which is created by hyper-v on the same location as vhdx. I know that there is a gui for that in Settings > Management...
View ArticleLost Network Connectivity After Creating Virtual Switch
Hi, I'm at my wit's end here. I would appreciate some help getting a virtual switch up and running. Here are the details...I create an External Virtual Switch bound to my Broadcom wireless adapter...
View ArticleTrying to merge but run out of space
Hyper V 2012, as I said, was trying to merge a checkpoint (not sure why it even created the bloddy thing, but anyway) and now Im out of space, the merge is 2.5TB, so I got no where to go here?How do I...
View ArticleError failing over
Hello,We are running Hyper-V 2012 and when we start the live migration we receive the following error on Hyper-VNPIV virtual port operation on virtual port ()failed with an error: The world wide port...
View ArticleConcept of virtual switches in Hyper-V
Hello I'm currently working on a project where I'm working with Hyper-V. I've come far and I've come to the part where I need to write my reportIn my Hyper-V setup I've set up an external switch, and I...
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