Move virtual machine running on snapshot to another Hyper-V host
Hi,I have a hyperv virtual machine, which is running on a snapshot file (avhd). I need to move the virtual machine to another Hyper-V host. I would like to know the best practice for achieving ths. The...
View ArticleFailover cluste & Active Directory
Hi, I have working to build new Hyper-V 2012 cluster failover between two virtual machines by SMB shared, I have the below servers that working in internal virtual switch (10.10.10.1) , - Active...
View ArticleLan extension is required for Hyper-v 2012 HA across datacenters or not?
Hi,We have twodatacenterSeparategeographically andwe want to installahigh-availabilityarchitecturehypervbetweendatacenter.dolanextension ismandatory?what is themaxlatencysupported?What solution should...
View ArticleAdvice on SAN required
Hi,I have a dilemma what to do. I am new in my role and have inherited 2 Dell R300 machines each running 800GB RAID1 local storage and 32 GB of RAM. The current virtual setup running Server 2008 R2...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 Live migration fails with event ID 21502
I have a Hyper V cluster setup which includes 5 servers running Windows 2012. When i try to live migrate between nodes, it errors out with the below message: Live migration of 'Virtual Machine testVM...
View ArticleHyper-v Guests restarted after network cable was removed
Noticed recently that we had to replace one of the network cables on the server (2 ports 1 for vm 1 for server itself), and noticed that the vm's inside that host server did a hard shutdown. Once they...
View ArticleHyper-V on Windows 2k12 Wireless ICS
Hi All,I know this question has been asked multiple times and I've got fairly close to what I want to achieve.This is the background:Windows Server 2012 running Hyper-V with an Ubuntu virtual machine....
View ArticleVSS_E_VOLUME_NOT_SUPPORTED_BY_PROVIDER When taking snapshot of Hyper-V CSV...
Hi, Im trying to take a snpshot of guest OS available under Hyper-V CSV Storage which is NTFS drive using VSS API. I'm Getting "VSS_E_VOLUME_NOT_SUPPORTED_BY_PROVIDER" error when i call AddtoSnapshot...
View ArticleChecklist or List of Activities Before moving Machine to Hyper-V
Dear All.....Can anyone list down steps that should be taken from planning as well as implementation point of few in moving a machine either physical or virtual to a Hyper-V Failover Cluster based on...
View ArticleHow to export all virtual swtches?
Hello, We are migrating from Hyper-V on Windows 2008 R2 to Server 2012 and I have to recreate all virtual switches, but they are so many it will be excruciating to add them to the new server manually,...
View ArticleMoving a DC virtualization to main machine
Hi Techies.My sever runs on server 08 r2 that allows for vrtualization. I have a DC running as a virtual machine in one of the virtualizations in the server(has two other virtualizations). I would want...
View ArticleX Physical NIC = X Virtual Switch?
Hi,I've been Reading many tutorials about the Hyper-V networking and I have some questions about the relation between physical NIC's and Virtual Switch's related with the network performance.My...
View Articleimport-vm with incompatibility - virtual hard disk not found 40010
hi ,i was wondering if i can import a vm copied from somewhere else. i get incompatibility issue where it say virtual hard disk not found. i know you can change the vhd location in xml file and it will...
View ArticleHyper-V on Win8 new network connection problem
My Hyper-V running Win 8.1 under Win8 suddenly lost all network connections claiming IP problems. I say suddenly because everything was working fine until a couple of days ago. I have no idea what...
View ArticleAn occurred while attempting to connect to server. Check that the virtual...
Hi,I have 2 Hyper-V 2012 servers. They work fine and DNS records etc are all in place.However, if I try to add them to Hyper-V Manager from a remote machine in the same domain, I get the following...
View ArticleWindows 2012 - Unable to move a VM to Hyper-V node - Error: 'A virtual disk...
Hi all,I deployed an infrastructure with 4 physical servers including Microsoft Servers 2012 on all of them. (PN01/PN02/PN03/PN04). The storage device is a SAN. (SAS connection)The configuration is the...
View ArticleHyper-V dropping physical network connection
Here's a good one that hopefully someone can shed some light on.Just using a test server. Windows 2008 R2 installed hyper-v. This machine just has one NIC on it. I'll create an external network in...
View ArticleWindows 2012 Hyper-V Manager says Virtual Machine Status "Backing Up" Why?
What is going on?I have 4 VMs running on Windows 2012 Datacenter. They stopped responding so I took a look at Hyper-V Manager.The status of the VMs say "Backing up". I cannot shut the VMs down,...
View ArticleHyper-v 2008 R2 Guest VM current memory usage through perfmon / wmi / snmp or...
Is there a way to see how much memory the guest vm is used through perfmon / wmi / snmp or methods including powershell commands.We have a 2k8r2 hosting server. 5 Virtuals. All have static RAM...
View ArticleRequest timed out on hypervhost
Hello,I have a Windows 2012 hyperv host with a network card which I selected during the installation of the hyperv role in order to create the Virtual adapter for my VMs. After doing so the static IP...
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