How to use a bootable VHD under Hyper-V
I have some VHDs created from existing bootable Windows 7 to Windows 10 partitions that run smoothly under VirtualBox.My Question: Is it possible to run these under Hyper-V? Remark: VirtualBox emulates...
View ArticleLivemigration of VM with vTPM in Cluster without HGS
Hello, I'm trying to livemigrate a 2016 VM with vTPM in a 2016 Cluster without Host Guardian Service. It is not a shielded VM. It cancels with the following error: Live migration of 'Virtual Machine '...
View ArticleFailover Cluster - one of the nodes visited the future...
Hello,Over the last weekend we had an issue with one of our 2012 R2 Hyper-v failover clustered nodes. For no reason that we can ascertain the clock went into the future (2nd Feb 2026 to be precise) On...
View ArticleWindows Defender Exclusions
Hi,I install a Hyper-V Server and leave the default setting of DisableAutoExclusions to falseI run a Get-MPPreference and I don't see the auto exclusions listed - this is expected.I then add a custom...
View ArticleHyperV - Merge avhdx checkpoints to parent vhdx script or tool.
Hello, I'm having an issue that happens because of Veeam backup, suddenly the backup fails and creates dozens of checkpoints for each machine. I have few machines that Veeam created a checkpoint for...
View ArticleSharing settings unavailable
The command "vmconnect.exe host vm /edit" should lead to a "Connect to" dialogue with Display and Local Resources settings such as drive and device sharing. But for me it leads immediately to the...
View ArticleCan't ping second Windows Server 2016 on domain
I'm trying to set up a SQL Server lab at home. So far I've created three VMs through Hyper-V: a domain controller (DC) and two servers to run separate SQL Servers (SQL1, SQL2). I'm able to ping SQL1...
View Articlehyper v manager cannot start error 1068
Hihyper-v Manager won't run.I tried to start Hyper-V virtual Machine Management servive and I get the error hyper v manager cannot start error 1068 After reading this post Hype-v manager and when...
View ArticleReplication Broker OU :
While creating hyper-v broker,Confirmation page getting "OU: <unavailable>".Due to this hyper-v replication broker is not getting started.It was working fine until last Friday.Based on...
View Articlemicrosoft hyper-v vss writer state 8 failed
Dear All,how to fixe hyper-v vss writer state 8 failed , run Veeam backup was filedThanks and regards
View Articlequestion about replication and failover
Hinew to this replcation and VM stuffI have currently setup 2 server running server 2012r2 and a numner of virtual machines, VM1 replicates to VM2 within issue, replication Health shows no errorsYet...
View ArticleShrink C: Volume on VM's VHD
Hello. A couple of years ago, in my inexperience, I set up a VM and configured the C: drive to have 2TB of available space. There are no other VHDs associated with this VM. It really only needs to be...
View Articlehow to remove data from winsxs folder in windows server 2008 R2
HiOur server C drive have low space and as checked winsxs folder have more than 20 GB data.can any body suggest delete this folder contents, if yes,what will drawback and issues ?how can reduce size of...
View ArticleReplication of virtual machine
Running a Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V and have one virtual machine on this server. This virtual machine seems to have been replicated to the location and show as:Replication Mode:...
View ArticleSAN data replication and automatic VM failover
Hi,Is it possible to have dual SAN's, replicating data between each other in a Hyper-V Failover Cluster environment where if 1 of the SAN's loses power, all VM's that were pointing to the SAN that has...
View ArticleInternal switch - can not ping host -> VM (but VM -> host work)
Hi,I create an internal switch : host (windows 2016) : 192.168.128.1 VM (version 2) (windows 10 x64) : 192.168.128.56 same network mask (255.255.255.0)I can ping :host -> internet OKVM -> host...
View ArticleLive migration leads to a network interruption for about 10 seconds
When i migrated the virtual machine by Live migration in the failure cluster, I found that the virtual machine network had 2 packets mistake, and the data display screen running the thermal application...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2, NIC Teaming, and VLAN
I'm testing out Hyper-V and am having some connectivity issues around the following: 6 x 1GB NICs (single team @ OS level) 3 x Team Interface [management (1), iSCSI storage (100), VDI (25)] 2 x...
View ArticleExtremely Slow VM running on a Hyper-V Host
Hi - I built three VMs from 3 physical machines about 3 years ago and all worked like clockwork. However following a phase where the system kept reporting RPC Server not available my inexperienced...
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