Very large files after converting VHD to VHDX
Hi,On a Windows Server 2012 R2 I'm using the GUI to convert my disks from VHD to VHDX. All goes well but my 8 GB dynamic VHD file gets about 60 GB after conversion to VHDX!!I've also tried PowerShell...
View ArticleUpdates on Hyper-V cluster
Hi Guys,I've done a validation on one of our clusters here, and some of the updates are missing on a host. Which is no big deal, until I try and download them, and get told they're invalid!I've double...
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Hyper-v 2012 VM / Strange IP Address Assignments
Hi all, I've got a strange issue that i've been trying to resolve. Quick overview: I have a four node hv2012 cluster with four nics in each node set up with two nic teams. One team has two interfaces,...
View ArticleHyper-V and FTP in HTML
I have FTP installed on my Hyper-V server. In my Web page I have the following:<a href ftp://207.28.29.231>FTP to your Files</a>Where 207.28.29.231 is the public IP address of my router. I...
View ArticleMigration failed at migration destination: Received invalid or corrupted data
Hi,I have had a problem for several days and cannot seem to solve this.I cannot get SharedNothing Live Migration to work at all, not even with a brand new 4mb empty virtual machine. I am running Server...
View ArticleHyper V on Server 2012 R2 Essentials (Local Domain) to Windows 7 on WORKGROUP
So, i had Server 2008 R2 running this no problem using the HVRemote tool, so i did a similar process again and i can connect to the Hyper V Manger but i cant see my VMs, i did the /show command and got...
View ArticleHyper-V Server 2012 Guest Failover Cluster WWNN settings and SAN from address...
I am experiencing several errors on my san switches on ports that my hyper-v cluster servers are plugged into.2 SANbox 5802 FC Switch1 XIO ISE22 Dell R710The two dell servers are part of a hyper-v...
View ArticleNetBT 4319 Error
I have recently taken over for a system administrator and we are having tons of issues with or domain and Hyper-V servers. Oh the joys of taking over someone elses mess. In the event viewer for...
View ArticleHyper-v Core - Hyper-V Manager connection
Hi All,I'm trying to connect to my core from my win7 machine Hyper-v manager, I'm using a simple workgroup-subnet in my office.I'm always getting "You do not have required permissions..."I tried adding...
View ArticleBest Practice setting up NICs for Hyper V 2008 r2
I am looking at some suggestions for best practice for setting up a hyper V 2008 r2 at a remote location with 5 nics, one for managment vlan and other 4 on the data vlan. This server will host 2...
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Cannot create hard disk in Hyper-V
Hi,I setup the Hyper-V 2012 r2 core and setup a VM with win 8 and VMM trying to manage the Hyper-V remotely. I can connect to the Hyper-V from the VMM but getting error when trying to create a virtual...
View Articlewhere my virtual machines are stored?
Hi When i do install a new virtual machine on hyper- v where is it stored?so can I copy this virtual machine file and use it in another hyper-v machine?thanks?
View ArticleDedup of Hyper-V 2012R2 Cluster CSV possible?
Dear community,it is not clear to me, if it is possible or not to dedup a CSV attached to a Hyper-V Cluster.We have three Hyper-V 2012R2 nodes and a CSV hosted by a SAN, not a SMB-Share. This CSV is...
View ArticleAdd Shared Virtual Disk via Powershell
Hello All,I'm trying to solve a particular problem, and part of that solution is the Shared Virtual Disk feature of Hyper-V 2012 R2. What I have is a script that creates VMs at "run time" utilizing...
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The Recycle Bin is corrupted on Cluster Node. We are using Windows 2012 STD OEM
Hi, I'm getting this message on my node 1:This is my quorum disk. I tried this:rd /s E:\$RECYCLE.BIN (Elevated Command...
View ArticleConvert Dynamic to Fixed size VHD
Hi,When I convert a dynamic VHD to Fixed size I get an error message. The disk is on a SAN volume (200GB). The VHD is a 21GB file. There are no snapshots involved.If I choose to convert the file and...
View ArticleHyper-V SOFS
HyperV 2012 JBOD architecture design and workloadsBut you cannot have both Hyper-V and SoFS on the same hosts. Please clarify the above statement from the PostHyperV 2012 JBOD architecture design and...
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Cluster to Cluster SMB Shared Nothing Live Migration Fails after almost 89%...
Hi, I have an issue currently where I am trying to Migrate guests VM's from one 2012 10 node cluster to a new 2012 R2 10 Node Cluster. The setup is as follows :-Cluster 1 > SP-VHCCAUsing CSV...
View ArticleOffsite Hyper-V host with virtual servers (DMZ), best practice for internet...
I'm trying to get an idea on general best practice with this situation that most are using.. isolation, updating etc..We have a new offsite hyper-v box that will host vm's for IIS and SQL..Example...
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Virtual Machines extemely slow to load on brand new server.
We're about to put our first virtualized Windows 2012 Hyper-V server on a small business site. Everything went fine with the installation, but I've noticed that when loading up the virtual machines,...
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