2012R2 - Hyper-V replica size on a single VM balloons daily
I'm having an odd issue that just cropped up with Hyper-V replica. I have 5 VMs on two hosts replicating to an offsite host. Each of them are setup properly, with a dedicated paging drive that is not...
View ArticleHyper-v R2 Network Virtualization - ms_netwnv Component not showing up
We are a VMWare workshop but interested in the new windows 2012 R2 Hyper-v. So I've set up a lab with two desktop PC running Windows 2012 R2 to test the Network Virtualization feature. However when...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Manager cannot connect to Windows Server 2012 R2
I cannot use vmconnect or Hyper-V Manager from any of our Windows Server 2008 R2 machines to connect to Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V or any of it's virtual machines.I have no problem doing so from a...
View ArticleHyper-V Replica Initial Sync Fails at Random Percentages
Environment Information:Dell R320 HardwareWindows Server 2012 R2 Standard with Hyper-V Role enabled (Bare Metal deployment using SCVMM 2012 R2)SCVMM 2012 R2 Agent installedThere is no additional...
View ArticleHyper-V CSV 2012 backup - Developer documentation
Hello Experts,Where can I find the developer documentation for Hyper-V CSV backup using new VSS improvements (WS2012 and later Oses) that replaced ClusterIsPathOnSharedVolume(),...
View ArticleDisable Quick Migration and Save State
Hello,Is there any way at all to either disable the use of quick migration in a cluster, or saved state in hyper-v? we want to totally avoid the use of saving state by accident or deliberately (or...
View ArticleError Creating Snapshot
While trying to create a snapshot of any of my VM's I am getting an error.Environment:Windows 2012 R2 ClusterRunning System Center VMM 2012 R2Clustered Shared DrivesAny idea what this "No such...
View ArticleWindows 2012 Hyper V Monitoring
Hi,I am looking for monitoring parameters(Performace monitoring), Services and events which need to be monitored for Hyper V 2012 environment with SCVMM.We have Windows 2012 Hyper V Servers installed...
View ArticleCannot mount ISO from remote share in Clustered Hyper-v R2 if FCM runs on...
If I run Failover Cluster manager on Hyper-V 2012 R2 host itself, I can mount iso that resides on another server (remote share). That was done via share option/security/cifs delagation (does it really...
View ArticleSporadic TCP packet loss on guest VMs on one server
I have two HP DL 380 Gen8v2 servers -- identical hardware. Using Windows Server 2012 R2 DC. Up to date Windows updates and HP service packs. Both have the HyperV role enabled and are joined to a VMM...
View ArticleLost Local Password
New VM in Hyper-V 2012 R2. Used Generation 2, so it has a SCSI boot disk. Not a Domain joined machine. We lost the local password and have been trying to find a way to boot to a password recovery .iso,...
View ArticleMultiple Tagged VLANs - Security Issue?
We are investigating tagging multiple VLANs on the switch port that we use for our VMs. We have it up and running great in test by setting the VLAN ID on the individual VMs but our networking people...
View ArticleHow to delete driver?
Is there a way to uninstall a driver in Hyper-V Server 2012? Tried pnputil to delete driver packages but my device still appears after a reboot. I need to test a clean driver install and would like to...
View ArticleHypervisor disables Sleep and Hibernate on Windows Server 2012R2! Why? How to...
Hi,according to the official documentation of Microsoft, Hyper-V does not block Sleep and Hibernate on Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2.From powercfg I get the following output:The...
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Error Creating VM on 2011 iMac - The Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management...
I am running Hyper-V in Windows 8.1 on a late 2011 27 inch iMac. Whenever I try to create a virtual machine I get the error below and Windows warns that it will restart in 1 minute. I tried a clean...
View ArticleHD Size VS Size on disk
Hi Folks,Im not getting this....i have a Hyper-V VM that i have connected to physical disks to from the Hyper-V host. From the VM, when i right click and go to properties on a folder i have on disk 1...
View ArticleSerial Ports using HyperV in Ubuntu guest OS
I need to run a terminal session (term) from within the guest OS, Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS to a serial port on the Windows 8.1P host. In my case a USB to serial adapter that Windows has mapped to COM5.I...
View ArticleGet Storage Drives Info for ALL VM's in a Given Cluster
Hello, I am trying to create a script that lists all the virtual machines in a given hyper-v cluster, and it also needs to list the maximum and the current size of the virtual disks that are attached...
View ArticleHow to replace NIC and add virtual network to 2008 R2 Hyper-V Cluster
I have four virtual networks (three are on same subnet.) Both of my Hyper-V hosts are Dell R610's with (2) Intel dual Pro/1000 PTs and the built in Broadcomm nics.I bought (2) Intel quad nics and would...
View Articlehow to add a disk to a VM in order to be seen as a raw device?
I am running Hyper-V in Windows 8.1 Pro with Oracle Linux installed in the VM. I am running in the Linux VM an Oracle database (for testing purposes). I want to add a SSD which is seen as a raw device...
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