Hyper-V Host Server RAM Utilization
Hi,We are running Hyper-V Environment on a Dell Power Edge R720 Server which has 128GB RAM.Installed Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 on the Host and created 7 VM's. Total RAM assigned for 7 VM's is...
View ArticleSlow Guest VM connection to DELL iSCSI Powervault in a Windows Server 2012 R2...
Hi, we are currently experiencing serious performance issues on the LUNs of a couple of VMs that are connected to a Dell iSCSI SAN. Here is my scenario:4 Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Hosts in a HPV...
View ArticleChild Partion Backup Not available
Hello all, I've got the following setup:- Windows 2012 running DPM Server 2012 SP1- Several Windows 2012 Servers running Hyper-V (2012 + 2008SP1 VM Servers)For a majority of my VM's on the Hyper-V...
View ArticleHyper-V VM on All-In-One server
I am working for a small law firm that only has 1 hefty 2008 R2 server. That's all they really need. It does AD/DNS/DHCP/File Print/Hyper-V. The server has 2 NICs. I would like to completely separate...
View ArticleHyper-V Virtual machine disappeared
Hello,I am running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. I have the Hyper-V role installed with to virtual machines. I rebooted yesterday after windows updates loaded and now one of my virtual machine have...
View ArticleHyper-V network adapters - 1 per VM?
Hi,I have 2 VM's running on 1 host. Do I need 2 virtual NIC adapters and two hardware ethernet cables? Will using 1 VNIC and 1 hardware NIC for two VM's impact performance? They're being used for...
View ArticleLicensing options for Server 2012 Standard Edition
I am working a proposal to a new client. Currently they have a single physical server, and 15 workstations, connected to AD;Server 2012 standard running hyper-V - evaluation (and not attached to the...
View ArticleMigration Setup
Hi,I have an existing Win 2012 Server running hyper-v using a HP iscsi SAN. I am adding a second 2012R2 server to my setup. My plan is to migrate the Guest machines to the 2012R2 server, upgrade the...
View ArticleWMI High CPU Usage on Hyper-V VMs - Related to Data Exchange Integration Service
Title pretty much says it all. Some of my VMs have high CPU and moderate usage going to the WMI Integration Service. I have tracked it down to the Data Exchange Integration Service. If I de-select...
View ArticleHyper-v performance issue?
Hi everyone. Quick question on some perf issues i've had for quite some time. To be fair i was using esxi 5.x and had similar issues. My vm server is running a first gen intel core series cpu (i7-920)...
View ArticleCan't type credentials via Hyper-V Manager
So I'm RDP'd into a VM that I run RSat tools on and having a slight issue. I created a new VM through this VM in Hyper-V manager. Then I start the VM and am doing a PXE boot. Everything is working fine...
View ArticleIOPs size for hyper-V VMs
Hi,I have few hyperv 2008 r2 hosts hosting about 20 VM's or so each. I have a SAN providing VHDs to VMs. The VHDs are differencing and not fixed size. I am in the process of finding out the I/O size...
View ArticleiSCSI connections for guests: how to set up?
A couple of questions:1. If we wanted to set up iSCSI connections for guests such as SQL servers, what is the best way to handle this? For example, if we had four 10-Gb NICs and wanted to use as few of...
View ArticleWMI create extendedAcl for VM
What method must be used for create new instance in Msvm_EthernetSwitchPortExtendedAclSettingData?(Namespace: Root\virtualization\v2)Windows Server 2012 R2
View ArticleLinux Integration Services Version 3.5 for Hyper-V
We tested the 08R2 under, VM which is CentOS 6.3, after installing the Integration Services 3.5, the release of dynamic memory support discovery (Ballooning) I ran a VM eat small C program memory,...
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DPM online backup Snapshot causing 2008R2 Guest VM;s to loose network for 30...
I have a 2012R2 Hyper-V cluster using SMB SOFS shares.All Guests have the latest IC installed, All the 2012R2/2012 guests backup fine and so do the 2008R2 guests, but when the online\ServerXYZ backup...
View ArticleProcessors - how many per VM?
Hi,I have an HP G7 with 2 CPU's. Each CPU has 4 cores (8 in total). What is best practice for allocating CPU to 2 VM's running on one server? Currently I have 4 virtual processors allocated to each...
View ArticleVarious ways of passthrough disks in Hyper-v
If I understand this correctly, I can have pass-through disk to a VM in the following ways...1. Add a disk to Hyper-V server, take it offline and assign it as a physical disk to VM2. Configure iSCSI...
View ArticleReading hyper-v pass-through disks using WMI?
How do I read pass-through disks for a guest VM from a Hyper-V using WMI? I'd like to read the pass-through disks that are available to a guest VM using the below mentioned ways:1. Add a disk to...
View ArticleHyper-v replication problem
hello,i have two hyper-v servers and there is no active directory on network i want to enable mirroing on both servers.when i tried to configure it and using kerberos i get this error:[Window Title]...
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