Over committing CPU
Experts !What is the recommendation on Over committing CPUs specific to Windows Server 2012 R2? Is there any deviation from the previous recommendation like the aggregate vCPU on a Host should be less...
View ArticleDatabase VM Restarts
I am running my sql database on an hyper V virtual machine but it keeps restarting every day. The database is 114Gb both the mdf & ldf files sitting on a drive of 126GB, i have a daily backup that...
View ArticleQNap NAS as iscsi with HyperV
Hi guys,Anyone used QNAP NAS as iscsi with Hyper V? How is the performance? - Does it run smoothly in your enviroment ?At the moment i am using a DAS storage- but i would like to purchase the QNAP ....
View ArticleIs there a way to enable Relication on a single Clusternode ?
Why isn´t it possible to activate Replication on single Nodes of a cluster ? I can have machines on the Nodes (outside the cluster) but no way to replicate them. Or did I something wrong ? If I did...
View Articlehow to communicate vms in hyper-v from host machine
HI,For some study and test purpose i installed 3 machines on hyper-v. one is for domain controller and in remaining 2 machines installed sql server. The all three machines communicates well among them....
View ArticleWindows Server 2012: New Hyper-V Machines fail to start (0x80070001)
Hello,We've been having an interesting issue with our Windows Server 2012 Host. There are currently 10 VMs running on Hyper-V with guest OSes ranging from Windows XP to Windows Server 2008 R2. The...
View ArticleHyper-V Cluster and VMs loosing packets Windows Server 2012 R2
Hi, I'm currently experiencing packet loss on a Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster that hosts several VMs which are also having this same behavior.The Hyper-V Servers each have 10 NICs:1 dedicated...
View ArticleInstallation Windows server 2012 hyper-v
BackgroundI have machines running windows server 2003, Windows Server 2012, Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8. I want to virtualize them all. They are part of a large system we built and maintain. We...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012R2 replcation No checkpoints created
We have several servers running with replication and are set for checkpoints every hour but no checkpoint are in the Hyper-v Manager.
View ArticleRestore the VM from DPM Backup
Dear All,i have a scenario here, we have widnows server 2008 r2 with HYPER Role enabled. the server configured via RAID 5, suddenly two HDD faileda and we are gonna replace. we have backup of VM (DPM...
View ArticleCan I assign several physical storage locations for each virtual machine when...
Hi everyone,I have 2x physical servers running Hyper-V 2012 R2. Each hosts several virtual machines. The VHDs of the VMs are stored on several dedicated physical disks to have a performance boost. For...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 R2 VM CPU utilization
So I had a couple of VM's on a Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter machine and one of them is a Remote Desktop Session Host server with a few users using various programs.I ran into an issue were the...
View ArticleUbuntu Guest OS
I have windows server 2008 R2 SP1 datacenter.... I added roles into the Hyper-V on my server.... now I am trying to add a new virtual machine with Ubuntu 13.10 when it reaches the welcome screen it...
View ArticlePort Issue in Windows Server 2012
Hi,I'm setting up a windows server 2012 hyper v environment. I have a win 2012 standard server and have installed hyper v role. Have set up a Ubuntu 12.04 server and installed IBM WebShpere on the...
View ArticleJust FYI, new Windows Server 2012 R2 Private Cloud Storage and Virtualization...
New! Blog post and links to Windows Server 2012 R2 Private Cloud Storage and Virtualization Poster and Hyper-V Mini-Posters athttp://bit.ly/KRcx4QJames McIllece
View ArticleSlow Guest IO in 2008 R2 Hyper-V
We have recently virtualized 2 Server 2003 machines onto a Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V installation. The first one runs pretty well. It's a terminal server with about 20 users logged in. Performance is...
View ArticleHyper-V RemoteFX Greyed out on Windows Server 2012 R2
On a domain joined host, I've been having trouble with Hyper-V RemoteFX. It turns out that if you have Group Policy set to do any kind of logon screen notification, the fake user that RemoteFX accesses...
View ArticleWindows 7 Ent cant boot if remotefx is enabled
Hey guys.Im using hyperV with Server 2012 Standard and i got one issue. I enabled the remotefx at hyperv because my server haves 6550D Amd video, well i see no any erros...With windows 7 enterprise...
View ArticleClustering Free Hyper-V or Windows Server 2012 Standard with Windows Server...
Hi, Is anyone running a cluster which has Datacenter 2012 clustered with either Standard 2012 or Hyper-V 2012? I have seen posts here and elsewhere that say it is possible but when I rang Microsoft...
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Multiple TAP Adapters, what's creating them?
I have 2 Hyper-V hosts running Server 2012 R2 Datacenter. On each VM I'm noticing multiple TAP adapters ranging from 1 to as many as 7. I'm having difficulty figuring out what is creating these...
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