Active Directory-based VM connection. (Jail 1 user to same VM everytime...
Greetings, fellow techies!! I come to you with what may seem as an odd request. My firm is considering building a thin-client solution for certain clients. We (I) normally operate with ESXi and other...
View ArticleUSB Drive in Hyper-V Not Seen
Native hyper-v on server 2012. When i plug in a usb drive, the guest vm does not see the drive. How does one get the usb drive seen on server 2012 guest os? Diskpart does not see the usb drive either...
View ArticleStandard Server 2012R2 RTM Hyper-V using Gen2 VM fails to load ISO image.
Hi Microsoft SW Engineers,First, 2012R2 is awesome!!!... However using Standard Server 2012RTM, I can create a Hyper-V guest VM and load Server 2012RTM into from either the captured DVD using IDE or...
View ArticleHigh Availability
Hi,Here is the scenario, 2 Physical hosts running hyper-v hypervisor would have 4 VM's each with application like DC, File, Print and utility servers. We would like to have High Availability within...
View ArticleInstallation of Hyper-V 2012 server on sun fire X2200 M2
Hi All.,I have a Sun fire X2200 M2 blade server with 16 GB RAM, 2 Quad core processors and 1 TB HDD. Now, i am using ESXI 4.0 as a host platform. but, my esxi 4.0 is going to expire. I am planning to...
View ArticleVirtual Switch adapter getting link-local IP address (apipa)
Hi Everyone,Not sure what I am doing wrong here.I have installed an Hyper-V 2012 R2 core server on a brand new Dell server.I then went to use Virtual Switch Manager via Hyper-V Manager to create a...
View ArticleLinux memory ballooning problem
Hi all, my customer has a MS HyperV 2012 (not R2) cluster for virtualization purposes. Stumbled in dynamic memory allocation I just had a try, reading around about supported configurations etc. As per...
View ArticleHardware Sizing for Medium Sized deployments
Hi Experts,I'm having good experience in VMware and also aware of Hyper-V. I'm supposed to do design and build infrastructure based on Hyper-V 2012. In VMware we can expect 8-10 vCPUs per core (In...
View ArticleRemove Media from previous Checkpoint/Snapshot without Reverting
Hi:We have a VM in Hyper-V that has several Checkpoints. The first two checkpoints were created when an ISO was mounted and therefore thinks the file should reside on the LUN that it was on at that...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 Replica reverse replication error
Hi Everyone --I have two 2012 standard servers running hyper-v. The are both part of the same domain. I have one VM that I'm testing Replica on, and I always get the same error message. Here's my...
View ArticleOne NIC host - can I connect VMs to the Internet?
Hello everybody,probably you've seen this before, but I haven't had any success in finding the right answer.Question is, can I connect the VMs, living on a host with a single physical NIC, to the...
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Can ping from inside but not from outside
Hello to all,I can ping from inside the domain to clients but cant ping from outside from clients... Can you please tell me where am I wrong?Thanks indeed...
View ArticleRunning desktop OS VMs in corporate Hyper-V?
Hello All,The company I work for currently has a number of server-OS virtual machines running on Hyper-V.We also have a number of server-OS virtual machines in VMWare on ESX.We are now facing a...
View ArticleHyper-V Manager - Access Denied
I have a Hyper-V Server Core 2012 in a workgroup environment and uses Hyper-V Manager in Windows 8.1 to manage my Hyper-V server. It was working previously and when I try to connect to it today (it...
View ArticleHyper-V - An error occur while attempting to start the selected virtual machine
Hi,I have Hyper-V installed on a Physical Server and created a TEST Virtual Machines, but when i start the VM it is showing a below error.Error Code :- An error occur while attempting to start the...
View ArticlePoor network performance on Windows 8.1 virtual machines
We experience a strange behavior. A 10 node Hyper-V host cluster. Dell Blades. Broadcom NIC's.When we do a file copy from or to a VM hosted on the cluster and running Windows 8.1 the throughput is...
View ArticleNewbie Questions
Can I run a windows OS such as windows 7 or windows 8 off a hyper-v server, as a desktop. I would like to deploy windows desktops to different locations at home.Also, if there is hardware connected...
View ArticleHyper-V and Domain Controllers, 1 DC and 1 RODC?
Hello,I have a small domain of about 20 users running on SBS2011, which is also running Exchange, and plan on virtualizing the existing infrascructure. We only have 1 DC, which will soon be running on...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 High Availability using Windows Server 2012 File Server Storage
Hi Guys, Need your expertise regarding hyper-v high availability. We setup 2 hyper-v 2012 host in our infra for our domain consolidation project. Unfortunately, we don't have hardware storage that is...
View Articleabout intergration service version hyper-v
hey all. so i understand that i need to update my inegration version of hyper-v machinesall is good i load the vmguest iso file to my virtual machinewhere i can find some document of what i get when i...
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