SBS to VM 2012 R2 migration
Hi allI am after a little bit of advice and help.I have an existing SBS 2008 HP server and I have just received my MAPS software. As I now need to upgrade to the latest versions of the MAPS software I...
View ArticleWMI : MSVM_Imagemanagementservice class' mount method after mounting disk...
I m trying to mount a vhd on windows 2012 hyperV core datacenter edition. For mounting the vhd I m using the MSVM_Imagemanagementservice class and mount method inside that. The disk is mounted but the...
View ArticleNetworking problem with shared nothing live migration over SMB 3.0
Hello!My basic setup atm consists of 2 Windows Server 2012 R2 nodes, network configuration was basicly done as discribed in this video:...
View ArticleLicensing 2012 Datacenter
Hello,one of our Customers has currently four Windows Server 2008 R2 (OEM) on a ESXi Cluster. (For each host he has a 2008 R2 Enterprise License)He already setup a new Hyper-V Cluster with Windows...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V and ReFS
Hello Everyone,I am trying to understand if Hyper-V deployment is supported on ReFS. Let's just consider Windows 2012 R2 for now. I see that even Clustered Shared Volumes can be formatted with ReFS. On...
View ArticleAdd Physical Hard Drive
Server 2012 core with native hyper-v. My Server Core install has an OS hard drive, and a Data hard drive. I am trying to attach the Data drive as a physical disk to a virtual machine i have created....
View ArticleHyper-V Harddrive Array Questions
Hi All,I have a HP ML350P Gen8 server to upgrade and would like an opinion on the best way to configure the storage array. I am picking up from some else's start/mistakes so some of it may not be the...
View ArticleRunning unsupported OSs on Hyper-V - MSDOS with graphics
I was in a MOC classroom, talking about hyper-v and its capabilities to run several OSs, inclusing unsupported OSs. SO i´ve tried and succeded installing Solaris 10/11, NetBSD, FreebSD and others (all...
View ArticleVMs crashing randomly with no dump file
Hi all, I have 11 Windows Server 2008 R2 standard with SP1 VMs sitting on 2 Win Serv 2008 physical servers that keep crashing randomly, nothing on the events logs that can help.The reboot happen very...
View ArticleHow long is Hyperv WMI provider (V1 is supported) in coming windows server...
Hi Guyz,We currently have Windows Server 2008r2 servers and recently moved few of them to windows server 2012. we have lot of powershell scritps that we require for adminstrative purposes and all of...
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Hyper-V replication in Windows Server 2012 R2: Error Applying Network Adapter...
Hello!I have two standalone host machines - Host1 and Host3 (both running WinServer 2012 R2), Host1 is currently running DC2 VM.IP settings:Host1: adapter1 = 10.3.0.61 (is NOT used by Hyper-V),...
View ArticleNIC Teaming - Virtual Switches
Hi,Would I be correct in saying you would need more than one NIC if you wanted to bind to a created virtual switch (external-on host) as well as the actual server (host)?ThanksTa
View ArticleMoving a Cluster Shared Volume with a VM
Hi,Is that possible to move a Cluster Shared Volume (dedicated to 1 VM) with its associated VM together if the VM live migrates to another node ?I try to find a way on Internet but nothing ...Thank you...
View ArticleRemoteFX and APU
HelloI have a question with Hyper-V Windows server 2012 R2 a my AMD APU A-10 6700T.The question is if I can activate the remoteFX feature with this AMD procesor/APU with integrated video card.Thank you.
View ArticleServer 2012 r2 / Hyper-V Storage and Drive Config
OS (Hyper-V) partition: (2) 300GB SAS 15K drives in RAID-1I have 5 2TB drives Raid 10 - 1 drive is setup as global Hot Spare.I will have these (VM's) Domain Controller, SQL Server and an FTP Server...
View ArticleServer 2012 St R2 Hyper-V guest OS license Key?
Hello!Question, we have a new 2012 Standard R2 server, and are installing hyper-V on this.Do i use the same server 2012 DVD and License key on the guest OS?Thank you in advance.Aksel
View ArticleConverged Fabric without Storage Traffic
I have a DataOn 9220 CiB. 2 nodes, each with a dual-port 10gb nic going to a single 10g switch. They also have a 1g nic connected internally directly to eachother. Storage is via direct SAS connection...
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failed to add device virtual hard disk
Hi,I deleted the vhdx in CSV before removing the vdisk from Hyperv mgr. Now when I try to add a newly created vhdx I get this error, failed to add device virtual hard disk. See screenshot for more...
View ArticleProcedures for inplace upgrade
Hi,I am going to upgrade my Server 2012 Host with two VMs (DC and FS) to Server 2012 R2 soon.Should I stop VM Services or Shut Down VMs before starting upgrade or it doesn’t matter at all?Thank you in...
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Terrible disk performance inside VM
I am running Windows Server 2012 R2 with a VM running in Hyper-V. Prior to this host being 2012 R2, it was 2008 R2 but this problem existed then, too. I wiped 08 R2 and installed 2012 R2.We have awful...
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