Overprovisioning vCPU
Hi, hope someone can explain this to meCan I overprovisioning CPU usage in Hyper-V 2012 R2 as described in this article below? When I previously used ESX I hade the problem and reduced the number of...
View Articlevirtualization
Hello Initially would like an opinion of you , which recently took over the management of a network of medium-sized company , where they had bought a server to virtualize other two servers with SQL...
View ArticleHow to route traffic across subnets when one NIC is a hyper-V virtual switch?
Having a bit of a problem with a hyper-V environment which does not seem to route network traffic on two different subnets between each other. If it were a purely physical server with two NICs and a...
View ArticleHyper-V host server upgrade from Server 2008 R2 Enterprise SP1 to Server 2012...
We are about to upgrade our Hyper-V host servers from Server 2008R2 Enterprise SP1 to Server 2012 R2 Datacentre to take advantage of the latest Hyper-V features.This only concerns the host servers and...
View Articlehyper-v network card
hiim confused in my hyper-v nic configurationi have 2 hostmy host1 hyperv is displaying the nic 1 and my cable is plugged on host1my host2 hyperv is displaying the nic 2 but i have no cable plugged in...
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Windows 8.1 Hyper V Virtual Switch Manager - Cannot add New Virtual Switch
I'm trying in vain to add A New Virtual Switch on my Hyper V host machine, but I keep getting the same crash-report regardless of what I'm trying to do.PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> New-VMSwitch "VM...
View ArticleVHD Size is Maximum Size Allowed Without Using All Space in OS
Hello - I have a Hyper-V VM whose maximum size allowed is 700GB. Currently, the VHD file size is 700GB yet the OS is only using ~400GB (300GB free). Shouldn't the VHD size be about 400GB instead of...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 Scale out file server cluster using server disks as CSV
Hi,My question is if I can create a Scale Out File Server Cluster with CSV using the disks that comes with the servers, we have 2 servers with 2 arrays each one, 1 array for the OS files and 1 array...
View ArticleServer 2012 R2: How do I set VLAN data for the Host Virtual Switch (via...
I need to modify the Host (NOT the VM's) VMSwitch VLAN settings via Powershell for automation purposes.In Server 2012 (NOT R2), this can be done via modifying MSVM_VLANEndPointSettingDataHowever, it...
View Articlehyper v in network
Hi can someone help please.here is my configurationhost1 X.X.10.1host2 X.X.10.2host1 and host 2 has 2 VM eachon host 1 hyper-v i can see the ip of host1 10.1 that is using nic #1on host2 hyper-v i...
View ArticleHyper-V Guest Performance \ BIOS
I was setting up a Hyper-V (2008R2) Guest for Sql Server and wondered about the following:1) Does the Guest Power plan setting impact Guest performance? (The default seems to be "Balanced" but should...
View ArticleIssue configuring vlan-id on virtual machines
Hi all,I seem to be having an unusual problem getting a switch trunk port to recognize the Hyper-V vlan-id tags. Here is the problem:Environment:Virtual Machine: Windows Server 2012r2 eval (vhd)...
View Articleorphaned VHDs
Folks,Is there a quick way to see all unattached (orphaned) .vhd drives?The reason I am asking is that we have a relatively large Hyper-V host that runs tons of VMs, the problem is that "there are too...
View ArticleGeneration 1 Virtual Machines for Windows 2003 and 2008 Hangs while booting...
Hi,My System has AMD FX 8350 Processor, BioStar TA990FXE Motherboard, 8GB 1600Mhz RAM and Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-VVirtual Machines created in Generation 2 with Windows Server 2012 Works...
View ArticleServer 2012 R2, RemoteFX issue
Hi,tried to enable RemoteFX on Server 2012 R2 with no success. I have CPU that is capable of SLAT, but I'm not sure about GPU. I have AMD HD 7770 GPU that is DX11 capable and I installed WDDM 1.3...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 Hyper-V Licensing Windows XP, Windows 7, Linux,......
Hello Hyper-V guys!I want do deploy a simple Application Server (2 CPUs), where there are some tasks who need to be seperated from OS to OS (So not running on one Host).I know with a Windows 2012 R2...
View ArticleAccess To Virtual Machin Servers By Internet
Hello Scenario: I installed Hyper-V Role on Windows Server 2012 R2 x64 Standard(Workgroup) with 2 Ethernet one for private network with rang 192.168.100.10and another for Public (or better say...
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Can't import a VM
Hello!There's a test PC (Server 2012R2) with two network cards (Nic1=Realtek, Nic2 = Dlink). Some days ago I created a VM on this PC and created a couple of checkpoints for the VM. Today I formatted...
View ArticleWhat are recovery, realized and planned Vm's types?
In the description of the VirtualSystemType property of Msvm_VirtualSystemSettingData http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh850257(v=vs.85).asp we see : "Microsoft:Hyper-V:Snapshot:Recovery" - A...
View ArticleFeature request - 'shadow' settings for changing locked VM settings
I have a possible idea for you that I know I would find helpful. I understand that certain VM settings can't be changed while the VM is running. I would love to be able to make the change so that next...
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