Hyper-V - Run everything from one box

June 19, 2012, 10:53 am

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I would like to load the free version of Hyper-V on my laptop.

After I have it up and running and have loaded a guest operating system, like windows XP or Windows 7, will here be any way to connect to the VM's from the laptop itself?

Is there any way to run an RDP session from the Hyper-v core console, or is the only way to connect to a vGuest is over the network from another machine?

I want to be able to RDP a vGuest from the hypervisor load, so one peice of hardware to run Hyper-V and then remote the vGuests that are running on that instance of Hyper-V.

Is there an RDP client that will run on the Hyper-V version of Server 2008 R2 core?

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State Stopping-Critical after live migration. (Event ID 19050) - HELP-ME

June 27, 2013, 9:19 am

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Hello guys.

I work in a large hosting in Brasil.

When i do Live Migration the virtual machine change status to Stopping Critical and Running Critical.

I see Event viewer and have event id 19050: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd582406(v=ws.10).aspx

HELP ME

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Atenciosamente Julio Araujo

How to migrate VMs from local to SMB cluster?

June 27, 2013, 11:25 am

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Hi

I've just followed Keith Mayer's excellent walkthrough on how to make a Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster.  All good.

So I have my HA Cluster.  I have Server 2012 Std with Witness and Storage SMB shares and two Hyper-V 2012 servers as my nodes.  I dont have fibre but I have NIC teams to get me up to 2Gb links on all three boxes.

My question is how to move the current VMs from an existing Hyper-V box (member server) to the cluster?  I have the permissions on the shares as FULL for the domain admin group and the server nodes and on the NTFS folders but I get a general access error when I try to make a move.

What path should I be using as the destination to drop them into my Storage folder?

Thanks

Daren

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VHD and VHDX won't Compact

July 12, 2012, 11:29 pm

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I also have the same problem.

If I compact a VHD or VHDX the compact runs for one second and ends, and the VM's remain uncompacted.

I am using REFS format on the drive, and the VM's are Windows 7 x86, if that makes any difference.

I have disabled System Restore in VM's, as that was a known problem with 2008 R2.

Can this be reported as a bug in Server 2012 RC.

Hyper V - Dynamic Memory Vs Task Manager Vs Performance Monitor - Memory usage

June 27, 2013, 11:23 am

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Dear Friends,

I recently changed my virtual servers memory from static RAM to dynamic and i gave a min and max value. For example if a server was given with 8Gb ram i have 4Gb min and 8Gb max. now since i have done this.. i am started getting warning about memory low or warning even. Not sure if i what i have done is correct or not... because when i log into the server and see the memory utilization of virtual server it shows only 50% used but in hyper V console it shows all used.. or low/warning memory.

On the monitoring software also i started getting errors for the same.. even i never use to get cpu pressure warning which since i have made ram from static to dynamic this also started coming....Please advise..

and at last .. if some one has idea on exchange memory usage as i have few exchange servers with all dynamic memory configured and a max of 8Gb... one with no user yet ... not showing any memory pressure... means it should show something used for OS or exchange itself.. but nothing in hypver V console ...other with almost same number of users ..one is stuck on warning and other is on low...Please advise

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Happiness Always
Jatin

Can we Expand a VHD or VHDX Without a Reboot in Hyper-V 3?

July 18, 2012, 11:50 am

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Will it be possible to resize a VHD/VHDX in Hyper-V 3 while the VM is online?

Windows 2012 VM can see Parent Luns and Guest Luns.

June 27, 2013, 2:24 pm

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Hi everyone, I have a Windows 2012 Datacenter edition
with Hyper-V role installed. The server has all the latest patches. It has two CNAs
Emulex OCE 11102 connected to two Cisco Nexus 5000. The Nexus is connected to a
Compellent storage system. The parent is zoned so it sees several LUNS. <o:p></o:p>

I’ve also created 2 Virtual SAN Switches on the
Hyper-V, each one associated with one Emulex card.<o:p></o:p>

Created a Windows 2012 VM with two virtual HBA’s, done
the zoning with the virtual portnames, associated a new LUN to the virtual
portnames.<o:p></o:p>

I can see the new Lun in the VM, but I also see the
LUNS that are associated with the parent.<o:p></o:p>

Can’t figure out what I’m missing.<o:p></o:p>

Thanks a lot,<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

Ivan<o:p></o:p>

Secure labs using Hyper-V ?

June 27, 2013, 10:48 am

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I would like to install a secure lab environment using Hyper-V. The labs will contain senstive production servers (cloned).  It is important for them to remain secure with no possibility of them inadvertantly being reintroduced to production.  Members of our support team need to be able to easily connect to the lab enviornment using their laptops (again this needs to be secure).

What would a good solution be ?

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Server 2k8 R2 Hyper-V

June 27, 2013, 12:04 pm

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I have a server that I have installed HYPER-V with 8 windows 7 guest VM's. when I configure the VM with a static IP Microsoft security essentials will not update the AV database on its own. To test my theory I left a few VM's with DHCP and they update with no issues.

VM backup and application recovery

June 24, 2013, 11:55 pm

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• Host: Windows Server 2008 R2
• Guests: Windows Server 2003 / 2008 R2 (Integration Services have already been installed)
• Backup tool: Windows Server Backup (WSB) on the host server

Hi all,

As I know I have to backup the whole C drive and VM data drive (e.g. D drive) if I want to perform the application recovery (I've already to modified the registry to register the Hyper-V application for WSB). Now I have a few questions.

1. I have a lot of VM unrelated data in D drive. May I only backup VM related data such VM configuration files or VHD files in D drive? I tested in my test environment but unfortunately it failed. There was only an "intial Store" item in the "Application components".
2. After I had backed up the whole C drive and D drive, I was able to perform the application recovery. However, it looks like all the VMs were restored. But I only want to restore one of the VMs. I don't want to restore other VMs. Because there are a lot of important addtional data in other VMs after last backup point.
3. Actually what I wish is to restore the specific VM with its snapshots. If I cannot restore the snapshots, it means I dare not take any snapshots becuase I have to delete the snapshots before WSB backup schedule. But it almost impossiable to delete the snapshots because It's almost impossible to shut down the VMs which are critial servers to merge the VHDs.

Thanks,
高麻雀

Hyper-V Replication From Standalone Server to Cluster Broker Using Certificates Error

June 27, 2013, 12:33 am

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Hi, I am struggling with cross domain / forest Hyper-V replication using certificates. I am trying to replicate a VM from a standalone host to a cluster, via a broker resource. I believe the certificates are all correct and installed on all servers correctly and all firewall rules are configured correctly. The standalone server and cluster hosts are in different AD forests and logical networks (again all up stream firewall rules are in place for ports 135, 80, 443 and 4000).

I can replicate from the cluster to the standalone server on port 443 so assume that confirms the certificates are ok. I cannot, however, get replication working the opposite direction from standalone host to the cluster broker.

The error I get on the standalone server (replica source) is:

Hyper-V cannot connect to the specified Replica server '<FQDN of one of the cluster hosts>'. Error: A connection with the server could not be established (0x00002EFD). Verify that the specified server is enabled as a Replica server, allows inbound connection on port '4000', and supports the same authentication scheme.

*Please note that when configuring replication I enter the FQDN of the broker and sometimes the above error reflects the broker FQDN and sometimes the host node FQDN's.

**I have tried port 4000 and port 443 and confirmed the host nodes are listening and port is open - both ways - from standalone server to cluster nodes.

The error shown on the cluster nodes (destination) is:

'Hyper-V Replica Broker <broker FQDN>' failed to start the network listener on destination node '<hostname of cluster node>': The certificate's CN name does not match the passed value. (0x800B010F). Please look at the event log on destination node for more details.

I have created the certificates using the broker FQDN and I use the broker FQDN when setting up replication on the standalone server. I am using local host file entries to achieve DNS resolution since they are different domains and networks.

I would appreciate any advice or suggestions.

CORRUPT VHD

June 27, 2013, 5:02 am

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need help with the following, someone had created a snapshot on one of our clusterd VHD exchange servers , i noticed it was a snapshot as i could not expand storage space, the snapshot was merged and storage expanded it worked but then i got a blue screen on startup and could only select windows repair as the server was not booting into the os once the repair finish i noticed a decrese in HDD space and some of the services would not start eg iis admin, hub transport can this be fixed? i also had a full backup of the VHD but its about 2 months old if i had to activate this backup would it cause any problems. Your urgent repose would be highy appreciated.

tape library connection problem on hyper-V

June 28, 2013, 12:03 am

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Dear Support,

I have a server frame installed with a window server standard 2012, and connected to the tape library through a Fibre adapter.

Also the window 2012 server installed a hyper-V and installed a window server 2008 on it.

But we find that the window server 2008 cannot recognized the tape library.

My question is, can the window server 2008 on hyper-V recognized the tape library?

Regards,

Raymond

2012 guest on 2008 host

June 28, 2013, 3:04 am

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Is there any problem running a Server 2012 guest on a W2008 (NOT R2) host?

thanks

Internet sharing for Hyper-v for windows server 2012

June 28, 2013, 6:35 am

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I have HUAWEI Mobile Connect -3G USB EVDO connection and I need to share this internet connection to virtual Machine but my host machine get internet connection I can't share to the rest of my VM. I create external Virtual network and I try to assign it to virtual switch. anyone help me please

Regards

Tade0001

 

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Do I backup Hyper-VM VM's AND the Data Drive they are on with Windows Server Backup?

June 28, 2013, 7:56 am

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I just started running a backup using Windows Server Backup 2012 with Hyper-V. 

My VM's are all located on my D: partition which brings me to a confusing point.

When I use windows server backup I can select my hyper-v VM's to backup and (separately) I can select the D: data drive in which they reside.  My questions is, should I be doing that? or that over redundant?

Thanks in advance!

Luke

Hyper-V 2012 + 4 teamed NICs = 1Gbps ?

June 28, 2013, 5:07 am

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Hello!

I am building a Hyper-V cluster with SCVMM 2012 SP1 and 4 nodes. The storage is SMB 3.0. everything is on Windows 2012.

I have created a Logical Switch with a 4 NICs (1 network card with 4 ports Intel PRO/1000 PT Quad). This logical switch has 3 network virtual adapters: Cluster, Storage and Live Migration (separate VLANs are used).

Everything works and the network is fully compliant. The problem I am facing is that storage speed is too slow. I am utilizing only 1 NIC during file transfer (I know this is a childish test but it is a good starting point). The transfer is stable ~112MB/s

Interesting part is next: if I go to network settings on a cluster host and create a network interface with different VLAN the same file is being copied with the speed of 180-200 MB/s (better but I would expect 300MB/s from 4 NICs).

The port Profile is set to LACP and TransportPorts.

Why is that? Why do I have a poor performance through the Hyper-V switch?

Thank you!

Passthrough disk showing as online in Disk management - machine fails to boot with error Failed to "Failed to Power on with Error 'General access denied error' (0x80070005)."

June 4, 2013, 6:57 am

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All,

I hope anyone can offer an answer.

We have a HA Windows 2012 Hyper-v Server cluster with an EqualLogic storage.

We have serveral machines running on passthrough disks with no issues. When I am trying to add a new VM with passthrough disk, the machine fails to start up with the error above.

Furthermore, the disk is showing as online on Storage Manager of the node (as well as on the Cluster Disks). When trying to set offline on Storage Manager, it reports:

"The specified disk or volume is managed by the Microsoft Failover Clustering component. The disk must be in cluster maintenance mode and the cluster resource must be online to perform this operation." Following this instructions did not make a difference and the VM still failed to start.

The process followed to add the passthrough disk to the clustered VM is as perhttp://alasdaircs.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/clustered-hyper-v/ (with the slight difference of creating the volume on the iSCSI) which has worked fine for all other VMs currently in production.

The disk appears in Cluster disks as C:\ClusterStorage\Volume2 as opposed to \\?\GLOBALROOT\...

Any ideas?

Hyper V 2012 - No Options to set up replication

June 28, 2013, 2:02 pm

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Hello,

I have two servers running Hyper V 2012 Core.  I want to set up the replication feature.  There are many resources that explain how to do this, and it seems pretty easy.  I do not have any options to configure replication in the screens referenced by the instructions.  I have spent hours researching this and have come up empty handed.   There should be options to enable Replication and Migration and they don't appear.

Trouble with passthrough disks when migrating a VM into Windows Server 2012 cluster

June 28, 2013, 12:44 pm

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I am in the midst of upgrading my failover cluster servers to WS2012.  I created a new cluster and I am migrating my VMs into it.  Most VMs are working fine in the new cluster, but I am having trouble with one VM which has some passthrough disks attached to it, which are connected to an iSCSI SAN.  The host connects to the SAN, and the disks are connected to the VM in Hyper-V settings. 

I got that VM running on one of the WS2012 cluster servers, but when I try to add it into the cluster, I have trouble with the attached disks.  I tried adding the disks to the cluster before adding the VM to the cluster.  I also tried not adding the disks to the cluster.  I tried attaching them to the VM before and after adding the VM to the cluster.  I can’t seem to get it to work no matter which way I do it.

In most cases, the VM fails to start with the following error:

'Virtual Machine DB1' failed to start.

'DB1' failed to start. (Virtual machine ID 11B3CCBE-0F7F-4774-8156-810E969D1954)

'DB1' Synthetic SCSI Controller (Instance ID 6F38B394-4E10-4CB9-BFA9-A22A970F8BCC): Failed to Power on with Error 'General access denied error' (0x80070005). (Virtual machine ID 11B3CCBE-0F7F-4774-8156-810E969D1954)

'DB1': Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management service Account does not have permission to open attachment '\\?\scsi#disk&ven_scale&prod_storage_node#1&1c121344&0&000002#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}'. Error: 'General access denied error' (0x80070005). (Virtual machine ID 11B3CCBE-0F7F-4774-8156-810E969D1954)

Under WS2008R2, I was able to use this procedure to set it up.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2009/02/20/adding-a-pass-through-disk-to-a-highly-available-virtual-machine.aspx

But as WS2012 does not have a “refresh virtual machine config” feature, I cannot use the same procedure.

Does anyone know what the procedure is in WS2012?