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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V managment service shutsdown when connection to RDS connection broker

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Hi

I have three Hyper-V 2012 servers all running the RDS virtualisation host service in order to host a Windows 8 VDI infrastructure.  I have started to received an issue that occurs every night at 00:45 hrs.  The VMMS service stops on all three of the hosts at this time and there for stops serving the desktop images.

If I remove the RDS virtualisation host role from one of the Hyper-V servers but leave the desktop VM's running the service is stable and does not shut down nightly.

I have been through the VMMS log files and see nothing un ordinary.  There is an event stating that the service has received a stop command and then that's it.

I am running Windows Server 2012 RTM with GUI on all three of the host servers as well as the separate server hosting the RDS connection broker role.  All installs were clean installs i.e not upgrades from 2008 R2

Has any one come across this issue?


Hyper-V 2012 Remote Management

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When managing Hyper-V Server 2012 with Server Manager 2012, I get the error:
    <Data Name="namespaceName">root\microsoft\windows\servermanager</Data>
    <Data Name="wmiClassName">MSFT_ServerManagerTasks</Data>
    <Data Name="methodName">GetServerEventDetail</Data>
    <Data Name="protocol">WSMan</Data>
    <Data Name="error">The WinRM client cannot process the request. Property "StartTimes" with MI type MI_DATETIMEA does not match the expected type from the schema: MI_UINT64A. Specify the correct type and retry the operation.

However only the Events aren't coming through, I can remote manage everything else. I can't figure out where to change the MI type. However only Hyper-V 2012 is giving me this error, I'm not having any other problems with my 2008r2 machines with WinRM 3.0 installed

Hyper-V Heartbeat Service and other Integration Services fail to start, Heartbeat = no contact

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On a 2008 Server 2008 standard (6.0.6002 Service Pack 2 Build 6002) guest VM running on a 2008 Hyper-V server ( 6.1.7600 N/A Build 7600), when I try to start the service manually, I get 2 errors - A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the Hyper-V Heartbeat Service service to connect. (7009)

and

The Hyper-V Heartbeat Service service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. (7000)

I get similar results when trying to start these manually. This is a relatively new behavior, and it seems to just have started since the last restart after installing some updates this morning.

I installed KB2724197, KB2731847, KB2749655, KB2705219, KB2661254, KB2736233 and KB2756822 this morning. I just tried uninstalling all of these updates to see if that would make a difference, but there's still no heartbeat and I still can't start any of the hyper-v IS services (and they don't start automatically on startup either).

NIC Teaming in Hyper-V Server 2012

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I'm wanting to set up a server running Hyper-V Server 2012, and team the NICs. Much has been made of teaming being a new feature in Server 2012, but is it possible in the standalone Hyper-V Server 2012? I've done a fair bit of trawling on the internet and the instructions available mostly seem to be relating to the full version, using the GUI (which Hyper-V server doesn't have). There are a few mentions of being able to use Powershell and a suggestion that this should work on Hyper-V server, but no definite confirmation that it does and no concrete instructions on how to do it. Can anyone confirm the situation, and if possible instructions on how to do it?

Thanks


David

Best Practices Analyzer Recommends Server Core (Server 2012 Build 9200)

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I'm looking for suggestions on best to configure my environment.  I have two physical Hyper-V hosts, with each machine hosting two virtual machines for a total of six machines, all running Windows Server 2012 [with a GUI] build 9200.

A BPA scan result advised me (on both Hyper-V hosts) that the Server Core installation option is recommended for servers running Hyper-V.  I am not very experienced with PowerShell, so I am trying to find the best approach to solving this issue.

Host1 Specs:

Processor: Intel Core2 Quad Q9450 O/C @3.2GHz (I may drop this back down to the 2.66GHz default, but its been stable for months)

RAM: 8GB

Motherboard: Abit IP35 PROXE (great desktop from 2008 but not a server board)

The two VMs on Host1 are:

  • VM1 configured as the PDC
  • VM2 configured as a web server, database, and crm (Installed WebMatrix and SugarCRM via MS WebPI)

Host2 Specs:

Processor: Intel Core i3 550 @3.2GHz no O/C

RAM: 8GB

Motherboard: Gateway DX4840 (average desktop from 2011; also not a server board)

The two VMs on Host2 are:

  1. VM3 configured as secondary DC
  2. VM4 configured as RODC

Questions on my Config:

  • I am thinking about setting one of the hosts and all VMs except the web server to Server Core.  If I do that, will I be able to set up all the Server Core server to be managed with the Dashboard on the Host with a GUI??  Such as creating a server group and/or adding other servers to manage.  I am concerned that the GUI functions of each server would not be available to the Host with a GUI if the other servers are set to Server Core.
  • On all machines, it seems like the resource highest in demand is the RAM.  If I am able to config most of the servers to run in Server Core and then manage it all from one Host with a GUI, will that improve my environment with respect to RAM use?

Thanks in advance everyone!

Ethan

WinServer 2008r2 VM's revert from normal to legacy network adapters

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Hi everyone,

We have a 2-server HP cluster setup that hosts our 25'ish VMs running off of 2008 r2 Datacenter edition in a standard failover cluster using a HP SAN.

From time to time, I find that some of these machines suddenly have a Legacy network adapter instead of the regular network adapter, and to fix the situation I have to shut down that VM, remove the wrong adapter, add a new one, and then do some manual setup in windows.

I cannot find anyone else who experiences this based off of searches in this forum and on google but perhaps I'm searching for the wrong things.

I'd like to get to the bottom of it, regardless, and I hope you may be able to offer me some assistance. It may be something that happens when our hosts crash (on those rare occasions), or when I move the VM's from one host to another - I have not been able to discern this in a reproducible manner.

To elaborate, I have personally set up many of these VMs with regular non-legacy adapters, and over time I've seen almost all of our machines lose them and have legacy adapters in their place. I've then manually shut them down, replaced the adapters in the hyper-v manager, started them up, only to see some of them have legacy adapters once more.

Is there any help to be had?

Thanks in advance,

Morten

Setting memory assignment, the need for real bytes?

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Hello,

I'm looking at a bunch of Hyper-V servers (2008r2) where all the VM's configured with memory assignment as 1000 MB or 2000 MB for example, rather than 1024 MB or 2048 MB.

Being a bit old fashioned I was confused by those settings but then I couldn't reallt find any good technical documents stating the nescessity to assign memory in real byte style (devided by 8).

My question is: what effect will there be inside the VMs if they have their memory configured that way. I'd rather find out than just shutting down all of the servers and changing...

Thanks!


Erik, with many, many certs! ;-)

using hyper-v and network booting

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I was wondering if anyone has setup work stations on hyper-v and did network booting to them. If so what is the best way to do that?

Thank you,

John


upgrading hyper-v 2008 r2 to 2012?

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is it possible/will it be possible to just upgrade hyper-v server from 2008 r2 to 2012 or will I have to reinstall the whole os and vms?

Can't import an exported machine, must have a new identifier

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We have a test machine with Windows 2008R2 (all updates installed), with Hyper-V on it. That's our OTA environment. 
Overnight we run a powershell script wich exports all VM's to another (local) disk. That works without any errors.

But restoring a machine isn't possible. I take the complete exported folder, and copy it back to the original disk folder. (have a question about this later). From Hyper-V manager I choose "Import virtual machine", browse to the location were I've copied the exported folder, and select: "Move or restore the virtual machine (use the existing unique ID)". Because it's the same machine it should work, doesn't it?

But when I click Import, we get an error:

Import failed, details:

A server error occurred whil attempting to import the virtual machine
Import failed

Import failed because the virtual machine must have a new identifier. Select a new identifier and try the import again

So now my questions are:
- Why? Because the exported machine on the same machine?
- Is this export/import only possible on different Hyper-V servers?
- What is the best procedure for me to make backups and able to restore again?
- Is it possible to remove the old identifier? I imagine cluttering up if I rebuild a new machine around the old vhd file.
- Why are all folders put in one folder in the exported folder (Snapshots, Virtual Hard Disks, Virtual Machines), on my production I've placed the Virtual Machines folder with the HDD's on a SDD disk (F:\Virtual Machines\<servername>, and the config is in the default folder. (D:\Hyper-V\Configuration files)
- Where can I find more information about those identifiers, there isn't much info to find about these identifiers.

Thank you for your answers.

Window 2012 Hyper-v network configuration

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Hi All,

I just want to configure network configuration.

In my host machine (WIN2012DC),


IP Address details:

vEthernet (External LAN):

IPv4 Address : 169.254.21.76
Subnet Mask : 255.255.0.0
Default gateway : Empty

Ethernet adapter Ethernet:
IPv4 Address : 192.168.1.16
Subnet Mask : 255.255.0.0
Default gateway : 192.168.1.1

OS : Windows Server 2012 with DC (Enabled AD)

In Hyper-v (WIN2012ALL) instance ,

Ethernet adapter Ethernet
IPv4 Address : 169.254.94.115
Subnet Mask : 255.255.0.0
Default gateway : Empty

OS : Windows Server 2012

Currently I just connected my machine with my modem and I have not configured any IP Address
manually.

I want to achieve the followings,

1. I have to provide the internet access to hyper-v instance (WIN2012All)
2. I want to join the hyer-v instance WIN2012All to host machine WIN2012DC 

Since the SharePoint 2013 beta will not install in DC and I need a above setup. 
I am not a network guy and please some one help me to fix this issue.







Is Hyper V 2012 the final version and NOT a trial?

P2V Windows 2003 R2 SP2 BSOD 0x0000007B not WdfLoadGroup

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Hello,

I have a Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 webserver that I am trying to P2V.  On my initial attempt it failed to install the integration components and then would bsod on each boot.  

I had migrated similar machines previously without an error so I tried another machine and had similar results.  I then did some searching and found errors related to the WdfLoadGroup and used this links info to fix it: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/robertvi/archive/2009/10/07/after-installing-hyper-v-integration-services-on-the-next-reboot-the-vm-displays-bsod-0x0000007b.aspx

I was hopeful that my webserver would then be able to migrate, so I tried it again.  I still got a BSOD.

At this point I have done the P2V with SCVMM and told it not to install the integration tools during the P2V.  That machine was able to sucessfully start and got to windows so I took a snapshot.

It seems like now if I install the integration tools, check the WdfLoadGroup which is set properly and reboot I get the BSOD.  I can then boot with last known configuration.  I have also tried not installing the integration tools, and it looks like after windows picks up all the new hardware, I'm assuming the main issue is the IDE driver, it will then bsod on a reboot.

I'm not sure what to try next.  

I think I put most of my steps down, but at this point I have restored my snapshot and poked at it a bunch, so I'm happy to add more details or try anything new.

Thank you very much,

Eric

Very slow copy from external NAS device to VM on hyper-v role. Also no connectivity to Host from VM.

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Hello,

   I have a Dell T420 running 2008R2 server with the hyper-v role and 1 windows SBS2003 server VM running. The server has 2 NIC's one I assigned on hyper-v role (external).  The VM shows the 1 NIC and share management network is checked.  I cannot ping the VM from the HOST and I cannot ping the HOST from the VM. I can ping outside the VM on the external network from the VM.  I can see the NAS device (buffalo terastation) and copy files from it, however, the copy starts fine then less than a minute later the time to copy goes from 7 minutes to 137 minutes and copying comes to a crawl , then a bit later the time decreases down to low numbers again and the progress bar moves at a good pace for a bit then it starts to slow again. I am copying a 13GB SQL backup file and it took over 35 minutes.

I am new to hyper-v but not to vmware.  I am unclear on how to best setup VM networking on a server with 2 NIC's and could really use some help in fixing these issues.

Thank you!

Dan Andrews

Encapsulate files within an iSCSI vhd file without moving from a disk array?

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We are moving our file server to a new virtual server and virtualizing storage using Hyper-V and iSCSI.  I have a disk array which contains our shared network files.  This array is going to be added to the iSCSI storage pool and I was hoping there's a way to keep all the existing files in place and just encapsulate them within a vhd file for use with iSCSI to advertise to the new file server.  I'd like to avoid moving 2TB of files onto an external drive and back just to get them inside the vhd.  Is there any way to do this?

I posted in this forum because I couldn't find one related to iSCSI.


hyper-v 2012 quest clustering

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Is there a way to setup guest clustering within a Hyper-v cluster with pass-thru disks?  Working with 2012 Hosts, 2008r2 quests and EMC SAN>

Thanks,

jay

0x80070569 Error When Creating Second Virtual server in Hyper-v 2012

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I get this error when I try to create a second VM from Hyper-v Manager on windows 8 / server 2012 / server 2008 R2.

Hyper-v is running on a new install of server 2012 core.

I was able to create the first VM (server 2012 with a GUI) and is running fine.

I have tried adding the local administrator account to the logon as a batch job and doing a gpupdate /force with not luck.

Both the server 2012 core and the server 2012 VM are joined to the same domain.  I am logged into server 2012 and server 2008 R2 as the domain administrator.

Any ideas would help!

Windows Server 2008 Locks up "Configuring Updates" after Hyper-V Removal (non HP computer)

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I recently decided to remove the Hyper-V role from my server, because it was not being used.  Little did I know that it would kill my server.  I'm running Server 2008 on a custom built computer (not built by HP, contains no HP parts, and the HP network config utility is not installed).  since the reboot following the uninstall my server sits at "Configuring Updates: Stage 3 of 3 - 76% complete."  I have read http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/950792 and it seems that something else I have installed may be causing the Hyper-V uninstall to hang.  Unfortunately I cannot follow the resolution in the KB article seeing as it it is for the HP NCU.  Does anyone know how I can determine what is causing the configuration to fail?  I have limited access to the server.  I can remotely access files, and do some other administrative functions; however, I cannot log into the actual server (remote desktop too).

Thanks

DR & multi-site cluster with CSV and Equallogic

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Hello Everybody,

I am implementing a DR with Hyper-V on Windows 2008R2 Dataceneter SP1. I use several CSVs on equallogic 2 Equallogic on siteA and 2 Equallogic on site B replicated asynchronously. My wan link between the both sites is a slow link. My hyper-v cluster has 4 nodes on sites A and 3 nodes on sites B. I use a quorum in fileshare but if I loose access to quorum the cluster realize an automatic failover from site A to site B but I don't want it because my wan link is slow.

I consider the quorum as a single point of failure and I think I will come back to 2 distinct cluster with a lot of handly intervention on VM in case of manual failover. I am searching the manner to use a multi-site cluster on my both site but preventing an automatic failover on site B in case where I loose the quorum because before doing an automatic failover I have to promote my Equallogic volumes on site B. Could someone advise me on this subject?

Thanks in advance.

PS : I don't use SCVMM.

Michael.

Error trying to mount the DVD to a network based ISO image in Windows 2008 Hyper-V RC0

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Greetings,

When I try to configre the guest OS settings to mount the CD/DVD drive to an ISO image I have setting on a file share, I consistently get an error. The only time I have been able to mount an ISO since upgrading to RC0 (I don't remember if I tested this in the BETA) is when the ISO is locally on the Windows 2008 Hyper-V server.

 

To be specific, I get the following error:

Virtual Machine Connection (title of the window)

Inserting the disk failed.

 

Failed to add device 'Microsoft Virtual CD/DVD disk'.

 

User account does not have sufficient privelage to open attachment '\\remoteserver\share\ISONAME.ISO'.

Error: 'General access denied error'

 

'NEWGUESTOSNAME' failed to add device 'Microsoft Virtual CD/DVD Disk'. (VMID 26C8B66F-5D3F-47F9-9D80-474D0F778522)

 

'NEWGUESTOSNAME': User Account does not have sufficient privelage to open attachement '\\remoteserver\share\ISONAME.ISO'.

Error: 'General access denied error' (0x80070005). (VMID 26C8B66F-5D3F-47F9-9D80-474D0F778522)

 

I am not sure what credentials it is using. It looks almost like it is using the new computer name as credentials or something like that. The account I am logged in as at the time is a Domain Admin and has access to every server and every share. I can browse to the ISO just fine through the Hyper-V Insert Disk function, it just won't take.

 

I have checked the Hyper-V server settings and the Guest OS settings and can't find where to specifcy what account to use to connect to remote ISOs. Anyone have any clue on what I am doing wrong?

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