Access Device Manager in Hyper-V 2012

September 6, 2012, 1:58 am

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When I try accessing Hyper-V Server 2012's Device Manager via MMC I get "Make Sure that this computer is on the network, has remote administration enabled, and is running the "Plug and Play" and "Remote registry" services.

The Error Was: "The machine selected for remote communication is not available at this time.

I disabled the Hyper-V Firewall and followed the steps outlined here for "Allow remote access to the Plug and Play interface":
http://mikefrobbins.com/2010/12/02/enabling-remote-access-to-device-manager-on-server-core/

Any ideas?

The Hyper-V Manager works as-well-as the Policy Editor, just not Device Manager.

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High Availability Hyper-V 2012 Design Question

October 17, 2012, 11:05 am

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Below is a design that I am currently working on for our organization:

I am thinking that to provide the highest availability I will have a 2 node Hyper-V cluster at Site 1 and another 2 node cluster at site 2, each of which will have its own SAN. The Cluster at site 1 will provide redundancy for the servers and failover will occur between the 2 nodes if one server goes down. Having the second cluster with its own storage will provide redundancy for the storage as well. Then I will create failover clusters (starting with a print server cluster) of the VMs between the two clusters so that the VMs can failover in case of total failure of servers or storage at site 1. I have used the following to guide me through the design process:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2008/06/21/8628515.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2008/06/17/windows-server-2008-hyper-v-failover-clustering-options.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29013

I am a bit unsure of the process for failover since essentially there are two possible failover paths (on the physical clusters or between the two with vm failover). Does anyone see any problems with this design? Is there something I am missing or am I making this more complex than necessary? Thanks!

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Desktop Virtualization planning help

October 17, 2012, 9:40 am

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Hello,

We're company with around 1900 PCs and we wish to implement Desktop Virtualization in the near future. We're practically a full Microsoft company, almost all of our servers are running Windows Server 2012 and they are already virtualized. After reading a lot documentation everywhere, we wish to start a plan in order to run a small pilot first. I hope you can give us some guidance for some general concerns we have at the moment:

Is it technically possible to implement a "pure-Microsoft" Desktop Virtualization solution? (We have EA and SA). Or, do we really have to include -at some point- the services of third-party providers like Citrix in order to deploy a successful project? (In other words: why do we need them?).
The vast majority of our users are only task-workers who only need Office, a browser, a couple of Non-Microsoft applications and interaction with printers, scanners, etc.. So.. what's better in terms of scalability (costs) and manageability: Pooled Virtual Desktops or Session-based Desktops?
Is there some kind of tool or calculator available, something that lets you input data like the number of PCs, the type of users, etc. Something that will help us estimate the kind or hardware, servers or storage that we need?
Where can we get clear information about licensing in Desktop Virtualization? We've read a lot about some confusing licensing conditions, like the new CDL, for devices like BYOD, etc. Is there an updated resource where we can get the whole panorama cleared?

Thank you in advance!

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Hyper-V 2012 Standalone Environment

October 17, 2012, 6:28 pm

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@MICROSOFT or other Hyper-V Experts

Can someone provide a "SIMPLE" step by step set of instructions to get HYPER-V 2012 working in a workgroup environment. Setting up Hyper-V 2012 seems a bit painful when I compare it to my VMware experiences.

Desired environment scenario:

Hyper-V 2012 (free version)

Windows 8 with RSAT

Installing RSAT and getting Hyper-V installed is a piece of cake. I can get RSAT talking to HV but after that I run into issues with managing it. I am quite sure if it was installed in a domain it would not be an issue, but I need a clean standalone installation instruction set. Suspect numerous others would love the same.

Keep the instructions as simple as possible and assume no locally managed DNS is available - total standalone scenario.

Thanks in advance!

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Process showing 3GB in use but physical Memory usage shows 7GB in use

October 16, 2012, 12:22 am

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Dear Forum,

I have a issue with a virtual machine, it is allocated 8GB of RAM with 4 core CPU. Recently, I noticed that it was using 7GB of physical memory. I have used powershell script such as below:

Get-process | select -Property Processname,WS

After I have used excel to do a summary of the WS, I realized that it was using only 3GB.

Can I ask what happen to the rest of the physical RAM?

Do assist.

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Hyper-V Server and Storage Spaces problem

October 17, 2012, 9:13 pm

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Hi,

I set up Windows Hyper-V Server 2012, and I have it running one VM with Windows Server 2012 Essentials installed. This was working pretty well, and I attached 5 physical disks to the VM for storage. With these 5 disks, I set up a storage pool using Storage Spaces. As I copied data into the pool and emptied single drives, I added more and more to the pool until there was just one left. During this time, I restarted the VM, and everything came back just fine.

During the last copy, the source drive became unavailable. Thinking that this might just be a transient hardware error, I decided to restart the VM. This time, the VM did not come back. It could not start because of a "missing attachment." I didn't look much into it at this point; since it was the only VM, I figured I'd restart the whole system (Hyper-V Server). After the system came back online, I found that I still could not start the VM. I finally went to diagnose the problem, and I found that the physical disks that I had attached to the VM are no longer present. I logged into Hyper-V Server and ran diskpart "list disks" - only two of the 6 disks showed up. The other 4 are in a storage pool, but they have gone completely missing. I know that in a storage pool, disks get a different partition table.

1) Shouldn't these disks still show in diskpart, even if they are in a storage pool? Remotely connecting to the volume service via disk manager has the same result. Curiously, the two available disks are "Disk 2" and "Disk 5" (instead of 0 and 1).
2) How can I reclaim the disks?
3) If the disks are no longer visible by design, how can they be attached to a VM?

Thanks!

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

October 10, 2012, 11:41 am

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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?

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Proper shutdown Hyper V virtual machine Cent OS 5.8

October 17, 2012, 1:20 pm

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I recently installed the Linux integration services v 3.4 on my Cent OS 5.8 virtual machine and I am having issues with getting it to do a proper shutdown. The server seems to just issue a shutdown and does not do it gracefully. Is there any other steps i need to do or is this not possible ?

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Can't find virtmgmt.msc after upgrade from 2008R2 Core install to 2012 DataCenter Core

October 17, 2012, 2:33 pm

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Hello,

Today I did an upgrade of our 2008R2 Enterprise Core server running Hyper-V to Server 2012 DataCenter core. The install seemed to go fine and I was able to log into the machine and view the VMs from my local copy of Hyper-V manager.

I wanted to upgrade the disks from .vhd to .vhdx to take advantage of the new functionality. Reading some blogs, I did the Minimal Server Install and then tried to run virtmgmt.msc to get access to the local Hyper-V manager. However, it doesn't appear that virtmgmt.msc is installed on the server (couldn't find the file doing a directory search).

Is there something I am missing? Do I need to uninstall and reinstall Hyper-V?

Thanks in advance,

Sean

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Trouble attaching physical hard disk in Stand-alone Hyper-V 2012

October 18, 2012, 12:57 am

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I am attempting to teach myself Hyper-V and am having trouble attaching a physical HD to a guest. Disk Hardware is as follows:

Disk 1 is a 128GB SSD SATA drive with the Host OS (Standalone Hyper-V 2012)

Disk 0 is a 1.5TB SATA drive - blank

I'm managing the environment from a Windows 7 machine with RSAT installed and working fine. Both machines are in a simple workgroup, no domains.

Using diskpart on the server, I've done the following:

LIST DISK
SELECT DISK 0
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
FORMAT QUICK
OFFLINE DISK

Disk 0 shows as offline, but when I attempt to attach it on my Guest machine, the "Add physical hard disk" is greyed out completely. Obviously I'm missing something here - can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong?

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MSVM_Switch Port: Which Port is connected to which VM?

October 17, 2012, 7:41 am

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Hi,

I want to know what is connected to each Virtual Switch Port.

For example msvm_switchPort returns this:

Caption                 : Switch Port
CreationClassName       : Msvm_SwitchPort
Description             : Microsoft Virtual Switch Port
ElementName             : SCVMM-1e7b121c-896e-4540-a8cc-01e7bb136168
Name                    : SCVMM-1e7b121c-896e-4540-a8cc-01e7bb136168
OtherTypeDescription    : Virtual Ethernet
SystemCreationClassName : Msvm_VirtualSwitch
SystemName              : Switch-SM-28d8b3b0-6859-4693-ad77-d48c1b5e22c1-0

Caption                 : Switch Port
CreationClassName       : Msvm_SwitchPort
Description             : Microsoft Virtual Switch Port
ElementName             : Local Area Connection - Virtual Switch Port 0
Name                    : SwitchPort-SM-28d8b3b0-6859-4693-ad77-d48c1b5e22c1-0-0
OtherTypeDescription    : Virtual Ethernet
SystemCreationClassName : Msvm_VirtualSwitch
SystemName              : Switch-SM-28d8b3b0-6859-4693-ad77-d48c1b5e22c1-0

Caption                 : Switch Port
CreationClassName       : Msvm_SwitchPort
Description             : Microsoft Virtual Switch Port
ElementName             : Local Area Connection - Virtual Switch Port 1
Name                    : SwitchPort-SM-28d8b3b0-6859-4693-ad77-d48c1b5e22c1-0-1
OtherTypeDescription    : Virtual Ethernet
SystemCreationClassName : Msvm_VirtualSwitch
SystemName              : Switch-SM-28d8b3b0-6859-4693-ad77-d48c1b5e22c1-0

I can only see how many ports each switch has, but i couldn't find a way to see which VM is connected to which port.

Another question to Hyper-V Network, which component(s) has the external and internal ethernet port? Do they belong to the Virtual Switch or to the Virtual Nic and the Host Network Adapter?

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Suse 12.0 Install on Virtual PC 2007

October 18, 2012, 3:18 am

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When I try to install there is no partition available even though a new vhd was created.

The PC is XP sp3. Any ideas

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Windows Server 2012, NIC Teaming, VLAN ID and Hyper-V

October 18, 2012, 1:42 am

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Hello

We have an issue with Windows Server 2012, NIC Teaming, VLAN ID and Hyper-V in our lab.

Config is as follows:

1 IBM x3650 M2 with Broadcom NIC
Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V role enabled
1 dedicated NIC for management
2 NICs in a Team (Switch Independent, Address Hash) 3 VLANs trunked to each interface in the team.
1 Virtal interface (NIC) for each VLAN. 3 in total.

These 3 Interfaces work fine, but when I add them as external networks in the Virtual Switch Manager in Hyper-V and assign them to a VM they stop “working” (can not communicate on the network).

If I enable VLAN ID (enter the VLAN number) on any VM they start communicating instantly.

The whole point in making a virtual nic for each VLAN would be lost then.

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Installing nested Hyper-V

March 21, 2010, 11:45 pm

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Hi,

On a Win2k8R2, Hyper-V enabled physical machine, can I create Virtual Machine & install Hyper-V on it?

If yes, have anyone tried it. Does it work?

Regards,

Prasad

P.S. This is for our testing purpose, where we need multiple hyper-v servers, but with limited hardware

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hyper-v cluster convert guest .vhds from dynamic to fixed

October 18, 2012, 6:58 am

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I've built myself a little Hyper-V cluster mostly as a learning exercise. I have 5 vms running on it, and all were created using the simple 'New Virtual Machine Wizard'.

What I didn't realize when I created these machines is that when you create a virtual hard disk from within the wizard, you automatically end up with a dynamic disk. There's no option to choose a fixed disk. (correct me if I'm wrong here). It would appear that if I wanted fixed disks, I should have selected 'Attach a virtual hard disk 'later' in the wizard, then created the vhd the way I wanted it.

Well, that's not what happened, so now my 5 little vms all have dynamic disks.

I could simply delete these vms and start over, but I have enough time invested into this that I'd rather preserve them, but with fixed vhds.

I have read the procedure for converting dynamic disks to fixed, and it seems pretty straight forward. The only thing not addressed in the instructions I've read is whether the procedure differs in any way at all when there is a cluster involved. Obviously, the vhd needs to end up on the CSV, but other than that, is there anything I need to do differently?

thanks

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Problem with Cisco VPN on VM

October 18, 2012, 7:32 am

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Running Hyper-V on a 2008 Server and the VM is Win 7 Pro

If I choose Connect from the Hyper-V Manager the vpn connects as you would expect. However if I RDP to the VM then I'm not able to connect, and get a error telling me that VPN eastablishment capability from a remote desktop is disabled. Yet if I disconnect (not log off) and re-establish the session using the Hyper-V Manager it works fine... so long as I don't try to connect to the VPN through the RDP.

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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.

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Need Help to Understand The Result of Windows Server Virtualization Calculator

October 17, 2012, 8:18 am

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Please see the attachment. I have one Windows 2008 Std Edition physical server, it has two processors and I have 11 virtual machines on it, 5 of them are Windows XP VMs for testing, and a mixture of Windows 2003 and 2008 std and enterprise edition VMs (For the sake of speaking)

In the result, at Number of Licensing Needed, it list 11 standard licenses. My questions are:

1. Is this 11 standard licenses I have to install on the HOST? Physical box!

2. My 11 VMs, I have license for each of them and activated.

I could figure out that it needs 11 std licenses install on the HOST.

1. How do I install multiple licenses on a single physical box?

2. If item 1 above is correct, the total number of licenses I need will be 22. 11 on the HOST, and 1 for each VM (11)

Thanks!

Thang Mo

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Virtual Machine Connection - Screen Resolution Does Not Match Guest OS - Cannot Resize the Window

September 26, 2012, 7:47 am

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I am running several WinXP Guest VM's in Hyper V a 2008 R2Server.

All of the VM's run at display resolution 1024x768.

I have recently installed Win7 on my desktop management PC.

The problem I am experiencing is that, on certain VM's (not all), when I connect from my desktop PC to the Guest VM via the "Virtual Machine Connection" in Hyper-V Manager, the Virtual Machine Connection window does not show the whole desktop of the Guest VM.

Also Virtual Machine Connection will not allow me to resize the window to view the whole desktop of the Guest VM.

If I try and maxamize the Virtual Machine Connection window, it only switches my client PC to fullscreen, but still only displays part of the Guest VM screen.

See screenshot below of the issue.

Odly enough, when I click "Capture screen" inside Virtual Machine Connection, it captures the whole window and copies it see below.

I have search all over for this specific issue but I cant find any results.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Jackson Lancaster

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failed to start worker process: Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer. (0x80070569

October 18, 2012, 10:37 am

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We just rebuilt our machine with server 2012, and it was working flawlessly and then randomly it started giving me this error if i would try to start up a machine. At first this was just an annoyance but now it is worrying me greatly. I have tried everything from logging on as the domain admin account to the actual server administrator account. Nothing seems to start these machines up, and I need them to start.

'Computer1' failed to start worker process: Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer. (0x80070569).

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