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SnapshotType

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This is the first time I think this has ever happened to me I searched on Google for a command switch and got 0 results "-SnapshotType"

The command Get-VMSnapshot has a switch  [-SnapshotType <SnapshotType> {Standard | Recovery | Planned | Missing | Replica | AppConsistentReplica | SyncedReplica}]

We are planning to use snapshots as part of our integrated recovery options and I would like to know what options I have

Can someone point me at an article or provide some first hand knowledge of the differences provided by this switch

Thanks

Mike


ESXi guy looking into Server 2012 Hyper-V

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Hey hey.. I am starting to consider moving from ESXi to Hyper-V.. I have loaded 2012 and am starting to become familiar. I am a little unclear on how the virtual switches work though. In ESXi you generally create one virtual switch bound to several physical NICs and then VLAN the VM port groups accordingly. I am not seeing how this works with Hyper-V. For example, even after creating a NIC team, when creating a virtual switch I only see the single NICs and no team. What am I missing?

Hyper-V NIC in promiscuous mode

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Hello,
 
    Is there a way to setup a NIC in hyper-V or the Hyper-V virtual Swith to support promisuous mode for Web Filtering Software like websense?

Thank

ML

Hyper-V Manager fails to boot from eith an image or disk drive

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I have created a Hyper-V system and originally have gotten an iso file and a Windows Server 2003 CD to boot in order to create a new virtual server.  However recently I found that in either case, I cannot create a new virtual server either from a boot CD or an iso image.  I get the message "Boot failure. Reboot and select proper boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected boot device". I have made sure that none of my existing virtual machines are running when I try doing this.  I have been searching the web but have not found any references to this problem.  Patches are being maintained on the host server and any virtual machines I create from existing VHD's work fine.  I have tested the CD to insure that it will boot on another system.  Any help will be appreciated.

Resource Pools

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I'm currently looking at VM resource pools in Hyper-V and I'm wondering how they work. I created a pool using:

New-VMResourcePool "Database Engine Services" Processor,Memory,Ethernet

Now, how can I associate a VM to the pool for metering purposes?

When I use Enable-VMResourceMetering, there's no way to associate a VM to a pool. I checked Set-VM as well but I couldn't find a way using that either.

What I would like to have ultimately is a hierarchy of pools for reporting purposes. i.e.

Servers
Servers\Database Engine Services
Servers\Web Application Services
Servers\Reporting Services
Servers\Reporting Services\SSRS

So I could wrap the stats at different levels, depending on what I want to look at. I see that a hierarchy of pool is possible judging by Set-VMResourcePool.

Any help/guidance on this would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Mathieu

Hyper-V help please

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Hello,

I was hoping that someone who knows a lot about hyper-v would be kind enough to message me on skype and give me a helping hand, just need a bit of help with the networking. Many thanks if you do.

Skype: tombath10

Thanks!

Hyper-V 2012 cannot start 200 virtual machines at once

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I  don't know what to do and I am ready to throw in the towel with Hyper-V and Windows 2012.

I have server R910 with 512 GB of RAM, a raid 10 disk array,etc. There is no machine more powerful build by the big iron companies. it has 64 cores,etc.

I created 200 identical virtual machines with one master and 200 differencing disks. The master is 20 GB long and it resides on a Ram Disk, so reading is the fastest. Each VM needs 1 GB of RAM only. The machines are all of them Windows 7. If I select them all in the Hyper-V manager and right-click -> Start, only about 1/4 start. The rest stay like frozen in several stages, but they never finish booting. I guess it is the creation of the swap file, which is 16 GB, and I cannot disable it because no matter what I do, Windows will create a minimal (16GB) swap file anyway. I cannot even redirect this file an external SSD or some similar trick,because Hyper-V does not allow that, like its competitors. As a result of this nightmare, I need to start each virtual machine 90 seconds apart, and for 200 units I need (200 x90)/60= 5 hours in order to fully boot my server. This is a joke.

Does anybody has any idea how to solve this riddle?



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No internet access Hyper-V

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Hello,

I am trying to do 2 things.

Im trying to sell Windows VPS so I bought a windows server 2008 R2 Datacentre license, and installed Hyper-V on the server, I create network and create a server, I log into the server and it has no internet access? 

Thanks


Identified issues with Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012, when using eSATA Intel MB Ports

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I can now confirm Issues with  hard drives being recognized by Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V, while using the 5th SATA port ( RED SATA  eSATA 4) on Intel DH67BL & DH67GD  motherboards. Windows Server can recognize the drive and will operate properly, but Hyper-V has issues recognizing the hard drive and showing ""any"" folder structure on any hard drive connected to the SATA (eSATA) port on the motherboard.

When in Hyper-V manager or even SCVMM 2012, HYper-V only sees the drive letter, and SCVMM 2012 does even see the drive letter.

This issue is being experienced on two Windows 2012 Servers, using Intel motherboard, and also issues have been experienced with Win 8 Pro with Hyper-V and drives.

So this means there are three Intel motherboards experiencing issues when using the internal 5th SATA (eSATA port - internal Red ëSATA Connector on Board).

I suspect other users who are having VHD creation issues on drives are also working on newer motherboards.

 Note: This issue is was not experienced when using Windows Server 2008R2 and SCVMM 2008R2

Hope this helps.......


RF


Need to relocate 25 vms from one drive to a larger drive

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I hope that some one can answer this questin for me.  I Have a server at work and I am tasked with

1) adding a raid box with four 1 TB drives in raid 10   =   Done

2) Moving all 25 live vms (while everyone is at home) from old small drive to the new raid box. = Not Done :)

I have gone ad read almost every thread that I have come across about moving vms and none of them are making sense to me. :(

If I have read right I can use export/import from vmm but, from what I have read, that makes a copy of it and still leaves the old vm in the original location.  Is that correct?  I would like to get this done by monday But I have 3 - 4 weeks to actually get this accomplished.  Also I do not have the space to be making copies on our server and it is fully live and in use 90% of the day.  Dr's get really upset when they can't get things done because I am holding up our server :)

Any help would be seriously appreciated  and thanks in advance

Oh yeah am running server 2008r2 enterprise

File Not installed after reboot

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Hi

I get this message in event viewer after a reboot

The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:

FileDisk

Is there anybody that can offer an ABC fix PLEASE

Respects

TIA

Clive AKA Lord Ogmore

Single Server 2012 Hyper-V Host, Need File server and VDI Shared Desktop Pool Setup one or two Virtual Servers?

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I'm not sure if this is correct forum to post this question, but since it's Hyper-V related I thought I should post it here.

I have one physical server that will be the Hyper-V Host, lots of memory (48GB) and fast disk (1.5TB 15K drives RAID5) and want to setup a Domain controller also acting as a file server and also need to setup Hyper-V VDI with 10 x Windows 7 desktop pool.

Should I create one or two Virtual 2012 Servers to do? I was thinking if it were two, one could be the DC/File server and the other handle the VDI's. Don't know if setting this up on one Virtual server would be too messy?

Wish I had more than one physical server to do this, but unfortunately this is what I have to use.

Thanks for any help in advance!

Heartbeat: Lost Communication

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Recently I have installed Windows Server 2008 R2. I have installed Hyper-V and configured 4 VMs & installed 2008 R2 in all of them. Now, I am unable to communicate or take any action on one of the servers and the Heartbeat status is  : LOST COMMUNICATION. 

Please advice the needful to contact the server.

Thank you.

Behaviour of different guest OS's with respect to Integration Services

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I am migrating a bunch of physical machines to be hosted on Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. The guest operating systems are a variety of Windows versions. For reasons I won't detail, I need to know which versions of Windows will automatically install a virtual NIC when they are first started as a virtual machine, and which versions of Windows will not have a virtual NIC until I log in to the VM and install Integration Services.

For example, I have already determined that Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows SBS 2011 automatically install a virtual NIC without requiring an initial login, whereas Windows Server 2003 SP2 does not. What is the exact dividing line or criterion for predicting this behaviour on other versions of Windows? (I need to predict for both desktop and server versions of Windows).

Thanks,
Richard Koett.
 

Hyper-V and custom resolution

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Hi,

I know this question has been asked many times, and the answer is usually "use RDP". But apparently, RDP is now the only option, and it's what I'm using.

My screen is an LCD TV with a resolution of 1360x768. Unfortunately, this resolution is apparently not supported; the closest I can get in a Windows 8 VM is 1366x768, and it adds scrollbars, which make it difficult to put the mouse in the corners to get at the start screen and charm bar... Smaller resolutions don't fill the screen, so it's also difficult to put the mouse in the corner.

Is there a way to set a custom resolution to fit my screen exactly ?

(note: I know it's not a Windows 8 problem, since I don't have this problem on my host machine which also runs Windows 8. I assume it's related to the display adapter used by Hyper-V, but there don't seem to be any options to change it)

Where is the FTP Service in Hyper-V

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I just installed the Web Server role and IIS. I then went to services to install FTP. I don't see it listed anywhere. When I looked at my Web Server IIS specs it said FTP not installed. However, I don't see FTP listed as a role or as a service. Can anyone tell me where to locate this?


Tina Jansen

Hyper-V School project

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Hello! :)

I'm trying to get my head around the hole idea of Hyper-Vs and how great the availability is.

My scenario: 

2x Hyper Nodes

1x Fileserver

I want to use SMB 3.0 for now, and maybe ISCSI later.

First of all i want the best possible solution for high availability.

What i have figured out already is that i need a Cluster on the Hyper-V and then a need in the cluster to map a SMB share from the Fileserver. 

Or is that even possible?

Can someone tell me if the live migration feature is manual or automatic, i have tried to use the move feature, but here is exactly what need, i need for the exam to show that i can pull the cable out of my one Hyper-Node and then it will live migrate over to the other Hyper-Node


Anybody uses ASIO audio driver for music apps?

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Just wondering if anybody has experiences using ASIO driver in Hyper-V virtual environment. I tried on VMWare and Virtualbox VMs, won't work or the latency is too big.

Thanks


PC

Standalone Hyper-V is too painful to use

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This is really a complaint not a question.  I've been using the free version of VMware ESXi for development testing for years.  I keep reading about how Hyper-V is catching up to VMware in features.  I was excited about the free stand-alone version and decided to try it out.  I downloaded the Hyper-V 2012 RC standalone version and installed it.  This thing is a trainwreck!  There is not a chance in hell that anyone will ever use this thing in scenarios like mine.  It obviously intented to be used by IT Geniuses in a domain only.  I would really like a version that I can up and running in less than half an hour like esxi.  How the heck is anyone going to evaluate it this in a reasonable manner?  I feel like it was just thrown out there so Microsoft could claim they have a free virtualization server like MS?

Steps for free ESXi.

1. Download from website burn to CD/DVD.

2. Boot from disc, follow steps to overwrite hard drive and install.

3. After reboot, config management IP address.

4. Go back to my desk and open my web browser to Management IP and download client.

5. Install ESX client and start running VMs!

Steps for Hyper-V

1. Download from website burn to CD/DVD.

2. Boot from disc, follow steps to overwrite hard drive and install.

3. After reboot, config management IP address.

4. Scour the internet for server tools that install the Hyper-V management snap-in for Win 7.

5. Install server management tools pack.

6. Go to add/remove and enable the Hyper-V snap-in.

7. Open Hypver-V snap-in and connect TRY to connect to box.

8. Receive generic authentication error message.

9. Spend several hours scouring the internet looking for registry hacks, firewall hacks that actually allow you to connect to a damn hyper-v box!

10. Eventually you come across the website/project. http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/HVRemote

This site walks you through all the script changes/reboots you have to make to connect to bloody hyper-v! 

Here is what I would prefer

I don't want to download any tools at all.  I just want a HTML5 web server on this box that allows me to do everything I can from the  Hyper-V console and doesn't make me configure anything other than a password.  It would be great if it was themed similar to the new Windows Azure Virtual Machines console.  I doesn't have to provide like a built-in viewer to actually interact with the VMs, I would be happy with a remote desktop style connection.

Automating Hyperv VM backup

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Hi everyone

i have a server 2008 r2 hosting my lotus mail server on Hyperv.

i would like to have a backup of my vm but for this i need to shutdown the mail server and do an export. i need to assist all the operation and it consumes a lot of time.

Is there any possibilities to have an automated system such as:

At a scheduled time the lotus vm is shut. export is done to another hyperv server. when export is completed, the original lotus vm is back online.

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