Here is what i want to do:
I have a hyper -v server or two running windows 7 quests. I want to to be able to connect to the guests using mstsc through something like NLB but once a connection is made to a guest I do not want a second connection made to that guest until the first user logs off.
Hi,
I have been testing Hyper-V Replica and all has been going quite well in a test environment.
When applying the same knowledge to a production environment i'm seeing strange results. I have a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V server in a workgroup running a guest SBS 2011 VM with two drives, one is 131GB and the other is 314GB. I have moved the pagefile onto a third vhdx which isn't being replicated over to our replica partner.
Looking into the VM's, there is minimal file structure change but yet i see lot's of big .hrl files being queued up for replication. I've been through the majority of the files on the SBS server to make sure file changes are a minimum, i.e. IIS / Exchange logs and having kept an eye on the server throughout the day i can't see any big increases in storage consumption on the partitions. within 7 hours today i can see that i have 11.5GB of .hrl files waiting to ship over to the replica partner. The SBS server is running on an ADSL line is being crippled due to the upload.
From my test environment, after moving the pagefile onto a drive that wasnt being replicated i was seeing average .hrl files of KB's rather than GB's. Does anybody have any advice on where the huge file sizes can be coming from ?
This is already my third seed and i'm still seing the same problem.
Alex
Hi I am trying to setup a new Server 2008 R2 core with hyper-v role installed. This server has two physical NIC.
NIC 1 (built in Dell) and NIC 2 (PCI Intel Pro 1000) is untagged on vlan 10 (hyperv vlan) and tagged in vlan 20 (employee vlan), vlan 21 (guest vlan).
I have assigned static ip to the NIC 1 and it will only be used for management. I have used hyper-v Virtual Network Manager to configure NIC2 as External Virtual Network. NIC 2 will be used by VMs to communicate to other clients/servers in the network.
In the Switch: vlan 20 and vlan 21 has IP helper been configured to point to my dhcp server.
I have fresh Windows 7 VM been installed with Network Adapter enabled with VLAN 20. This VM is not getting any IP at all.
Just as a test: I removed the Virtual Network from NIC 2 and restarting the server gets the IP similar to the other machines that are in vlan 20. So why my windows 7 vm is not getting one?
Secondly, once I configure NIC2 as External Virtual Network and from command prompt sconfig shows only NIC 1; NIC 2 seems to be disappeared, Is this normal ?
Any help would be much appreciated, thank you.
I added a SATA hard drive to the host system, set it offline, and attached it to the VM SCSI Controller as a Physical hard disk. After starting the VM, I assigned a drive letter and copied files from the hard drive, then shut down the VM and the host, then removed the hard drive from the host. Now the VM will not start with error: Synthetic SCSI Controller (....): Failed to restore with Error 'The system cannot find the file specified'.
In the VM Settings, the missing Hard Drive is listed as Physical drive Not found. I cannot find any way to delete this missing hard drive from the SCSI controller - the Remove button is grayed out.
Hi,
I'm new to Hyper-V, and networking, etc, but, I do have a question:
I set up Windows 8 on my home PC. I created a VM using Hyper-V with Windows 8 as well. Note that I do not have a domain, etc on my home network. I'm not sure if that is part of the issue here.... The bottom line is that I want connectivity between the host PC and the VM, but, I can't seem to get that working.
My host PC's IP is 192.168.1.5, and the VM IP is 192.168.137.10.
When I set up the Virtual Network, I set it to Internal. I'm under the assumption that these two networks can't communicate because they are on different networks (192.168.1.x vs 192.168.137.x).....
Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks.
I'm trying to set up an Ubuntu server guest on a Server 2012 Hyper-V host. I've tried both 12.10 and 12.04 but I've faced various issues with both releases.
The host machine is a completely fresh installation. The guest machine is also a completely fresh installation of ubuntu server (no gui) with openssh server and LAMP. Nothing else, the only configuration is of a static IP address.
The first issue is the guest getting stuck during installation with either a blinking cursor or a completely blank screen. There seems to be some cpu usage, fluctuating between 0-30%, but no change even after an hour. This is rare but it happened with both 12.10 and 12.04. Rebooting the guest and restarting installation solved the problem.
The second issue is a blank screen on boot. Grub flashes for half a second and then the guest's screen goes blank. This happens on almost every restart of the guest. When I restart the guest after this happens, it boots successfully.
The third and most serious issue is at some point the guest machine only boots to initramfs with the message "Gave up looking for root device". After that I can't get it boot normally.
I've tried reinstalling Server 2012 on another hdd. I have tried installing both versions of Ubuntu numerous times with the same issues. I am using the HP N40l microserver, with an added 2gb of ram (matching second stick as the stock), and only the stock 250gb hdd.
Any ideas, please?:)
Does anyone know how to manage Hyper-V 2012 Server that is in a workgroup from a Win8 machine that is logged in with a different credential than is used for remote management on the Hyper-V server? I spent a couple days futilely trying to get the Win8 Hyper-V Manager to connect to my workgroup 2012 Hyper-V server and finally decided it was time to ask for help.
Bonjour,
Nous venons 'd'installer une infrastructure virtualisée avec Hyper V et SCVMM, nous avons créé une VM dont la configuration contient un seul disque. Or pour des raisons de séparation des données j'ai besoin de rajouter un disque à cette machine.
Je voudrais savoir comment je dois procéder. Est ce que je peux créer ce disque à partir de la console de SCVMM ou sous la VM directement. Existe t il une procédure pour cela ?
Merci
The backup operation that started at '2012-11-16T02:00:07.911699300Z' has failed with following error code '0x80780049' (None of the items included in backup were backed up.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.
We are getting the above error when trying to backup the Virtual server
We used disktvhd to convert a windows 2003 machine to a VHD, we then converted the VHD to a VHDX and now we are trying to backup the virtual server (running on the server) to a USB drive, we it keeps failing.
We installed the integration tools, do we have to add anything else to use Windows Backup?
Hi,
We are doing a Feature and stability test of HyperV 3.0 with VMM2012 SP1 Beta against existing Vmware Cluster.
We found one feature of interest in Vmware, "Host Isolation Response", where the VM on the isolated host will be left alone in the preset desired response. I was unable to find any such feature on Hyper-V directly.
Although a combination of clever networking and scripting can achieve this,which we are working on it.
Just wanted to check if anyone has managed to make something like this work ?
Thanks all.
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.
Hello,
Is there a way to determine the state the VM was in when a snapshot of the VM was taken?
I am looking at the Msvm_VirtualSystemSettingData class, but I see no such information there.
Thanks in advance,
Good Morning this is Part 2 of a 2 part question.
The Situation:
2008 R2 Hyper V Server that has been crashing intermittently for the 2 months. The stop error leads me to the hardware vendor and drivers, but they have not be able to find a problem with the hardware.
The Plan:
Turn off most of the VMs and to use our High Availability system to failover the rest to another Hyper V host and blow away the system partition, and leave the data partition intact.
The Question:
How Easy is it to Reconnect/Import VMs, that would be on that second partition?
I did find a set of VBS Scripts that can import the Configuration without reimporting the large VHD files, which also suggest that I should export the configuration as well.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/24/performing-a-configuration-only-export-import-on-hyper-v.aspx
Thoughts or suggestions?
I have a number of hyper-v 2012 nodes clustered and am in the process of adding more nodes to that cluster. Unfortunately the name of the virtual switches in the cluster have been named incorrectly, is it possible to rename the virtual switches within the cluster via hyper-v manager so they are all identical or will this cause issues with the cluster long term?<o:p></o:p>
Hello,
I'm a long-time user of ESXi + vCenter and I'm looking to migrate to Hyper-V 3.0 + VMM to replace it. At least I think I am. I've spent the last several days trying to set up a sandbox to validate how things will work, and it's been slow going. I'm hoping to hear from others that have made this migration that can point out any gotchas or surprises that they ran into. I'll start things off with a few that I've already hit:
Thanks in advance for any help. I realize this stuff is very, very new, so hopefully we can all learn together on how it works. Given that Hyper-V is feature-parity with ESXi plus, with Datacenter Edition, you can have unlimited Server 2012 VMs running on it, the value proposition is huge!
Hi,
Is it possible to have Failover Hyper-V Windows Cluster (with SQL Cluster on it), under Windows Failover Cluster??
thanks
