Hyper-V 2012 R2 Failover Cluster - Moving Disk Failed

July 16, 2016, 11:54 am

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Hi,

I'm in the process of upgrading my hyper-v cluster hardware. We've been running a two node cluster for 5 years and the HP DL380 G7 are nearing EOL, so we bought 2 new HP DL 380 G9, connected them to the PS2000, added them to the cluster and everything is working. I can live migrated between all 4 nodes, back and forth no problem. The next is to evict the old DL 380 G7 nodes from the cluster, but before I do that I wanted to move all disks to one of the new nodes. This is where I get this error:

[Window Title]
Error

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The operation has failed

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The action 'Move' did not complete.

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Error Code: 0x8007174b

Clustered storage is not connected to the node

What's even stranger is that the new node are hosting some of the disks already (I assume they were automatically moved there, I didn't move any disk prior to this).

Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

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Is it possible to set up VM LAN with VM spanning across multiple hosts?

July 16, 2016, 2:52 pm

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I have set up a test environment with 3 physical servers. My goal is to have virtual machines across all of them, which can communicate between one another as well as hosts themselves. All of the 3 servers have windows server 2012 installed and hyper-v enabled. LAN connection is setup between the 3 hosts and whenever I create an external vswitch using the network card which connects the host to LAN, the LAN connection ceases to function properly. Perhaps there is some articles or blogs that could help me get on the right way?

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Hyper-V Vlan Issue

July 17, 2016, 5:03 pm

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I am doing some testing/Learning. I have a PC set up with 3 VMs in Hyper-v all 3 VMs are running Server 2016 TP 5. I have one set up running DNS and Active Directory, and the Other is set up with DHCP and RRAS The 3rd just has server set up and I have assigned a VLAN identifier to it. All 3 VMs are on a Hyper-V Private Virtual Switch so they are on their own Isolated Network so I can mess around and learn on it. I have 2 DHCP Scopes set up and I'm trying to figure if I can get Vlans to work with this when I have the 3rd VM set up for VLAN identification It will never pull an IP from my DHCP Scope. If I turn VLANID off it will Pull an IP from my Main Scope. I have Tried setting up Nic Teaming and Creating an Interface that is Assigned to that Vlan but cant seem to Figure it out or if its even Possible in Hyper-V to build this Completely Vitural or not.

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Use Disk2vHD P2V Server 2003 R2 Standard SP2 64bit, mount in Hyper V 2012 server display error loading operation system

July 18, 2016, 1:17 am

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Hi all,

I have used Disk2vHD V2.1 to P2V Server 2003 R2 Standard SP2 64bit, after added vHD file in Hyper V 2012 Server, it's showed error loading operation system, anybody call tell me how to do?

Thanks,

Stanley

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2012 R2 guest hangs at hyper-v logo

April 29, 2015, 6:05 am

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Windows Server 2012 R2 Host with GUI.

Windows Server 2012 R2 Guest with GUI.

When the guest is turned on, it gets to the Hyper-V log with the spinning circle and goes no further. The circle continues to spin. After rebooting the guest three times, the recovery console comes up. I can also enter the recovery console using the Windows Server 2012 R2 DVD/ISO.

ChkDsk says the disk is fine.

SCF /SCANNOW/ /OFFDIR /OFFWINDIR did fix some files but that didn't help.

I have reason to believe the last round of MS updates hosed the guest. Are there any boot logs I can check to see where boot is failing?

JamesNT

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Slow 10gb 2012 R2 Hyper-V Live Migration

March 19, 2014, 9:52 am

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Hello everyone!

I have an issue that I can't figure out and I'm hoping someone can get a new idea or set of eyes on this problem. I'm going to try and be as detailed as possible... but please ask any questions if I left anything out.

Basically I'm having an issue where i'm not getting the full 10gb transfers (or even close) when doing a Hyper-v move between hosts using 10gb nics. I get 2.5gbps if i'm lucky. These servers are not in production yet and are just being used to test a setup before being rolled out.

I have two similar but not identical Dell Poweredge R910 servers.

The two hosts have 2012 R2 Datacenter with only the Hyper-V Role installed. All updates, firmware and manufactures drivers applied, down to the bios, nics and raid cards as well.

I have installed one Intel X540-T1 10gbe card in each server in a x8 slot. I have these two cards connected via a straight RJ45 Cat6 patch cable (no switch, no crossover). The cable is 3ft long. I have hyper-v setup to use this as a live migration network by adding the nics ip's in each host under live migrations.

Storage is local between each server a mix of 10K Raid10 and Enterprise class SSD disks. When doing disk to disk (same server) transfers of large file I see up to 900MBps on SSD's so i don't think the storage is a bottleneck.

When I do a live migration move between hosts I get between 2-2.5gbps transfer speeds using this link.

I ran iperf between the two servers and consistently get between 6-6.5gbps so I know these cards are at least working close to their rated speed. I would have thought these tests should be closer to 10gbps though.

Not sure how to troubleshoot this. I have changed the nic setting to enable/disable VMQ, I have enabled/disabled jumbo packets as well as a bunch of other nic settings in an attempt to narrow this down. Nothing really seems to speed this connection up. I have also disabled the c states and c1e in the bios and set everything to maximum performance with no change in speed.

I have tried 3 different patch cables including a non supported 5e patch cable (just to see if the speed degraded) and the speeds stayed the same.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Running unsupported OSs on Hyper-V - MSDOS with graphics

February 4, 2014, 7:54 pm

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I was in a MOC classroom, talking about hyper-v and its capabilities to run several OSs, inclusing unsupported OSs. SO i´ve tried and succeded installing Solaris 10/11, NetBSD, FreebSD and others (all using text install and modes)

I´ve installed MS-DOS 6.22 under Hyper-V and a basic install works well (anyway, what MS-DOS have to be considered so complex?!?)

But i tried to run old games (very very old ones) like frog, zaxxon and others. None of then worked. Why is that? There is a difference in the graphic mode for MS-DOS and other OSs?

The worst part was not being able to run "Prince Of Persia" with the message "program to big to fit in memory", even doing all config.sys stuff to allow 720KB of RAM!(-:

Windows for Workgroups 3.11 could´t be installed also, because the setups/config doesd not alow mouse/keybord input in the VM

There is a way to install WFW3.11 and/or run MS-DOS old games under Hyper-v? (i know, all of then runs on DOSBOX, but i´m talking about to run under hyper-v, i heard about it will be possible to do all this stuff in virtual BOx and Vmware)

I weird way could be install virtual PC inside the Hyper-V, but it will be very very odd...

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High ping latency on Windows Server 2012 virtual machine on Hyper-v

April 18, 2013, 7:50 am

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Hello team,

I've been experienced an issue that is affected the performance of my environment. I have the following scenario:

1 - Server Dell R720

1 - SAN DELL MD3220i

1 - Switch Cisco 3750G

As the picture shows, I just have a switch, I'm pretty know that the recommended setting is with two switches, however I just have one of them. A personal of Cisco has configured this device with different vlan's so that means that the connection between the storage and the host works so nice.

The problem is the latency that the virtual machines are experiencing. I have Windows Server 2012 and I'm using Hyper-v to virtualize my virtual machines.

Does anyone know which parameters May I need to modify, enable or disable on Windows Server 2012 - Hyper V to work fine?

I would appreciate your help in this regard!

Thank you in advance!

Regards,

Paul Mendoza.

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Win Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V UEFI boot from WDS failed. (Integrated mode only).

October 29, 2013, 11:33 am

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Hi, here is what's going on: Gen 2 UEFI boot works fine only in Standalone mode. But in AD integrated mode - PXE only. Any ideas? There's my settings and boot screen below:

Boot Screen

Vadim

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Migrate Cluster Hyper-V 2012 to 2012 R2

July 19, 2016, 11:07 am

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I have the followingscenario:
•I have aHyper-Vclustercomprised ofthreephysicalservers, the three memberswithWindowsServer 2012.
•numberNode 1does not run anyvirtualmachine.

•Nodenumber 2,running25 virtualmachines.
•Nodenumber3,runs25vitualemachines

My question is:
•Can Iupgradenode 1 to Windows Server2012R2,then movethevirtualnode 2tonode 1,and thenupgrade toR2node 2,and finishmovingvirtual machinesfromnode 3to node 2andupgrade R2?

•Is this possible withoutcreating a secondcluster?

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Instances of Msvm_DiskMergeSettingData have instance ids only from Msvm_ComputerSystem class?

July 20, 2016, 3:40 am

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When I list instance of this class, I only see instances whose InstanceID corresponds with those of instances in Instances only from Msvm_ComputerSystem class.

There are no Msvm_DiskMergeSettingData instances whose instance ids are from Msvm_PlannedComputerSystem (If I have a Msvm_PlannedComputerSystem instance also). How can entries for Msvm_DiskMergeSettingData which have instance ids of Msvm_PlannedComputerSystem be created?

Can ModifyDiskMergeSettings API be used to disable disk merge behavior on planned VM instances, before realizing them?Or can it only be used for realized VMs too?

- NYA

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Firewall case with hyperv ipv4 forwarding

July 20, 2016, 4:40 am

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Hello

I have Hyperv machine where we added couple of VM windows base. From HyperV host we set ipv4 forwarding in registry. Everything is working fine between Host and VMs, but once we enable Windows firewall in VM machine then VM no longer access from outside network.

We have Bypass all port against IP addresses using by VM for inbound and outbound in HyperV host, but are unable to locate why VM stop responding from outside network.

Note: Firewall is enabled on HyperV host and this machine is working fine.

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Low Internet Performance with 400MB Internet Speed - Hyper-v, VMQ, RSS, PRAS Nating

July 20, 2016, 4:17 am

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Hallo everyone,

In the last couple of weeks we bought a new Internet Cable with 400MB/s and we are facing a problem while downloading anything from the internet or from our FTP Server.

Here are the full used Settings:

0) VM is being used as Default Gateway by using PRAS for Nating.

1) The VM is WS2012R2 , while the Host is Hyper-v 2012 r2

2) The Modem is connected directly to the VM with a static IP from the ISP.

3) 2 Network adapters are didicated for the VM. The 1st is for Public Internet with static public IP ( connected to the Modem) and the 2nd is forPrivate local network (connected to our Network).

4) Network Card is Intel I350-T4 1 GB (VMQ supported and DMA Supported).

The problem is when I connect the modem directly to a client, the downlaod speed will be high 25 to 30 MB/s (depending on the website). While when I using our Gateway with the above settings the speed will drop gradually to 2 MB/s and will stay at this speed.

I have tried to work a little bit with VMQ and RSS but no results. Here is what I have tried:

First the Server specification is : 2 AMD CPU 4 Cores = 2 SOckets, 8Cores and 8 Logical Processirs

Enable VMQ in Host (Hyper-v Server)

Enable RSS in Guest (VM)

Tried to set the VMQ Base and Max processor for the 2 Network Adapters through the 8 cores but didn't see any difference.

For example:

Set-NetAdapterVmq -Name "NetAdapter_Public" -BaseProcessorNumber 1 -MaxProcessors 8

Set-NetAdapterVmq -Name "NetAdapter_Private" -BaseProcessorNumber 5 -MaxProcessors 8

Note: I have tested the Internet on a Test Server with Hyper-V installed as Host and WS2012R2 VM as Gateway and it did workimmediately without problems.

The VMQ is until now really complicated for me and for sure I'm missing something. I will be gratefull if someone can go through the decryption above and help me to find a solution.

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Failover cluster mgmt move server between nodes fails

July 20, 2016, 2:07 am

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Goodmorning everyone.

When i try to move a server on the failovercluster management i get the following error

Live migration of 'Virtual Machine IMG-FS02' failed

Virtual machine migration operation for 'IMG-FS02' failed at migration source 'IMG-VM02'. (Virtual machine ID 0BC31068-18FF-467A-8FD3-0CEEC9613711)

'IMG-FS02' failed to delete configuration: The request is not supported. (0x80070032). (Virtual machine ID 0BC31068-18FF-467A-8FD3-0CEEC9613711)

So any one a solution?

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Is it true that "Dynamic disks are not good candidates for high disk I/O activity"?

July 20, 2016, 6:37 am

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In book "Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V - Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform" of Zahir Hussain Shah,

authors wrote "Dynamic disks are not good candidates for high disk I/O activity".

If it is true so why in powershell new-vm command we an only create dynamic disk. No option to select fixed disk?

If default option is dynamic disk it looks like Microsoft suggest alllways creating dynamic disks, not fixed VHD disks.

Kind Regards Tomasz

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Hyper-V Bios Serial modification in Windows 10

July 20, 2016, 9:06 am

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Does anyone know a method for changing the Bios Serial number in the updated Hyper-V .VCMX format? Our OSD uses the Serial number in our naming convention so in the past we have modified the .xml files to create a unique serial that was short enough that it would correctly name the PC. I have found no way to address or modify the bios serial in the new format.

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Setting up a server with Windows Server, Hyper-V, SQL Server, etc.

July 20, 2016, 3:02 pm

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Hello,

I posted this question in another forum and was advised to re-post it in each subject/topic forem - Windows Server; Hyper-V; SQL Server.

My employer provides an MSDN license, so I have that abundant resource available.

I just ordered a small server (Xeon, 4GB, 1TB, no os) for my playground (planning on more RAM, possibly another hard drive).

I have a basic understanding of Windows. My job requires knowledge and support of Windows, virtual (is this Hyper-V?), cloud, SQL Server, Active Directory, Office, etc.

My plan is to build a server that I can use for hands-on experience with Microsoft applications. Just for me; not in a corporate production environment. Nothing like self-provided on-the-job training.

My question is where/how to start? Assumption being that I can download Windows and other applications via MSDN.

Looking for suggestions on the order to install; best practices on configuration; on-line courses; certifications.

Pretty much any words of advice are most appreciated!

Thanks for helping and getting me on the path to success!

Donald

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vhdx file - free space at the end. How to decrease the physical size

July 22, 2015, 12:56 pm

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Hi,

A vhdx file was splited to tree logical disk in the past:
c: <-- approximately 80GB
d: <-- approximately 250GB
e: <-- approximately 250GB
and the total physical size is 537GB

Than the logical disk e: was deleted ("delete logical drive" in disk management).

How to decrease the physical size of the vhdx file ?

Is it possible ?

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