We have 2 server at our building and we would like to upgrade them to newer more recent machines. 

Currently, Server1 is acting as the Domain Controller and Sage DB server. Server2 is the Terminal Server/RDS which usually have about 20-30 people online at once. What we like to do is split Server1 into 2 VM on a new machine, VM1 and VM2. We would also like to be able to convert Server2 into VM3 sometime later.

Here are the specs of the servers and their resource usage:

Server1 (DC+DB)

PowerEdge 2900 Windows Server 2003

Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5130 @ 2.00GHz x1 (4C/4T total)

4GB RAM

Resource Usage: 30-60% CPU, 30-40% RAM

Server2 (TS/RDS)

PowerEdge R410 Windows Server 2008 R2

Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5630 @ 2.53GHz x2 (8C/16T total)

32GB RAM

Resource Usage: 30%-60% CPU, 60-85% RAM

Seeing as we are able to run both the DC and DB role on a very old machine, I take it would be no problem to split the role and virtualize two VM on new machine with new OS. What if I add the TS to the VM as well, would it be able to handle the load just fine?

What specs are the minimum and recommended to handle just the DC and DB virtual machine? And what specs are the minimum and recommended to handle all 3 as virtual machines? This will all be on WS2016. Please include processor, memory, hard drive types, and raid configuration, and any other information. Thanks

Hi,

I have a new Hyper-V environment using Windows 2016 Standard and have run into an issue with restarting the VM's from the start menu inside the VM.

The VM will start the restart process but when it has finished stopping the services it shuts down and does not restart unless I manually start the VM from the Hyper-V console.

Thanks in advance

Bill

Hi,

I am new to Windows Servers. I rented a dedicated server that came with the option of installing Windows Hyper-V at no additional cost. The installed version is Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 (64bits)   

When I remote desktop connect to it, I see only two command line windows open: a regular command line, opened as Administrator, with Windows Powershell capabilities. And a Server Configuration command line window. No GUI, no Start button, nothing else.

I tried to install the latest version of UniTrends Free, and it told me that I needed to first install the 3.5 version of the .NET framework. 

I was able to download that version of .NET framework to my local computer, but I have no idea how to upload it to the server. Nor do I have any idea how to download it from Microsoft's web site directly to the server.

Civilized operating systems such as Linux have the curl command which enable their happy users to download packages directly from the internet by supplying the URL of where to find such packages. Is there such an option in Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 ?

If not, what options to I have ?

I watched one introductory video on YouTube about Hyper-V, but the presenter starts by showing the Server Manager GUI. I don't seem to have that. I typed ServerManager in the command line mentioned above, but I got an error message indicating that Windows did not recognize such command.

Once again, please keep in mind that I am using a free version of Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 (64bits)

The same company that I got my dedicated server from charges $25/month for a standard Windows Server 2012 edition, but is not charging me anything (other than my sanity) for the version that I have.

Thanks in advance.

I have installed a windows 2016 server and added hyper-v to it. I configured the virtual switch all needed to install a virtual computer. I am trying to install a Bitdefender server which I think runs on a Linux environment. I have tried to DHCP the network card and hard code it also. It never gets a DHCP address. when I put an address in I can ping the host system, but nothing on the network. I can also ping it from a workstation in the network.

Thanks very much

Kevin

Kevin

Hello everybody,

When using an external SAN (Such as NetApp or EMC) with Hyper-V 2016 - Is there a clear reccomendation to use REFS instead of NTFS? Are there any support issues we should be concerned about? Are there any clear guidelines from Microsoft about this?

Thanks is advance to all the repliers.

I am setting up a Hyper-V Lab and I am stuck on getting the switching/routing to work.

The machine I will be using as host is a Windows 10 Desktop Computer with Hyper-V Installed.

I know I need an external switch to get internet access to lab, but I only want my Domain Controller to get internet access and server out DHCP/DNS to my workstation clients and then other servers in lab will be static IP with Internet access.  I am having trouble accomplishing this and am looking for simple guidance.

Thanks!

Hello

As always I have a hard time deciding in which forum to post, so feel free to move if there is a better option.

I have a Hyper-V client that I got here:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines

Now I need to be able to create a Virtual smart card on this machine. (tpmvscmgr.exe  create /name tpmvsc /pin default /adminkey random /generate)

However I get:

Creating TPM Smart Card...
TPM Virtual Smart Card management cannot be used within a Terminal Services session.
        (0x800704d3) The request was aborted.

If I enter tpm.msc on the machine it says:

Compatible TPM cannot be found

It works on my local machine and the cards created there can be found in the virtual machine. How to do so I can create them in my hyper-V?

VMMS Account does not have sufficient privilege to open attachment ".....\SRVVirt.vhd"

I am logged in as administrator, Services ara running with following accounts :

Hyper-V Image Management Service - Network Service

Hyper-V Networking Management Service - Local System

Hyper-V Virtual machine managemet - Local System

Operating system is clear installation of Windows Server Standard 2008 RTM with Hyper-V

Installed roles :

Application server

File Services

Hyper-V

Web Server

any suggestions on how to overcome this issue and get the hypervisor running would be greatly appreciated.

thanks.

Radek

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Hi,

I have two identical physical servers: 8 core Xeon with HT, 96 GB RAM, 2 x OS SSDs in RAID 1, 4 x 4 TB HDs, 2 x 180 GB SSDs, dual 10GbE NICs, and 6 x 1 Gbps NICs. Each server has Server 2016 Data Center with Desktop Experience installed on the RAID 1 SSDs.

I want to configure this hardware into a Hyper-V cluster that does fail-over whilst also using S2D as the data storage mechanism, and I have some questions. The 4 x 4 TB will form the storage area for S2D on each server with the 2 x 180 GB SSDs being the S2D cache. These 6 HDs are configured as pass-through in each server's BIOS.

1) Does the Server 2016 Data Center OS that are acting as the Hyper-V hosts have to be attached to a domain to do Hyper-V clustering? I really want to set this up in the lab before getting it to the customer and then attaching the Hyper-V guests to the domain. But I'd rather leave the Hyper-V hosts off the domain.

2) Am I right in thinking I can achieve what I want with Hyper-V clustering and S2D? I imagine the S2D will give me storage space on each physical server through the Hyper-V host, and also replicate itself over to the other server. So when I have my Hyper-V guests stored on the S2D space I will have a resilient infrastructure that can quickly deal with a physical server going down (the dead server's data will be on the other server's S2D space, and the Hyper-V host easily be able to spin up the VMs that were running on the dead server).

3) When setting this up, should I be configuring the Hyper-V clustering first, or the S2D first?

4) I have 2 x 10 GbE NICs on each server, and a switch with 4 x 10 GbE ports on. Should I use both 10 GbE ports on the Hyper-V hosts for S2D replication. or one for S2D replication and one for something else like RDMA?

There's not that much good documentation out there atm. A lot of stuff refers to technical previews of Server 2016 which has since changed. A lot talks about CSV but not S2D. The stuff that talks about S2D doesn't talk about Hyper-V failover, etc.

Thank you for reading.

I create a new virtual machine and connected with one of existing virtual switch.

Virtual machine which was before connected to this virtual switch is still visible in HvConect.

Is there any way to remove it from list in HvConect.

Thanks

Batocanin

Server is 2016 Standard w/ Hyper-V role.

Using Dell Appasure (Now Quest Rapid Restore) backup/imaging software I had to convert a physical server which failed to a VM.  Essentially performing a physical to virtual conversion with "virtual standby" tools inside of Rapid Restore.

VM came online fine and all is running well, but I noticed the system disk and data disk of the VM are both dynamic with differencing disks being used.  The disk properties of the VM for system and data both point to separate differencing disks.

I would like to convert these disks to just fixed disks but am not sure how to proceed.  I've searched and found a few articles but still not clear on how to accomplish this and worried I may lose changes or data saved in the differencing disk in the process.

I also need to expand the data disk which I'm assuming I can do after converting to fixed.

Any help or pointers to resources is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance for any help.

<p>Hey Guys,</p><p>I have Hyper v 2008 R2 and the windows server 2008 is running as VM on the Hyper V. There is some space issue going on my Host so i would like to merge the AVHD files to VHD to gain some space.

there is AVHD files for OS vhd and as well as for the Data VHD. Please suggest what can be done to merge and clear the Whitespaces from VHD. Can i make the Merging of VHD while VM Is up and running.

Thank you please advice me here.

thanks.

With Error Messages:

Error (415)
Agent installation failed copying C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012 R2\Virtual Machine Manager\agents\I386\3.2.7510.0\msiInstaller.exe to \\HyperVCluster.MGMT.COM\ADMIN$\msiInstaller.exe.
The network path was not found

Recommended Action
1. Ensure HyperVCluster.MGMT.COM is online and not blocked by a firewall. 
2. Ensure that file and printer sharing is enabled on HyperVCluster.MGMT.COM and it not blocked by a firewall. 
3. Ensure that WMI is enabled on HyperVCluster.MGMT.COM and it is not blocked by firewall. 
4. Ensure that there is sufficient free space on the system volume. 
5. Verify that the ADMIN$ share on HyperVCluster.MGMT.COM exists. If the ADMIN$ share does not exist, reboot HyperVCluster.MGMT.COM and then try the operation again.


Warning (10444)
The VMM management server was unable to impersonate the supplied credentials.

Recommended Action
To add a host in a disjointed domain namespace, ensure that the credentials are valid and of a domain account. In addition, the SCVMMService must run as the local system account or a domain account with sufficient privileges to be able to impersonate other users.

Those are below where I try so far but still not luck, I've install SCVMM in DNS machine and open without problem and able connect to other machine(non-cluster):

1. I've disable all firewall in both DNS server and cluster machine and register domain connection from cluster machine to DNS machine.

2. Create a share of C:\Windows (where C:\ProgramData) in cluster to allowed DNs write those settings on that folder.

Hopefully someone could help me upon this problem.Thanks a million.

I started to work on my server migration project 10 days ago.  For the best result, I converted the physical server into virtual machine first, then migrate it to the new Windows Server 2016 Standard (with desktop GUI).  The old server is Windows Server 2008 domain controller.  After I copy the VHD and set up as virtual machine in the Windows Server 2016.  In Hyper-V Manager, after I started up and login the server, there is no "Insert Hyper-V Integration Service Disc" option in Action menu.  I search but not found C:\Windows\System32\vmguest.iso .  All Windows updates are applied as of today, included KB3206632 (Dec 2016). I set up another Windows 2016 Server with Hyper-V role, the result is the same.

Since the virtual machine is Windows Server 2008 domain controller, I cannot start it up successfully without install the Integration Service disc.  At the end, I re-installed the computer with Windows Server 2012R2 with Hyper-V to do the migration.

Hi all,

What I'm trying may not feasible, but I thought I'd ask here in a last ditch effort. I've exhaustively searched everywhere for a solution to my problem, but nothing has worked for me.

For some background:

Host OS: Windows 10 Pro

I've installed all the Hyper-V components and Configured RemoteFX for the Hyper-V Manager as well as the Guest OS.

Guest OS: Windows 7 Pro SP1

Guest OS has been updated to with RDP 8.1 protocol support.

I'm able to remote in fine without RemoteFX device installed on the Guest VM.

When I install it and reboot, RDP hangs on `Estimating Connection Quality` and then I receive this error:

"The remote session was disconnected because there were network problems during the licensing protocol."

I have tried multiple installs and many different suggestions by others with similar issues to no avail.

Experience settings are set to `Lan/10Mb/s` etc..

I've installed the latest version of the integration tools.

It appears to work correctly with a Windows 10 Guest OS, but I'm needing to use Windows 7 in this scenario.

From what I've read, this configuration SHOULD work.

Can anyone shed some light or at least point me in the right direction?

Much Appreciated!

I have been tasked with deploying Windows 10 on Hyper-V on Windows 10 Enterprise for a small group of testers to use to test Office 365 environments. I ma fairly new at this. 

My predecessor had created a USB drive which contained the following:

1.  Windows 7 Base Image (sysprepped)

2.  An unattend.xml file

3.  An Executable that basically starts Batch Script which in turn starts a PowerShell script.  

4.  A folder containing a PowerShell and Batch script

The PowerShell script is pretty great:

It does a bunch of checks (usb drive name, proper cred's, windows 10 installed, verifies naming scheme with company policies) before checking for hyper-v and turning that on if missing.  It then creates a modified version of the pc name based on computer script is run on and adds VM.  Then is copies the template hard drive (#1 above) and the unattend.xml.  It then adds the user credentials provided by user to the unattend.  Next it mounts the hard drive and copies the modified unattend, and then dismounts drive.  A virtual switch is created, the hard drive is renamed according to naming standards, and the vm is created and started.  It works really, really well for the Windows 7 image.

I am trying to convert this to do the exact same thing for Windows 10 and having issues.  

I have a VM that is set up like I want and I sysprep it. I need to copy a VHDX file, but it seems to me that a avhdx file is created.

Where is the basic directions for doing this located?    

Matt Dillon

Hi

2 fysical hosts running Windows 2012r2 with all windows updates/hyper-v patches.

Today i updated both host servers with newer broadcom nic drivers. 2 nics are used to iSCSI and 4 nics for all other hyper-v traffic. Before updating the first server, i drained all rules, so the second server had all guests running.

Updated nic drivers, rebooted, undrained all roles and then drained the second host server. Same procedure.

After both hosts was updated with new nic drivers and running normally, I noticed all my guest (both windows and linux) had rebooted. Just like if i did a hard reset from hyper-V.

This has not happened before, where I live migrated machines.

Any idea why the below happened?

Host2 Eventlog when host1 server was paused:
Cluster node 'Host1' was removed from the active failover cluster membership. The Cluster service on this node may have stopped. This could also be due to the node having lost communication with other active nodes in the failover cluster. Run the Validate a Configuration wizard to check your network configuration. If the condition persists, check for hardware or software errors related to the network adapters on this node. Also check for failures in any other network components to which the node is connected such as hubs, switches, or bridges.

Ownership of cluster disk 'Quorum Disk' has been unexpectedly lost by this node. Run the Validate a Configuration wizard to check your storage configuration.

Cluster resource 'Quorum Disk' of type 'Physical Disk' in clustered role 'Cluster Group' failed.

The Cluster service failed to bring clustered role 'Cluster Group' completely online or offline. One or more resources may be in a failed state. This may impact the availability of the clustered role.

Clustered role 'Cluster Group' has exceeded its failover threshold.  It has exhausted the configured number of failover attempts within the failover period of time allotted to it and will be left in a failed state.  No additional attempts will be made to bring the role online or fail it over to another node in the cluster.  Please check the events associated with the failure.  After the issues causing the failure are resolved the role can be brought online manually or the cluster may attempt to bring it online again after the restart delay period.

The Cluster service failed to bring clustered role 'Cluster Group' completely online or offline. One or more resources may be in a failed state. This may impact the availability of the clustered role.

regards

robert

I have Hyper-v replication enabled and on the replica server some files with the VHDX names that I currently have are been duplicated but with the extension VHDX.TMP "myvhdx.VHDX.TMP".
Can I delete them?
for what they are needed?

I did search across the web and didn't find much about the issue, also on msdn there is no reference about .vhdx.tmp file types.