Hi,

win server 2016 installed on a new server.

One vm created, win server 2016 installed with updates, holds AD and WSUS services, works fine.

2nd vm creates, win server 2016 installed with updates, installed exchange server 2016 (CU13, AD roles were created)=> reboot.

After reboot of 2nd vm several issues on 2nd vm:

* win updates tries to install KB 4507459, runs until 99% (3 hours, and at 99% after reboot tells in startup blue screen "impossible de terminer les mises à jours, annulation des modifications") (means impossible to finish installing updates, rolling back updates). Retried several times, same failure each time. Why why why? How can I see what's wrong?

* worst but (perhaps related): at restart, in server manager, I immediatly  get an error:

 (online, faiure to recover data).

Task details shows that a service is not started... but I don't get any information/error code.

I can see a red flag in local server manager:

Several issues can be seen: unpossible to add roles

Error:

If I click on local server, I can see a lot of "inconnu" (unknown)



If I click on unknown near win defender, then button "open windows defender", I get an error message:

I an double click the file. Everything happens as if domain admin was not a local admin. or could not contact primary AD.

However I could log on. I can see AD users list. DNS and internet are fine.

Any hint?

Alain Bourgeois

Big mistake:

Big mistake: in active directory management center, domain computers, I deleted the wrong server (the one that has exchange).

The trash is not activated. Can I put it back in place?

Alain Bourgeois

Hi,

All my hyper-v vms are stopped and located in c:\vm.

I made a backup (copy) this afternoon of directory c:\vm\ad (holding a vm) to a NAS. The vm was turned off.

Now I made mistake and want to revert to my backup.

Problem: After restoring the folder I can't start the vm:

Any hint?

Thanks.

I tried to import the vm. It didn't work:

Alain Bourgeois

I'm trying to set up Hyper-V Replica between two Windows 2012 R2 hosts.   They are not part of a domain, but they do belong to the same workgroup.

On the secondary host, I enabled it as a Replica server and selected Kerberos for the authentication mode.  I also selected "Allow replication from any authenticated server".  I then ran the Enable Replication wizard on the primary server and went through the wizard.  After clicking Finish, I get a "Enabling replication failed" error dialog with this message:

     Hyper-V failed to enable replication.

     Hyper-V failed to authenticate using Kerberos authentication.

     Hyper-V failed to enable replication for virtual machine 'xxx': No credentials are available in the security package (0x8009030E).

    Hyper-V failed to authenticate the Replication server YYY using Kerberos authentication.  Error: No credentials are available in the security package (0x8009030E).

The one post I found that talked about this issue in a workgroup environment, http://www.chicagotech.net/win8&2012/replicaissue1.htm, suggested making sure that Everyone and Authenticated Users have permission to "Access this computer from the network" in local policies.  Did that on both machine and that didn't help.

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Richard

HyperV production checkpoint creation failing if VSS service is running, host OS is windows server 2016 STD with 2 Windows 2016 STD VMs on it. one of the VMs checkpoint creation is success (production and standard), where as the other is failing, but able to create the standard check point.

 production check point creation will stuck at 9% and create an Event ID 18012.

If we shutdown the VM then we are able to take the production checkpoint. Tried the below steps

moved the VM location, recreated the VM but no luck

But when we stopped the VSS we were able to take the production checkpoint. 

any help is appreciated. 

Hi All,

I had a Windows 7 Pro OS supporting my thin clients on which there was a hardware problem. The machine was on RAID 1 (Software RAID) on Intel Motherboard.

We removed the HDD and connected through a Windows 7 Machine and we were able to access the HDD. We used Disk2VHD app and converted the volume into VHD.

Now we had setup a Server 2012R2 on HyperV and attached this recovered  VHD to boot up the server. The server failed to boot. We tried to check the partition type and the same was MBR.

We tried windows boot repair on windows 7 and nothing worked as of now.

Can a way be suggested to fix this up.

THanks,

Vasanth

vaschell

Hi,

I have a win server 2016, 3 physical NICS.

I took 2 NICs and associated them in a nic team from local server, dynamic load balancing. It seems to work fine.

Then I used this NIC team interface as virtual switch to connect vm's.

I rebooted the computer. At reboot I can see in event log (system folder) a warning

---

event id 16945, source: MsLbfoSysEvtProvider

MAC conflict: A port on the virtual switch has the same MAC as one of the underlying team members on Team Nic Microsoft Network Adapter Multiplexor Driver.

---

Any hint?

Alain Bourgeois

Hi,

installed windows server 2016 in a hyperv vm running on win 2016.

windows Updates ok until update 2018-05 pack, reboot.

Then I added functionalities: dns server, AD, rebooted fine.

Then he downloaded cumulative update 2019-07, installed for 4 hours then gave an error message during installation (I didn't note the error code)and I am retrying, it will take some time.

To know what happens, I went to windows updates log, here is where the fun begins:

Windows PowerShell
Copyright (C) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. Tous droits réservés.

PS C:\Users\Administrateur.WIN-J0PCL6T9VCE> Get-WindowsUpdateLog

Converting C:\Windows\logs\WindowsUpdate into C:\Users\Administrateur.WIN-J0PCL6T9VCE\Desktop\WindowsUpdate.log ...


    Répertoire : C:\Users\ADMINI~1.WIN\AppData\Local\Temp\2\WindowsUpdateLog


Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
d-----         21-07-19     19:16                SymCache

Entrée
----------------
Fichier(s) :
     C:\Windows\logs\WindowsUpdate\WindowsUpdate.20190721.112531.174.1.etl
     C:\Windows\logs\WindowsUpdate\WindowsUpdate.20190721.112531.174.2.etl
     C:\Windows\logs\WindowsUpdate\WindowsUpdate.20190721.112531.174.3.etl
     C:\Windows\logs\WindowsUpdate\WindowsUpdate.20190721.152002.253.1.etl
     C:\Windows\logs\WindowsUpdate\WindowsUpdate.20190721.153652.990.1.etl
     C:\Windows\logs\WindowsUpdate\WindowsUpdate.20190721.153652.990.2.etl
     C:\Windows\logs\WindowsUpdate\WindowsUpdate.20190721.190122.040.1.etl

0.00%10.96%21.92%32.88%43.84%54.79%65.75%76.71%87.67%98.63%100.00%

Sortie
----------------
Fichier de vidage :           C:\Users\ADMINI~1.WIN\AppData\Local\Temp\2\WindowsUpdateLog\wuetl.CSV.tmp.00000

L'opération s'est bien déroulée.












WindowsUpdate.log written to C:\Users\Administrateur.WIN-J0PCL6T9VCE\Desktop\WindowsUpdate.log

file windowsupdate.log holds:

1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 980   1216                  Unknown( 10): GUID=638e22b1-a858-3f40-8a43-af2c2ff651a4 (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 980   1216                  Unknown( 11): GUID=bce7cceb-de62-3b09-7f4f-c69b1344a134 (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 980   1216                  Unknown( 11): GUID=638e22b1-a858-3f40-8a43-af2c2ff651a4 (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 980   1216                  Unknown( 50): GUID=6ffec797-f4d0-3bda-288a-dbf55dc91e0b (No Format Information found).

.....

1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   3420                  Unknown( 83): GUID=e26dfe10-35bf-3106-db9d-9a51a6a0981f (No Format Information found).

1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   3420                  Unknown( 67): GUID=aa4afd81-dd2a-3abc-4ed3-77bfe2faca92 (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   3420                  Unknown( 68): GUID=aa4afd81-dd2a-3abc-4ed3-77bfe2faca92 (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   3420                  Unknown( 55): GUID=aa4afd81-dd2a-3abc-4ed3-77bfe2faca92 (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   3420                  Unknown( 124): GUID=c0f570a0-5783-3029-7367-c7496f95e60c (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   3420                  Unknown( 83): GUID=e26dfe10-35bf-3106-db9d-9a51a6a0981f (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   3420                  Unknown( 10): GUID=aa4afd81-dd2a-3abc-4ed3-77bfe2faca92 (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   3420                  Unknown( 13): GUID=aa4afd81-dd2a-3abc-4ed3-77bfe2faca92 (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   3420                  Unknown( 83): GUID=e26dfe10-35bf-3106-db9d-9a51a6a0981f (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   3420                  Unknown( 128): GUID=c0f570a0-5783-3029-7367-c7496f95e60c (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   3420                  Unknown( 59): GUID=c0f570a0-5783-3029-7367-c7496f95e60c (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   3420                  Unknown( 83): GUID=e26dfe10-35bf-3106-db9d-9a51a6a0981f (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   3420                  Unknown( 34): GUID=7b9bf239-47b9-3688-3a9e-14f09f262608 (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   3420                  Unknown( 39): GUID=50a5ef43-b2b6-3c52-145b-a386d8769665 (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   3420                  Unknown( 38): GUID=50a5ef43-b2b6-3c52-145b-a386d8769665 (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   3488                  Unknown( 23): GUID=50a5ef43-b2b6-3c52-145b-a386d8769665 (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   2888                  Unknown( 275): GUID=c0f570a0-5783-3029-7367-c7496f95e60c (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   2888                  Unknown( 17): GUID=aa4afd81-dd2a-3abc-4ed3-77bfe2faca92 (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   2888                  Unknown( 18): GUID=6e582ce3-e96e-3f30-dd32-586c64e5ddfc (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   2888                  Unknown( 21): GUID=6e582ce3-e96e-3f30-dd32-586c64e5ddfc (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   2888                  Unknown( 283): GUID=c0f570a0-5783-3029-7367-c7496f95e60c (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   3420                  Unknown( 126): GUID=c0f570a0-5783-3029-7367-c7496f95e60c (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   1248                  Unknown( 83): GUID=e26dfe10-35bf-3106-db9d-9a51a6a0981f (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   1248                  Unknown( 66): GUID=c0f570a0-5783-3029-7367-c7496f95e60c (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   1248                  Unknown( 67): GUID=c0f570a0-5783-3029-7367-c7496f95e60c (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   1248                  Unknown( 56): GUID=e26dfe10-35bf-3106-db9d-9a51a6a0981f (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   1248                  Unknown( 83): GUID=e26dfe10-35bf-3106-db9d-9a51a6a0981f (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   1248                  Unknown( 57): GUID=e26dfe10-35bf-3106-db9d-9a51a6a0981f (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   1248                  Unknown( 10): GUID=f9a557ba-0523-3755-b92b-da168f727e06 (No Format Information found).
1601-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 408   1248                  Unknown( 58): GUID=e26dfe10-35bf-3106-db9d-9a51a6a0981f (No Format Information found).

Any hint?

Alain Bourgeois

Hi, 

Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V is that possible can be resize current disk .vhdx 500GB to 120GB ?

how I can resize it ? just know can extend. thanks.

VM has Recovery Checkpoint and I need to enable to replica. Is it is good to enable replica along with checkpoint. 

_ Ragav

Hi,

Is there a way to lock/unlock the VM so that VM is not migrated in cluster environment ? In-between the lock and unlock, i like to copy the files to another system and not get impacted with migration.

-Balu

I am attempting to access a Hyper-V Management Console from a Windows 10 Pro Version 10.0.18362 Build 18362. The Hyper-V Server is running on a Window Server 2012R2. I am getting the following message when I attempt to access the Hyper-V Server from my Windows 10 Pro workstation.

The workstation and the Server are on the same domain and the Server is a domain controller. I have the domain user as a local user on the workstation and in the Hyper-V administrator group and the user is on the Server in the Hyper-V administrator group. 

Looking at the Microsoft FAQ on Hyper-V the Windows 10 Pro Hyper-V MMC is backward compatable to Windows Server 2012R2.  

Can anyone help with this issue or did Microsoft break this with the latest version of Windows 10 Pro.

I have two Win2k8R2 SP1 x64 hyper-v VM's

They reside on a dedicated physical server at a hosting company.

The hosting company provided the VHD files that I used to create the VM's years ago.

As the VM's are in production, I would like to download backups of the VHD files (there are no snapshots) and perform in-place upgrades to Server 2012 and then to 2016.  Due to the complexity of what's on these VM's, migrating the content to a fresh OS is not an option.

The hosting company no longer supports Hyper-V, so they likely will not provide me with media to do the in-place upgrades.  For clarity: The hosting company will allow me to use Hyper-V, but they won't provide support for it.

My goal is to perform the in-place upgrades and then stand up the upgraded VM's on a fresh dedicated Server Datacenter 2016 hypervisor back at the hosting company. As I understand it the hosting company's Datacenter volume license will cover the guest VM's.

I tried performing the 2008 to 2012 upgrade using a Server 2102 R2 Evaluation ISO from Microsoft but it resulted in an error. Apparently a licensed Win2k8R2 VM cannot be upgraded to Win2012R2 using an Evaluation ISO.  I don't know if this is true.

My question is: How can I get the Server 2012R2 and 2016 media to perform the in-place upgrades?  And what if anything do I need to know about licensing as it pertains to the above scenario?

I have a VMM/Hyper-V cluster where, for historical reasons, we run Meinberg NTP on all the Hyper-V hosts, syncing to an external NTP time service.

Currently the external NTP time service is not working, so all the Hyper-V hosts are using their local onboard clock at Stratum 8 (which isNOT a GPS clock):

Checking current status of NTP service with ntpq -p
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
*LOCAL(0)        .LOCL.           8 l   22   64  377    0.000    0.000   0.000
 HOSTNAME        .XFAC.          16 u    -  128    0    0.000    0.000   0.000

The VM guests running on these hypervisors show that they're syncing time with the VMIC Provider at Stratum 1:

PS C:\windows\system32> w32tm /query /source
VM IC Time Synchronization Provider
PS C:\windows\system32> w32tm /query /status
Leap Indicator: 0(no warning)
Stratum: 1 (primary reference - syncd by radio clock)
Precision: -6 (15.625ms per tick)
Root Delay: 0.0000695s
Root Dispersion: 0.0100002s
ReferenceId: 0x564D5450 (source name:  "VMTP")
Last Successful Sync Time: 20/06/2019 1:06:00 AM
Source: VM IC Time Synchronization Provider
Poll Interval: 6 (64s)

I would have expected the VMIC provider to report Stratum 8. Does anyone know why the WMIC is reporting itself as Stratum 1? How can I change this behaviour?

Hi,

I bought a new server with a new win 2016 server standard installed and activated (I have valid a license key).On this server I Added the Hyper-V role, and I have rights to create 2 VM with win server 2016 each.

As I didn't receive any ISO, I downloaded from download.microsoft.com the win 22016 standard evaluation ISO (14393.0.161119-1705.RS1_REFRESH_SERVER_EVAL_X64FRE_FR-FR.iso).

I created 2 vm's, both activated automatically but limited to 180 days (it is displayed on the screen). I would like to type the product key to convert the evaluation license into a permanent license.Problem: The license key used on the server not accepted.

Do I have to install win server 2016 from another .iso (where can I download it?)? POr do I receive other licese keys? The server reseller doesn't know.

Please help!!!!!

Alain Bourgeois

Hi everyone,

I want to simulate 2 clients behind NATs connecting to a public server. For that i created 5 hyper-v under the same host.

I created 3 privates virtuals switch to simulate the 3 distincts network: C1Priv, C2Priv and FakeInternet

Client_1 is on C1Priv, Client_2 is on C2Priv and Server is on FakeInternet. For the routing i created 2 hyper-v with 2 network devices, NAT_1 on C1Priv and FakeInternet, NAT_2 on C2Priv and FakeInternet.

Client_1, Client_2 and Server are running windows 10. Both NATs run PFSense, the FakeInternet being the WAN side, i removed the rules blocking entering packets.

I cannot put an image until my account is verified, so here is the ips setup:

Client_1 192.168.1.1/24 -->   192.168.1.254/24  NAT_1  192.168.3.2/24

                                                                                                                      192.168.3.1/24 Server

Client_2 192.168.2.1/24 -->   192.168.2.254/24  NAT_2  192.168.3.3/24

My problem is that none of the hyper-v on the FakeInternet can ping another machine. I did set static IPs so they are on the same subnet. Did i miss something ? Tell me if you need further informations, thanks for your help.

We have a two clustered W2016 Hyper-V hosts, every couple of days one of the hosts gets stuck when the backup kicks off. In Hyper-V manager the VMs all say 'Creating checkpoint 9%' It's always the same percentage 9%. You can't cancel the operation and the VMMS service refuses to stop, the only way to get out of the mess is to shutdown the VMs, and hard reset the effected node. The backup works for a few days then it all starts again.

The only events I can see on the effected node is:

Event ID: 19060 source: Hyper-V-VMMS

'VMName' failed to perform the 'Creating Checkpoint' operation. The virtual machine is currently performing the following operation: 'Creating Checkpoint'.

Can anybody help please? Cluster validation is clean. Hosts and guests are patched up.

Hello Guys,

I am trying to do a script to take all the VMs from a specific CSV (Cluster Shared Volme) and the VHD attached to them. 

My script look like:

Get-SCVirtualMachine -VMMServer VMMServerName -all | where{$_.location -like ‘C:\ClusterStorage\VolumeX’} | Select-Object Name,Location, @{N="Capacity(GB)";E={[math]::Round($_.TotalSize/ 1GB)}}

The output is good but the only problem is with the VMs that have more the 1 VHD disk. I have VMs with multiple VHD disks on multimple CSV LUNs.

EX: VM x has a disk on CSV1 and a disk on CSV2 and i need to get only the disk size from CSV1. In my script I get object TotalSize and because of that i get a sum of the 2 disks.

I did some research on google and i found the command Get-VHD and i have modify my script like this:

$VMs= Get-SCVirtualMachine -VMMServer VMMServerName -all | where{$_.location -like ‘C:\ClusterStorage\VolumeX’} 
foreach ($VM in $VMs) {
Get-VHD | Select-Object Name,Location, @{N="Capacity(GB)";E={[math]::Round($_.TotalSize/ 1GB)}}
}

But when i run it i get the message: Path[0]:

What i am doing wrong?

Thanks!