Installing SLES 11 SP2 on Hyper-V
Hi, I'm attempting to install SLES 11 SP2 as a guest on on Hyper-V (Windows Server 2008 R2). I've created a 40GB ide drive in hyper-v manager for this install and assigned 4gb of RAM to the guest. When...
View ArticleMissing VHD's After network card re-install
Guys, I have a very puzzling situation , and was wondering if anyone could point in me in the right direction. I installed a new dual port network adaptor into me M610 blade server yesterday. I had a...
View Articleserver 2012 not compacting vhdx files
I have a couple of vhdx files on a 2012 RC host. One had deduplication run in the guest which cut down the used space from 250 gb to 125 gb. Compacting it ends in 3 seconds and it doesn't shrink at...
View ArticleLive Migration takes 30-40 minutes.
Environment 2008R2SP1 2 node cluster with a MD3000i as backend storage. Dell PE905 AMD procs and 32 Gigs Mem a piece Networks as follows (4 Ports per Host Broadcom with latest Driver and firmware) TOE...
View ArticleDPM fails to backup VM's in singe Hyper-V node (After network went down)
Hi all, I've got a bit of a strange problem. DPM 'suddenly' stopped backing up all VM's on a single node of the Hyper-V cluster, and they all fail with the same errors (will be listed below). The DPM...
View ArticleWindows server 2008 R2 Standard Server role limitations
how to install an Active Directory and TFS in a single server? is it possible to run these in the same machine simultaneously? we have bought a Server 2008 R2 Standard edition. Is there a limitation of...
View ArticleEnabling the “interrupt coalescing” for VMQ
Hi, following the guidance in this article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg162696(v=ws.10) I wanted to enable the "Interrupt Coalescing". However it seems I'll be significantly reducing...
View ArticleHYper-V and backup (VSS question)
Hi folksJust to confirm something I see on my server - I have three Windows Server 2008 guests, one Windows XP SP3 guest, one Windows Server 2003 SP2 guest and one CentOS guest (running trixbox).When...
View ArticleIs there a simple "configuration utility" available?
I've got a couple hyper-v deployments coming up. As a "visual" kind of guy, I would *love* to have a tool where I can plug in things like number/capacity of physical disks, amount of ram, what vm's I...
View ArticleDo I need to create a new external virtual network?
I have installed Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 with 2 Child Partitions as Server 2008 R2 and Server 2008 SP2 x32bit. The Hyper-V Server installs an External Virtual Network by default and when I installed...
View ArticleHyper-V Question - DMZ Related
I have one Hyper-V server with 4 physical NICs in it. I have one VM that I need to put in my DMZ and 3 that are on my local LAN. Everything seems to be working correctly, except that I have cannot...
View ArticleHyper V VMMS Error Event ID 10101 & 10102
Hi I am running to VM on a hyper V core server, with each vm having to vhd attached. when i backup the vm's with windows server backup i get the following errors Failed to create the backup of virtual...
View ArticleHyper-V 2008 R2 Guest VM NIC becomes disabled
I have windows 2008 R2 Datacentre running with Hyper-V. A windows 2003 R2 guest VM sometimes has the NIC connectivity drop out, and it seems to become disabled. Has no network connectivity outside. Not...
View ArticleHow many virtual servers can be created using Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
Can someone tell me if you can use Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard to create virtual servers with Hyper-V and if so how many can be created? Thank you,Keith Naccarato knaccarato@live.com 845-382-9494...
View ArticleMigration of SAN volumes on a Hyper-V cluster
Hello all, i'm planning a storage migration from an older SAN to a new model. The SAN's involved in this are both HP, where the older one (and the one it's working right now) its a HP EVA4400, and the...
View ArticleWMI on the Host server
Im trying to use WMI to query running VM's Get-WMIObject -namespace root\virtualization -class msvm_computersystem When running this on the hyper-v host it only returns the name of the Hyperv host...
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How to get best performance of VM when 24 Vms running simultaneously
Hi I have VM host server Intel(R) Xeon (R) CPU 2.13 GHz (2 Processors). I want to run 24 VMs simultaneouly. What are the best settings for optimum performance of VMs? (All VMs have equal priority) My...
View ArticleProblem with partially disabling host time synchronization on virtual DC
Hoping you guys can help me out with a problem that's been bugging us and I can't seem to figure out. We decided to move ahead with virtualizing all our domain controllers on Hyper-V and we've run into...
View ArticleSuggestion : Backup Solution for HyperV (Software Installed on Hyper V Server...
Hi, We have about 70-80 different offices at different locations. Each location has a HyperV server and 3-4 virtual machines on it. We are not using HyperV Core - It is Enterprise Windows 2008 R2 -...
View ArticleRemoteFX - Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service
Here is my server: Dell R815 Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 4 x AMD Opteron 6272 which does support SLAT 256GB RAM ATI FirePro V5800 which does support RemoteFX RDS RemoteFX and Core Services...
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