(Hyper-V Failover Cluster) highly available VM replicated on standalone...
Hello there !I am experiencing an issue regarding the behaviour of my replication architechture.I am running highly available VM on a WS2012 Hyper-V Cluster (2 Hyper-V nodes). The storage (Netapp...
View ArticleHyper-V Replica with SAN Storage
HiI am planning to deploy Hyper-v Replica with SAN Storage as I need more disk space for the Virtual Machines.Can anybody share their thought the drawbacks and advantages of this...
View ArticleBAse file
What is base.vhd file , which we use to extract VM's?how to create Base File.. or Parent disk.. How differencing disk works with Parent DiskI am to confuse with all these concept , please help me to...
View ArticleMystery AVHD file and no snapshots lists in Hyper-v
Need some serious help here.I was the victim of the runaway shapshot eating all the availble disk space last year - that was a fun 30 hours to fix. I still hold the record of having a 400GB snapshot....
View ArticleChange Hyper-V Server 2008 Administrator password
Hi! I have a machine with Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 running. I put the Administrator password when I installed the system, but now... How can I change it?I access the Hyper-V machine through Remote...
View ArticleServer 2012 Hyper-V Team
Hey all, I plan to setup my teams as follows: 6 x 1GB VM Ports (Teamed using three ports on quad port card 1 and three ports on quad port card 2) 2 x 1GB Management\Cluster Communication Ports (Teamed...
View ArticleHyper-V DHCP Issue.
i have installed Server 2008R2 X64 Sp1 on host and install Hyper-V role on it.Now i have install all my serves including Domain and Exchange and TMG. i have created to networks on one host [1st...
View ArticleHyper V setup with NIC Cards
HI Guys,I have 2 Windows 2012 Servers and each one has 2 NIC cards. I am looking to make Hyper V Setup with clustering. I cant afford to add more NIC at this Moment and want to make a high available...
View ArticleSeparate VLAN still necessary for VM NLB cluster nodes?
Hi Folks,In the past, it was always recommended to either use multicast for NLB, or put the unicast NLB NIC's in a separate small VLAN to avoid switch-flooding because the switch could not assign the...
View Articledeployment of hyper v server 2012
Hi guys,Hope you are doing fine. Normally if we have to install a server OS on a hardware (which consists of 5 HDD's), I think the best practice would be: (1) Raid 1 using 2 HDD's to install the OS(2)...
View ArticleAllocate the same VHD between 2 VM's
Hi, i'm migrating a test enviroment from Oracle VirtualBox to Hyper-V 2012 and i'm facing a big challenge.The test enviroment consists on two Linux VM's that run Oracle RAC. In the VirtualBox...
View ArticleInstalling Windows Driver Framework.
I've just bought a couple of new servers running Windows 2012, I'm stuck trying to shift a guest Hyper V machine from our old Windows 2008 server. I can copy the machine over OK, but I cannot get the...
View ArticleUnable to install Server 2008 R2 on Windows 8 Hyper-V, almost completes then...
My machine is Intel i7 920, 9GB of RAM, 64bit with a 256GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD.I have a pretty fresh Win 8 install with Hyper-V. I created a new Hyper-V virtual machine with 2048 dynamic memory and...
View ArticleVirtual Network adaptor not appearing for SBS 2008 Hyper-V
Last night I virtualized our SBS 2008 server and started it up on Server 2012. The problem I ran into is in system devices there are 2 entries for "Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Machine Bus" and I believe...
View ArticleAccess Device Manager in Hyper-V 2012
When I try accessing Hyper-V Server 2012's Device Manager via MMC I get "Make Sure that this computer is on the network, has remote administration enabled, and is running the "Plug and Play" and...
View ArticleC: Drive shows less size than original size assigned
Hi, I'am new in Hyper-V. One of my client using Hyper-v host in windows server 2008 and having issue on their internal C:/ drive size assigned.The C:/ drive shows 50GB size and 7GB free space. When I...
View ArticleHyperV guest loads slow on Win2008R2
this is by far one of the strangest things I have seen. I have a win 2008R2 cluster with a CSV. the CSV itself is on an iSCSI storage (hitachi HUS 110) basic config of the two hosts in the cluster...
View ArticleUndoing Hyper-V Cluster Migration Wizard Configuration
Hi,I did a successful migration of a 2008R2 cluster to 2012 using the wizard in failover cluster manager activated by running "Migrate Roles..." (used the following for...
View ArticleAny Known Issues With 2012 Clusters And Intermittent Network Drops For Guests...
Hi,When comparing running the same processes on a 2008R2 cluster versus a 2012 cluster, we are getting intermittent network drops on the 2012 vm that do not ever occur on the 2008R2 vm. The scenario is...
View ArticleVirtual Test Lab ( Base-Configuration) Building
Hi guys,Im trying to build a virtual test labs on Hyper-v. I've managed to finish building almost the devices from the base-configuration. But there's something wrong. Can some one give me a hints pls...
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