What's the best way to utilize multiple nics on a Hyper-V server?
I'm administering a 2008 Hyper-v server I didn't build. It was a 4-port gigabit NIC card. From what I understand, Windows 2008 server does not support NIC teaming.I assumed that if I plugged in more...
View ArticleLimiting monthly data transfer per VM?
Looking for ways in which I can limit the amount of data any one VM can transfer in a month to external networks in Hyper-V 2012. Ultimately something which tracks data consumption live, and also has...
View ArticleHyper-V VM network problem after moving
I'm having some trouble with my new server so I decided to export my 2 VMs, re-install 2008 R2 and then import my VMs. One VM worked fine but the other, which is the DC, had problems. It had no...
View ArticleHyper V (redirect acces)
Good I have a Hyper V with a cluster, but only running one node, the other node and took a while to maintenance, the last day for maintenance restart late in the morning, but after this are the volumes...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 - Can occasionally not access second virtual hard drive...
I run Windows Server 2012 RTM Hyper-V and I can occasionally not access the second virtual hard drive (dynamically expanding VHDX) attached to the VM through the virtual SCSI controller. I can however...
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 - Full...
View ArticleServer 2012 Hyper-V Host Not Responding
The issue has happened on 2 different hosts in the last two weeks, and we haven't been able to find out exactly what is causing this so I am hoping to get some help.5 Node Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster....
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Windows Server 2012 - HyperV: Best practise for Networking with SR-IOV enabled?
Hi,I have the following question regarding the network configuration in Hyper-V:The Server has 2 dualport 1GBit/s NIC's with SR-IOV functionality. Both ports of each NIC are connected to 2 different...
View ArticleHyper-V on Windows server 2012 Guest Failover Clustering
Hey,I have 2 Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Edition servers running Hyper-V on them. On each host I have a server that I am trying to setup guest clustering for a fileserver and they both are sharing...
View ArticleHyper-V Clustered VMs stuck on Pending after host Restart
Hello Gyus, I have very big Proplem and I really need your support guys, I have Hyper-V cluster with four node hosts, all hosts running windows server 2008 R2 SP1 with all Hyper-V hot fixes installed,...
View ArticleFailover Cluster 2012 replication
Hi,We are planning to have 2 server rooms. In each room we gonna have 100 VM's. Now if I create failover cluster can I replicate it to get even more security because if we lose SAN so everything will...
View ArticleCreating a cluster on a single Hyper-V host with SAS
I´m having this "disk bus type does not support clustering" thing when evaluating stroage in FCM. I´m creating a lab, which requires cluster, I´m using Hyper-V 2012 on a HP Powerfull workstation with...
View ArticleImport 2008R2 VMs with snapshots into 2012
We are preparing to replace a 2008R2 Hyper-V cluster with a 2012 Hyper-v cluster.We were thinking that we would come in on a weekend. shutdown the 2008R2 boxes, move the San connection to the 2012...
View ArticleImporting VM to Hyper-V Cluster spanning multiple CSVs
Hello,I was migrating from Hyper-V 2008 R2 to Hyper-V 2012 and ran into some issues. Rather than export my VMs I just wanted to import the config after I upgraded to Hyper-V 2012. This seemed a lot...
View ArticleHyper VMM - Fails to start -> VMM cannot complete the WMI operation on server...
Running into a random issue, that impacts a couple of our virtual machines. First our setup:3 Host Cluster - 2 * Dell PowerEdge R710 and 1 720. Connected to Equal Logic SAN. Running in a CSV. All...
View ArticleWhat's the best way to utilize multiple nics on a Hyper-V server?
I'm administering a 2008 Hyper-v server I didn't build. It was a 4-port gigabit NIC card. From what I understand, Windows 2008 server does not support NIC teaming.I assumed that if I plugged in more...
View ArticleHyper -V Windows 8 only allows first two VM's External network access
Hi AllI have configured Windows 8 with Hyper V and configured 4 vm's to run on it ranging from server 2003 to windows xp.I have created an External Virtual Switch and linked it to the only network...
View ArticleBooting a WIndows 2012 Hyper-V Host Server from a MicroSD card
Need some help and clarification in regards to being able to Boot a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Host Server from a MicroSD card. I have read allot of blogs and technical journals and articles on this...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 VM's various slow performance issues
Recently we've set up a two Windows Server 2012 Datacenter as Hyper-V nodes in a cluster. The nodes have dual Intel E5-2620 CPU's at 2.00GHz for a totall of 24 logical processors. Each node has 16...
View ArticleHyper-V 3.0 Multi-Site Cluster
Hi All,We're planning on deploying a multisite Hyper-v 3 cluster, well when I say multi-site, I mean same site but different server rooms, 1 node in each with a 10Gbps link between the rooms.We'll use...
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