2012 Hyper-V Cluster - Microsoft Hyper-V Network Adapter no connection but...
We have a 2 node Hyper-V 2012 cluster on 2012 Standard Server Core.Cluster Aware Updating was used to update the nodes to current.4 NIC ports total on each node.2 connected to management network using...
View ArticleMove-VM - 'Incorrect function.'('0x80070001').
Hi I am trying to live migrate a Hyper-V Guest between 2 Server 2012 Machines using the following powershell command:-Move-VM vm server Hyper-v Host 2 –IncludeStorage –DestinationStoragePath...
View Articlea disk read error occurred - after moving VM storage
Hi,I have a VM that failed after moving VM storage in Hyper-V, and on reboot the server is now showing "A disk read error occurred. Press ctrl alt delete to restart". Today I moved several VMs, all...
View ArticleLive migration VM with synthetic FC HBA fails
Hi all.Yesterday I try to migrate my VM between 2 nodes and receive a error:Live migration of 'Virtual Machine 'VMName' failed.Virtual machine migration operation for 'VMName' failed at migration...
View ArticleHyper-V servers
Hi,Is there a way to list all hyper-v servers (physical machines which are running hyper-v) from powershell? There is a way when all servers have at least one VM but what to do with does that do not...
View ArticleRecover a crashed Windows Server 2012 Cluster Storage Resource
Hi Guys,Would much appreciate your urgent help on this. I've got a crashed Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V 4 node lab cluster environment. The cluster was deployed on a single DC based domain which...
View ArticleError when creating VHDX via Hyper-V Manager remotely
Hey all!So, I installed Hyper-V 2012 Core on a box, patched it, and then joined it to the domain. If I connect to the server via Hyper-V Manager from either a Windows 8 machine or Server 2012 machine...
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Virtual Machine Connection - Screen Resolution Does Not Match Guest OS -...
I am running several WinXP Guest VM's in Hyper V a 2008 R2Server. All of the VM's run at display resolution 1024x768. I have recently installed Win7 on my desktop management PC. The problem I am...
View ArticleAll VM's locked up in Server 2012 Cluster!
Hi,About 2 hours ago this evening, we lost communication to all 20 VM's on a 8 Node Cluster and they took 25 minutes to recover! Fibre Channel shared storage is being used throughout the cluster...
View ArticleHyper-V bin file consuming disk space.
Hi, Host OS Configuration:- Windows 2008 Enterprise ,Hyper-V with KB950050 (64bit) update.Host Hardware Configuration:- Xeon X7350@ 2.9 GHz x 4 CPU / 64 GBI installed virtual servers on Hyper-V and...
View ArticleHIPER-V dynamic memory - assigning more maximum memory that phisycal
The physical machine has 16GB of RAMCan I configure two VM’s with dynamic memory allocation like this?4GB start; 12GB Maximum; priority low 2GB start; 14GB Maximum; priority highWhat about the memory...
View ArticleHyper-V Server 2012 Host RAM >2GB usage?
I have a 4GB Hyper-V Server 2012 Host in a lab that uses a full 2171 MB for the Host. I have verified the usage via setting dynamic RAM up on the VMs to see how much they could get. I know the Host...
View ArticleDisk space required for Hyper-V 2008 R2 snapshot delete and merge
In Server 2008 R2 how much free disk space is required to delete a Hyper-V snapshot and merge it into the VHD file? Do I need free space equal to current VHD + the snapshot files or just free space...
View ArticleHyper-v hardware utilization/performance
I need a little clarification on how Hyper-v utilizes the hardware, particularly the CPU. If I understand this correctly -and correct me if im wrong- the hypervisor uses a round-robin approach to give...
View ArticleLive Migration half as fast depending on source node
So this is pretty weird. Brand new pair of Dell R620 servers with Broadcom 57800 10GbE NICs set up in a cluster. All Windows Updates and NIC driver updates installed. If I Live Migrate from Node 1 to...
View Articlev2v from vSphere 5.1 to HyperV
I have just embarked on a project to v2v 250 VMs from vSphere 5.1 to Hyper-V 3.0. I thought I'd start a discussion string on v2v experiences. I have used the native v2v conversion with in VMM, 5nine's...
View ArticleVMM 2012 sp1 system job - refresh virtual machine
Last night around 1030pm the service account for vmm 2012 kicked off a "Refresh VM - System Job" that refreshed the vm NIC configuration. It just so happens that a different NIC was assigned to the vm...
View ArticleGet-childitem with recurse and create folders in a different directory
I've got a folder containing child folders which I am doing a get-childitem -recurse on. My script at the moment is zipping the top level file in the script but I need it to do a little more.For...
View ArticleFailover Cluster WMI Provider detected an invalid character - W2008R2 SP1
We have a four node Hyper-V cluster running Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Data centre editionFor several months the following error has been flooding the application logs on the servers.Failover Cluster WMI...
View ArticleHyper-V Network Adapter Error 31 After Migration
Migrating servers from 2008r2 Hyper-v cluster to new 2012 Hyper-v Cluster. All 140 servers have migrated with no issues until my last one.It is our secondary domain controller. It is running 2008r2...
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