Hyper-V 2012 R2 Server setup with DC
I search around but was unable to find someone asking the same question I am so here it goes.I found that best practice for using Hyper-V server is to connect it to a physical DC so that if the server...
View ArticleInstalling 2012 R2 Standard VMs on 2012 R2 Core Edition
Quick question:We have a clean host running 2012 R2 Hyper-V Core. We have a 2012 R2 Standard license and since it includes two virtual instances we want to build two 2012 R2 VMs.We didn't install 2012...
View ArticleServer 2012r2 - Trunk from virtual Switch to VM
Hello Everyone, I have the following on a Ws2012r2 Hyper-V host - Private Virtual Switch - Ws2012r2 VM with a network adapter configured as Access with VLAN 10 - Ws2012r2 VM with a network adapter...
View ArticleVHD Size is Maximum Size Allowed Without Using All Space in OS
Hello - I have a Hyper-V VM whose maximum size allowed is 700GB. Currently, the VHD file size is 700GB yet the OS is only using ~400GB (300GB free). Shouldn't the VHD size be about 400GB instead of...
View Article5nine Manager for Hyper-V Free
5nine Manager with Hyper-V Free version has been discontinued and is not available for download :-(can someone share a downloaded version ?
View ArticleLive Migration Failed while Quick Migration is Ok...!
Dear All,We are continuously receiving event error Event ID 1155 & 21502 in event viewer, quick migration is working perfectly but Live Migration for those VM who has Virtual Fiber Switch setup is...
View Article2008 r2 hyper-v guest partial connectivity after host is restarted.
Last week we were scheduled for a Major power failure and had to power down our Host Hyper V Windows 2008R2 servers for the first time.We manually shutdown all guest vm's then powered down each of the...
View Articlewhy is copying between host and hyper-v vm so slow - Win 2012 R2?
Hello,I have a poweredge T610 with a 1GB Cache controller in RAID 50 with 6 fast drives. I have the cache policy turned on. If I copy a VHD file on the host from the same volume to the same volume...
View ArticleIntel I350 SR-IOV Suddenly Stopped Working While Hyper-V Still Not Reporting...
After working for almost a year without issues, SR-IOV functionality suddenly quit working. The NIC is an Intel I350-T4 and the OS is Windows Server 2012 R2.Looking at the event logs in the parent,...
View ArticleVM exhibiting 100% disk busy time, large disk queue lengths
Hi everyone,We have a .VHD workload residing on a logical 2 x 136Gb RAID1 mirror pair of disks.The .VHD file is 130Gb (with 70Gb of free space)The Virtual Machine is running Windows 2008 R2 SP1, 4...
View Articlekeyboard layout messed up
I'm unable to use the shift key with numbers and the backspace key also doesn't work when viewing my hyper-v vm. the shift key works intermittently but not always, when trying to capitalise alpha...
View ArticleHow to manage a Hyper-V 2012R2 Host from Windows 7?
AFAIK This is the official Hyper-V Manager for Windows 7: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7887 it explicitly lists Hyper-V versions up to 2008R2, there is no mention of 2012 or...
View ArticleHow to connect to Hyper-V VM from WAN
Hello everybody!I am beginer. I have a dedicate server with Windows Server 2008 R2 En 64bit, and i installed hyper-v with two VM. I created a virtual switch network and the VM can access internet. Now,...
View ArticleGeneral Access Denied Error 0x80070005 creating .VHDX in a SHARED FOLDER
I have 2 windows 2012 servers (WIn2012 Standard File Server / Shared Folder and Win2012 Standard + Hyper-V)The shared folder have users, admins, system, everyone full control permissions for shared +...
View ArticleNetwork shares accessible over Hyper-V external virtual switch
After finding out how to share files and folders between the host and guest operating systems (both Windows Server 2012 R2) through virtual switches, and reading some tutorials online on how to do...
View ArticleHow to properly move a VM to another physical server
Hi folks,I have two Dell R-170 servers both running Server 2008 R2 and Hyper -V, each with two VM's installed and running. One of the physical servers is beginning to run low on disk space. I would...
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Can't import a VM
Hello!There's a test PC (Server 2012R2) with two network cards (Nic1=Realtek, Nic2 = Dlink). Some days ago I created a VM on this PC and created a couple of checkpoints for the VM. Today I formatted...
View ArticleHyper-V VSS writer ecnouter errors during taking VSS snapshot on Windows 2012 R2
When taking VSS snapshot with Hyper-V VSS writer on Windows 2012 R2, there are frequently some warning/error logs in Windows Event log. This will make the Hyper-V VSS writer goes to a bad state and in...
View ArticleCan't perform online backup since Hyper-V Upgrade to 2012 R2
Hey there,we've been using the DPM 2012 R2 with our three Hyper-V 2012 servers since last November. A few days ago we upgraded all Hyper-V Hosts to 2012 R2 using a clean installation. We put all VMs in...
View ArticleHyper-V Replica Application-Consistent
Hi,my Scenario:Primary site - Hyper-V Cluster Windows Server 2012 R2Replica site - Hyper-V Host Windows Server 2012 R2, same IP subnetseveral VMs with SQL 2012 SP1 and SQL 2005/2008, SQL on same VHDs...
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