I can't virtualize windows 7
HiI have a laptop with Windows 7/server2012 (180 days trial) dual boot with a HDD of 500 GB with the following partitionsC: windows 7 100 GBD: WS 2012 100 GBE: STORAGE 300 GBI used the disk2vhd to...
View ArticleWhat's the difference & best practice
I'm wondering the following scenario which is best to go and what's the difference.1. Install Windows Server 2012 on VM (Hyper-V Server 2012) and create nodes / instances from Hyper-V Server. 2....
View ArticleHow to recover from a corrupted VHD file?
There is a tool that can recover logical problems in the VHD structure?A friend called me and told me that his VS R2 Enterprise with 4 VMs suffered a power falure and after that, one of the VMs does...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 VHDX Fixed Disk creation
I know there is a tool that creates Fixed Size VHD's quickly but I was wondering if there was a tool for creating VHDX quickly. I wanted to create a 5TB VHDX Disk but after several hours its only a...
View ArticleSlow VM disk performance on WS2012 Hyper-V cluster
Hi everybody,I am having a pretty annoying problem with our Hyper-V Cluster. One, and only one of our VMs keeps getting into a state where disk performance is absolutely horrible (a few tens of KBps on...
View ArticleVHD and VHDX won't Compact
I also have the same problem.If I compact a VHD or VHDX the compact runs for one second and ends, and the VM's remain uncompacted.I am using REFS format on the drive, and the VM's are Windows 7 x86, if...
View ArticleAdding Remote Users to SBS 2011
Hello,Apologies if this is already answered elsewhere. I just can't find anything quite like what I'm looking for.We are running SBS 2011 on our server. It comes with two remote desktop licences but...
View Articlesettings of VMQ?
We have around 100VMs .I want to ask about an error I got in our environment recently .And i searched everywhere and a bit confused about VMQs as I got this error in HyperV Cluster hosts. “Available...
View ArticleHyper-V with Windows Server Essentials in a VM - adding a second physical...
Hardware previously had Windows Server Essentials 2012 running fine.Current setup, base is Hyper-V 2012 with Windows Server Essentials in a VM, which has been installed a few weeks ago and is stable,...
View ArticleCannot add VM to Cluster
We have have Hyper-V 2012 Cluster with 2 Nodes that runs about 10 VMs, mostly Server 2008 R2 with a few 2012. Cluster storage is and iSCSI SAN with DSS7 from Open-e.I have a VM that I cannot add to the...
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Error creating virtual machine (Client Hyper-V, Win 8 Pro)
I'm using an AlienWare M14 machine. I tried to create a virtual machine locally using Client Hyper-V on Windows 8 Pro, but it still doesn't work (took me a lot of time). I added the Hyper-V features in...
View ArticleWindows 7 VM not picking up DHCP
I've created a single VM with Windows 7 installed and it's not able to pickup an IP from our DHCP serverThere's one network interface card setup on the HOST and Windows 7 uses this too. Broadcom -...
View ArticleVM on Hyper-V runs ver slow
We are running Hyper-V on windows 2012 R2 servers. VMs on one of 4 Dell PowerEdge servers run very slow. I have tried different OS such as windows XP and Windows 7. All have the same issue. If I move...
View ArticleHyper-V Manager - RPC Call failed
We have 2 Hyper-V servers that we are unable to connect to each other in Hyper-V manager.This is the error that we got when trying to connect to the remote server:An error occurred while attempting to...
View ArticleHow do I know if ODX is really working?
I have configured Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster on HP Blade servers which is connected to ODX enabled VNX array. How do I check from Windows if data transfer operation is really offloaded to Array?
View ArticleServer 2012 R2 Hyper-V and Drivers
Hello all, Question is regarding drivers on our Dell Systems we are deploying for use in a MSFT 2012 R2 environment. Some of the systems are showing requiring NIC driver updates from Dell. I'm a...
View ArticleNewbie Hyper V 2012 Host Full Install NIC teaming recommendations
Hello,I currently have a hyper v 2012 host with 4 NICs and is domain joined using one of the nics(static ip, which i removed before creating team). I was told to team all of them(assign the same...
View ArticleNetwork device: PCI Passthrough support in Hyper-V (Windows Server 2012 R2)
HI, I know that Hyper-V does support SR-IOV where it attaches a VF for a PCIe Network device and assigns a Network adapter to a specific Virtual Machine but I was wondering If Hyper-V has options to...
View ArticleHyper-V lab domain, on company network, with outside network access
I'm trying to setup a lab environment with Hyper-V on Win8. It's going to be a 2012 R2 domain controller, one other 2012 R2 server, and a Win8 VM. The purpose of it is to give me someplace to "play"...
View ArticleHyper-V Project
Ok Let me try and post this into the correct forum this time.Question for everyone, I am in a position now where I can start to build my Hyper-V infrastructure at work to replace the 4 servers that are...
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