Hyper-V 2012 replica giving timeouts
We have two Hyper-V clusters in two separate datacenters. These datacenters are connected with a 100 Mbit/s redundant connection. Redundancies is achieved with spanning tree and the two sites share the...
View ArticleWhen joining Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 core to domain, it's not manageable anymore
Hi,We're experiencing a very strange error when joining a Hyper-V machine to our domain. After joining the machine to the domain and give it a reboot, it isn't manageable any more via the Hyper-V MMC...
View ArticleVM Rebooting every few days
Hello I have host machine running 2008 R2 with 4 VM's. The problem is two of the VM's restart every couple of days. The host was restarted over the weekend and that seemed to help for a bit then it...
View ArticleSUSE SLES11 SP3 in HyperV cannot ping default gateway
Hello,i have installaed sles11 s3 in a 2012 HyperV server and my network administrator sees my mac (the result of ifconfig) and says that everything should be ok from network perspective.Still, i...
View ArticleWindows RDP Mixed mode
Ill currently have a win 2008 server and several Windows 7 desktop pc's with their own HDD connecting to the server. I want to add some thin clients (no local HDD) to my existing environment connecting...
View ArticleHyper V - Loosing external network trafic after creating vswitch
Hi thereI'm running into an issue with a new server.As soon as I create a vswitch using the physical network interface I'm loosing incoming traffic to this server (rdp, ping...) BUT I can still connect...
View ArticleCSV unavailable to one node, VMs don't failover
Hi All,I had this situation:Environment:- 2 nodes Hyper-v cluster- 2 CSV- NODE1 is running 2 VMs on CSV1 and 2 VMs on CSV2Issue:- NODE1 loses connection to CSV1- NODE1 logs Evnet ID 4096 at 00:01 in...
View ArticleHyper V VDI memory grows quickly and exceeds memory maximum
I have created 4 virtual desktops, all running Windows 7 32 bit, on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server. 3 of them are working fine and have no problems. The fourth one is growing over its maximum...
View ArticleSCVMM 2012 SP1 Virtual Switch on Cluster Node Disappears
I have been running into an interesting but an alarming issue with virtual switches. I have recently built a 4 node Server 2012 Hyper-V failover cluster. I have built numerous 2008R2 and 2012 Hyper-V...
View ArticleDoes Hyper 2012 R2 Support Solaris Guest VM?
Does Hyper 2012 R2 Support Solaris Guest VM?
View ArticleUEFI on host system and Generation 2 VM
Hi,Is there any need to run UEFI boot mode on the host machine when needing to run Generation 2 VM in server 2012 R2 hyper-v?I have a PowerEdge R610.Thank youRobert
View ArticleHyperv VLANs
I have a server with 10 VLANs and configured as TAGGED some of them.My question. Now I have all NICs with gateway, each with its corresponding VLAN.I suppose that it is not the ideal. as you would be?
View ArticleUpdate and Reboot of Hyper-V servers
Hi,We would like to get info or Microsoft recommendation about hyper-v update. How often is best practice to update because we need to manually turn off VM's (for security reasons and to avoid...
View ArticleHyperv-V 2012 R2 Failover Cluster questions
Hi,I've built a Hyper-V cluster. It all looks good, but just one question I had: If I want to have granular control on which NIC (and thus IP) is used to communicate to the ISCSI target, how could I...
View ArticleHost and Guest - 2 external IP's
Hi all,At the moment I have a server that has an external IP address on it, and the datacenter has given me another IP for it. The host OS is Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter. I also want to have another...
View ArticleCan we install Hyper-V and Oracle DB 11g in the same machine ? Is this...
Hi,We have a big server which has Hyper-V and some virtual machines running there. Our product has some wierd issues when running on Oracle DB in a virtual machine so we want to install Oracle directly...
View ArticleInstalling RemoteFX on Windows Server 2012 r2
Hello.I have tried to set up an Server environment at home for test and education purposes.On my physical computer I have installed Windows Server 2012 r2 Datacenter and have installed a Hyper-V VM...
View ArticleHyper-v and Physical disks
Hello IT Pros, can a VM os be installed on an entire physical disk? like instead of creating a vhd\vhdx can one just use the whole drive?
View ArticleUnable to run "connect-virtualdisk" in Windows Hyper-V Server R2?
Greetings,I just did a re-installation of my server that was running Windows Server 2012 R2 and decided to install Hyper-V Server R2 instead as I want to be running everything within Hyper-V / virtual...
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