Recover a VHD file from a formatted volume
Apologies if this is not the right forum.So I was preparing a new server to host virtual machines. This is a Dell PE r710, Dual quad-core Xeon processors, 48 GB RAM, 2x 72 GB SAS drives. The server has...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012R2 Backup failure - Server 2012r2 A virtual disk support...
Hi FolksI while ago I posted about an iSCSI backup up issue on this VM Windows 2012R2 Server. I have over the intervening period solved the iSCSI issue by routing it through the host server and...
View ArticleWindows Server 2019 Datacenter boot loops after enabling Hyper-V
I took my Windows Server 2016 Datacenter test server in my home lab (Dell R710 with two X5650s and 32GB of RAM) and installed Server 2019 Datacenter on it to try out the new features that are centered...
View ArticleWindows 2012 Hyperv-V Dynamic VHD Keeps Expanding - Can I Convert To Fixed VHD?
Hi Everybody, We are running Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V Server, and our main production server VM is running Windows 2012 R2 on a dynamic VHDX on a 700GB partition. This VM has been running successfully...
View Articledynamically growing VHDX Debian Stretch
Hello, there, we host some Debian Stretch (9) virtual machines on our Hyper-V. I configured these systems as Generation 1 virtual machine and used dynamically growing VHDX files as hard disk. The odd...
View ArticleHyper-V: IP configuration of virtual network adapter
Hi!I have a Hyper-V-Host with 2 network adapters. One is for management of the host, one is for Hyper-V/virtual machines. What I don't understand is how the IP configuration of the virtual ethernet...
View ArticleWindows 10 VM hosed by Windows Update today -...
is there a way to roll back an automatic Windows update, or otherwise recover this hosed VM?While I was away from my PC (Win 10 Pro host running Hyper-V), a Windows 10 VM it hosts decided to update...
View ArticleP2V Conversion
I have a physical Windows Server 2016 running as AD, DNS, DHCP and File Server. I want to virtualize the the server using Disk2VHD on the existing server and then demote the physical server as a domain...
View ArticleNvidia Quadro P4000 DDA Error Code 43
HiWe use a Nvidia Quadro P4000 on a HPE DL380 Gen10 with Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V and Passtrough the Card with DDA to a Windows Server 2016 VM.W've installed the latest drivers. But after a while,...
View ArticleWhy multicast is being disabled for Virtual Switches?
Hello,I use Hyper-V on Windows 10 for Docker.Both Default Switch, and Docker created switches get EnableMulticast set to 0 after reboot. This prevents link-local name resolution from working. This...
View ArticleHyper-V Licencing
Good day,I've read up on a couple of blogs online regarding server/virtualization licencing but am now even more confused than before I started.This is what we want to do:We have a Physical server with...
View ArticleCan not import virtual machines.
Hi,we are trying to import virtual machines in Hyper-V2012 R2 but it fails with an error Hyper-V did not find virtual machines to import from the location, the folder c:\something\something could not...
View ArticleHyper-V VSS writer missing
Hello, I'm using Backup Exec 20.1 to perform daily backups of virtual machines, but quite offten the backup end up failing due to error: V-79-57344-37935 - Snapshot Technology: Initialization failure...
View ArticleHyper-V Server 2019 - RDP not working
Hi,So I am testing with Hyper-V Server 2019, which I deployed to three brand new HP Proliant gen10 machines. I'll test on them for a while before putting them in production. Installation was a breeze,...
View ArticleCommand or script to uncheck/disable Backup (volume shadow copy) inside Hyper...
Hi,BackupAssist could not back a VM SQL server if Backup (volume shadow copy) is checked inside the Hyper V/Integration Services. Can you help with a command or script to stop/uncheck Backup (volume...
View ArticleHyper-V Virtual Machine Management Service doesn't respond, cannot stop/restart
Hello, I've been running a functioning virtualization set on a small Server 2016 install, running a half dozen VMs. Everything was working fine for months, but I let Windows update last night and when...
View ArticleWin 2012 Hyper-V Cluster nodes lost CSV after 1 node was rebooted
Hi, We have 4 node Hyper-V cluster. HP DL servers + VNX5100 and SAN fabric connection. 2nd node was reinstalled and rejoined to cluster. After 2nd node had rebooted manually, cluster lost CSV disk.I...
View ArticleWhat is the best practice(s) for confirming VHDX are good (not corrupt file...
Hello,At our company, we use Veeam to back-up all VMs on our Hyper-V servers.We ran into an issue, when we needed to restore a sharepoint 2016 server.The VHDX that contained the MS-SQL database files...
View ArticleHyper-V network issue Intel X550-T2
Running into a strange issue with Hyper-V. I'm running Server 2016 14393.2608. I have a hyper-v virtual switch connected to 1 of 2 ports on my intel x550-T2. I'm running the most recent intel...
View ArticleWindows Disk timeout value.
Is there an update on that Microsoft Blog page?https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/san/2011/09/01/the-windows-disk-timeout-value-less-is-better/Most, not to say all, storage vendors recommend large...
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