Hyper-V 2012 Virtual Machine Management Service stops for no apparent reason
Starting initial testing for migration to Hyper-V 2012 (or is it referred to as v3.0?). Essentially out of the box install of Server 2012 Data Center RTM (Full), with Hyper-V role enabled. The day...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 guests go into 'Paused' state during backup and do not resume
I know there is a similar thread in the Clustering forum that discusses this;http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverClustering/thread/7a7ddaca-fb09-4c9a-b0ae-9f3b5e10694dBut our...
View ArticleHyper V 2012 Backup - best practice
I'm setting up a new Hyper-V server 2012 and I'm trying to understand how to best configure it for backups and restores usingWindows Server Backup. I´ve 5 VMs running, everyone has their one iScsi...
View ArticleHyper-v 2012 unabel to connect from Windows 7
let me start saying I have installed VMWARE many times and always very first time able to connect from using vSphere without any unnecessary security/firewall and issues... Now in my lab installed...
View ArticleAdding disk to Windows XP guest
I've got a Windows 8 computer running Hyper-V. I've created a Windows XP VM and am trying to attach another disk. I've added both a VHD (created using powershell) and a physically attached (e-SATA)...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012: Problem with the creation of VHD(x) files from a remote...
Hello everyone,I am just checking out Hyper-V 2012 server. While setting up my lab I stumbled across an annoying issue: Using the Hyper-V manager from a remote Windows 8 workstation I cannot create...
View ArticleHow large of partition should Server 2012 Hyper-V be installed in?
I'm setting up a new server that Server 2012 Hyper-V will be the host of.Is there a "best practices" as to how large of partition it should be installed within?Comments? Suggestions?Ed
View ArticleIntel x5450 CPU has VT-x but not EPT (SLAT), will it run server 2012 hyper-v??
Hi all,I have a fully virtualized platform already running on Xenserver 6.1. I have recently upgraded it and Im wanting to run server 2012 and windows 8 VM's. These are only "experimental" guests and...
View ArticleConvert VMware Virtual Machine to Hyper-V-2012 in WORKGROUP
I am unable to convert VMware virtual machine to hyper-v-2012 in workgroup. Does MS virtual machine converter work/support WORJGROUP? By the way, the VMware converter works great "converting from...
View Articlehyper-v 2012
We have a remote site which has 3 physical machines. We want to migrate those physical machines to virtual machines however I’m confused on what platform I need at this location to run these VMs. Can I...
View ArticleWindows 2012 Datacenter Edition Hyper-V Licensing
Hello,I would like to clarify the "Unlimited VMs" licensing for Windows 2012 Datacenter Edition Hyper-V. Does this mean you can host an unlimited amount of Windows VMs without having to purchase...
View ArticleHarden drive share on Win8 host to HyperV XP client
I am developer running Win8 Pro, and have merged and moved my XP Mode VHD to Hyper-V. I do not have a DC on the network. Some of the products I support require a 16-bit development tool. On Win7 (XP...
View ArticleHave to continually restart VMMS to create VMs - Not granted requested login...
Hello,We are running Hyper-V on 2012 Standard, Randomly when I go to create a VM it will give me this exact error:New-VM : The operation failed. The Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management service...
View ArticleHyper-V on Win 2012 DC - Live Migration fails with error "Virtual machine...
Hi,We have setup a Hyper-V cluster on five Windows Server 2012 DC hosts. Out of the five hosts, 3 have identical hardware (same processor/chipset, same NICs etc.) and the remaining 2 have identical...
View ArticleHow to Fix a Corrupted Hyper-V VHD File
Hi, Just found a blog about fixing corrupt VHDs. How to Fix a Corrupted Hyper-V VHD Filehttp://blogs.technet.com/b/tonyso/archive/2011/12/06/how-to-fix-a-corrupted-hyper-v-vhd-file.aspx Enjoy! Best...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 and Processor Compatability
Hi,Im in the process of designing a Hyper-V 2012 cluster setup.We just got our new SAN and the plan is that the new cluster will use SMB3 storage and we will use live migration. 2 new hosts will be...
View Articledisk read error occured - vhd using disk2vhd
created a vhd using disk2vhd and I'm getting a disk read error occurred message on boot - any idea how I can fix it? I tried creating the snapshot again but it gave me the same error
View ArticleFailed to surface VHD \Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1194\xxxxx\C-Drive.vhd....
A W2K8-R2 Enterprise Hyper-V Host machine running DPM is starting to have Backup failures. The author of previous post...
View ArticleWINDOWS 2012 HYPER V BACKUP ERROR 153
Hello allI am currently finishing settin up a new env. for a customer, everything is ok except backup, i am currently backinup host and 3 vm on it.i am receiving the following errors everytime the...
View ArticleTrying to install Server 2012, I can see the CD install on the snapshot but...
Trying to install Server 2012, I can see the CD install on the snapshot but it never connects, just says "connecting to x " then does nothing...What am I doing wrong?JJ
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