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What are the possible reasons why Hyper-V can't compact a VHD?
I am hosting several virtual machines on a host running Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. The disks were originally provisioned on a different server (2008, not R2) about 16 months ago, and were migrated onto ...
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Where to enter an IP address on a newly created Hyper-V machine after connected to a network adapter
Where to enter static IP address on a Hyper-V machine. I have created a new VM on a hyper-v host, connected to a network adapter, have an IP address available to assign to it, but don't know where to ...
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Using bridge connection to get ip access from guest in Hyper V
I want to access the internet on a dedicated second public ip from the guest.
I have created an internal only network in Hyper-V Manager.
The virtual network is in a bridged connection to the ...
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Assign public IP address to Hyper-V guest [closed]
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Using bridge connection to get ip access from guest in Hyper V
I have now been trying for nearly 4 days to setup what i would think is the simplest hyperV env.
I have a ...
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Can one make Hyper-V's virtual networking ignore VLAN tagging?
Is there any way to make Hyper-V's (Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1) networking subsystem ignore VLAN tagging and just accept all packets that the physical NIC accepts? ...hopefully by actually ignoring ...
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Hyper-V guest suddenly extremely slow
I have a setup with a Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V Server and a couple of guests.
Yesterday I noticed that one of the guests had become very slow (e.g. noticable lag when browsing through folders). I ...
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Hyper-V Guest Connectivity Problems
I have one particular Hyper-V guest, one of 5 on this particular Hyper-V host, that can't seem to make any outgoing network connections. The guest is running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and uses IIS ...
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Raid group on a p2000g3 iscsi
I have to set up an hypervR2 cluster (2nodes) and a san storage (hp p2000g3 iscsi) with 12 disks (300 GO, 10k SAS)
The p2000 has 2 controllers.
What is the best ?
ONe big raid group (raid10) with the ...
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Hyper-V virtual machine unable to get IP address from DHCP server running on same physical box
We have a Windows server 2008 R2 with two network cards running AD, DHCP, DNS and Hyper-V
The first nic is setup with a static IP address and DHCP, WDS, and DNS are bound to it.
The second nic is ...
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Can I temporarily leave other roles active when converting a 2008 R2 server to a hyper-v host?
I currently have a Windows 2008 R2 box that I want to convert to a hyper-v host. Currently I have the following running on it: File Services, Web Server (IIS), and Sql Server 2008 R2 with a few ...
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How does “Hyper-V won't boot off SCSI Disks” affect me? (all HDDs in server are SCSI)
A few months ago we purchased a Dell server with the intent to eventually start rolling out VMWare. Now we are exploring Hyper-V as an option instead, however I've seen a requirement for an IDE drive ...
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iSCSI volume for hyper-v
I am moving several hyper-v VMs from an under-powered host to a newer host with an iSCSI array for storage. What is the best configuration for the iSCSI volume to get the best performance for hyper-v? ...
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“shutting down hyper-v virtual machine management service”
I have a Windows 2008 R2 server that is a Hyper-V host (Dell PowerEdge T300). Today for the first time I encountered an odd situation; i lost connection with one of the guest machines but logging on ...
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Disk Latency High on Hyper V (20ms to 100ms for avg. disk write)
I am running Hyper V on a 12 GB, i7 Sever with 5 VMs running. I had the impression that the VMs operate quite slowly but the memory consumption and cpu utilization are not worth mentioning so I ...
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Managing Hyper-V in a domain with RPC errors
I've got an awkward setup here.
I've got a domain controller (2008 R2 STD) in the United States, and a Hyper-V 2008 R2 server (Raw Hyper-V server) and a Windows 7 workstation, all connected to a ...
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Dell PowerEdge t710 raid configuration for newbie
My company bought a Dell PowerEdge t710 server with:
48 GB ram 4x4
GB ethernet ports.
RAID 5 for PERC H700
4 x 1TB, SATA, 3.5-in, 7.2K RPM Hard Drive (Hot Plug)
My job is to configure Hyper-V ...
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Hyper-V machines refusing to start after BIOS upgrade
I have a Windows 2008 Server with Hyper-V installed, and a couple of VMs.
All was working properly until I tried upgrading BIOS. All of a sudden I get permission denied when attempting to start any ...
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Is there a way to capture a Hyper-V VHD image of a running Linux (Centos) server?
I have a linux server running Centos (actually its a PBX running Trixbox) that I want to migrate to a Hyper-V based VM so that the physical server can be repurposed.
Is it possible to capture a VHD ...
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Manage Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 from same machine
Is there a way to manage Windows Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 from within itself? E.g. not remotely.
I'd like to be able to manage VMs as well as connect to and work with a a VM in full screen mode.
This ...
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VPN in MS Hyper-V Server 2008 R2?
I am trying to connect a MS Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 machine (the OS with just a command prompt and settings panel) to a VPN Network and I can't get round to it.
I have tried using Rasdial but the ...
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Hyper-V Live Migration Fails
I have a failover cluster consisting of two nodes: VS1 and VS2. Each node is running Windows Server 2008 Datacenter R2 SP1. They have slightly different processors (E5335 and E5420), so I'm running ...
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How to export a virtual machine in Hyper-V?
i am trying to export a virtual machine in Hyper-V.
i click Export, i select a location:
and click Export, and nothing happens:
How do you export a virtual machine in Windows Server 2008 R2 ...
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What is causing the huge network traffic?
I have a virtual machine hosted by Hyper-V, in a physical server provided by Hetzner.
The physical server has Windows 2008 R2 Server, and the virual machine has Windows 7 Pro 32-bit.
The virtual ...
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Why is RPC connectivity broken for the Hyper-V Manager?
I have a Hyper-V Server 2008R2 (Core) with numerous VMs running. This Hyper-V server is a member of a domain.
Since the server has nothing running on it apart from the Hyper-V service, the only way ...
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Hyper-V Core: Dedicate SSD for pagefiles
I want to move pagefile.sys from C: -HDD- to S: -SSD- on Hyper-V Core. I just upgraded RAM from 8GB to 16GB. 8GB was pretty enough. I also want to move guest OSes' pagefiles to SSD as .VHD format. ...
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How do I ensure that a member server DNS client (dnscache) is not initialized until its hyper-v domain controller has started?
I have a laptop configured in the following manner:
Laptop is Server 2008 R2 member server running Hyper-V connected to the internet via a Wireless adapter
One virtual machine is a Server Core 2008 ...
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Hyper-V spontaneously pauses all VMs
I just had an odd thing happen with a Hyper-V server that has 4 guest VMS running on it. The host server and all guests are Server 2008 R2 SP1.
I logged into one of the guest VMs using Remote Desktop ...
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Dropped network connections to hyper-v server and guests on local network
I have recently installed at home a new Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 to be used primarily as a hyper-v host for several home servers. I'm having some interesting networking issues that I suspect are ...
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Hyper-V Guest RDP keeps asking wrong credentials
I have 3 W2008 R2 Guests running inside a w2008 R2 Hyper-V Host. All three VMs are part of a domain, All with RDP enabled, the machines have the following names and ports
HOST1 3389
VM1 3401
VM2 ...
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Hyper-V network considerations (hosted server)
I have a hosted dedicated server, that I would like to run Hyper-V on including TMG as an edge to secure the environment. But because this is a hosted server, I have a few questions that I hope you ...
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Win Server 2008 + Virtualization, A Beginners question
I want to start my first virtualized work environment and i don't know what is better to do.
I have windows 2008 R2 Std edition.
i want to setup 2 HyperV machines
Do i first setup the windows ...
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How to boot a Hyper-V Virtual Machine with a PXE server
I am trying to boot a virtual machine created in Hyper-V Manager. I want to boot from the NIC so that the VM can connect to the PXE server (by pressing F12 numerous times). The thing is, I cannot get ...
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Time Synchronization for Domain Controllers Virtualized Via Hyper-V
I would like to know if someone can recommend a better way to configure domain time synchronization for a group of Windows Server 2008 R2 servers than what I currently have configured. I have three ...
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Restoring individual Hyper-V machine backed up with Windows Server Backup?
Is it possible to restore Hyper-V virtual machine (just one of 4) using Windows Server Backup (if it was backed up first)? Or is there no way to do individual and every time one machines goes bad full ...
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Can I choose only some directories of Windows 2008 R2 if I want to backup Hyper-V using Windows Server Backup?
I want to use Windows Server Backup that's included with Windows to backup Hyper-V. Can I only choose C:\VM, E:\VM and C:\ProgramsData (basically hyper-v directory I'm interested in) if that's where ...
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Does Windows 2008 R2 windows backup requires changes in registry to allow backup of Hyper-V?
There's a lot of information on web that to enable Hyper-V backup in Windows Backup Tool you need to do changes in registry before it will allow you to. But are those settings applicable only to ...
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Hyper-V limit disk usage of a VM
I'm using Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2. I have one virtual machine that writes constantly to its vhd, using between 60% and 100% of the maximum disk I/O according to Resource Monitor. This ...
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Hyper-V not scaling processor access for Windows Server 2000 VM
I have a Dell R710 rack hosting several VM's:
Windows Server 2008 R2 w/ Hyper-V
dual Xeon 5520's @ 2.26 GHz
32GB mem
teamed nic (4 gigabit NICs)
all VM's are on their own set of mirrored SAS disks
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Host requirements for virtualization with Hyper-V
I'm planning to create a virtualized setup for a company I work for and I've been looking at server configurations. I've settled on a Dell PowerEdge R710, but I'm not sure which OS is right for me. My ...
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VMRC equivalent for Hyper-V?
VMRC was the client tool used to connect to virtual machines running on Virtual Server.
Upgrading to Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role, i need a way for people to be able to use the ...
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Add RAID to Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1 That Boots VHD From USB Flash Drive
Is there anyway to add RAID after the fact to an VHD install? I used this guideline http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee731893%28WS.10%29.aspx to create the OS and everything seems to be ...
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Which ports to open for Hyper-V
We have two physical servers on the different area protected by firewalls. We want to build Hyper-V cluster for this servers. We found the article from Microsoft VMM Ports and Protocols, but there are ...
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Hyper-V cluster VS regular cluster
We need to choice between Hyper-V and regular cluster technologies. What is the advantage and disadvantage of these approaches?
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We have to physical servers and want to build reliably ...
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After extending the VHD the Drive is now set to Foreign disk and unallocated space
I have a Hyper V server 2008 r2 - we have the VM running SQL server on it's D Drive. I extend the D drive and restarted the VM, but I could not see the D drive and I then went to Disk management and ...
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Why are my HyperV VM's randomly losing connectivity?
I have a strange intermittent connectivity problem happening about once every two weeks.
First my configuration: I am running a HyperV failover cluster with two physical hosts (node01 and node02). ...
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Resolution path for fixing Hyper-V VM migraton from a host in one domain to a host in another domain
I have 2 Hyper-V servers one Windows Server 2008 and one Windows Server 2008 R2. I moved a VM from the 2008 box to the 2008 R2, with the 2008 on domain X and the 2008 R2 on domain y.
When the ...
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Hyper-V: 'machine' could not initialize
I looked for a lot of articles regarding my problem, but none of them seem to explain this particular behavior.
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 installed as a host OS and a Hyper-V role enabled.
I ...
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Hyper-V server and SAS HBA
I cannot find the option how to install SAS HBA (HP SC08Ge) into Hyper-V server to see the exported LUNs. Could you please help me in this matter ?
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Hyper-V Processor Limitations
We have recently purchased a server which is running Hyper-V 2008 R2 bare metal. The server has two quad-core Intel Xeon processors with hyperthreading, so if I'm understanding correctly this gives us ...
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Setting up an NLB cluster in Hyper-V
I am setting up a test environment in Hyper-V.
All machines run windows 2008. And configured with a single network card.
I have AD and SQL Server.
I also have 3 web servers that I want to configure ...
