Questions tagged [hyper-v]
Microsoft Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based virtualization system for x86-64 systems. Hyper-V exists in two variants: as a stand-alone product called Microsoft Hyper-V Server, and as an installable role in Windows Server 2008 and later. Both variants are able to run in Windows Server Core versions.
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Hyper-V replica - PowerShell - replica merge (detect / invoke)
I need a PowerShell command which can detect replica merge process on the specific VM. And to be sure... There is no way how to invoke replica merge process using a PowerShell command.. Am I right?
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Do two VMs on a single Hyper-V host use the NIC when communicating?
I'm fairly new to Hyper-V, and can't seem to find the answer to this question:
Do two virtual machines on a single Hyper-V host use the NIC when communicating with each other?
For example, take this ...
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Hyper-V Core with Basic UPS options
Good morning, running Dell T610 server with Hyper-V Core, just a few VMs, hardware Firewall & Router. My old Belkin UPS failed today so I need to replace asap at cheap cost where possible probably ...
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No disks were found on which to perform cluster validation tests
I am trying to make a cluster of two Hyper-V machines running Windows Server 2012.
There is a SAN available in which I have created several partitions to use such as J drive, K drive L drive etc.
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SCCM 2012 Virtual Lab
I am building an SCCM 2012 virtual lab and I have about 70% of it completed, but I want to test patching, but I dont want to connect my virtual lab to the production environment to pull patches. My ...
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Lab 2012 Hyper-v migration from esxi
I need some clarity on the hyper-v virtualization strategy coming from ESXi 4.x.
Purpose:
A VM for Sql Server 2012 w/ SP1
A VM for Sql Server 2014 CPT1
Hardware:
Poweredge T100 8GB RAM, 2 SSDs ...
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Can i use Hyper-V VM Live-Migrating in a non Domain Environment
Does Hyper-V 3.0 require the Hosts to be joined to a Domain for Livemigrating?
If so, i suspect that the VM's don't have this requirement?
Are ther additional Features i can't use in a Non-Domain/...
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Hyper-V Live migration without shared storage?
Hypothetical scenario:
2 machines running Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
configured as a cluster
VHD files stored on each machine
Is it possible to do a live migration without using shared storage? I ...
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WS 2012 to host linux VMs, should I use AD/DNS or is workgroup better? [closed]
I am setting up a dedicated server that will be running Windows Server 2012, and hosting about 5 Linux VMs, and 1 Windows VM. All the VMs are independent and do not interact with each other. The ...
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Automated Linux VMs on Hyper-V 2012
I have a requirement to create a ton of linux VMs for our customers (we run managed infrastructure) on Hyper-V 2012 in the coming months and I have an issue with automating it.
Here is how I need it ...
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SSH and telnet in Hyper V [closed]
I have installed Windows server 2012 and setup a VM using Hyper-V. I have setup networking using a virtual switch on one of the NIC with address 10.0.0.20. I have assigned a static ip to Ubuntu VM 10....
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Systems Center service template including AD
I'm trying to design an SCVMM (2012 SP1) service template that contains several machines joined in a domain, but the trick is that the very domain controller is also in the template. Ie. the template ...
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Can you increase the size of a VHDX in Hyper-V at a later time?
I have a Hyper-V 2012 server with a 2GB disk.
Currently, there is 50GB free on this disk as the remainder is assigned to a VHDX.
I need to migrate a Windows Server Installation into a new copy of ...
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Glusterfs distributed replicated small files performance
I've set up 4 distributed replicated servers with glusterfs on top of xfs partitions on hyperv server (dynamic vhdx) virtual disks. The NICs are 6x1Gbit (teamed on hyperv).
I share it through samba ...
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How do I find the last start time for a Hyper-V virtual machine?
We're using the Hyper-V role on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012.
We have some virtual machines which are powered off. How can I find out when they were last run?
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Assign Static MAC address to VM Hyperv
I have a scenario that involves building out a ton of virtual machines in Hyper-V, I cannot use SCVMM and must use a scripted method to create these VMs. I have a CSV with all required information ...
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Can't connect to network machine by the name specified in the DNS
I have a virtual machine in Hyper-V using an external network switch. In the network there is a Windows 2008 R2 server which is DC, AD and DNS. In the vm IPV4 settings for the NIC I'm specifying the ...
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How to get from a Hyper-V 2008 R2 node with Powershell the IP address and Vlan ID
I tried to take from the Hyper-V (Hyper-V 2012) node with this command the IP address:
Get-VM | select -ExpandProperty networkadapters | select vmname, ipaddress
The thing is that i take as an ...
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Debian install on Hyper-V: "Unreachable Gateway"
I'm currently running Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012, and I'm trying to get a Debian Wheezy VM running. I've configured the virtual switch and added a legacy network adapter configured to the virtual ...
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How can I tell what Hyper-V enlightenments a 2008R2 guest is using?
I have a Server 2008R2 guest running inside a KVM host. I've enabled various Hyper-V enlightenments through KVM (-cpu host,hv_relaxed,hv_vapic,hv_spinlocks=0x1000), but I'm not sure how I can confirm ...
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Manage virtual machines of different virtualization engines uniformly [closed]
I have several VMs hosted by VMware and several VMs hosted by HyperV. I'm wondering if there is any application/library/API that allows to treat these VMs in a uniform way not depending on ...
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Sysprep fails when using Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager
Sysprep Fails when creating a new Template in Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager:
Error (706)
Sysprep failed for virtual machine VMName
Recommended Action
Try the operation again.
Is there a more ...
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Hyper-V VMs getting stuck at "Stopping"
I have a HP ProLiant MicroServer running Windows Server 2012. It has the Hyper-V role installed, and I have tried guest VMs running both Windows Server 2012 and 2008 R2.
The issue I have is that on ...
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Configuring WSUS server to use NIC#1 (LAN#1) to push, NIC#2 (LAN#2) to sync
Oh boy... This should be easy, but my head is swimming. I work in two domain environments. My primary domain (LAN1) is completely offline, but has regular domain services (DC, DHCP, router (legacy, ...
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vmware on Hyper-v [duplicate]
I'm wondering if it will be possible to install vmware server on a hyper-v image?
Currently I get an error when trying to install.
Setup cannot continue becuase microsofts hyper-v is being used. ...
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How to configre 4-port NIC for standalone Hyper-V server?
I would like to ask you guys for help/hint/recommendation regarding 4-port NIC configuration prior to installing Hyper-V role on my HP DL380 server.
I have 2 boxes on the network:
DC: Server 2012 ...
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Migrating from Windows 8 Hyper-V to Windows Server 2008 R2
Is it possible to create a VM in hyper-v on windows 8, and then migrate it to hyper-v on a windows server 2008R2 computer?
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Hyper-V: Monitor and restart unresponsive hyper-v guests
I'm looking for a simple solution to monitor and restart unresponsive Hyper-V guests.
I only need this solution for a handful of machines, and only around ten guests. It's mostly Ubuntu guests that ...
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Hyper-V: Ubuntu guests running out of memory
We appear to have a problem with Ubuntu guests running out of memory. We have several on 12.04 (LTS) and one on 13.04 and seem to have the same problem.
It takes around 30 days from restart to ...
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VM Partitioning
If this isn't the right place to ask this please redirect me.
I'm using hyper-v to create virtual machines, I have 1.6TB to use, I have the parent on a partition of 50GB, how should I divide up the ...
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Windows Server 2012 and Ubuntu 12.04.1 under Hyper-V
I've set up an instance of Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS under Hyper-V 2012. However it seems to be nondeterministic as to whether or not it completes the boot process.
I get a Kernel Panic, "IO-APIC + timer ...
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is it possible to clone or export a VM from a hyper-v cloud? [closed]
I would like to know how I can get a clone of a machine that we have in our cloud?
We are running hyper-v and are using microsoft virtual machine manager console as a client to manage our virtual ...
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Networking in 2003 SP2 VM running under 2012 Standard Hyper-V, adapter failing
We had a 2003 SP2 Web/SQL Server VM running on a hosts hardware. The hosting company became unresponsive so we decided to move the VM. So far I have done the following:
I used disk2vhd to create a ...
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What is the most reliable and effective way to compact a Hyper-V or Boot to VHD Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) file
I've seen (and tried) many ways to skin this cat, but none are quite as effective as I thought and require a number of manual steps. Here is my scenario:
1) I have installed an OS on a Dynamic ...
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Restoring a hyper-V backup to a different Hyper-V server
Windows 2008 R2 server with Hyper-V being backed up with Windows Server Back up using VSS. Could I restore the vhd and xml files, then transfer them to another server and run them (assuming the ...
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HyperV Migration and DHCP Reservation
In my company network we've 2 HyperV-2012 host with DAS, every server has a DHCP reservation in the DHCP server (windows server 2008).
Yesterday we've migrated (using shared with nothing migration) ...
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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V bad vCPU performance
we have a windows server 2012 enviroment with two hyper-v servers.
Each of them has two 16 Core AMD CPU's, eight 16GB DDR3 ECC RAM modules, 10 HDD's in HW-Raid 6.
Now Hyper-V is running and some VM'...
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Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V RAID-1
I am trying to setup the free version of Hyper-V 2012 at my office. This system will replace an existing VM infrastructure that uses VMWare on Linux. The physical machine has 2x 1TB HDDs that I'd like ...
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Automate Hyper-V post-snapshot merge and machine start
Here's a scenario that occurs quite frequently.
Before installing system updates I create a snapshot of a virtual machine in case something goes wrong. After the update is done and there are no ...
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Do power settings matter for Hyper-V instances?
Do power settings in the actual VMs affect performance of the virtual machines?
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Hyper-V Windows 8 redirect host network traffic to client VM
I have a Windows 8 pro machine running Hyper-V. This is a laptop with a LAN and a Wifi connection. As a consultant, when I'm on the customer's network, internet access is often limited for the ...
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Remote Desktop license server in different domain than VM
My targeted setup:
SLAT enabled laptop w recent graphics card
Win2012 Host OS w Hyper-V role
DirectX 11 driver installed
Win8 VM (OS is joined in my employer's domain)
I RDP into the Win8 VM from the ...
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Hyper V role manual removal on Windows 2008 R2 SP1
Junior admin messed up one of the hyper-v servers. Hi tried to uninstall HyperV role for some reason. I never tried to demote HyperV server so I am stuck somewhere in the middle.
HyperV role won't ...
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How to hide a physical nic card from showing ip in DNS table?
I have a Hyper-V Server running Windows Server 2008R2 which has four physical nics. Is there a way that I can hide three of these nics? The reason is they have static IPs and are showing in the local ...
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Clustering Hyper-V with Server 2012 - MPIO Version Mismatch
I've done a fair bit of searching around online and am having a lot of trouble finding info regarding how to upgrade the Microsoft DSM for MPIO.
I have two nearly identical servers, both with fresh ...
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Provide iSCSI storage for Virtual Environments through host or directly to guests?
We are planning to place a HP MSA P2000 with two FC/iSCSI controllers in our network.
We have two options to provide more storage to Virtual Machines (We are running Hyper-V):
A) Add iSCSI targets ...
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How can a VM in Win 2008R2 cluster take more memory than the allocated Max RAM?
We found in Hyper-V Manager of one of the host servers, that one of the VMs in Win 2008R2 cluster shows "higher" Memory Demand than the Max Dynamic RAM allocated to the VM (attached is the screenshot)....
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Hyper-V on one machine [closed]
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We have one machine Intel Xeon X3440 @ 2.53GHz; 8 GB RAM on which we would like to run windows and linux installations. We have decided to go with Hyper-V since we are mainly focused on ...
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Mount a USB NIC to a VM guest in Hyper-V
I have a Belkin USB Ethernet adapter which is actually required as a dongle for a certain Arm compiler to run (tied to MAC). How can I make this available to a Windows XP VM within Hyper-V, which is ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V VM BSOD after 1min 30seconds even before logging in?
I have a Hyper-V VM running Windows Server 2008 R2 (Host is also WinSrv 2008 R2) that was working perfectly. It has now started BSOD before I even login. On testing if I boot normally and login the vm ...
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