Questions tagged [hyper-v-server-2008-r2]
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How to enable Internet Sharing (ICS) in Windows Server 2012 R2 VPS?
I have a VPS running in Windows Server 2012 R2. It has one ethernet connection which is a Hyper-V Network Adapter and there is no internet sharing option on it's right click properties. How do I ...
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How to restore Hyper-V VMs from a crashed Windows 2008 R2 server?
We had a windows 2008 R2 server with a lot of VMs in it which crashed. We were able to recover the content of the "Hyper-V" folder located in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V from the crashed ...
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WIn-10 On Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
I have been running on 2008 R2 for a few years now though I had to replace the server hardware last year. My server is simple (systems info. below) and is basically running MS SQL Server 2014, ...
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Convert VMs from Hyper-V to VMWare ESXi
I'm having a nightmare with migrating some VMs from Hyper-V to ESXi.
The Hyper-V Server is running Windows Server 2008 R2 and the ESXi version is 6.5.
I've tried using the VMWare vCenter Converter ...
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Network connection from guest VM works only to Hyper-v host (Hyper-v host is in turn installed on ESXi)
A Hyper-v host (Windows server 2008 R2) is installed on Vmware ESXi 5.5. Another Windows server 2008 R2 is installed as a guest on Hyper-v. The problem is that the guest does not have access to the ...
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Hyper-V memory allocation
I currently have a Win 2008r2 server with 132 GB of Ram installed. I also have a hyper-v machine currently running. I can not increase the ram past 52000mb under static. I currently have memory ...
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Cannot install Windows Server 2016 on 2008 R2 Hyper-V due to MACHINE CHECK EXCEPTION stop error
I'm trying to create a Windows Server 2016 instance on Hyper-V 2008 and it fails to boot from the ISO because of a stop error "MACHINE CHECK EXCEPTION". Is installing 2016 not possible on an OS as old ...
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How to create a virtual router with hyper v?
I am using the Hyper V service on a Windows Server 2008 r2 (core installation). The Hyper V manager runs on a Windows 7 machine. My question is: is it possible to create a virtual router with Hyper V ?...
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Storage pool gone after reinstallation of OS
I had a Windows 2012 R2 hyper-v core installed on a disk that crashed.
I had set up a storage pool with 4 disks in it.
I replaced the crashed disk and reinstalled the OS, but the storage pool is gone....
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Can't Install Windows 10 1607 virtual machine Guest on Server 2008 R2 Host
Trying to install the new Windows 10 1607 Enterprise OS as a virtual Machine using Hyper V on a Server 2008 R2 Host.
When I start the installer I get the Windows logo for 5 seconds.
Then the screen ...
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Hyper-V 2008 R2 Core system hangs on Applying computer setting for 3 hours
I have a standalone Hyper-V 2008 R2 server with 3 guests running on it.
After the reboot of the physical server it hangs on "Applying computer settings" for 3 hours. After that you get a chance to ...
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Converting HyperV 2008R2 image to 2012R2
I have a HyperV 2008R2 VHD image created with a 2008R2 based template configuration being - 2G RAM, 40GB disk, 2 CPUs and 2 bridge port network interfaces.
Would like to know if it is possible to ...
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Hyper-V on 2012R2 HyperV Edition or 2008R2 Standard Edition?
We are currently running VMWare ESXi, with 1 Windows 2008 R2 Standard instance, 1 Windows 7 instance and 2 Linux instances.
So, recently I wanted to upgrade my server, because there were a lot of ...
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Creating a failover cluster of 2 VMs
I'm trying to create a cluster of 2 VMs on hyper v. The 2 VMs and the host server all running on win 2008 r2.
When attempting to test validation for the failover cluster I'm getting an error of "disk ...
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Using Windows 10 to manage Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2
Is it possible to remotely manage Hyper-V running on Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V Manager on Windows 10? I know that the Hyper-V Manager on Windows Server 2012 R2 is not backwards ...
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Hyper V 2008 enterprise not fully utilising system memory
I have 4 VM's running on hyper v 2008 R2 enterprise. Two of them have a warning memory status. Thus both have more memory demand than assigned memory.
But On windows the physical memory usage is ...
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Hyper-V avhd files compressed
I have inherited a machine at a client site that the previous IT person thought it would be a bright idea to compress all the AVHD and the base VHD files for one of their servers running under hyper-v ...
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Recovering from a HyperV snapshot being manually deleted incorrectly
I have a Windows 2008 Hyper-V (6.1.7601.17514) host which has a guest VM running in Hyper-V. The guest had 2 snapshots created after software was originally installed on it.
At some point, someone ...
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Hyper-V - Upgrading a 3 node 2008R2 cluster to 2012R2
I'm just after a some advice/tips on upgrading our 3 node Hyper-V cluster from 2008R2 to 2012R2.
I have 3 x Dell r710s running Server 2008R2DC. These are clustered and running about 15 VMs (5 on each ...
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The application encountered an error while attempting to change the state of Virtual Machine over windows server 2008 R2 sp1 host
I had to shut down my VM on the Hyper V host and when i tried to start it again. i started to have this Error Application error when you attempt to change the status of Svv-Log01
Did anyone face this ...
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HyperV 2008 R2 shows less hdd space for Ubuntu 10.04
We are trying to install Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS on HyperV 2008 server as virtual machine. We have set 300GB as fixed hdd but while installation of OS the partition manager shows 136gb.
Can you please ...
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HP server converted from physical to virtual has no network devices and mouse won't captured after every reboot
I just converted HP Proliant DL380 G7 Windows Server R2 Standard using Disk2Vhd utility. Removed a few HP based things, assigned static IP addresses and then rebooted.
When rebooted, there were no ...
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Windows 2008 r2 showing single disk with 2 partition
On Virtual server Windows 2008 R2 install on hyper-v 2008.
I have a two disk but they have two partition marge as single array 0 I think.
I need to convert Dynamic disk to Basic Disk but at the ...
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Transfering Hyper-V VM os to boot Server directly from SAN through iSCSI
I have Hyper-V VMs (main application server 2008 R2 on IBM and MSSQL on DELL), both virtualized in Hyper-V 2012. I have discovered some performance offset when using virtualized OS (Terminal server) ...
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Cannot remove snapshot Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
I am slowing going through and removing snapshots that for some inexplicable reason have been running since 2012!!!!!!!
Most have been fine to delete and let the merge happen offline or at worst ...
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Why does a Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008 R2 server occasionally stall?
I'm running a Virtual Machine server on Hyper-V that stalls about once a week, effectively rendering certain services it is running to be useless.
-The physical host machine
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Hyper-V Guest OS sees partition as RAW
I have a 2TB array that is partitioned into a 100GB C: and 100GB D: drives. The C: drive was a Server 2008R2 that was P2V and is now running as a guest on a Windows 2012R2 host. The Host OS sees the D:...
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Backing up Hyper-V VM with snapshots: Which files are absolutely necessary?
I made a mistake when deleting a snapshot I had made for an update, in that I never allowed it to merge back into the VHD file. I didn't realize this mistake until the avhd file grew to over 300GB, ...
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Windows Sever 2000 machine with striped scsi disk to VHD
Currently have a lot of servers running legacy applications that only work with W2k running on very old hardware that needs to be replaced.
The plan is to convert each current machine into a VHD and ...
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Static IP injection to guest VM in Win2k8
Is there a way to inject IP address and do network configuration of a CentOS VM running on Windows server 2008?
In Win2k12 there is SetGuestNetworkAdapterConfiguration using which IP address can be ...
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Cant run WPF applications on Hyper-V Server 2008 r2 SP1 (core)
i'm trying to run one of my WPF application in a Hyper-V Server 2008 r2 sp1 but it crashes on startup.
I created my application with .net 4.0 and looks like it crashes before my first line of code is ...
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Allow Non-Technical Staff to reboot a Hyper-V VM
I have a Hyper-V host machine with a number of guests. One of the guests is a Linux VM running a vendor app that isn't exactly the most robust piece of software in the world. About once per week, ...
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Hyper-V File Server Backup [closed]
I have some questions that I know you guys will be able to answer. I am a new IT guy for a manufacturing plant. I am new to being an IT manager having only a background in Staples Easytech and ...
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HyperV 2008 with HyperV 2012
We currently have a Windows 2008R2 Hyper V server with 4 VMs. We would like to get another Windows hyper v server host to add a few new servers for a long term project.
My question is if we go with ...
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Exchange 2013 as VM vs Exchange Physical Server [closed]
We are planning on installing a new Exchange 2013 server into our network (we currently use hosting now). We will be hosting about 200 mailboxes and clients are in 5 locations.
Has Exchange 2013 come ...
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How can I create an external switch but refrain to use the external dhcp in Hyper V?
The requirement might seem strange. I have an organisational network (external network), but I desire to create a own private network of VMs in Hyper-v with its own domain and DHCP server(which runs ...
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Command line repair of RAID5 set on Server 2008 HyperV (or Core)
I have a HyperV box that is showing bad blocks on one of the disks. I got this from diskpart;
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
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Is it possible to export a HyperV VM from Server 2012R2 and import it into HyperV on Server 2008R2?
I'm planning on migrating 2 HyperV VMs that are currently running on Windows Server 2012R2 to a new server running 2008R2. What's the best way to migrate the VMs? Will replication work between the two ...
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Restoring a VM from a backed up snapshot in Windows Server 2008R2
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 cluster with a number of guest VMs that are undergoing weekly maintenance for backups, performed in a save -> export -> start process. This process was taking up ...
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Hyper-V network dies after a few days of uptime
I have a Hyper-V server that randomly just drops off the internet in no specific pattern. It will go fine running five VMs that all have their own IPV4 in a /29 subnet.
The host machine is on a ...
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How to delete a Virtual Machine from Hyper-V Failover Cluster
I have a Hyper-V 2008 R2 failover cluster with 3 nodes. I added new 3 Virtual Machines to the failover clusters, one of them failed with errors:
Event ID: 1069
Cluster resource 'Virtual Machine ...
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Hyper-v network issues on initial connection
I am running hyper-v on very capable hardware, host is Server 2012r2 and guest is 2008r2. The problem I am seeing is that, when the guest has not had network access attempted in a while or has been ...
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Configure Windows 2012 VHD to boot in Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V
I have a server running Windows 2008 R2 and Hyper-V. I use this server routinely to create Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 VHDs to boot within Hyper-V and natively.
I have created a VHD, used imagex to ...
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Can't shut down HyperV VM with Powershell despite admin rights
I am attempting to use a script that shuts down my Hyper-V VMs, copies their VHDs to a target share, then boots them back up. I found the script on spiceworks just a couple days ago. I always receive ...
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How can I quickly relocate an entire virtual machine to a new location?
We are using Hyper-V in a clustered Server 2008 R2 environment with 3 identical hosts. Virtual machines are stored on cluster shared volumes (CSV's) on a SAN backend connected via iSCSI.
What is the ...
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Can't start VM on Hyper-V 2008R2 cluster
I have a Server 2008R2 Hyper-V cluster with 2 nodes. They use a CSV on a SAN. I use SCVMM to manage them. We recently had several crashes that caused a failover, making virtual machines die and ...
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How do I reserve RAM on the Hyper-V 2012 host partition for VMs only?
I have a situation where a Hyper-V 2012 cluster node cannot support 2 VMs when I think it should. Presently, I'm playing around with 96GB RAM, and I want to have 2 47GB VMs running (static RAM). That ...
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How can I move the data files for a VM to another location?
We have a cluster of 3 x 2008 R2 physical hosts running Hyper-V.
How do I safely move the VHD(s) and accompanying XML files, etc, for a specific VM to a new location? I want to keep the VM with the ...
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Veeam Backup (free version) can't find it's own server
I have a few servers that each have a few vm's on them. After running the install of the free version of veeam backup, I go into the program and add the new servers first. The servers run 2008 R2 ...
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Running WDS with multicast enabled from within a Hyper-V cluster
I'm attempting to run a multicast installation with WDS over my network, where WDS is hosted in a virtual machine in a Hyper-V cluster.
I believe we've paved over most of the network-related issues - ...
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