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How do I remotely manage Hyper-V 2016 standalone via Windows 10?
Found my specific issue :) I was using an invalid hostname, and the DNS wasn't resolving properly.
WRONG: server-1.local
RIGHT: server-1-local
But on a different note, I also found that the ...
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Trying to run Hyper-v 2016 from USB
I found the information about deploying Windows Server 2016 TP3 onto an SD card.
https://www.danielstechblog.info/how-to-deploy-windows-server-2016-tp3-onto-an-sd-card/
This topic describes ...
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Windows Server 2016 Datacenter VMs running on Hyper-V Server 2016
What you did wrong is adding the key. Which you needed because... ah.
You should have installed Datacenter on Hyper-V. With a proper key that would auto activate any VM on it. Hyper-V on the host is ...
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Using 2 Hyper-v servers (no AD) with replication to provide seamless swithover
LIveMigration is required to avoid service interruption in you case. To enable LiveMigration and/or automatic failover you need domain joined WSFC (domain independent cluster doesn't support ...
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Get back hyper-v VMs after in place reinstall of host OS
If you have the files, both the vhd(x) and the machine vmx file, and your system is configured the same with similar vSwitch names then you should be able to use the command Import-VM -Register path\...
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Nano Server attached to SAN doesn't see new files
NTFS is not a cluster-aware file system. It was never designed to support simultaneous access from different clients.
In order to allow multiple access: configure MPIO, deploy the Failover Cluster ...
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HyperV 2016 storage redundancy on non-redundant SANs
You can try using StarWind VSAN (Free) to create a highly available (HA) distributed block device between both Hyper-V hosts on top of an existing SANs attached directly to both servers. Since ...
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How can Hyper-V failover be done without Active Directory
You can build Failover Cluster without AD. It is supported to work with SQL Server role. For VMs Live Migration won't work. Should help:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/failover-clustering/...
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Only getting 100 Mbit in Hyper V Guest from 1 Gigabit network connection
Verify that you're not using any of the "Legacy NICs" in your Virtual Machines? These are limited to 100mbps. This may be causing the Virtual Network (bound to the physical NIC) to negotiate the lower ...
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Trying to run Hyper-v 2016 from USB
I encountered this problem recently, and after several days of debugging, I've discovered the issue and fixed it.
Drumroll please:
After installing Hyper-V Server 2016, use an offline tool (like, ...
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I am actively running Windows 2016 Hyper-V *WITHOUT* SLAT *OR* VMX - how is this possible?
I'm a bit new to the SLAT stuff, but from what I have read, you have to run coreinfo BEFORE you install a Hypervisor. It is possible you do have SLAT but coreinfo is reading it incorrectly because ...
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SMB Client Error
I agree with the previous speaker, MPIO is your best bet if you are considering the performance first. As for the configuration in general, I think you can make it less complicated, more reliable and ...
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SMB Client Error
It's a bad idea to mix iSCSI and LACP. Try to un-team your connections and use MPIO where you do trunking so far.
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Last powered off date for a vm in Hyper-V 2016
Since the new version of configuration files on Hyper-V doesn't have such option PowerShell will not give exact information either. Try MSVM_ComputerSystem class in order to get the last state change -...
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Using a replica VM as main VM on replacement server - Hyper-V
I have used Hyper-V replication as a method to migrate VMs. It can work fine. You can't failover(migrate) via replication without stopping the VM during the failover, but that should only take a ...
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Win Server 2016 Hyper-V checkpoints - using them in production
As I understand it you want to build a dev / test environment and crate Checkpoints so that you can roll back changes until you get your environment just the way you want it. if that is the case ...
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Hyper-V 2016 with physical RAID Disk for Files: pass through or discrete device assignment or what?
Pass-through disks are no longer recommended. They no longer provide higher performance than virtual disks, they aren't supported much beyond basic support, they make backups harder, they have a lack ...
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Hyper-v : Replicate VM Settings
I also verified this behaviour in lab.
The documentation about hyper-v replica says :
When you enable Hyper-V Replica for a specific virtual machine, initial replication creates an identical replica ...
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HyperV shared virtual disk
As mentioned, you can't use shared VHDX in W10 VMs simultaneously. The best way would be deploying a File Share, which will be accessed from your VMs. Since you have 2 nodes, you can deploy Failover ...
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Hyper-V (2016) has VM's running I cannot see - how to discover if more?
In Task Manager on your Hyper-V hosts there will be a vmwp.exe process (Virtual Machine Worker Process) running for each virtual machine. Killing those processes will shut down the corresponding ...
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Altaro backup warning
Apparently this is a known issue with Hyper-V 2016 AND 2012 R2 domain controllers as a VM.
Microsoft should be working on a fix for that.
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Hyper-V Role and Hyper-V Server 2016
Just expand the description in your link and it will tell you clearly the purpose of this Hyper-V Server 2016 download option:
The Windows hypervisor technology in Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 is
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Replicated Hyper-V guest stuck merging on Hyper-V 2016
I've managed to recover from this state several times how. This may not work if you've already tried to kill any of the services:
Download PSExec from Microsoft's Sysinternals website
Go to Task ...
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Can you run server 2003R2 as a guest OS in a server 2016 cluster
Indeed, Windows Server 2003R2 is not supported on Hyper-V 2016 but it doesn't mean that it won't work at all.
You can create VM with first (legacy) generation and install integrated services from ...
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What would be the benefit of configuring SOFS with S2D on Server 2016?
S2D is uber-expensive for what it does in terms of storage-only deployment. It's Datacenter-only WS feature so while HCI scenario kind of makes sense - segregated / SOFS definitely doesn't. I'd leave ...
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How to protect host fabric stability in Hyper-V under high load
Do I need to leave one core "free" so that the host stays stable/accessible?
No. See, the "host" is a VM. And that particular master VM has a higher priority than any other VM's.
If so, can I ...
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Hyper-V: allow communication between two internal NAT networks
Each network is effectively isolated behind a separate NAT router managed by Hyper-V, in a similar way that your home router isolates your home network behind a single public IP address. This is how ...
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Using 2 Hyper-v servers (no AD) with replication to provide seamless swithover
You can use Hyper-V Replica and PowerShell script automated failover. See:
PoSh Hyper-V Replica Failover Automation
... just make sure you use some mechanism to avoid split brain scenario, say run ...
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What would be the benefit of configuring SOFS with S2D on Server 2016?
If you don't set up SOFS, your file server (cluster) has a single point of failure. If one of the storage nodes dies, all the shares that it currently owns will fail over to another node, but all ...
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SMB Client Error
We decided to take the suggestions we got here and modify our network based on them:
We added a second VLAN tagged interface to the LBFO-team which we used to enable SMB MultiChannel
Modified the ...
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