Questions tagged [hyper-v-server-2012-r2]
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Can't Connect to some Hyper-V 2012 R2 servers after Windows 10 Updrade on Domain
After upgrading my PC from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, i am unable to connect to some of our Hyper-V 2012 R2 Servers from Hyper-V Manager.
Both my PC and all our Hyper-V servers are joined to the same domain, all the hyper-v servers are running 2012…

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Migrating Vmware to Hyper-V - number of Virtual CPU
I'm performing a migration from VmWare to Hyper-V and the Virtual CPU that you are assigning to a Virtual Machine is different and I'd like to know what should be the equivalent values when we move a VMachine from Vmware to Hyper-V
For example On…

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What hotfixes/updates does a new 2012 R2 Hyper-V server need?
I'm building several new 2012 r2 Hyper-V servers. One thing that I've read over and over again is that there are A LOT of hotfixes that i need to install on top of the regular OS updates Microsoft pushes via Windows Updates. Every article i read…

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2012r2 Server Mananger not showing all VDI Desktops in Collection
We are running a 4 node 2012r2 Hyper-V Cluster and using Microsoft's RDS/VDI for serving up Virtual Windows 7 desktops. Right now we have about 90 desktops in 3 collections of 30 desktops each.(I know it's hardware overkill but we expect to ramp…
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Can't access newly migrated Hyper V guest from LAN
I migrated a working Hyper-V guest server from one physical server to another by stopping the machine, copying the files manually, then importing by "registering in place".
The import completed and the newly registered machine booted fine on the new…

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Hyper-V Manager shows 3 sockets/NUMA nodes available but there are only 2
I just stumbled above this weird NUMA configuration on one of our Hyper-V virtual machines. How comes it shows 3 NUMA nodes?
This is what the Task Manager (correctly) tells me.

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Adding new processor to HyperV server?
I currently have a HyperV Server 2012 R2 running on a motherboard that supports two processors, but currently has only one. It has 64GB of memory. I'd like to now add a second processor, moving half of the existing memory to the new processor,…

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HyperV External Switch Multiple VMs
I'm quite new to hyperv and I am having problems setting up network access for my VMs.
The host has two physical network ports and I've assigned one to an external virtual switch.
I've then setup two CentOS VMs to connect via the external…

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Hyper-V 2012 R2: VM thinks disks are thin-provisioned
We are using Hyper-V 2012 R2 on a Windows Server 2012 R2 host. We have several VMs with multiple volumes (VHDX) which we initially set up as thin-provisioned (dynamically expanding). Later on, we converted them to fixed size VHDX due to performance…

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Hyper-V Replica Capacity Planner stuck getting VM information
I'm trying to use the Capacity Planner for Hyper-V Replica tool to estimate requirements for a replica site.
It keeps getting stuck "Getting the VM and VHD from primary site, this can take upto several minutes...". I've waited over an hour, and it…

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How to configure Windows Hyper-V server with Windows Storage Spaces
I creating a Hyper-V home setup.
I have a single Machine (haswell CPU, 16GB ram, and SSD)
Storage is attached as DAS (5 Disk USB 3.0 enclosure)
I want that machine to be a Hyper-V host (Windows Std. 2012R2 or the Free Hyper-V Server).
I need to have…

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VM freezing during WinPE boot up
Got SCVMM 2012 R2 up and running, created a single VM w/ dynamic memory (512MB-4096MB) and a 40GB dynamic disk. The host is configured for NIC Teaming using switch independent configuration.
I setup a legacy network adapter and boot up to WinPE.…

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Ubuntu guests on Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 host won't reboot, but cold-boot normally?
I've tried several existing and new instances of various Ubuntu server instances (12.04 LTS - 13.10). The host is an old desktop I've converted to a host, and is a C2D E6550 with 8GB DDR2.
Basically, if the Ubuntu guests are in an "off" state, and…

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hyper-v 2012 r2 datacenter license
I am trying to set up a virtual machine to use automatic activation. This is the first time I have done this, and I got the following error:
Windows Script Host
Error: 0xC004F050 The Software Licensing Service reported that the product key is…

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drive filling from .avdhx files from Hyper-V replication
we have a Windows Server 2012 R2 running Hyper-V with a Gen1 VM. This VM was setup for replication with "create additional hourly recovery points" with setting of 24. Things had been just fine until replication broke. I didn't notice this for awhile…

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