Questions tagged [hyper-v-server-2012]

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Poor RemoteFX Performance

I have Hyper-V running on an DELL Optiplex 9020MT Core i7 3.8GHz with 32GB RAM on Windows Server 2012 R2. For testing purposes I enabled RemoteFX on the Intel HD 4600 graphics chip built in to the CPU. I then added the RemoteFX adapter in an 8.1…
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Hyper V with a DELL MD3000 Poor I/O

Current build is 2 Dell R900 24core each 128GB ram - 8x 144GB 15k 2.5 SAS on a Perc 6i local - 15x 300GB 15K 3.5 SAS in a Raid5 DG 6 VG in the MD3000 using 2x Perc 5e HBA - OS Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter partition offset 1024 block size 64k so disk…
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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 rebooted, initial connections fail on the first try…
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Best Configuration for my new servers

I am sorry if it's not a question should be ask in here. I have brought two new IBM x3650 M4 Servers with 2 CPUs, 64GB Memory and 4x 1TB 2.5" HDD. I also have Windows Server 2012 Licence. What I want to accomplish is use these two servers as hyper-v…
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Configuring 1 socket with multiple core on Hyper-V

I've got a Hyper-V 2012 running and need to configure that my virtual CPU are based on one socket. So the guest is seeing one socket with e.g. 4 core. I've found some tool called cpu z should do that, but is the "correct" way of doing this?
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Add-ClusterVirtualMachineRole generates an extra report line

A 3rd party contractor built our sister sites Windows 2012 Hyper-V hosts and they appear to have enabled some setting on one of them that generates an extra report when the following cluster PowerShell command is…
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Network tape devices for backing up from server 2012 virtual machine

Are there any network attached tape devices available to allow us to get data from a server 2012 R2 VM on hyper-V backed-up onto tape? First problem is that server 2012 doesn't support backup to tape, but that can be solved with a 3rd party tape…
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Native server 2012 R2 driver for APC 3000VA (network connected)

Is there a native driver available for an APC network connected UPS on windows server 2012 R2 hyper-V? All I can find from APC is Powerchute. Problem with that is it seems to require Java installed, that just doesn't feel right. I would prefer to…
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restore fails due to insufficent disk space

I'm trying to test my SBS 2008 backup by restoring to a vm on a Hyper-V server. The SBS is a physical machine. I created two vhdx each at 1TB in (fixed) size, which is larger than the actual disks which are 233 and 466 GB each. The restore fails…
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How can you manage Hyper-V 2012 with 2012 r2 guests?

We're setting up three machines to host a total of 12 VMs running 2012 r2. We purchased 6 licenses of 2012 R2, but we're not sure that allows us to install 2012 r2 as a base OS on each box and still have our 12 VMs. Because of this, we installed…
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Just a few questions about Hyper-V virtual machines and clustering

I have been using Microsoft’s Hyper-V technology for a little while now, but I am just now dipping my toe into clustering. In particular, I am trying to implement a fault-tolerant SQL DB. This involves setting up two VMs, clustering them via…
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Hyper-V Dynamic Memory - virtual machine memory usage and host memory demand do not make sense

I have a Hyper-V 2012 R2 server running a number of virtual machines with Dynamic Memory enabled. They all exhibit this behaviour, but here is an example: One of the VM's is a Windows Server 2012 R2 guest, and it's not doing much. Basically sitting…
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Routing and Remote Access Preventing Hyper-V VM shutdown

I have a Windows Server 2012 domain controller with Routing and Remote Access as well as Hyper-V installed. When I try to shut down a Hyper-V VM, the VM goes into the stopping state and never actually gets out of this state until I restart the…
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Is Hyper-V a good choice for installing DC and Exchange 2013 servers on one bare metal server?

I would like to ask you guys, who already done some Hyper-V implementation if it's good idea to use this solution for set-up a small company infrastructure. The idea is to have 1 physical server (2 processors, 32gb ram) and license for Server 2012…
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Hyper-V on one machine

Context: 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 Microsoft technologies. This machine is supposed to…