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Windows Server 2016 Datacenter VMs running on Hyper-V Server 2016

I misread something or I'm doing a terrible mistake here, hopefully you guys can help me. I have set up a Hyper-V Server 2016 on my physical machine (or bare metal as it's called) which has 1 processor with 4 cores. Afterwards, I connected with…
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Hyper-V 2016 DDA issue: a VM boot fails when a drive is connected to an opposite NUMA node

Brief description: the host is Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Build 14393 (UEFI) running Hyper-V role. SR-IOV and Intel VT are enabled. 4x Intel® Optane ™ SSD 900P 280GB PCIe NVMe 3.0 drives are connected to the host. To check DDA support, I execute…
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Replicated Hyper-V guest stuck merging on Hyper-V 2016

Since upgrading some host servers to Hyper-V Core 2016, I've been having some problems with replication coupled with checkpoints. In my present example, I have a replicated Hyper-V guest (Gen2, V5.0). We run a nightly backup process which will take…
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Hyper-V: allow communication between two internal NAT networks

I am a bit new to networking in Hyper-V, and I am not sure how to connect two separate NAT networks to each other. I used the following link to create two internal NAT networks: https://www.petri.com/using-nat-virtual-switch-hyper-v Here are the…
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Can you run server 2003R2 as a guest OS in a server 2016 cluster

We are in the process of specing out a project for a client to upgrade their cluster hardware and host OS. They are currently using a server 2012 R2 cluster. We are going to take them to a server 2016 cluster. However I found 2 server 2003R2 VMs.…
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How can Hyper-V failover be done without Active Directory

We are a small outfit, and I am running 4 webservers, 2 SQL servers, and a Reporting Server as VM's in Hyper-V on WinServer2016 (datacentre edition). I want to be able to have a failover from this machine (Dell R620) to a copy of it. The servers are…
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Hyper-v : Replicate VM Settings

Should Hyper-V replication carry changes to underlying VM settings, such as increasing memory, adding a vCPU, or in this specific case, adding a NIC? I'm running Server 2016 Datacenter edition and Hyper-V replication is via Failover Cluster Manager…
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Using a replica VM as main VM on replacement server - Hyper-V

I need to migrate a number of VM's to a new server and was wondering if it is possible to use the approach of replicating the VM's to the new server with the new server acting as the replica destination and then simply use these replicas as the main…
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hyper-v 2016 remote management

I use a host running 2012 R2, use it to manage a two hyper-v 2012r2 hosts. I can RDP and remote PS to them ,computer management , server manager, run hyper-v manager and see all of their vms etc. I just installed hyper-v 2016 on a new server. joined…
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Error replacing StoragePool disk - not supported

I can't replace hard disks in my existing StoragePool, it fails when adding new disks. My question seems similar to this one, but that can't be the answer, because I've been using it for over a year now and just want to change some of my disks. I…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V guest (sometimes) does not get enough dynamic memory

I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V guest (the host is Windows Server 2016) which sometimes (for example, right now) fails to get more memory even though dynamic memory is enabled, plenty of memory is available on the host, and the guest…
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Hyper-V 2016 doesn't shut down guests on host restart / shutdown

I am running an Hyper-V host with Windows Server 2016 Datacenter. All guests are configured to be saved at host shutdown and automatically startet again at host startup. This worked for a long time, but now it stopped working. It seems that the…
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Win Server 2016 Hyper-V checkpoints - using them in production

Sysadmins have known for a long time that snapshots, or as they are now called, "Checkpoints" are excellent for dev / testing, but not suitable for use in production as they require a chain of VHDX files, making the server slower and more…
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I am actively running Windows 2016 Hyper-V *WITHOUT* SLAT *OR* VMX - how is this possible?

Correct me if I am wrong, but one of the more defining features of Hyper-V on Windows 2016 is that, like Windows 8, the INTEL features known as SLAT and VMX have become a required feature in order to even install the Hyper-V service in the first…
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How to resolve hyper-V error message when booting up a VM?

I'm running this on Windows Server 2016 Essentials. There's a single local VM set up in the Hyper-V. The guest VM is Windows 10 Pro. Again, that VM runs from the same physical server. When the host OS boots up, and I attempt to run this VM, it…
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