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Microsoft Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based virtualization system for x86-64 systems. Hyper-V exists in two variants: as a stand-alone product called Microsoft Hyper-V Server, and as an installable role in Windows Server 2008 and later. Both variants are able to run in Windows Server Core versions.

Microsoft Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based virtualization system for x86-64 systems. Hyper-V exists in two variants: as a stand-alone product called Microsoft Hyper-V Server, and as an installable role in Windows Server 2008 and later. Both variants are able to run in Windows Server Core versions.

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Hyper-V Manager/Server failover/redirections

I have currently one Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 server installed, it's successfully running 4 VM's, but memory/RAM is starting to become sparse. I actually have a 2nd machine available, so my great idea was go ahead and set up a second Hyper-V server on…
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Is using a RAM Disk to serve IIS ASP.net beneficial on a VM Webserver?

Setup: Windows Server 2008 R2, Hosted on HyperV Virtual Machine allocated 3GB Memory. I've setup a RAMDisk (capacity of 512MB more than sufficient for our requirements) using ImDisk on this virtual web server and allocated it 3GB of RAM (the hosted…
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Problems registering Selenium nodes on Hyper-V

Using Selenium Grid 2. Hub is running on the Hyper-V host and is listening to port 4444. I've confirmed this by browsing to it from a different PC, and by using netstat -a -t -o. However, my guest VMs cannot connect to port 4444 on the host. They…
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Small Business Server with Hyper-V role despite it not being supported?

I know that adding the Hyper-V role to a Small Business Server 2008 installation is not supported as stated by Microsoft Support (KB 958829). I'm aware that I can use Virtual Server 2005 to host my testing virtual machines on SBS 2008 if I have…
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exchange server 2003 on hyper-v

are there any plans (by MS) for hosting exchange server 2003 on hyper-v?
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Does Hyper-V support GPT disks on the host?

Are there any issues with Hyper-V (on Server 2008 r2) if the host is formatted as GPT? Someone out there has tried this...
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Preparing a hyper-v VM image

We have a Hyper-V Windows Server 2k3, and we're hosting multiple VMs on it. However, right now, we always start the VM creation right on the server, i.e. when preparing a new Ubuntu image, I just install it into a new VM and set it up and when I'm…
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Time sync fails on Hyper-V VM, but succeeds when I log in as a domain user

We have a Windows Server 2003 SP2 VM running on Hyper-V (Server 2008 R2 host). The VM has Hyper-V time synchronization enabled. I noticed that the time on the VM was fast by around 25 minutes. I saw the following in the event log: The time…
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Can I "clone" Hyper-V VM's to a physical hard drive then use it in a real PC?

I have Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V. Can I create a Virtual Machine, install Ubuntu 11.10, then "clone" it to a real physical hard drive for use as a real OS in a physical PC?
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VMWare performance for a build server - awful or wrong tests?

We are looking into virtualizing our C++ Build server(s). The main reason being that our current toolchain that we use in addition to the build itself in Visual Studio only runs properly on Windows XP (or 2003Server), and the secondary reason being…
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Running a Domain Controller as 1 VM & a RODC as another on the same machine, will it work?

I have been tasked with replacing our current network using Windows Server 2008 Virtual Machines running on Hyper-V, my question is will a DC as 1 VM work and a RODC as another work on the same machine?
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Join a domain from inside a Hyper-V guest OS

I have a Windows Server 2008 inside Hyper-V. My host OS is a Domain Controller. I can ping my network from the guest OS, but I can't join the domain. It gives a DNS error: The operation returned because the timeout period expired. Could anyone…
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Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Server: Guest Windows Server machine imported - only see blinking underscore

I exported 2 virtual PCs from Hyper-V. and then imported them. I can't start one virtual machine that has Windows Server 2008 R2 installed. The machine starts, but then I only see a blinking underscore. I am trying to run these virtual PCs on…
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Restore Hyper-V image to bare metal

We run Hyper-V on our Win2008R2 server with a DC and Terminal Server as virtualised machines. We're finding that our current usage necessitates a new server to give our terminal server more breathing room. Is it possible to restore a HyperV image…
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Is load balancing necessary in virtual environment (Hyper-V)?

I'm working on the design of the enviroment for an enterprise application. There is a plan to host the application in several VM's on one Hyper-V host. The host server has limited CPU and memory capacity, distributed between VMs. Is it a good idea…
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