Questions tagged [hyper-v]

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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Adding a second VHD to a Hyper-V VM programatically or from the command line

I have been scripting the creation of my Hyper-V VMs with vbscript successfully for sometime now. All the technician has to do is run my script, select the type of server they are building (EG. a Web server, SQL server, etc) and all the appropriate…
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Server 2008 BSOD about once a week

I'm in quite a bind here, hopefully someone can help. Here's what I have: Dell R710 with one Xeon 2.7 GHz processor, 18GB Ram, Server 2008 x64 SP2 I'm running HyperV with about 5 servers. Starting in Jan I've had problems with crashing. First time…
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SCVMM 2008 R2 Powershell Commands

I am running SCVMM 2008 R2 with 3 hosts. Right now I am patching the hosts, so I am running the command disable-vmhost hostA -MoveWithinCluster Is there a command that I can run or switch I can enable to direct where the machines on hostA get…
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Backing up HyperV VMs on a dedicated server

I have a dedicated server, and just started installing some VMs on to the box using HyperV. I am currently backing up the VMs using a HyperV backup tool, which seems to work quite well, and then the directory it backs up to is backed up using…
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Hyper V internal network with internet access

I was wondering if this is possible. I would like to setup an internal virtual network, with internet access. I'm trying to create a lab environment for some testing. Nothing in the Lab Environment can touch the production network that the host…
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Microsoft Hyper-v Server 2008 R2, is it realy free?

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/hyper-v-server/buy.aspx Is this product truly free to use in a commercial environment? I plan on migrating from ESXi and this seems like the ideal solution.
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Hyper-V - Not your standard V2V

The main question is: Can I perform a Virtual to Virtual Conversion from one Hyper-V Server to another Hyper-V Server? Why I need to convert instead of a myriad of other options: We've got a RHEL 5 server that somewhere along the way someone took a…
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Using bridge connection to get ip access from guest in Hyper V

I want to access the internet on a dedicated second public ip from the guest. I have created an internal only network in Hyper-V Manager. The virtual network is in a bridged connection to the physical network card on the host. I have specified the…
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DPM 2010 - Performance when backing up Hyper-V Cluster

At my company we are backing up about 150 Hyper-v VMs in an Hyper-v cluster using CSVs (Windows 2008 R2). The space used by these VMs is about 18TB on SAN storage and 1GB network. We are using DPM 2010 to backup the VMs from the Cluster NODEs (6 of…
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How to create a private network for 2 VMs across different VM host?

I have 2 VMs running on separate Hyper-V hosts. I want to create a private network so that the 2 VMs can talk to each other but they cannot access the external network. I know VLAN would be one option. But my switch doesn't support VLAN. Can I find…
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Remotely connecting to hyper-v hosts from another host in the same cluster sometimes shows red error

We have a hyper-v host cluster with relatively new hardware. The hosts and the VMs on them all work good, except when I connect to any hyper-v host from another host in the same cluster (remotely using Hyper-V manager), sometimes displays red error…
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Convert physical centos to VHD

Is there any software to convert physical machine with centOS operationg system to VHD image?
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Problem with Routing between Hyper-V VM's

We have a few VM's on a Windows 2008 Server (Hyper-V) and are having a problem with routing between them. The setup is that the Hyper-V server runs RRAS and maps IP's on its NIC to internal IP's (192.168.1.X) that the VMs use. The VMs use the…
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Inbound routing stops working on Windows 2003 Server x32 behind RRAS and Hyper-V

We are having a weird issue with a Windows 2008 DCE Server running a Windows 2003 R2 SP2 x32 Server in a Hyper-V instance behind RRAS. Essentially, this server stops receiving inbound traffic through RRAS periodically. Connecting to the server via…
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Hyper-V virtual machine unable to get IP address from DHCP server running on same physical box

We have a Windows server 2008 R2 with two network cards running AD, DHCP, DNS and Hyper-V The first nic is setup with a static IP address and DHCP, WDS, and DNS are bound to it. The second nic is configured in Hyper-V to be only used by Hyper-V and…