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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Hyper-V Server Cluster with Microsoft iSCSI Target Storage

I Have a windows 2008 R2 Ent Server. I installed a Microsoft iSCSI Target 3.3 configured and everything was fine until one reboot. The iSCSI Service will not start. You Can reproduct the error: 1 Install Windows Server 2008 R2 Ent. (64bit) 2 …
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Creating Hyper-V Images for SharePoint 2010

So this best practise guide mentions that I can create a hyper-v image from a new install of SharePoint 2010, is it possible to run more than one machine (copied from this image) on the same network? I thought you had to have a unique instance of…
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Linux software RAID-5: failed drive doesn't degrade the array

I have a CentOS 6.0 install sitting in a Hyper-V VM. I'm trying out some of the software RAID features of Linux and I've got a RAID-5 array made up of virtual SCSI disks. Most of it works fine: if I shut down the VM and delete one of the disks, the…
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Disk Latency High on Hyper V (20ms to 100ms for avg. disk write)

I am running Hyper V on a 12 GB, i7 Sever with 5 VMs running. I had the impression that the VMs operate quite slowly but the memory consumption and cpu utilization are not worth mentioning so I started the performance monitor and found out that…
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Windows Server/Hyper-V: Route all traffic to a specific public IP to a certain VM

I am running Hyper-V on a server with one physical NIC which has multiple public IP adresses assigned (a whole subnet). Is there a way to tell Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V or "Routing and Remote Access" that I want to route ALL traffic to a certain…
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Hyper-V - main drive is running .avhd snapshot rather than .vhd main drive

I have a 2008 HYPER-V host crash on me last night. Now as I am trying to restore the VM it looks like the XML file is pointing to the .avhd snapshot as the primary drive. Not sure how long this has been happening, but how would I restore this VM? …
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Managing Hyper-V in a domain with RPC errors

I've got an awkward setup here. I've got a domain controller (2008 R2 STD) in the United States, and a Hyper-V 2008 R2 server (Raw Hyper-V server) and a Windows 7 workstation, all connected to a domain. The Hyper-V server and the Windows 7…
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Can Resource Monitor include Hyper-V machines memory consumption in its results?

Windows Resource Monitor is a nice (and built-in) tool providing a fast overview of resource utilization. On a server with Hyper-V installed, it correctly shows the CPU and disk activity generated by the virtual machines, but somehow they are…
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HP NC382i: Network controller failed to exchange interface with the bus driver

This morning we had an odd problem on a server running hyper-v. It was the second time we've seen the exact same problem int he last 6 months and I am a bit mystified as to the cause. The physical host and the virtual machines cease having access to…
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Hyper-V machines refusing to start after BIOS upgrade

I have a Windows 2008 Server with Hyper-V installed, and a couple of VMs. All was working properly until I tried upgrading BIOS. All of a sudden I get permission denied when attempting to start any VM, saying 'general access denied error' on the vhd…
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Applying the virtual licence for HyperV server

I'm running Windows Server 2008 R2 with HyperV. We have a virtual image dev environment running in the virtual machine, which comes under Microsoft's licensing; one real, and one virtual machine on Windows 2008 Standard Server. However I can't find…
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Migrating from exported Hyper-V VM to ESXi

Is is possible to directly migrate an exported Hyper-V virtual machine to ESXi?
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Does Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager Support Storing VHDs on File Server Share?

I have a Hyper-V server running perfectly fine with the VHDs placed on a separate file server shared folder. Now when I install MS Virtual Machine Manager and add the host machine to VMM, it says "Unsupported Configuration" next to each of the…
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Is it possible to do a V2V VM conversion while preserving snapshots?

Is it possible to convert a VM from VMware to Hyper-V (or vice versa) and preserve the snapshots? For example, I have a VM in VMWare workstation and I want to convert it to Hyper-V, but I want all the VMware snapshots to translate to Hyper-V…
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Hyper-V Development Server - best 4 drive configuration?

We're building a development Hyper-V server that will be shared among 4-6 .Net developers. We'll be running mostly Win2k8R2 VMs with services including MSSQL, SharePoint, TFS, continuous integration, etc. Again, this is a dev machine used for…
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