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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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Failover Cluster: No disks suitable for cluster disks were found

I am trying to setup a failover cluster with two nodes. After running the validation tests, the storage sections had many warnings. The next step after creating the cluster with two nodes on the same domain is to add storage. I right click on…
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Inducing artificial network latency in Hyper-V

I want to do some testing on how will system performance degrade with various changes in network throughput and latency. I am using Hyper-V for virtualization. Is there a way I can artificially limit throughput and artificially induce latency…
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Backup VHD: risks?

I've just installed a 2008 R2 and ran Windows Update multiple times until nothing showed up anymore. No roles have been added yet, and no additional software has been installed. The machine has joined a domain. Can I safely backup the VHD file and…
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How do I ensure that a member server DNS client (dnscache) is not initialized until its hyper-v domain controller has started?

I have a laptop configured in the following manner: Laptop is Server 2008 R2 member server running Hyper-V connected to the internet via a Wireless adapter One virtual machine is a Server Core 2008 R2 configured to run as a Domain Controller and…
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Configure LeftHand iSCSI SAN for jumbo frames after clients are configured

This is similar to enabling jumbo frames on an iSCSI network after the fact but in our case we configured the switches and then went through all the hosts, enabling jumbo frames (we may have screwed ourselves here). The SAN is a Lefthand (actually…
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Win Server 2008 + Virtualization, A Beginners question

I want to start my first virtualized work environment and i don't know what is better to do. I have windows 2008 R2 Std edition. i want to setup 2 HyperV machines Do i first setup the windows server on the HW or do i better install the HyperV Core…
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SQL + Hyper-V cluster on the same hardware

We have 5 new Windows (2008 R2) servers on our disposal. We plan to configure them this way: 3 web servers running IIS and DFS-replication (load balanced) 2 SQL servers running SQL server 2008 R2 in Active/Passive clustered configuration Now, for…
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Hyper-V Ubuntu Networking Problems Copying Large Amounts of Data

I am trying to copy a large amount (about 50 GB) of data over my network from a Hyper-V-hosted virtual machine running Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) to another (non-virtual) Ubuntu host that I plan to use for testing upgrades to one of our web…
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Hyper-V not scaling processor access for Windows Server 2000 VM

I have a Dell R710 rack hosting several VM's: Windows Server 2008 R2 w/ Hyper-V dual Xeon 5520's @ 2.26 GHz 32GB mem teamed nic (4 gigabit NICs) all VM's are on their own set of mirrored SAS disks My problem is with a virtual Windows 2000 server…
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Does SQLIO lie when run from a Hyper-V guest on a VHD?

SQLIO seems like a useful tool. I thought it would be interesting to try to measure the speed difference between a physical disk and a VHD. So I ran SQLIO on the Hyper-V host on the physical drive. Results seemed reasonable. Then I ran it from…
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VMRC equivalent for Hyper-V?

VMRC was the client tool used to connect to virtual machines running on Virtual Server. Upgrading to Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role, i need a way for people to be able to use the virtual machines. Note: not all virtual machines will…
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Hyper-V cluster VS regular cluster

We need to choice between Hyper-V and regular cluster technologies. What is the advantage and disadvantage of these approaches? Update: We have to physical servers and want to build reliably solution using cluster approach. We need to clustering our…
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Should I Run TMG as a Hyper-V Guest

Okay here's an interesting question. In two parts: Is it advisable to run TMG as a hyper-v guest in production? (something is nagging me that it's not a good idea, but it's possible to give a VM exclusive access to a NIC and technically the "host"…
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SCVMM V2V conversions stopped working - BITS timeout

I set up System Center Virtual Machine Manager some time ago. We barely use it, except to do conversions from VMWare to Hyper-V. When I initially set it up, it worked fine for this purpose. Now, when I try to do a V2V conversion, the job fails…
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Resolution path for fixing Hyper-V VM migraton from a host in one domain to a host in another domain

I have 2 Hyper-V servers one Windows Server 2008 and one Windows Server 2008 R2. I moved a VM from the 2008 box to the 2008 R2, with the 2008 on domain X and the 2008 R2 on domain y. When the migration finished I was left with this batch of warning…
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