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 and SAS HBA

I cannot find the option how to install SAS HBA (HP SC08Ge) into Hyper-V server to see the exported LUNs. Could you please help me in this matter ?
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ESXi vs Hyper-V performance with multiple VM's

We are building a server to run our web site, where we will have following apps running 1. ASP.NET Web Application 2. ASP.NET WCF middletier 3. SQL Server 2008 4. Lucene + Solr + Tomcat 5. MongoDB 6. Memcached Server will have 6 core intel…
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Backup a Hyper-V cluster

We need a backup application to backup our Hyper-V cluster VMs on a shared Dell SAN to another server with 20TB of disk space. Any ideas of software that works well? We tried using DPM 2010 installed on a Dell R510 but DPM will not see the local D…
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Migrating Hyper V VM to new hardware?

I have a Hyper-V Virtual Machine that is running on hardware in a remote datacenter. I would like to take this VM and make a running copy here in the office. Has anybody done a migration like this before? I am curious about what steps I should…
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(0xC03A0014) Failed to add device 'Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk'

We had Windows 2008 SP2 Server. It was crashed due to mother board problem. After we got new motherboard we have installed Windows 2008 R2. Now when we try to attach Old VHD File we are getting following issue. Failed to add device 'Microsoft…
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Installing Integration Services for Hyper-V into CentOS-5.x

I am trying to install Linux Integration Services v2.1 into CentOS 5.5 running on Hyper-V. I have followed the dkms instructions from here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2387594 This works, in that I can install the services and then reboot the…
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Guest OS issue in Hyper-V

My company have one domain controller(win2008 R2) & One Hyper-V Host(win2008 R2 and join in the domain,one network adapter for host management and another one for VM switch). The issue now is:It is very slow when joining the guest(win 2008 R2) to…
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Hyper-V: Running a script during VM reboot

I'm trying to promote a resource configuration change during VM reboot cycle. Preferably, I'd like to do that without user intervention, as in: I ask the VM to reboot, and between the shutdown and the start, the VM resource change is performed by a…
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Other than KVM, does any hypervisor support live migration between AMD and Intel servers?

I've always thought that live migration between AMD and Intel servers is not supported in any of the major hypervisors. However, today I come across the KVM FAQ which says that KVM supports that. In fact, there is a demo doing just this back in…
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Basic questions about Hyper-V

I'm more xen & vmware experienced, that's why I do not have any deep knowledge of Hyper-V.. Please, help me with these questions: I would like to have cluster made of 2 nodes (mostly Linux is virtualized). 1) What do you recommend, to have 2 Hyper-V…
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redundant/multi-site terminal server

We have a Hyper-V cluster running 5 virtual terminal servers using HA. We need to be able make this system redundant and so if this site was to fail our users could log into the backup system at another location and access their data via the…
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2008R2 Standard and Hyper-V and Ram Usage (Usable vs Available)

A new server was purchased for our development team to start utilizing the full feature set of TFS, namely Lab Management. Because of the need for Lab Management we bought a fairly beefy machine to handle this task and to also act as a build…
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Hyper V role manual removal on Windows 2008 R2 SP1

Junior admin messed up one of the hyper-v servers. Hi tried to uninstall HyperV role for some reason. I never tried to demote HyperV server so I am stuck somewhere in the middle. HyperV role won't uninstall, I try then after three reboots it says…
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How do I troubleshoot network connectivity problems in windows?

I'd really like to understand how to debug my network connectivity issues, but everything I find on the internet is either for basic users on "How to add a wireless network" or it's people talking about enterprise-grade networking problems with…
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Restore single users Exchange 2003 mailbox from backup

I take weekly backups of exchange in full. I also take complete weekly backups of the entire server. It is a Server 2003 R2 with AD and Exchange 2003 all on one box. One users inbox has disappeared. She has 19000+ junk items now. It is possible the…