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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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Browse files inside a Hyper-V snapshot

If it possible to browse the inside of a snapshot file for a specific file? It is not possible for us to merge this particular snapshot file so we are looking for an alternative to recover a specific file inside it. How can one open a snapshot file…
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Microsoft SC VMM 2008 R2 doesn't have option to compact virtual hard disk

I can't figure out how to shrink a VHD using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. Viewing the article Shrink your VHD size seems like this would be simple to do. However I don't see any of those check boxes that article…
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How do I setup Hyper-V internet access to my virtual machines

We recently switched offices, and are having trouble setting up our Server. It's a Windows 2008 machine using Hyper V. One of our virtual machines uses Team Foundtation Server. It needs to access the internet to activate and unfortunately we don't…
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Active Directory Restore Woes 0xc000006a

Hi All, I'm trying to restore our Active directory infrastructure from System State backups. This normally isn't a problem but I'm trying to do it onto a Hyper-V based server while the backup "source" is a physical machine. I've managed to get…
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Hyper-V 2008 R2 synthetic networking stops working with linux 2.6.32.15

so I thought I'd give Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise a try on my Homeserver (yes, it's legit... got it from msdnaa). First thing to throw at it was my firewall which runs IPFire. This distribution currently uses the kernel version…
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Cluster Shared Volumes Mount Point

I am using Cluster Shared Volumes on Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V. The different volumes available have different sizes, and are physically located on different disks on the SAN. These volumes defaulted to labels such as…
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Hyper-V Host/OES2 Guest - Guest Time doesnt stay in sync

So we've finally migrated from our old Netware environment to a virtualized OES2 system. Everything is working with the exception of time sync. On boot the time syncs up like normal. But I very quickly GAIN lots of time. About 15 seconds per minute.…
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Hyper V or EXSi

We are new to the vm world, as we plan on moving 3 of our 5 servers (for now) to a VM solution. We have tested Hyper V and Esxi (free) and we like the Esxi. However, we cannot afford the costs associated with running esxi and the tools. Can we just…
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Can we natively boot Hyper V VHD in Windows 7?

I have created a VHD using Hyper V Manager in Windows 2008 R2 . I have 2 questions: Can I natively boot in Win 2008 R2 ? Can I natively boot in Windows 7 ?
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Use DHCP to set Failover Cluster IP Address

I have a Hyper-V Failover Cluster running using manually-configured IP addresses. On this cluster, among other machines, I have two Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Machines running failover cluster, intended for use in clustering file services. The 2…
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Weird network/internet problem. Need some input

I'm seeing some weird network problems on one of my machines, and I need some input :) I have a host machine running Windows Server 2008 R2 and the Hyper-V role. I have several guest machines running on this host including Windows 2008, 2008 R2 and…
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Allocating server drives

I'm building a new server. The purpose of this new machine is as a VM host. Previously we had several desktop-class machines masquerading as servers, and I aim to change all that. What I don't have (yet) is anything like a SAN. This server and…
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Cloning SharePoint (WSS 3.0) and Hyper-V

I have a VM with SharePoint (WSS 3.0) installed on it. What is the best way to clone the VM so that the cloned machine has a new SID etc? Running NewSid on the VM breaks SharePoint. Is it possible this way round, or do I have to install SharePoint,…
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Does the Windows Server 2008 disk defragmenter work with open files?

I have a server running a number of Hyper-V guest instances. One recommendation to improve the performance of our guest OSes is to defragment the vhd files. Can I do this while the guest is still running? Is there a way to defragment only a single…
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Hyper-V multi-homed host NIC?

In Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization engine, is it possible to have a multi-homed host NIC (i.e. with several different IP addresses) then have several guest VMs, each of which corresponds to one of the IP addresses from the host? My scenario is…
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