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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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Can I utilize the full performance of a hypervisor's physical CPU cores when running a high CPU usage appliciation inside a VM?

I currently have an IIS application pool running on a physical server with 2 x quad core processors that has an average of 50% utilization across all cores. I need to make this application highly available and after researching our options I settled…
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How do VMs in a Hyper V R2 cluster respond in the event that the node of the cluster the VM was running on fails?

How do VMs in a Hyper V R2 cluster respond in the event that the node of the cluster the VM was running on fails? Does the VM automatically restart on another node and to the VM it is just like someone pulled out the power cords of a server and then…
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Win2K8 R2 Hyper-V : Cannot access Hyper-V Manager from remote PC in same LAN & Domain

I have a Physical Win2K8 R2 server GUI w/ Hyper-V. I have DC/AD setup (as a virtual inside this physical). I can log in to Physical Server using a DOMAIN USER ACCOUNT, then open Hyper-V manager, access the virtual machines. Before accessing virtual…
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Does Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Bare Metal support antivirus?

I am a developer, not a sysadmin, so I am seeking out some opinions and answers about virtualization. In order to solve some project deadline issues, the development team installed and setup a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V "Bare Metal" edition…
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Hyper-V Ubuntu 10.04 Network hit and miss

So I installed 10.04 on Hyper-V R2. While booting up the VM I have a ping -t xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (The Ubuntu Guest IP address) and it actually gets a response for about 10 seconds after you see the login prompt on ubuntu. Then about the time it takes to…
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16-bit App Virtualization on Windows Server 2008 R2

I am upgrading a client's 2003 Terminal Server soon and they still need to run a 16 bit DOS app. I know R2 won't support this, but would prefer to use it anyway if there was a way around it via virtualization. Would it be possible to install a 32bit…
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Remote Desktop Connection from Login Screen

My Environment: I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine with Hyper-V installed. Inside of Hyper-V, I have a few other virtual desktops running (all Windows operating systems with Remote Desktop enabled). My Goal: I was wondering if it would be…
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Wake on Lan for Dell Poweredge 2950?

I'm looking into the possibility of using Wake On Lan for a machine used in a test lab to run VMs. It doesn't really need to be on all the time, so it would be nice to be able to power it down when it's not being used to save electricity. Looking…
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HyperV/VMM folder- and VM-level permissions?

With VMWare and vCenter, I'm used to creating folders in a filesystem manner to delegate permissions to users within the organization. For example, I might create a folder named QA, place all the QA VM's within that folder, and allow the QA Active…
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What is the best way to monitor disk IO for a Hyper-V Host machine?

When I fire up Perfmon on the hyper-v host, it shows only disk io for that host, and it doesn't seem to include the aggragte disk IO for all machines on the host. Is there something special I need to setup in perfmon to read total IO on the entire…
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Reverse NAT Setup for Hyper-V on Win 2008 R2

I'm trying to setup a Linux server behind a Windows Hyper-V host that will help supply some of the services (SSH, HTTPS, etc). However getting RRAS configured for reverse NAT (port forwarding) turned out to be a non trivial task. As a staring point,…
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How to virtualize existing Win 7 x64 to Hyper-V

Currently, I have a (fairly powerful) workstation with XP x86 and Win 7 x64 loaded as dual boot. There's another Win 7 x64 workstation that I'm going to have to use from time to time. What I want to do it to virtualize all three existing OS's (with…
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Can anyone suggest why these two Server 2008 machines won't talk to each other?

I have a Server 2008 R2 x64 installation (we'll call it MARS) that will not communicate with one of my Server 2008 R2 x64 Hyper-V hosts (we'll call it VENUS) or any of its guests. They're both on the same VLAN and plugged into the same switch. All…
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Can I create a fixed size VHD that fills a physical hard drive up 100%?

Would this create any foreseeable problems? The drive is a non-system drive. Should I bother leaving any extra space on the physical drive that is not taken up by the VHD? This may seem a bit silly, but I have an explicit need to mount a vhd…
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RHEL 5 Hyper-V Guest - Cannot sync with NTP after kernel upgrade

I'm running a RHEL 5 (64 bit) guest on Microsoft Hyper-V. I've always had trouble with the clock getting way ahead of itself, which I was able to solve previously by adding divider=10 clocksource=acpi_pm to the kernel params in /boot/grub/menu.lst…
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