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Server 2019 Hyper-V best RAID setup

Server 2019 Hyper-V host, VM's. I may potentially have 8 HDD. What would be the best RAID setup for performance and reliability? The VM's would include file servers, Exchange 2016/2019 servers, etc. If a RAID controller is recommended, is there a…

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asked 2021-01-06T06:56:43.307+00:00
Susan Dodds 281 Reputation points
commented 2021-01-25T02:26:38.967+00:00
Xiaowei He 9,936 Reputation points
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Permission issue running Ubuntu in Hyper-V in an enhanced session.

Hello I am new to Linux and I have a problem. If I logon to Ubuntu using Hyper-V and run the following command all works, make vic-cloud (this is compiling a program for Vector the Robot :) ) However running the same command in enhanced session…

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asked 2021-01-18T17:49:30.637+00:00
Matt Arnold 1 Reputation point
commented 2021-01-25T02:19:09.08+00:00
Xiaowei He 9,936 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

How to convert Hyper-V Server 2019 boot method, from BIOS to UEFI

I have installed Hyper-V Server 2019 in a machine and it turns out that I didn't have the BIOS switched to UEFI boot. So, it was installed with BIOS boot. (what is wrong with the people choosing the default values anyway...? :| ) Since I have spent a…

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asked 2021-01-21T09:12:11.937+00:00
Mr. Z 21 Reputation points
accepted 2021-01-22T16:24:47.73+00:00
Mr. Z 21 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Can't access hyper-v 2019 core host after forgeting to allow management OS - But getting logs from host

I've been testing Hyper-V Core 2019 but made a mistake editing the Virtual Switch Settings and for got to enable allow management operating system to share the network adapter. I am able to access the VM on the server but not the host, either via ping,…

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asked 2021-01-22T14:21:56.557+00:00
Sean Kuchle 41 Reputation points
commented 2021-01-22T15:01:48.287+00:00
Anonymous
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Update version of Hyper V - Advice

Hi, We have two physical servers. One is running Windows Server 2012 R2 and one running Windows Server 2016. The 2012 R2 Server is running Hyper-V Manager Version: 6.3.9600.16384 The 2016 Server is running Hyper-V Manager Version: 10.0.14393.0 We…

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asked 2021-01-21T15:40:05.833+00:00
Fiorano2022 1 Reputation point
answered 2021-01-22T06:48:40.967+00:00
Mico Mi 1,936 Reputation points
5 answers

hyper-v replication

we have the following setup: windows server 2019 datacenter hyper-v installed 7 RAID partitions 4 VMs: each VM have 4 VHDX files each on different RAID partitions We would like to setup replication to another server with the exact…

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asked 2020-12-17T14:04:47.573+00:00
Fred Flintstone 1 Reputation point
answered 2021-01-21T20:33:49.14+00:00
Czech, Frank 111 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Hyper-V Server as a Guest OS

Hi, I just downloaded Hyper-V Server 2019 from the link https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-hyper-v-server-2019. Downloaded file is an iso file. As it is an iso file and I read in an article, Hyper-V Server 2019 can be installed…

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asked 2021-01-21T18:54:04.877+00:00
NndnG 1,126 Reputation points
commented 2021-01-21T19:53:17.41+00:00
Anonymous
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

DPM 2019 RU2 backup VM's on W2019 Cluster

Greetings, Trying to backup a VM running on a W2016 cluster (not in guest backup) I have installed the DPM Agent and WIndows Backup on each node and can see the VM in DPM either via the Cluster or Cluster Node name. When I try and select the VM to…

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asked 2021-01-20T11:40:36.067+00:00
Pompy George 136 Reputation points
accepted 2021-01-21T10:15:00.7+00:00
Pompy George 136 Reputation points
2 answers

Windows Failover Custer Virtual Machines, using VMware and RDM for share disk

Hi, We have both VMware and Hyper-V. We use VMware for some apps that aren't validated on Hyper-V. One of these uses Failover Clustering. We have 2 Server 2019's using a shared disk, which is presented as an RDM from VMware. This app doesn't…

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asked 2021-01-13T16:33:03.37+00:00
Lanky Doodle 241 Reputation points
commented 2021-01-21T10:06:32.857+00:00
Lanky Doodle 241 Reputation points
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Can we change the VMID of an Hyper-V VM? If yes, how?

Hello there, I have a VM in a cluster (Cluster-A) with the VMID- 20FBC134-7A86-44E0-8D72-2A7D35A27373. I have backed-up the VM and restored it to another cluster (Cluster-B). I want to use the restored VM (Cluster-B) as a new production server and…

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asked 2021-01-19T08:45:27.863+00:00
jaril nambiar 51 Reputation points
answered 2021-01-21T09:35:05.377+00:00
Yann Melvin TEMGOUA 1 Reputation point
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

RHEL 7.5 in Hyper - V on Windows Server 2016

Hi all, I have a RHEL 7.5 server running in Hyper-V, This RHEL has two virtual disks one is for OS and another one is for Data. Data is in xfs format. I copied both vhdx disks to another 2016 machine and raised a VM. The problem is the second disk is…

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asked 2020-12-24T11:01:34.49+00:00
Ajith Borra 116 Reputation points
accepted 2021-01-21T06:22:52.31+00:00
Ajith Borra 116 Reputation points
4 answers

Newest Win Updates (2016/2019 Server) - Hyper-V Guests not starting if "restart if previously running is set"

Hi everyone, just asking if everyone else has this behaviour. It happened on 2 of my test machines. BR Stephan

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asked 2021-01-15T20:00:50.1+00:00
StephanG 846 Reputation points
commented 2021-01-21T01:28:27.447+00:00
Mico Mi 1,936 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

HyperV - A fatal error has occurred. Where to reference for error codes?

HyperV showed the following error when a VM started. A fatal error has occurred in 'MyVM'. The guest operating system has the following error code: An error has been reported. ErrorCode0: 0x8, ErrorCode1: 0x81000004130A0000, ErrorCode2: 0x7F5EFA2723DF,…

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asked 2021-01-08T08:18:17.24+00:00
Prasad Tissera 21 Reputation points
answered 2021-01-21T00:37:14.83+00:00
Prasad Tissera 21 Reputation points
3 answers

nested virtualization VLAN problem

Hi. I have a following setup: physical Hyper-V Server 2019 server with a pNIC connected to a physical switch. There's a SET vSwitch in Hyper-V. The pNIC connects to a port on the pSwitch, which is configured in trunk mode with plenty of allowed VLANs…

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asked 2021-01-08T13:29:20.273+00:00
MarkosP 81 Reputation points
commented 2021-01-20T14:27:47.987+00:00
Richard Footman 1 Reputation point
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

How do I install Hyper-V to custom location?

I have a 150GB C: partition for the OS, and yesterday I had to install Hyper-V. Needless to say, Hyper-V installed itself on the C partition like most MS apps do, taking up a bit more than 50 GB, and basically putting available storage on the red line.…

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asked 2021-01-20T08:49:41.15+00:00
Hector Alvarez Fernandez 26 Reputation points
accepted 2021-01-20T13:25:23.42+00:00
Hector Alvarez Fernandez 26 Reputation points
4 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Windows Server 2012 R2 Activation Problem

Hello I have Windows Server 2019 with all core's activated Standart I guess with HP OEM Licence On this server installed Hyper-V role with 2 servers WS2019 and WS 2012R2, which had activation problem It says that he activated with notification …

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asked 2021-01-16T11:51:44.88+00:00
Игорь Владимиров 21 Reputation points
answered 2021-01-20T06:39:45.67+00:00
Joy Qiao 5,792 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Need some advice about Hyper-V

Looking to do some hardware upgrades to the network at the company I work for this year and I am thinking about the possibility of migrating most of my servers to a new Hyper-V platform. I currently have 6 servers (2 x DC's, 1 x File server, 2 x SQL and…

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asked 2021-01-19T13:20:10.023+00:00
Damien 41 Reputation points
accepted 2021-01-19T15:00:09.363+00:00
Damien 41 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Does enabling Storage QoS on an Hyper-V Failover Cluster impact the hosts' performance?

Does enabling Storage QoS on an Hyper-V Failover Cluster impact the hosts' performance? And if yes, how much? We're facing some performance issues managing the hosts of an Hyper-V Failover Cluster where the Storage QoS is enabled directly on the VHDx…

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asked 2021-01-18T11:39:09.483+00:00
Alessio P 71 Reputation points
accepted 2021-01-19T09:34:38.09+00:00
Alessio P 71 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

The capacity of hyper-v vitual machine's vhdx file didn't reduce when I delete the file in the virtual machine

Hi, I find my hard disk is almost full because a virtual machine's vhdx is very large. So I delete a lot of file in the virtual machine, which OS is ubuntu. I find the file system in the virtual machine has been reduced. However, I find the vhdx of…

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asked 2021-01-18T08:05:40.637+00:00
standuhuajun 101 Reputation points
commented 2021-01-19T08:21:20.43+00:00
Mico Mi 1,936 Reputation points
5 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

RDMA & QoS configured, but no OperationalTrafficClasses shown on adapters

I have a Windows Server 2016 cluster with RDMA NICs which for some reason doesn't apply QoS Policies to the NICs. I've set up the policies, traffic classes and configured RDMA/QoS on the appropriate adapters: New-NetQosPolicy "Live…

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asked 2020-12-08T06:45:59.807+00:00
Tony Gedge 246 Reputation points
commented 2021-01-19T01:00:53.477+00:00
Michael Surmanian 1 Reputation point