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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…