Questions tagged [hyper-v-server-2008-r2]

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Using bridge connection to get ip access from guest in Hyper V

I want to access the internet on a dedicated second public ip from the guest. I have created an internal only network in Hyper-V Manager. The virtual network is in a bridged connection to the physical network card on the host. I have specified the…
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Hyper-V virtual machine unable to get IP address from DHCP server running on same physical box

We have a Windows server 2008 R2 with two network cards running AD, DHCP, DNS and Hyper-V The first nic is setup with a static IP address and DHCP, WDS, and DNS are bound to it. The second nic is configured in Hyper-V to be only used by Hyper-V and…
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Disk Latency High on Hyper V (20ms to 100ms for avg. disk write)

I am running Hyper V on a 12 GB, i7 Sever with 5 VMs running. I had the impression that the VMs operate quite slowly but the memory consumption and cpu utilization are not worth mentioning so I started the performance monitor and found out that…
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Managing Hyper-V in a domain with RPC errors

I've got an awkward setup here. I've got a domain controller (2008 R2 STD) in the United States, and a Hyper-V 2008 R2 server (Raw Hyper-V server) and a Windows 7 workstation, all connected to a domain. The Hyper-V server and the Windows 7…
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Hyper-V machines refusing to start after BIOS upgrade

I have a Windows 2008 Server with Hyper-V installed, and a couple of VMs. All was working properly until I tried upgrading BIOS. All of a sudden I get permission denied when attempting to start any VM, saying 'general access denied error' on the vhd…
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What is causing the huge network traffic?

I have a virtual machine hosted by Hyper-V, in a physical server provided by Hetzner. The physical server has Windows 2008 R2 Server, and the virual machine has Windows 7 Pro 32-bit. The virtual machine is running IIS and is accessible from outside…
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How do I ensure that a member server DNS client (dnscache) is not initialized until its hyper-v domain controller has started?

I have a laptop configured in the following manner: Laptop is Server 2008 R2 member server running Hyper-V connected to the internet via a Wireless adapter One virtual machine is a Server Core 2008 R2 configured to run as a Domain Controller and…
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Hyper-V Guest RDP keeps asking wrong credentials

I have 3 W2008 R2 Guests running inside a w2008 R2 Hyper-V Host. All three VMs are part of a domain, All with RDP enabled, the machines have the following names and ports HOST1 3389 VM1 3401 VM2 3402 VM3 3403 Problem, I can connect to all…
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Win Server 2008 + Virtualization, A Beginners question

I want to start my first virtualized work environment and i don't know what is better to do. I have windows 2008 R2 Std edition. i want to setup 2 HyperV machines Do i first setup the windows server on the HW or do i better install the HyperV Core…
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Can I choose only some directories of Windows 2008 R2 if I want to backup Hyper-V using Windows Server Backup?

I want to use Windows Server Backup that's included with Windows to backup Hyper-V. Can I only choose C:\VM, E:\VM and C:\ProgramsData (basically hyper-v directory I'm interested in) if that's where the Hyper-V machines reside? Or do I need to…
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Does Windows 2008 R2 windows backup requires changes in registry to allow backup of Hyper-V?

There's a lot of information on web that to enable Hyper-V backup in Windows Backup Tool you need to do changes in registry before it will allow you to. But are those settings applicable only to Windows 2008 with Hyper-V or does Windows 2008 R2 too…
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Hyper-V not scaling processor access for Windows Server 2000 VM

I have a Dell R710 rack hosting several VM's: Windows Server 2008 R2 w/ Hyper-V dual Xeon 5520's @ 2.26 GHz 32GB mem teamed nic (4 gigabit NICs) all VM's are on their own set of mirrored SAS disks My problem is with a virtual Windows 2000 server…
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VMRC equivalent for Hyper-V?

VMRC was the client tool used to connect to virtual machines running on Virtual Server. Upgrading to Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role, i need a way for people to be able to use the virtual machines. Note: not all virtual machines will…
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Add RAID to Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1 That Boots VHD From USB Flash Drive

Is there anyway to add RAID after the fact to an VHD install? I used this guideline http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee731893%28WS.10%29.aspx to create the OS and everything seems to be working, EXCEPT I don't see my RAID 1 drive. Thank…
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Hyper-V cluster VS regular cluster

We need to choice between Hyper-V and regular cluster technologies. What is the advantage and disadvantage of these approaches? Update: We have to physical servers and want to build reliably solution using cluster approach. We need to clustering our…
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