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

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Hyper-V guest suddenly extremely slow

I have a setup with a Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V Server and a couple of guests. Yesterday I noticed that one of the guests had become very slow (e.g. noticable lag when browsing through folders). I decided to attempt a restart and at the same apply all…
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Hyper-V Guest Connectivity Problems

I have one particular Hyper-V guest, one of 5 on this particular Hyper-V host, that can't seem to make any outgoing network connections. The guest is running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and uses IIS 7.7 with the URL Rewrite module and Application…
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Raid group on a p2000g3 iscsi

I have to set up an hypervR2 cluster (2nodes) and a san storage (hp p2000g3 iscsi) with 12 disks (300 GO, 10k SAS) The p2000 has 2 controllers. What is the best ? ONe big raid group (raid10) with the 12 disks or two radi group (2 raid10) with 6 disk…
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Hyper-V Core: Dedicate SSD for pagefiles

I want to move pagefile.sys from C: -HDD- to S: -SSD- on Hyper-V Core. I just upgraded RAM from 8GB to 16GB. 8GB was pretty enough. I also want to move guest OSes' pagefiles to SSD as .VHD format. Primary virtual Windows Server SBS has 6GB RAM and…
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Dropped network connections to hyper-v server and guests on local network

I have recently installed at home a new Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 to be used primarily as a hyper-v host for several home servers. I'm having some interesting networking issues that I suspect are related to my AT&T Uverse (2Wire) router, but I…
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Host requirements for virtualization with Hyper-V

I'm planning to create a virtualized setup for a company I work for and I've been looking at server configurations. I've settled on a Dell PowerEdge R710, but I'm not sure which OS is right for me. My choices are between 2008 R2 EE (~$9,800) and…
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Which ports to open for Hyper-V

We have two physical servers on the different area protected by firewalls. We want to build Hyper-V cluster for this servers. We found the article from Microsoft VMM Ports and Protocols, but there are a lot of different notes which says that this…
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Setting up an NLB cluster in Hyper-V

I am setting up a test environment in Hyper-V. All machines run windows 2008. And configured with a single network card. I have AD and SQL Server. I also have 3 web servers that I want to configure in an NLB cluster. Question is do I need to setup…
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VPN server setup on a 2008 R2 Hyper-V VPS

I am renting a Windows 2008 R2 VPS (Hyper-V). It has 1 network adapter which has a public IP statically assigned. I wish to allow incoming VPN connections, so that I can access SMB for a central file server. I have setup RRAS, and VPN'ing in works…
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Does Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 take less resources then Windows 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role instaled?

How much more resources (if any) will a full blown Windows 2008 R2 Server running just the Hyper-V role take over Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2?
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Hyper-V 2008 R2 Install Question

I have 500GB HDD that I installed on the server. If I am going to load Hyper-V r2 on the bare system, do I set the partition to use all this space or is there a recommend smaller partition size I should set for Hyper-V to run within? This is my…
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Recover as virtual machine to any host in DPM 2010 missing in Recovery option

I have DPM 2010 installed and when choosing Recovery (Bare Metal Recovery) I don't have an option to Recover as virtual machine to any host. I only have option copy to network folder available. Is there anything I need to do prior to getting this…
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how to add additional hard (second) hard drive to Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

We currently have a Dell PowerEdge T110 server with a 250GB SATA HDD. It is running Hyper-V server 2008 R2 (the bare metal hyper visor thing that doesn't have the full GUI). We are running out of space and want to add a second 1TB drive to the…
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Error starting Hyper-V VM

I'm trying to start a VM on a new Hyper-V installation and I'm receiving the following error: The virtual machine could not be started because the hypervisor is not running. The following actions may help you resolve the problem: 1) Verify that…
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Virtual 2008 R2 on Hyper-V won't restart automatically - waits for recovery question to be asked

When I restart a Hyper-V host one or more of the attached virtual machines (Server 2008 R2) do not start up successfully, rather they pause waiting for the recovery dialogs to be either completed or cancelled. If I cancel the dialog the VM in…
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