Category: Hyper-v 2012 R2
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Enable Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 Core Virtual Machine Protection using existing Azure Site Replication Policy.
In this post, I’ll be writing about my steps for enabling on premise Virtual Machine protection to Azure Site Recovery using an existing Hyper-V Site Replication policy. In this deployment, I’ll be adding and registering a Hyper-V Core Server 2012 R2 to Azure Site Recovery. The process differs from the steps in registering a full…
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Moving a Hyper-V Virtual Machine Storage to a Cluster Volume using PowerShell.
I have a Virtual Machine ADS00 running a guest OS WS 2012 R2 .It’s vhdx file is located on a Failover Cluster node physical server running Hyper-V Core 2012 R2. As the services offered and requirements for this VM continued to scale, we decided to migrate it to the Cluster volume and make it highly…
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Removing a Temporary Template from System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 using PowerShell.
While going through a house cleaning task in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2, I found that I couldn’t remove a vhdx file that was part of a template.This is because the vhdx still had a dependency called “Temporary Template11ef26ce-a6bd-421b-86f2-9cacd0e0f484”: Since I couldn’t remove the temporary template from the graphical user interface, I resorted…
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Resolving System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 Error 1602.
My System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 lab deployment crashed on me a while ago. Any attempt to log on prompted the following error ID 1602 : I restarted the SCVMM Service and the SQL Service successfully, but each time I tried to start the VMM Console, the SCVMM service stopped with the same…
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Resolving Cluster Shared Volume “Redirected Access Mode” Error.
A while ago, I encountered a Cluster Shared Volume error in my lab. I logged into the Failover Cluster Manager and noticed multiple error status messages in the Cluster Events log. The System Log Event ID 5125 kept showing up every three minutes: Error Event id 5125 with details: Cluster Shared Volume ‘Volume1’ (‘Cluster Disk…
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Resolving Hyper-v Error: “‘Unnamed VM’ could not initialize… The security ID structure is invalid.”
While moving my Lab to a new environment using the Hyper-v Export and Import VM options, I ran into an “‘Unnamed VM’ could not initialize… The security ID structure is invalid” error when trying to start the Domain Controller Virtual machines. After doing some research, I found out that after a VM Import, Hyper-v doesn’t…
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Resizing/Expanding a Virtual Disk and Resynchronizing to Replica Hyper-v Virtual Machine .
Hyper-v Server 2012 R2 has added functionality that enables an admin expand the size of a running/online virtual machine disk.In my Hyper-v 2012 R2 environment, I recently resized a clustered virtual machine root volume (vhdx file)via the following steps: Open Failover Cluster Manager, navigate to the specific VM, right click and select settings, select hard…
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Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Teaming with EtherChannel on Cisco 3750G Switch.
Windows Server 2012 R2 built in NIC Teaming code enables link aggregation of multiple network adapters with same speeds for outbound traffic from the host. To take advantage of inbound traffic aggregation, the switch ports will have to be configured for Etherchannel. In the example below, an already configured SwitchIndependent NIC team is converted to…
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23 Best Practices to improve Hyper-V and VM Performance
Best practices are the most obvious starting point for improving your Hyper-V and Virtual Machine performance and I’ve listed 23 of them for you below. 1. Avoid overloading Hyper-V Server You must not overload Hyper-V Server. In other words, there is no need to host virtual machines which have no functions or I would say…
Chinny Chukwudozie, Cloud Solutions. 