Category: VHDX

• 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…

  jbernec

  March 16, 2016

  Failover Cluster, Failover Cluster Manager, Generation 2 Virtual Machines, Hyper-v 2012 R2, Hyper-v Manager, Hypervisor Replication, Microsoft Hyper-v, Migration, PowerShell, Powershell 4.0, VHDX, Virtual Machines, VM Replica, Windows Server 2012 R2

  Cluster, Cluster Shared Volume, Failover Cluster, Move-VMStorage, PowerShell 5.0

• 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…

  jbernec

  March 31, 2015

  Hyper-v 2012 R2, SCVMM2012R2, System Center 2012 R2, VHDX, Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2, Virtual Machines, Windows Server 2012 R2

  Failover Cluster, PowerShell 4.0, SCVMM2012 R2 Template, SCVMM2012R2 Dependency, System Center Virtual MAchine Manager 2012R2, vhdx

• 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…

  jbernec

  February 4, 2015

  Hyper-v, Hyper-v 2012 R2, Hyper-v Manager, Microsoft Hyper-v, PowerShell, Powershell 4.0, Uncategorized, VHDX, Virtual Machines, WIndows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2

  Cmdlets, Grant-VMConnectAccess, Invalid Security ID, Unnamed VM

• Deploying Windows Server 2012 R2 in Dual-Boot Configuration using Windows 8.1 Native Boot-to-VHD capability

  In this post, I’ll be sharing my experience deploying Windows Server 2012 R2 in a dual-boot configuration leveraging Windows 8.1 Enterprise native boot-to-vhd feature. This enabled me setup a sort of Lab-to-go for WS2012 R2 Active Directory research on a laptop. The steps are as follows: Create a WS 2012 Server VM. I already have…

  jbernec

  December 14, 2013

  BCDEdit, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, VHDX, Virtual Machines, WIndows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2

  BCDBoot, boot-to-vhd, vhdx, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2