Tag: Virtual Machine

• Implementing Azure Site Recovery Protection for my non-SCVMM Hyper-V Virtual Machines.

  BCDR (Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery options) is a big deal for any I.T. Pro. My decision to go with with Microsoft Azure Site Recovery cloud service was easy after considering other options available to me, cost and the specific needs of my infrastructure environment. It was by far a better solution in terms of…

  jbernec

  October 13, 2016

  Azure Site Recovery, BCDR, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery

  ASR, Azure Classic Portal, Azure Replication, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Virtual Networks, BCDR, Business Continuity, Cluster, Disaster Recovery, Domain controller, Failover, Hyper-v, Hyper-v Manager, Hyper-V Replica, Hyper-V Replication, Virtual Machine, VM

• 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…

  jbernec

  October 20, 2014

  Hyper-v 2012 R2, Hyper-v Manager, Hypervisor Replication, Microsoft Hyper-v, VM Replica, Windows Server 2012 R2

  Disk Management, Disk space, Vhd Resize, Virtual Disk, Virtual Machine

• Resolving EventID: 4292 IPSec driver Block mode Error !!

  I recently encountered a situation with a Virtual Machine running Guest OS Windows Server 2003 SP2. The parent partition (Host) is running Hyper-v 2012 R2. I could login to the VM console using Hyper-v Manager, the Guest OS had an IP Address by DHCP, but there was no network access . I could not ping…

  jbernec

  May 30, 2014

  Hyper-v Manager, Microsoft Hyper-v, Network, Windows Server 2012 R2

  Hyper-v Manager, IPSec, Network Adapter, Virtual Machine

• Starting a saved virtual machine–with a missing virtual hard disk

  Reblogged from Ben Armstrong’s Virtualization Blog . I came across a person with this problem on our forums recently: If you have a virtual machine that is in a saved state, but one of the virtual machines disks is now missing for some reason, you cannot start the virtual machine and you cannot remove the…

  jbernec

  May 30, 2014

  Hyper-v, Hyper-v 2012 R2, Hyper-v Manager, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Powershell 4.0

  Hyper-v 2012 R2, Hyper-v Manager, Saved State, Virtual Machine, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2

• Resolving Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster Kerberos Security Issue – Invalid DNS Error

  I’ve been running Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster for about a year and it’s been stable up until now. Recently, I encountered an issue where Live migration of VMs failed across all hosts in the cluster. In addition, the Failover Cluster Manager started displaying the following error: Cluster network name resource ‘Cluster Name’ failed registration…

  jbernec

  December 10, 2013

  Failover Cluster, Failover Cluster Manager, Hyper-v, Hyper-v 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2

  DNS, Failover, Failover Cluster Manager, Virtual Machine, Windows Server 2012

• Configuring Windows Server 2012 as an iSCSI Target SAN in a Two Host Failover Cluster Part 5

  As it turns out, I already have two Virtual machines running on one of the cluster nodes. I set these up before the cluster creation. The VMs are currently not cluster roles/resources. I will go ahead and make one of the VMs (WK7) a cluster role by adding it to the cluster. PS C:\> Get-VM…

  jbernec

  September 10, 2013

  Cluster Shared Volume, CSV, Failover Cluster, Hyper-v, ISCSI, ISCSI Initiator, ISCSI Target, Microsoft Hyper-v, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Quorum, Virtual Machines, Witness

  Clusters, Hyper-v, Initiator, ISCSI, Virtual Machine, WS 2012