After migrating a couple of servers from an 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster to an shiny 2016 cluster. Our Veeam failed to backup up some of them. They got this error: Failed to create VM recovery checkpoint (mode: Hyper-V child partition snapshot) Error code : 32768 or I tried updating to latest Veeam 9.5 Update 2, […]
Posts in category Virtualization
Differencing disks and virtual machines on Windows 10
In the spirit of sharing I thought I would share how I create virtual machines on Windows 10 using Hyper-v using differencing disks. I work with a lot of different customers and needed a way to quickly create new VM’s ready to go. A normal approach would be to have a deployment solution (MDT) running […]
Cisco VPN client acting up in Hyper-V virtual machine
When I work remote against my customers I have one virtual machine per customer. This has many advantages for me. One advantage is that I do not have to install all the different VPN clients and stuff. Another advantage is that I isolate my connection to the customer from the virtual machine and not bridging […]
Creation of portgroups on vSphere standard vSwitches – function
Many organizations are using the benefits of Distributed vSwitches (DVS) for simplified network management. However, there are still a lot of standard vSwitches being used. With VLAN segmentation being common, portgroups are being used as a representation of VLANs on standard vSwitches. Creating new portgroups manually can easily lead to errors, especially if the task […]
New backup software for Hyper-V in Beta release
Altaro is now publicly releasing a beta of it’s latest backup software. This time it is a backup software for Hyper-V on Windows 2008 R2. Possible to schedule different backup times for different servers, reversedelta so only changes are saved for new backups, restore to same VM or clone, add 2nd backup device that gets synched from […]
App-V 4.6, MDOP 2010, available!
The long awaited App-V 4.6 within MDOP 2010 is finally here! This means, most importantly, that there is now support for x64 on client and server platforms! This has been a show stopper for a lot of people when trancending from locally installed apps to application virtualization. I talked about this on Atea Community 2009, […]
Windows Vista and Integration Services
It seems that the Integration Services in Hyper-V won’t install on a Windows Vista unless you have Service Pack 1 installed. If you try to install the Integration Services on a non-SP1 install of Vista you get the following error: If you have just installed Windows Vista without SP1 and find yourself unable to upgrade […]