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 tagged hyper-v
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 […]
Veeam Hyper-V backups stops working after “Spring Update” KB 2919355
A costumer contacted me since all suddenly his Veeam Hyper-V backup jobs failed. The error stated the following: Processing %VMNAME% Error: Client error: The system cannot find the file specified. Failed to open file [\?GLOBALROOTDeviceCSV … AutoRecovery.avhdx] in readonly mode. First I assumed that there was something wrong with the Clustering, but after a little […]
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 […]
DPM 2007 and Windows 2008 Server on Hyper-V
In DPM, when trying to backup a partition (volume) on a Windows 2008 Server running off of Hyper-V, check to see if you have installed the Windows Server Backup features on the machine being backed up. DPM uses Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) to backup virtual machine volumes, and in Hyper-V this apparently brings the […]
Hyper-V and Powershell
I’m currently trying to learn Powershell with Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager. If you want to get the MAC address of a virtual machine, you can use the following: get-vm <vm name> -VMMServer <vmm server> | Get-VirtualNetworkAdapter | select name,EthernetAddress I’m also trying to get the GUID from the VM, so that I can easily […]
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 […]