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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I just installed the Windows 8 Preview today. I was very interested in what sort of windows features that is available and see what I found: It seems that Hyper-V is a feature you can enable in Windows 8. This is great. Mine is greyed out since I am running Windows 8 on a Virtual […]
For all of you working with Hyper-V. Have a look at this page, and add to your RSS feeds to be up to date with known issues: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/365.aspx
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jose Barreto over at Technet has two interesting blog articles about Failover Clustering, or High Availability (HA), in Hyper-V. The first one is a post describing five different failover scenarios. They are as follows: Parent-based Failover Clustering with two physical servers Child-based Failover Clustering with two physical servers Mixed Physical/Virtual Failover Clustering Failover Clustering with […]