Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
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Move VMs from one cluster to another cluster in different forest and domain
Hi all I am working on a project with special requirement and need suggestions on how to achieve it. Following is current configuration Hyper-V Infrastructure A Domain: aa.co No of Hyper-V hosts: 3 Failover Cluster Configured for VMs: Yes…
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VLANs in Hyper-V nested virtualization possible?
Hello, I have a little test environment using nested virtualization in Windows Server 2019 wehre I need to use VLANs. The environment consists of: pHost > a physical server with Hyper-V role vHostSwitch > a private virtual switch on…
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Virtual switch on network bridge
Good day, I have network bridge made with 2 ethernet adapters on my Windows 2012r2 server. Am I able to do virtual switch based on network bridge? Right now I can choose only single network adapter while switch creating :< Thread source link:…
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Hyper-V Storage QoS behaviour
Hi Together I have a Hyper-V Storage QoS Policy (Dedicated) configured and applied to a VM with several disks attached -> same Policy applied to all disks of this VM. My QoS Policy Limit: Max IOPS 50'000, Min IOPS 0 For the sake of clarity:…
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Virtual Switch and physical NIC in team
Hi all, as far as I know, NIC associated with external virtual switch are "dedicated" to virtual machine communication , unless they are flagged as "shared". Now, I have two physical NIC in team. When I try to create an external…
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Windows Server 2016 Backup Scheduling Error
I am trying to reestablish a schedule for backing up. Using the wizard, entering all the fields in the various steps, and clicking 'Finish", I am receiving the error message "Cannot create a file when that file already exists". I found a…
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Restore 2012 R2 WSB Hyper-V VM onto different host.
Hi, For various reasons I am being forced to use WSB to backup VM's on Server 2012 R2. I'm using an external USB HDD and the backups are running and I can test restore OK. My issue is (having not really used WSB for VM backups before) that I'm not…
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WSB Backup Disk size
Hello, When using Windows Server Backup to backup a volume or a folder, What is the recommended backup disk size regarding to the size of the volume or folder needed to be backed-up? Thanks. Thread source link:…
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VM Domaine Controler : backup and restore, is it sufficient to save only the vhd?
Hello, We have 2 DC's windows server 2008R2 in our domaine, both are vm in different hosts. Bakup procedure: For backup we save daily the vhd for each machine Restore procedure: for restore (for exemple if we lost the host) we will juste create…
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Backup Time is extremly HIGH
Hi, We have Windows 2003 Server Failover cluster server. One of the storage disk have some SAN patch issue - among 2, one SAN path is not working. Storage is HP EVA. Problem is that one of storage disk have around 1 TB space & one of file of the…
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VSS writers timeout Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
Hi Team, 3 VSS writers times out every-time and vss backup is failed. Server Restart Completed. No any other backup conflict. C:\Windows\system32>vssadmin list writers vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line…
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Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Backup and Restore Issues with Cluster Shared Volume
Good day, I am running a Windows Server 2016 Datacenter 2 nodes hyper-converged cluster. I am using Storage Spaces Direct to create a Cluster Shared Volume (1 TB virtual hard drive). In order to be accessible on both nodes, it creates a volume path on…
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Recover lost files in Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
Using Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard (service pack 1) Have lost some important files from a folder in C drive. This was due to re installation of an application program which overwrites that folder in C drive. Forgot to back up the files from the…
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Operations possible on File and directory streams when connection to a share using SMB
Hi All, I am trying to figure out if there is a way that user can map to a share and run operations on the streams associated with files and folder in that directory. I understand there can be tools to do the same but is that an expected behavior? As…
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Backup and Restore Quotas - FSRM
We are copying all our shares to a different drive on Windows Server 2012 R2. Once this is done, we will be making the drive the same letter of the previous drive. During this process, the old drive letter will be unavailable and this will cause all…
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Is it possible to sync two volumes in S2D?
Hi all, I have a situation where a S2D Volume was created with double de size it needs. In order to reduce costs the manager wants to reduce replace the 2 disks of 4 TB for 2 disks of 2 TB, and reduce de volume, if possible. I know that shrink a…
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DFS-R configure to restore deleted files on data-center server
I have a data-center server and one member server running DFS-R. I know it is not recommended/supported by Microsoft support services but I would like to achieve the following nevertheless. Current configuration: If an end user deletes a file on the…
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DFS replication has stopped due to database error
Following a networking issue that disrupted our FailoverCluster last week, DFS replication has stopped on our primary server (Server 2016). It appears the database needs to be rebuilt. What is the best way to do this? Here is the error text from the…
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Why Virtual Disk has 2 Column Layout on S2D Setup?
Hi there I would like to install the smallest possible S2D Setup on two VMs only for high availability file sharing services. I think this would be interesting also for small companies. So i set up two VMs with tree disks (one OS and two for S2D)…
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Is it possible to do an in-place upgrade of Windows Server 2008 SP2 Failover Cluster to Windows Server 2008 R2?
I have not been able to find any definitive documentation on this. If yes, is there a TechNet article or similar about it? If not, what's the option? Any help is appreciated. The failover cluster is running SQL Server 2008 R2 and it has 2 nodes. Thread…