Quick Backup of windows 2016 hyper-v server.

Can I just shut down hyper-v server . Then to copy vhdx file to a usb?

We used to label servers with make and model in the old days since they were physical.
We have almost all servers are VMs nowadays .
How do we describe the servers make and model when the vm runs on Hyper-v or Esxi?

Hi,
 
 I have a test Hyper-V Server 2016 and installed Windows 2012 Server for in-place upgrade testing purposes.
 So I opened the virtual machine settings for Win2012 and performed the following:
1. changed the ISO file to Win2012R2.iso.
2. Start the VM and pressed [F8] key and got to Windows 2012R2 setup menu.
3. Clicked "Install" and I tried both "Upgrade" and "Custom" option.
    - "Upgrade" option did not do anything except I saw the message saying that I have to restart the computer.
    - "Custom" option said it was going to put old stuff in "Windows.old" folder. After customer upgrade, a brand new OS was created with Windows 2012R2. It was not an upgrade from Windows 2012.

 Having said that, this was not what I expected.
 How can I perform in-place upgrade to a newer server OS while keeping programs, files, computer name, IP information ... etc?

I have a Single physical DC (2012R2) and need to convert this to Hyper-v VM.
Since the server is 2 years old and planning to use the same server as Hyper-v host.
I just wanted to find out the best practice to convert physical DC to VM.

Hello,

I'm trying to look at the VMQ setup to improve networking on our 3 node Windows Server 2016 cluster.   The cluster runs 30 virtual machines of which 6 have real time requirements as they play out radio stations.  We suffer from occasional break up on the radio streams which is usually resolved by a restart of that particular virtual machine, however I want to improve the network to all the machines if possible.  If I run Get-NetAdapterVmq I get the following results which looks like all queues are running off processor 0 which from what I've read is not good.  


However when I run the command Get-NetAdapterVmqQueue to look at how the queues are distributed I get an generic RPC error CimException with a corresponding set of logs in the Application eventlog of Event ID 1000, 1001 indicating a NetAdapterCim.dll crash when wmiprvse.exe is run, presumambly as a results of the Get command

Faulting application name: wmiprvse.exe, version: 10.0.14393.2155, time stamp: 0x5a9e25d8
Faulting module name: NetAdapterCim.dll, version: 10.0.14393.1358, time stamp: 0x59327863
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000003541b
Faulting process id: 0xe74
Faulting application start time: 0x01d471f797c244ff
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\system32\wbem\wmiprvse.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\wbem\NetAdapterCim.dll
Report Id: 5b48b0bc-8f71-4485-9438-d64c7ee34d38
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative …

I am trying to reset Disk identifier on one of my hyper-v virtual disks.  AWS support tells me that there is no identifier, and this is preventing me from migrating the virtual disk to the AWS cloud.

I am using the following PS:
 Set-VHD -Path "M:\VMs\Virtual Hard Disks\NC-LBL.vhdx" -ResetDiskIdentifier[1]


I get the following error:

A positional parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'ResetDiskIdentifier'

CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Set-VHD], ParameterBindingException
FullyQualifiedErrorID : NamedParameterNotFound, Microsoft.vhd.powershell.setvhdcommand


Could someone assist me with the error?

Hi;

I would like to manage my Hyper-V-2016 from my Win10 entreprise PC.

For that I use the Windows 10 native Hyper-V Manager.

When trying to add the Hyper-V server I got an error : "Check if service of virtua pc managment is running and that you have rights to log on to the server".
See th attached file.

I need help. Thanks
HyperV.pdf

I have two Separate Hyper-V Clusters on converged storage.  (Dell VRTX). Servers are in a fail over cluster.   I would like to know the easiest way to move the the servers from one cluster to another with as little downtime as possible.  2012 to 2016  Thanks.

Nic Teaming - Server 2016

Just ran up a server going to be the virtual host - then have a virtual remote desktop server and virtual remote desktop server.

My question is what is best option for NIC teaming? currently have 4x nic ports... have not done nic teaming so not sure whats the best option.
purely for performance.

Windows Server 2016 Fail over Cluster Manager

Cluster Event Log:
Cluster resources " Virtual Machine APP01 of type Virtual Machine in Clustered Role "APP01" failed.

Based on the failure policies for the resources and role, the cluster service may try to bring the resource online on this node or move the group to another node of the cluster and then restart it. Check the resources and group state using Failover Cluster Manager or the Get-Cluster-Resources Windows PowerShell cmdlet.

Event ID : 1069


Any idea usually what causing this ?  it kind a generic for me

Hi Guys,

We have 2 Server 2016 Hyper-V hosts in our environment, when we try to checkpoint the VM's on the hosts we get the error "The operation cannot be performed while the object is in use" and the following from the logs. "SERVER**' background disk merge failed to complete: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. (0x80070020). (Virtual machine ID E33D1EB8-D888-4CE8-9100-891EA98C566C)

The checkpoints work when the host is restarted but it just fails again, obviouslt this is also affecting the backups.

Anyone else come accross this?

Thanks

Hello,

I have a problem with the initial Hyper-V replication of one of my VMs and I'm out of ideas. I will realy appreciate some help. The replication health goes critical with event ID 32022. Then replication resumes after one minute and exactly after two hours (+/- 2-3 minutes) the error repeats. At exaclty the same time Event ID 29296 is logged on the replica server.  Both my Hyper-V host servers (primary and replica) are Windows 2016 Datacenter.

Currently both my servers are located next to each other (over a switch).

I'm trying to replicate 4,2 TB distibuted into 4 virtual disks and it takes a lot fo time, However the same issue occurs even when trying to replicate with the VM turned off (so no changes to its virtual disks).


So every two hours, I have in the log the following:

Primary server:
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Event ID32022 has either this description:

The description for Event ID 32022 from source Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

[My VM name]
1386FE00-0F0F-4931-9FB3-6C71993F335B
%%2147952454
0x80072746

The locale specific resource for the desired message is not present

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Hi,

I've always used Oracle VM Virtual Box for my VM needs to keep copies of Windows operating systems (from 98SE up) available to me, as well as a couple of Linux distros. But I often see questions (and articles) on Experts Exchange that deal with Microsoft Hyper-V and it's got me to wondering if I'm doing myself a dis-service somehow by not using it, rather than the Oracle VM solution.

Are there any experts who have experience with both that can identify the pros and cons of using the Microsoft solution as opposed to Oracle VM or vice versa? I have Windows 10 Pro so Hyper-V is available to me.

I've looked at a number of Microsoft articles about Hyper-V to try and work out the difference, but they've been of little help to satisfy my curiosity.

Your opinions about both solutions would be appreciated.

Regards, Andrew