So the more I read about this the more frustrating I find it. It seems the more simply people try to explain it the more convoluted the explanations get.

Here is a simple example of a scenario.

Server 2016 Xeon 2 CPU's 8 Cores each
So this is 16 logical processors

I have 4 Hyper V VM's
2 x DC these need a small amount of CPU but it cannot be allowed to fall below a certain threshold say 20% as it serves DNC / DHCP etc
1 x File server
1 x RDS with 5-10 users max

64GB RAM

The server should be fine for the small amount of users and throughput, it is some basic files and there are no heavy apps in RDS.

All the servers should be able to take however much free resources they want.

How many VP should I assign per server.

My reading leads my to believe give them all 2 VP's and set max  / min limits to protect other servers and HV will share out free CPU time efficiently. My experience is that this makes them sluggish and the thresholds do not allow for high overall system resource. I would expect RDS to need the majority most of the time but if I am running WSUS ora backup process overnight when RDS is not being used it should give up its resources.

Any help appreciated, also how do I know HV is using all LP's not queuing time for the same ones from different servers.

I have an application server in dmz and database in nside zone.now i want to use xenapp to publish this application to my out side users.what should be the xenapp component design best practice and is ssl certificate is mandatory.please explain the design and

Hi

Unable to do RDP on  windows 2012 R2

Hi All,

Used disk2vhd to convert an 2003 server. The conversion went well, i choose vhd as an option. Now I'm trying to attache the hard drive to a Hyper-v Server 2016 and getting the error below. I moved the vhd file to suggested location, checked permission but nothing. Have a feeling it has to do with a compatability issue with server 2016 and vhd files. Any help appreciated.

Here’s the setup:

VMhost running ESXi 6.5
BROKER1 – 2012r2
RDS1 – 2012r2
RDS2 – 2012r2
RDS3 – 2012r2
All updates applied to all servers involved.
All clients running Win10x64

User profile disks are saved on a share on the broker.  Nothing unusual with effected user’s disks as far as I can tell (all of similar size).
RemoteApp (Not Remote Desktop) used by clients to run a SQL frontend app.  Some user’s queries going much slower than others, even those logged into the same session host running the same queries.

After deleting the user’s profile disk and having them log in again, the SQL queries start going fast again.  This last for weeks sometimes but eventually it slows down to a crawl again and I must delete their UPD all over.

The users effected have the same permissions as everyone else and are connecting from the same office, over the same 100Mb up and down fiber.
I haven’t been able to find anything out of the ordinary in the event logs on either the broker or the session hosts.

Any ideas?

I have a new server that has been modified to be a VM server using Hyper-V.  I have six 600GB HDD to use and the system/OS drive is 300GB.  I've installed Hpyer-V and created 4 virtual machines and installed the OS Win2012 server on all four.  I want to begin to create hard drives for each virtual machine and my question is do I first RAID all six HDD's or do I not RIAD them first?  Currently four of the six HDD are set at RAID 5 and I was think all six should be set with RAID 10.
My first time with Hyper-V and virtualization.

I am using two host computers running Server 16 to setup 4 VM servers for a new domain. Host1 will have VM1 as the domain controller and VM2 as the Exchange Server. Host 2 will have VM3 as the secondary domain controller and VM4 as the file and application server.
Do the host machines need to join the network after the domain controller is up and running? what is the best practice?
Thanks,
Rick Cowperthwaite
Rick's Energy Solutions

Hello,

I have an issue with RDP Remote printing…

One user was away from the office and with his laptop, used a remote desktop connection to his office computer. While logged in he printed a document from the RDP session to the remote office printer. Everything printed OK.

He has to go to a client’s office. While there he logs onto one of their local machines using remote desktop. As soon as he logged on the document he previously printed through RDP at his own office comes off the client’s printer.

Does anyone know why this is happening and more importantly, how to stop it! Any clues where to look will be appreciated.

Thanks for looking at this.

I'm creating a new Server 2012 Windows server and have a question about the CPU setting.  

I'm using VMware and need to create a server with 12 cores.   When prompted for the CPU I'm given both a " Number of Virtual Sockets" and " Number of Cores per socket " .....    

I don't totally understand these values and need a bit of help setting them.      

Thanks ...

Joel

Dear Experts,

Where can I get information on doing a P2V migration of Redhat Linux to a Hyper-V Win 2012 R2 server?

I have never done P2V before.

We use SCCM 2012 to remote our user computers.
RDP works on all computers but Remote Control only works on some ones.
I check some of these failing computers and SCCM client is installed and the Remote Control setting enable.
If I run "Msiexec /i Client.msi SMSFULLREMOTETOOLS=1" this fix the problem.  Apparently the Remote Tool component is missing in these computers.
Is it a way to fix this problem remotely?

Hello,

I have got in to little trouble our VM host was corrupted because of sudden power loss so i had to rebuild VM-host machine and then created new VM using hyper-v manager by attaching existing HDD, i thought i should have current user data on it but strangely it has previous user who was using this vm a month ago data on it but no data for current user who used it even last week, I still have VHDX  files from few days back in C:\Users\Public\Documents\Hyper-V\Virtual hard disks, so i was wondering is there any way if i can apply vhdx file to existing VHDD or any other way to get current user data back i have attached the picture of hyper-v HDD's
Thanks

Hi,

We have been facing a issue in SQL connectivity between DMZ to Lan Network.

As Whenever we are trying to connect SQL DB server from Webserver (Located in DMZ) getting below error.
The Semaphore Timeout period has expired.

both server are on Hyper-V fail over cluster.