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You may notice that you cannot choose to store Shadow Copies on an attached VHD, and that when configuring Shadow Copy protection on an attached VHD, there are no other locations available to store the copies on, other than the protected VHD volume. This
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It is time for the final installment of a year-long segment on the top issues in Hyper-V. It is appropriate since Windows Server 2008 R2 has finally released, and we can look forward to tracking\reporting any issues we may find in the new version
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This post is about Windows Server 2008 with the Hyper-V role installed, that are being protected by System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. There may be one or many Virtual Machines on each Host/Parent Partition, and they may be running Windows
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Hello m y name is Sean Dwyer, and I'm a Support Escalation Engineer working in the Windows CORE team here at Microsoft. While working with snapshots that are attached to a highly available VM in a Cluster, you may notice after deleting a snapshot, it
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It is time to update everyone on the issues our support engineers have been seeing for Hyper-V for the past quarter. The issues are categorized below with the top issue(s) in each category listed with possible resolutions and additional comments
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If you move one or more of your virtual machines (VM) from one Hyper-V parent to another and the VM begins experiencing issues, it could be because the version level of Hyper-V between the two parents is different, and thus the version of the Integration
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It is time to update everyone on the types of issues our support engineers have been seeing for Hyper-V. The issues are categorized below with the top issue(s) in each category listed with possible resolutions and additional comments as needed. I think
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Hyper-V Beta released as part Windows Server 2008. The final release of Hyper-V happened shortly after the Windows Server 2008 release and can be downloaded here . After a few months of supporting customers, we now have enough case data to report on the
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Virtual machines can be deployed to Hyper-V using Windows Deployment Services (WDS). To accomplish this requires the proper WDS infrastructure be in place and that the VM PXE boot using a Legacy Network Adapter. Windows Deployment Services can run on
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A question the CORE Team gets asked frequently deals with configuring Hyper-V Guest with Pass-through disks. In this blog I will cover this topic. Pass -through Disk Configuration Hyper-V allows virtual machines to access storage mapped directly to the
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You may encounter the following dialog box with attempting to upgrade an existing Operating System The text of the dialog box reads: Upgrade has been disabled The upgrade cannot be started because you are running a 64-bit version of Windows and are trying
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Now that you’ve decided to take the leap and migrate your Virtual Server 2005 R2 or Virtual PC environment to Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V; Welcome! I know you’re going to love it! Some of the hurdles that you can run into may be a little worrisome,
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If you Inspect the disk in Hyper-V Manager that you just altered it will show the correct new maximum size however. Even though the disk is a Dynamically Expanding type disk, we still need to tell the Operating System about the container size change.
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One of the most common questions asked about using Hyper-V is, "How can I access files on the Parent partition from inside the Child Partition?". In other Microsoft virtualization products like Virtual PC and Virtual Server 2005, this was possible,
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Windows Server 2008 Clustering includes resource type specific options which are available by right clicking on the group under Applications and Services. For Hyper-V, we have the following options. Manage virtual machine. This option opens Hyper-V
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