Questions tagged [hyper-v-server-2016]

Question 1

After installing the latest July 2025 Windows Updates yesterday, two virtual machines running "Windows Server 2025" on an older "Hyper-V Server 2016" Host are now stuck at the ...

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I have a strange error in my event log, which occurred as the first error in a series of errors following a connection loss of my iSCSI storage on one of our Hyper-V 2016 Cluster nodes. The error code ...

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I routinely run the following command via PowerShell (in Administrative mode) to open ports towards a VM and today, creating a new VM from a template (as I have always done) I got the error below. The ...

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I'm running Hyper-v on Win Server 2016 and a VM went unresponsive to I went to restart it via Hyper-V management console. It got stuck rebooting so I'm now trying to resolve that, but things are ...

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I am trying to work out why this configuration is not working as expected. I am trying to get a number of VM's using one physical port and a number of other VM's using another physical port and at the ...

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Due to wrong communication, people uploaded a ton of file in our file server ( a hyper-v VM) and now the VM does not have enough space to power on. I did not built it but I have to figure a way to &...

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Just added the first Linux VM (Debian 11) to Hyper-V Server Core 2016. An error is raised while exporting VM with Get-VM ... | Export-VM -CaptureLiveState CaptureDataConsistentState ... The message ...

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I created a few VMs and made a few checkpoints, how do I safely & preferably quickly, rename the files on disk? I can easily rename the labels here: Hyper-V Manager Microsoft Corporation Version: ...

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Several years ago we virtualized our "new" Windows Server 2016 with Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 on a Lenovo TS120 with a Xeon E3-1245, 32GB (4x8GB) and 2x2TB@7200RPM (RAID1) (the ...

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We did something silly, and "the client insisted" and "we got bad advice" is no excuse, but I could use help cleaning up. Background: We added a new 2019 Hyper-V server to a group ...

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I want to setup Hyper-V VMs with a shared vhdx or vhds virtual disk. I have a W10 VM that has the main file space and setup a shared folder to allow two other W10 VMs to map a drive and share the ...

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I re-built an existing Hyper-V host server on Windows Server 2016 to move to a larger SSD RAID for storage (required OS re-install). The host itself is on the domain and accessible via RDP all looks ...

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We have a Dell R620 (256GB RAM, 2x3 SSD RAID 10) which has an older tower server as it's manual failover machine. Both are running Server 2016 DataCentre. Budget for a 2nd Dell R620 with matching ...

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We are a small outfit, and I am running 4 webservers, 2 SQL servers, and a Reporting Server as VM's in Hyper-V on WinServer2016 (datacentre edition). I want to be able to have a failover from this ...

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Quick question, I have a number of servers that replicate to another server, which has extended replication to a third server offsite. The first group of servers (original and first replica) are ...

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Should Hyper-V replication carry changes to underlying VM settings, such as increasing memory, adding a vCPU, or in this specific case, adding a NIC? I'm running Server 2016 Datacenter edition and ...

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I am an it consultant with 40+ years of experience but I am new to virtualization. I have a host server with 2016 standard installed in a datacenter. I used showkeyplus and the key shows as all B's ...

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We have a Hyper-V 2012 r2 cluster and I have just upgraded our SCVMM to 2016. The VMM is installed on a VM in the cluster. Our DHCP server is a VM in the cluster with filters enabled. We have ...

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Good day, Would you please tell me if I can install HyperV server 2016 on Dell Power Edge 2950. Your response will be Highly appreciated. Regards, Bob

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I'm smashing my head against a wall. I can't seem to get my guest VMs to use a different VLAN than my host machine. I have a 2 node Hyper V cluster(2016). Each node has 2 10Gig NICs in a Team. This ...

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I'm rehearsing a virtual machine bare metal restore. Backups are taken daily and saved on a secure external server. We are assuming a total disaster, so bad that no domain controller is available, so, ...

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I have a very limited budget, and little knowledge of this, so please bear with me. We have a primary, and backup Hyper-V server. Replication is running from the primary to the secondary. I need to ...

Question 23

I wanted to monitor a Hyper-V Server 2016 machine. While Task Manager is giving me some basic information, I wanted to dig deeper, in which Resource Monitor (resmon.exe) is doing just fine on ...

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I am a bit new to networking in Hyper-V, and I am not sure how to connect two separate NAT networks to each other. I used the following link to create two internal NAT networks: https://www.petri.com/...

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I am currently in Computer Assisted Tech training I have difficulties for the image deployment service. I want to deploy a Windows 10 image on HP Pro Book 650G1. I have a Windows 10 Pro x64 For this ...

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I am trying to access my IIS website via the servers IP address from my local PC. The server has a fixed IP and is a fresh installation of Windows Server 2016 on a VM. On the server - When I open my ...

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So if worse comes to worse, I can just clean install and readd my VMs. I just want to see if there's a way to do this. My understanding is that Server 2016 can do an inplace upgrade to Server 2019, ...

Question 28

I currently use Hyper-V and am replicating all VMs to a second data centre. This satisfies my requirements in terms of a server failure. What it doesn't cover is creating VM backups because if, for ...

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We have a server, running Windows Server 2016 with 4 physical cores (8 hyperthreads) and has Hyper-V installed. Now, let's say that there are two VMs, each configured in Hyper-V to have a certain ...

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I would like to be able to determine which Hyper-V host a particular CentOS 7 VM is running on. In a Windows VM this is stored in HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Virtual Machine\Guest\Parameters. Is anyone ...

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I need to migrate a number of VM's to a new server and was wondering if it is possible to use the approach of replicating the VM's to the new server with the new server acting as the replica ...

Question 32

So I am having an issue creating a failover cluster for 2 HyperV nodes. The 2 nodes have been joined to a domin of their own called hvtest.local. The PC I am tring to create the cluster from is on a ...

Question 33

We have a setup here consisting of: More or less a dozen of HyperV hosts. Two FC SANS (SAN "A" and SAN "B"). All elements composing this infrastructure are redundant, EXCEPT for the SANs. They are ...

Question 34

We recently migrated to Hyper-V Server 2016 (the non GUI version) as our hypervisor host, however, our guest VMs are still running Windows Server 2012 R2. We found that the remote management tools (...

Question 35

I use a host running 2012 R2, use it to manage a two hyper-v 2012r2 hosts. I can RDP and remote PS to them ,computer management , server manager, run hyper-v manager and see all of their vms etc. I ...

Question 36

I can't replace hard disks in my existing StoragePool, it fails when adding new disks. My question seems similar to this one, but that can't be the answer, because I've been using it for over a year ...

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In Hyper-V 2012 when we had the configuration of a vm in the xml format, one could look up the last_powered_off_time node in the vm's configuration .xml file: <last_powered_off_time type="integer"&...

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I misread something or I'm doing a terrible mistake here, hopefully you guys can help me. I have set up a Hyper-V Server 2016 on my physical machine (or bare metal as it's called) which has 1 ...

Question 39

Let's say I have 4 servers in a "storage cluster", each of them has access to a JBOD of 24 hard drives. Then I have another 16 servers in a "VM cluster", running Hyper-V, each of them only has a boot ...

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I have the gui less hyper v server installed, i am trying to connect to it through hyper v manger on my windows 10 pc, but i keep getting errors. some things i have already done: Enable-PSRemoting ...

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I have a HyperV 2016 cluster of n machine running on W2k16. I've duplicated the VHDX of a RHEL 7.5 (Gen2) VM that runs with this boot order (and secure boot disabled): After creating a new VM with ...

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I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V guest (the host is Windows Server 2016) which sometimes (for example, right now) fails to get more memory even though dynamic memory is enabled, plenty of ...

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I have three hyper-v servers on an AD domain, which replicate between themselves nicely. I have two other hyper-v servers which are separate, in their own workgroup, they are being built in my ...

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Planning how to set up a newly purchased server. It is to be placed in my DMZ, hosting webapps only requiring a simple software stack of Java, Tomcat servlet container, and PostgreSQL database on top ...

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I am running an Hyper-V host with Windows Server 2016 Datacenter. All guests are configured to be saved at host shutdown and automatically startet again at host startup. This worked for a long time, ...

Question 46

I am running Windows 10 on my client and the "headless" version of Hyper-V 2016 on my server. I am able to remote in to the server and run Powershell on the server. My network connections on both host ...

Question 47

When I attempt to view the console of a VM in Hyper-V, I get the following messages: Video remoting was disconnected and Could not connect to the virtual machine. Try to connect again. If the ...

Question 48

Brief description: the host is Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Build 14393 (UEFI) running Hyper-V role. SR-IOV and Intel VT are enabled. 4x Intel® Optane ™ SSD 900P 280GB PCIe NVMe 3.0 drives are ...

Question 49

I've been seaching for about the last 5 hour about perforamce monitor and how it works, and it has been a pain. I'm trying to get Performance monitor working on Windows Hyper-v Server 2016. I also ...

Question 50

I started using Hyper-V a short time ago, I only have experience with ESXi. I'm trying to do a link aggregation with the 4 network interfaces between bare metal with Hyper-V and the switch. I've ...