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Exchange And Hyper-V Replica Support

Posted on 29th July 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

After seeing several posts and some folks discussing whether or not Exchange supports the Hyper-V Replica feature I thought it would be prudent to address the following:

Does Exchange Support Hyper-V Replica?
Does Hyper-V Support Exchange?
How Do I use Exchange and Hyper-V Replica?

What Is Hyper-V Replica

For some background reading on Hyper-V and the Replica feature; the component poster and downloada… Read the rest “Exchange And Hyper-V Replica Support”

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Updating Hyper-V Integration Components (IC)

Posted on 17th June 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

One of my favourite features in Windows 8 is client side Hyper-V. This allows me to run multiple virtual machines on my Lenovo W530 laptop without having to remote to other machines when I am on site with customers.

As you can imagine I have a plethora of VMs for a variety of situations, and I ran into a bit of a pickle when moving my Exchange 2003/2007/2010 migration workshop lab over to Windows 8… Read the rest “Updating Hyper-V Integration Components (IC)”

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Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machine To Import

Posted on 31st May 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Since I have this lovely Lenovo W530 laptop with a couple of disks and 32GB of RAM, it is great to run VMs on! As you can imagine, I have multiple different Exchange labs to reflect all the different versions and builds that are in use. Generally I have been able to import all of my older VMs into Hyper-V on Windows 8 and 2012 with no issues. But as you probably have guessed by now, if I had no… Read the rest “Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machine To Import”

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List Of Updates For Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

Posted on 1st March 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

One of the best things about Microsoft products is the thriving community that drives a lot of articles outside of TechNet. For example there is a Wiki article that describes the Hyper-V updates for Windows 2008 and also for Windows 2008 R2.

The community has also started to publish the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V update list.

Currently there are only a couple of u… Read the rest “List Of Updates For Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V”

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Hyper-V Cluster Console Crash Windows Server 2012

Posted on 25th February 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Update 1-3-2013: You may also want to reference the Hyper-V 2012 and Cluster update wiki pages as linked & discussed here.

After building up a nice new Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster with SCVMM 2012 SP1, it was a bit strange to get the world’s longest error when opening up the Failover Cluster MMC. The error started with:

A weak event was created and it lives on the wrong object, there is… Read the rest “Hyper-V Cluster Console Crash Windows Server 2012”

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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Architecture Poster

Posted on 11th February 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The updated version of Windows 2012’s Hyper-V Architecture component poster is now available for download which is pretty neat!

As an added bonus, there are companion references for Hyper-V Replica, Hyper-V Storage, VM Mobility and Networking.

The Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V poster is available here if you want to round out your collection

Cheers,

Rhoderick

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Monitoring Removal of Hyper-V AVHD Files

Posted on 2nd July 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Have you used Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V; created a snapshot, deleted it and then wondered why the snapshot files are still hanging around? Like to know what to expect and the EventIDs that are associated with snapshot removal?

Likely you will be familiar with .vhd files which are the disk storage files in currently released versions of Hyper-V. It is also possible for other organi… Read the rest “Monitoring Removal of Hyper-V AVHD Files”

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Download Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)

Posted on 8th May 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This tool has been out for a while, but have seen multiple customers not leveraging it on their Hyper-V servers as it is not installed by default on Windows 2008 or Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V hosts.

It is particularly useful for ensuring that the integration components inside the VM are the correct version. Note the Best Practices Analyzer section at the bottom of this screenshot:

You can use Hyper-V … Read the rest “Download Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)”

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List Of Updates for Hyper-V

Posted on 30th March 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Previously the list of updates for Hyper-V was stored and maintained as part of the regular TechNet documentation.

Customers asked to have an RSS feed that they could subscribe to and for the list to be maintained in a more rapid fashion.

Thus the update list was moved from TechNet to a new location on the TechNet wiki.

You may subscribe to the RSS feed for the Windows 2008 R2 update list here.

Should … Read the rest “List Of Updates for Hyper-V”

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Required Hotfix For Windows 8 VM Running on Hyper-V 2008 or 2008 R2 Host

Posted on 23rd March 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

EDIT 8-2-2013: A new update KB 2744129 has superseded the original KB 2526776

Please note that this new update now applies to Hyper-V 2008 and 2008 R2 -- the original was only for R2.

If you are testing out Windows 8 as a VM which is hosted on a Windows 2008 or 2008 R2 Hyper-V server, then you will need to install the following update.

An update that enables the Windows Developer… Read the rest “Required Hotfix For Windows 8 VM Running on Hyper-V 2008 or 2008 R2 Host”