Troubleshooting & Performance

How to Check Hyper-V Replica Health – Part 1

07 Oct 2013 by Nirmal Sharma
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Rate Hyper-V Replica provides built-in tools and utilities to do a health check for Hyper-V Replication. There are a number of ways to check Hyper-V Replication health but two easiest...

How To Analyze Your SCVMM 2012 SP1 Environment For Problems

20 Aug 2013 by Eric Siron
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Rate I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t get along well with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1. I feel about SCVMM the same way that Hunter...

Troubleshooting the Hyper-V Virtual Switch – Part 2

11 Jun 2013 by Eric Siron
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Rate In the previous part of this series, we looked at poorly performing virtual switches. In this part, we’ll look at ways to troubleshoot virtual switches that don’t work at...

Troubleshooting the Hyper-V Virtual Switch – Part 1

06 Jun 2013 by Eric Siron
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Rate Hyper-V’s virtual switch is a stumbling block for newcomers on a good day, so it’s certainly no picnic when something goes wrong. This series will arm you with tips,...

Error: Virtual Machine Advanced Policies Tab Unavailable on Windows 8

28 Dec 2012 by Eric Siron
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RateIf you try to get to the Advanced Policies tab in Failover Cluster Manager on Windows 8, you will receive the following error: “There are additional property pages for this...

Hyper-V Backup VSS Error 0x80070539 – Event ID 8193 – ConvertStringSidToSid

14 Dec 2012 by Altaro Software
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Rate A customer using Altaro Hyper-V Backup on a Windows 2008 R2 Standard SP1 contacted us to report that his attempts to back up a Virtual Machine failed due to...

How To Adjust MTU (Jumbo Frames) on Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012

05 Dec 2012 by Eric Siron
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Rate I think Microsoft broke my NETSH! I had built a new Hyper-V 2012 cluster for testing purposes. I followed a similar standard to the one I used for 2008...

Hyper-V Memory

11 Oct 2012 by Eric Siron
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Rate With Hyper-V’s “knobless” design, the biggest thing you have to remember about managing Hyper-V’s memory is to not try to assign more to virtual machines than you actually have...

Error 804: Hung Template Creation in SCVMM 2008 R2

18 Sep 2012 by Eric Siron
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RateWhen creating an SCVMM 2008 R2 template from a virtual machine that does not support Sysprep (such as Linux), it sometimes gets stuck during the Sysprep phase. It never ends...

Hyper-V Host Failure: How to Prepare

07 Sep 2012 by Eric Siron
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RateHardware failure presents the greatest drawback to consolidation on a hypervisor. Whereas one malfunctioning stick of RAM used to be a threat to one operating system, it can now bring...