Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Forum

Server 2008 R2 in a VM is an awful experience

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:53:44 Z

Ok I'm honestly wasting a lot of time just trying to get 1 2008 R2 full 64bit installed so I can setup the management gateway and try out the AD PowerShell cmdlets.

My Physical system is running Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V

I have 2003 and 2008 SP2 servers installed no problem

Server 2008 R2 will not install for anything. I had an issue where my ISO is bad? Make no sense considering it was the same ISO i burned to DVD to do my install of server 2008 on my physical server. So after downloading it from technet again this time the install went further. Now when it get to the point of extract files it fails at 7% blue screen.

The same VM used the 2008 SP2 ISO and its almost done installing now, why is R2 in a VM such a pain? Maybe its my R2 as the Hyper-V host.... honestly its been acting odd since the install. I'm thinking of just redoing it and running with Server 2008 SP2 on my physical system rather than R2 nightmare I'm having Physical and Virtual.

Understanding the virtual network settings

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:47:16 Z

I'm having a hard time lately putting my head around how to setup my virtual network settings.

My router gives my Hyper-V server an IP address 10.0.1.13 /24 it has 1 onboard nic only.

Basically i want to setup an ISA and Edge in a DMZ with two nics each, External and Internal.

Two AD sites 1 DC at each.

How can i setup all these with their own subnets DMZ, AD site 1, AD site 2?

I configured the Router to send port 25 traffic to the Edge external nic which it gets IP address from the router 10.0.1.20 /24 and ISA gets 10.0.1.21 /24., being I want the Internal NICs.

Basically I'm confused on how to subnet up the AD sites and Internal DMZ nics, I want all the AD sites to get local dns from the DCs, and the DCs will forward request onto my router.

Do I need more nics to make this work or can i use the VLANs settings? I'm not a network guy and post places ive used ESX, but that was trunk ports for all the VLANs for the ESX boxes and VLAN settings were already configured.

Event ID 6237: Failover Cluster WMI Provider detected an invalid character

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:44:16 Z

Hi,

Four node Hyper-V cluster - originally Server 2008 RTM, upgraded to Server 2008 SP2 and then to Server 2008 R2.

I am recieving the following errors every 4 hours exactly and can't find any solution.

I did find http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958807 but this relates to 2008RTM and notes that the bug was fixed in SP2.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Log Name:      Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering-WMIProvider/Admin
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering-WMIProvider
Date:          30/11/2009 08:10:29
Event ID:      6237
Task Category: Failover Cluster WMI Provider
Level:         Error
Keywords:
User:          RICHMOND\HO-VM-SCVMM01$
Computer:      HO-BL01.trfs.org.uk
Description:
Failover Cluster WMI Provider detected an invalid character. The private property name 'ShutdownTimeoutInMinutes' had an invalid character but the provider failed to change it to a valid property name. Property names must start with A-Z or a-z, and valid characters for WMI property names are A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and '_'.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering-WMIProvider" Guid="{0461BE3C-BC15-4BAD-9A9E-51F3FADFEC75}" />
    <EventID>6237</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>1</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-11-30T08:10:29.434430200Z" />
    <EventRecordID>151977</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="6452" ThreadID="6884" />
    <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering-WMIProvider/Admin</Channel>
    <Computer>HO-BL01.trfs.org.uk</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-21-2066427151-189991117-1850952788-15501" />
</System>
<EventData>
    <Data Name="Parameter1">ShutdownTimeoutInMinutes</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

Billy

Some questions about windows server 2008 licensing

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:00:20 Z

Hi
I have some questions about windows server 2008 licensing.

1)How can I use of Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition for virtualization in non-microsoft platforms such as Xen or Vmware ESXi?

2)What type of license should be used for this work?

3)How can I activate licenses of virtual machines?

4)If I use Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition,then all versions of Windows Server 2008(web,standard,enterprise) are installable on virtual machines?

5)If I use Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition,then Windows Server 2003 is installable on virtual machines without additional license?

6)Is it possible to create unlimited virtual machines use Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition?

Legacy Network Adapter issue

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:51:01 Z

Hi,

We have buy new server and installed windows2008 R2 & Hyper-v. We have import 2 VMs (windows 2008 + Linux) from old windows 2008 server to new server without any issue. But when I add legacy network adapter VM couldn't start. Error couldn't give more specifications.

I have re-installed Hyper-V role as well but no chance. Even created new VM and added new legacy network adapter but same issue.

Since we are unable to install integration service on linux we can't use synthetic adapter instead.

Anyone please help me out.

Thanks in advance.

Make Hyper V host machine member server in domain it is hosting for use of SCVMM???

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:41:26 Z

Hi folks. I want to use SCVMM on my hyper v host machine but it says it has to be part of a domain. The DC on my network is a hyper v machine on THIS server that I want to install SCVMM on. I didn't think it was a good practice to join the hyper v host box to the domain that it is hosting but it seems there is no other way. Am I missing something? This makes no sense to me.

VMs fail to start - 'Storage Virtualization Service Provider' driver ?

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:24:52 Z

Hi,

After a re-boot the VMs fail to start with the following errors in the Hyper-V log. Apparently there have been no human config changes to rollback.

I have un-installed and reinstalled Hyper V but no luck.

'Storage Virtualization Service Provider' driver required by the Virtual Machine Management service is not installed or is disabled. Check your settings or try reinstalling the Hyper-V role.”

'CNBVS008': Failed to open attachment 'V:\Hyper-v\CNBVS008\CNBVS008.vhd'. Error: 'A device attached to the system is not functioning.' (0x8007001F). (Virtual machine ID 94603FE7-4214-4BBA-B042-527B69F776B4)

Microsoft Emulated IDE Controller (Instance ID {83F8638B-8DCA-4152-9EDA-2CA8B33039B4}): Failed to Power on with Error 'A device attached to the system is not functioning.' (0x8007001F). (Virtual machine ID 94603FE7-4214-4BBA-B042-527B69F776B4)

Any ideas or trouble shooting

Thanks
Ray

HVS08 R2 RC disk and device management from remote GUI

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:31:19 Z

I've installed Hyper-V Server 2008 (HVS08) R2 RC and added it to the domain. When I use Manage Computer from W7, I can see events, manage users, services etc., but these two things fail (from W7 RC client):

Disk Management - thinks about it for a few seconds and then:
on W7: "The RPC server is unavailable"
on HVS08, event ID 1 from source "VDS Basic Provider" with explanation "Unexpected failure. Error code: 490@01010004".

Device Manager - responds almost instantly with:
"Make sure the this computer is on the network [check], has remote administration enabled [check], and is running the 'plug and play' [check] and 'remote registry' [check] services."

Obviously since the MMC is working, I've enabled that and all other remote managment features from the HVS08 R2 menu.

This is a brand new install of HVS08 R2, my download and install DVD are confirmed good. Haven't even tried to create a VM yet.

File Cluster - traditional style or virtual machine

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:33:04 Z

(sorry also asked in HyperV thread)

Greetings

we are running W2008-R2 Hyper-V on a HP C3000 on four blades setup as two separate clusters (HP2012I and MSA2000 over ISCSI)

we have several virtual machines in HA mode running fine (member servers, specialized roles) (can live migrate fine etc)

we now want to setup our main File - Print server within the cluster

Does everyone recommend setting in up as a plain file cluster (application) - or to do it as a VM?
(we could only add data to a test File VM by creating additional virual harddisk / vhd file bought would rather address the file data outside this)
(we dont need clustered shared volume storage for this new file cluster as we can dedicate this lun to this one task)

(we would rather not have our 300+ GB of file data sitting in a large vhd file)

thanks - any advice welcome

cluster shared volumes only visible on one node

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:41:43 Z

setup:
Three identical servers (HP BL460c G1), sequential serial numbers, even. Identical CPU, memory, and drivers.
Windows 2008 x64 R2 Enterprise.
All three connected to an EVA4100 SAN.
Hyper-V enabled on all three, all three nodes joined to a failover cluster. No issues with installation or initial configuration. VMs can be created and run on individual servers, no problems with failover.

Cluster shared volumes don't work correctly. The volumes only appear on the node which currently owns the shared disk. Any attempt to access the volume by other by processes on other nodes causes the process to hang indefinitely. Maintenance and redirected mode make no difference.

The event log shows event ID 5120 logged every three seconds for five minutes:
Cluster Shared Volume 'Volume1' ('Cluster Disk 2') is no longer available on this node because of 'STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_PATH(c00000be)'. All I/O will temporarily be queued until a path to the volume is reestablished.

Then one or more instances of event ID 5142:
Cluster Shared Volume 'Volume1' ('Cluster Disk 2') is no longer accessible from this cluster node because of error 'ERROR_TIMEOUT(1460)'. Please troubleshoot this node's connectivity to the storage device and network connectivity.

The nodes can communicate over both their public and private (heartbeat) LAN segments without issue. I can not only ping nodes from one another, but access file shares and remote management.

What am I missing in my configuration that CSV doesn't work?

W2K8 R2 -- VDI

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:31:23 Z

I'm getting following error message when trying to add connection broker server. Did anybody see this? Any hints for troubleshooting?

RD Web Access was not able to access the RD Connection Broker server specified. Ensure that the computer account of the RD Web Access server is a member of the TS Web Access Computers security group on the RD Connection Broker server.

Thanks.

Hyper-V and Host C: drive activity? Trying minimize impact on a VM guest on the same physical drive due to desire to put other VHDs in same drive.

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:20:14 Z

Running Hyper-V R2 in a 30GB partition C: on a 72GB RAID1 array. 40GB D: drive on the 2nd partition of the array. Plenty of memory (16GB) and CPU (dual Core i7 Xeons).

1) I was planning to put a VM or maybe 2 of 20GB fixed-sized VHD on the D: partition. Since D: partition is on the same physical array as C:, I am wondering what impact there will be on the Hyper-V host if the 1 or 2 VMs on D: are somewhat busy. i.e. will the C: drive and thus the Hyper-V host be badly impacted if the array is attending to the needs of the 2 VMs?

2) If I have other VMs on fixed-sized VHDs on other physical arrays (e.g. other RAID1 arrays E: and F:, etc.), are they affected if the Hyper-V host's disk drive is mildly exercised? There will be lots of RAM and thus I'm hoping the Hyper-V host won't be paging much and thus WON'T need to access its C: drive.

2a) if I have lots of memory, is it true that the Hyper-V host won't be paging much or access much of its 30GB C: drive?

Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V snapshots and volume mount points

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:48:31 Z

Hi
i noticed an issue with snapshots for the virtual machines that are stored in Volume Mount Points.
It throws an error message:
"An error occured while attempting to snapshot the selected virtual machine(s).
'VM name' could not initiate a snapshot operation. Could not create auto virtual disk 'path to the vhd'. General access denied error. "

P.S. the snapshots are configured to be stored under the same path as the vm.
so the vhd file resided in d:\VirtualServers\vmname\vmname.vhd
snapshot: d:\VirtualServers\vmname\

The snapshots work fine if the vm is stored under a dedicated drive letter. I have another vm on the same Hyper-V host which i stored under E:\ and it works fine.

is this another bug ?
i submitted another question about Hyper-V R2. those seem to be major bugs. Hope there are some hotfixes to our problems.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsserver2008r2highavailability/thread/596e8abf-5372-44ff-beed-390923f495c2

Guest Virtual Memory - Paging file on a disk other than C:

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:28:02 Z

Hi,

I'm experiencing problems with putting the paging file on another drive than C: on a Windows Server 2008 R2 guest. It worked without a hitch on 2008 but now it's a no go. Isn't this supported anymore or what's going on? I'm getting an error message after reboot saying

"Windows created a temporary paging file on your computer because of a problem that occurred with your paging file configuration when you started your computer. The total paging file size for all disk drives may be somewhat larger than the size you specified."

Looking at the disk usage there is still as much space allocated on the C: drive as before reboot and nothing allocated on my D: drive where I tried to put it.

Any ideas?

- Andy

Network Adapter disabled, Event ID 4 Netvsc, miniport reset

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:43:46 Z

Every once in a while (maybe once a week) one of our virtual machines will lose network connectivity. It all starts with Event ID 4 with the Source being "netsvc". The Event description says "The miniport 'Microsoft Virtual Machine Bus Network Adapter' reset." When this happens the network adapter in the VM becomes disabled and the only way to enable the network adapter and regain network connectivity is to reboot the VM. I am using Synthetic Network Adapters with optimatizations not enabled. The host is Hyper-V 2008 R2 RTM 6.1.7600. Hardware is Dell R610 with Broadcom gigabit network adapters. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

"Geneva" Server Setup Wizard ended prematurely because of an error

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:06:37 Z

I'm running "Geneva Framework" sts1, sts2 & web1 servers (Windows 2008 Server R2 Beta x64) on a Windows Server 2008 x64 Hyper-V. Configuration/setup was fairly straight forward until near the end when I attempted to install Geneva.IdentityServer.x64.msi on sts1 & sts2. I received the {"Geneva" Server Setup Wizard ended prematurely because of an error} message on both sts1 &sts2.

I found two entries in the Event Log with the following info, but no other logs that provided anything helpful:

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="MsiInstaller" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">11708</EventID>
<Level>4</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-02-06T23:32:07.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>1365</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>STS2.fabrikam.com</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-21-1112698668-3848302608-218123824-500" />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data>Product: Microsoft "Geneva" Server -- Installation failed.</Data>
<Data>(NULL)</Data>
<Data>(NULL)</Data>
<Data>(NULL)</Data>
<Data>(NULL)</Data>
<Data>(NULL)</Data>
<Data />
<Binary>7B36324435393644382D344534302D343639352D383246302D3132394635333830393132417D</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="MsiInstaller" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1033</EventID>
<Level>4</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-02-06T23:32:07.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>1366</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>STS2.fabrikam.com</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-21-1112698668-3848302608-218123824-500" />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data>Microsoft "Geneva" Server</Data>
<Data>1.0.21024.2</Data>
<Data>1033</Data>
<Data>1603</Data>
<Data>Microsoft Corporation</Data>
<Data>(NULL)</Data>
<Data />
<Binary>7B36324435393644382D344534302D343639352D383246302D3132394635333830393132417D3030303031613033326539626536323333653065393835636464316233323637613362373030303030393034</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

My assumption is that the Geneva Identity Framework has to first be installed as a "New Feature", probably under .NET Framework 3.5 and then be enabled. Any ideas on how to do that would be greatly appreciated?

The Geneva.IdentityServer.x64.msi installer is available on the Geneva site at https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/Downloads.aspx?SiteID=642 as Geneva Server x64 installer in the middle of the page.

I've cross-posted this issue on the Geneva support site at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Geneva/thread/3bd95a7b-b1f5-41de-83f6-6aecc0ef1f2f .

VDI-problem in RDS service

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:57:20 Z

Hello,
I have setup for RDS service with One Hyperv Server another 2008 R2 server.
I've Configured RDVH and RDSH roles perfectly and also works fine for few days.
After that I am able to access the remote applications but not able to use VDI pools (VM)
While I am connecting to the pools i am receving an error "Securing Remote Connectins" or Waking the Virtual Mechine".

Please help

Thanks
Crew.

RDS Virtualization Host VDI

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:43:25 Z

I have a connection broker, session host, web access and the virtualization host setup on R2. I have two Windows 7 VM clients on the VH host. When I login into the web access and access the desktop, I get the following error: remote desktop cannot verify the server belongs to the server farm - there is no farm it is trying to connect to one of the Windows 7 clients. I have the connection broker setup to be virtualization redirection not a farm. I follwed the RDS guides and I believe I have everything setup correctly. Any suggestions?

HBA I/O

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:41:54 Z

Hi All,

i have implemented VM solution for my company , and here is a brief details

a) Microsoft Hyper-v configured on windows 2008 server

b) SAN

c) HBA controller (qlogic)

on windows 2008 server (Hyper-v) i have hosted VM instances ( winodws OS ) , Disks for these VM are placed on SAN and this Hyper-v server is connected to a HBA. This HBA takes the I/O to the SAN then to respective disk and vice versa.

Now everything works fine and i have to monitor this solution.

i understand that VM's uses the physical resources of hyper-v server such as memory, network , processor etc... And i am planning to monitor

a) VM's I/O

b) Hyper-v server I/O

c) HBA I/O

My question: Does monitoring hyper-v == HBA I/O ??
For eg: if i run perfmon utiility on VM and point to hyper-v server does that I/O differs from HBA I/O ?

Or should i need to trap the HBA calls and write a custom application to collect performance of HBA ??

Please advice.

32bit guest on 64bit host

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:22:29 Z

I´ve installedd Win 2008 Server R2. Activated Hypr-V
I install and configure the network fine in "virtualized Win 2008 Standard 64bit", but when i virtualize "Win 2008 Std 32bit" I cannot it connect to the network: "Microsoft VMBus virtual network" appears with a "exclamation point" and no network adapter appears in the Network Properties.
Resuming:
Phisical Server: DL380G5 with Win 2008 R2 Server Standard,
Virtual Machine with "Win 2008 Server Standard 64bit" works fine,
Virtual Machine with "Win 2008 Server Standard 32bit" is unable to configure network.
What am i doing wrong?

Better Web performance on virtualized XP than Windows 2008

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:23:14 Z

The gist of the following details is this. Can XP Pro be a better Web Server than Windows 2008 in a virtualized environment considering performance and scalability.

The web developer designed a Tomcat/Java/MySQL web server running on XP Pro x86 SP3 on a 5 year old workstation with 1G RAM. We are moving the web software and content to either XP Pro x86 or Windows Server 2008 x86 on Hyper-V or ESXi Server 4 on new more powerful server hardware.

Our prelimary tests show that we are getting better web performance via the XP virtual machine than a Windows 2008 vm. Both vm's provide much better performance than the old XP workstation.

XP would "not" have installed on bare metal, though Windows 2008 will. However, we much prefer to use virtualization for numerous reasons, that I won't explain for brevity.

My question is, are there good reasons not to use virtualized XP for this purpose? I do not want to advise my client to purchase Windows Server 2008 if XP would provide better performance. Of couse scalability could become an issue depending on the success of the web site. As a side, we are using 32bit, because MySQL-Essential Server mode has problems installing and writing to a configuration file on 64-bit systems. Develpment mode installs ok on 64-bit Windows 2008, but XP 32-bit is still faster.

I presume Windows 2008 would be an obvious solution in most cases. Perhaps the 32bit Tomcat/Java/MySQL software along with virutalization may nullify the benefits of 2008 over XP.

I plan to place similar posts in perhaps Tomcat, MySQL, ESX forums, as time is of the essence. I hope no one is annoyed if they see it in other forums. This however is my first posting.

Thanks,

Rich

Hyper-V assigning bad subnets

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:27:48 Z

I have three servers set up as an HA Hyper-V cluster in my testlab.

All hyper-v servers are configured in a 192.168.0.x/24 subnet.

When I assign them a legacy NIC and tell them to PXE boot, they are for whatever reason grabbing a 192.168.1.x/24 address.

The 192.168.1.x/24 address is present in the testlab, but I do not understand why these servers are insisting on assigning the address as they are.

Where would these Hyper-V VMs be looking to determine what sort of IP they should self assign when directed to PXE boot?

Thank you,

-Aaron

Vms on the same physical server cannot acccess each other's shares

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:04:45 Z

Hi Everyone

I have several Windows Server 2003 and 2008 R2 Vms running on a single Physical server running Windows Server 2008 R2.
I have observed that I cannot access the shares of any VM from any other VM on the same physical server.

Can anyone confirm this and is there some "fix/confguration" to be done?

Thanks.

- Andre

IPv4 addresses on a virtual switch won't stick and has to be entered twice.

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:53:19 Z

Hi,

I've experienced a problem with an IP addresses which won't stick and has to be entered twice on a virtual switch interface on the host. This has been a problem on all my Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V server so far. Is this a known problem or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,

Andy

Hyper-V HA VM and CSV storage - additional drives

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:02:58 Z

greetings

we have some VMs running in a W2008-R2 Hyper-V HA Cluster on a couple of HP Blades in a C3000 (HP2012I/MSA2000) san over ISCSI.

everything is working fine (live mig etc)

we are setting up a new VM and wish to add storage space to this VM (drive D: locally etc in VM)

can you do this outside a VHD? but still within CSV? - or do you have to dedicate a Lun to it - and if you do - how do you access the new Lun?
(we have two virtual networks within the HyperV config assigned to existing roles and can not offer iscsi access directly to the VM)

thanks

Want to backup Win2008 R2 Hyper-V Guest machine to DPM2007.

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:01:55 Z

[ Environment ]
DPM Server: Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 x64
Hyper-V Physical machine: Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
Hyper-V Guest machine: Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 x86

[ Patches applied ]
[-- DPM Server --]
- WindowsServer2003 KB926140
- WindowsServer2003 KB934016
- WindowsServer2003 KB940349
- WindowsServer2003 KB967551
- WindowsServer2003 KB968447
- WindowsServer2003 KB969219
- DataProtectionManager2007- KB949779
- DataProtectionManager2007- KB954641
- DataProtectionManager2007- KB959605
- DataProtectionManager2007- KB961502
- DataProtectionManager2007- KB963102
- DataProtectionManager2007- KB968579
- DataProtectionManager2007- KB970867
- DataProtectionManager2007- KB970868
- DataProtectionManager2007- KB976542

[-- Hyper-V Guest machine --]
- WindowsServer2003- KB934016
- WindowsServer2003- KB940349
- WindowsServer2003- KB967551
- WindowsServer2003- KB968447
- WindowsServer2003- KB969219

[ Hyper-V Physical machine ]
- Windows6.1- KB975688

[ Problem ]
From the DPM Administrator Console the Hyper-V Physical machine agent shows 'OK' status.
But, when I created a Protection Group for Hyper-V guest machine and run Consistency Checking job, the job was in 'running' state for a long time.
It did not change status to finish or fail.
When the transfer started, data trasfered was 16.93MB, but after running the job for several days it still showed 16.93MB.

Need some help as to how to solve this issue of why DPM cant backup the Hyper-V guest machine.
Your advice will be greatly appreciated.

Terminal Services Client Access Licenses for testing purposes

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:54:31 Z

We are developing a solution using RD RemoteApp on Windows Server 2008 R2.

In order for our QA department to test the RD RemoteApp program, as well as to document the steps to setup and configure the RD RemoteApp program, we need some TS CALs. Does Microsoft provide "temporary" TS CALs that can be used for testing purposes? In my company, the RD RemoteApp program will be tested several times during this release, with the QA servers flattened between each test.

Regards,

Matthew

Support for Hyper-V Server

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:27:47 Z

I'm trying to install "Hyper-V Server" (RTM not the R2 version) on a Server 2008 R2 server with the Hyper-V role. It looks like the Integration Services install OK, but I can't get the networking to work (and I can also tell that the Integration Services don't seem to install properly since I have to Ctrl+Alt+Left-Arrow to escape the VM).

Do I have to possibly install a Legacy Network Adapter?

I have other VMs working fine on this host.

Can host resources be dynamically allocated across guest OSs?

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:53:10 Z

I was wondering how the host hardware allocation works across the guest operating systems. I was under the impression, that if you configured the host/guests accordingly, that if for example you had two guests running on a host, and you powered down one of the guests, that some/all of the previously used resources would be reallocated to the guest that is still running. Then later on, if you powered the second guest back up, it would take some of the resources back. Is this an accurate statement?

Hyper-V R2 and Win 2k8 r2

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:43:24 Z

Hi, i have installed Win 2k8 r2 on all my Hyper-V Server.

Do i need to install Hyper-V R2 as well or is it included in Win 2k8 r2?

Thanks

Connection broker question

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:39:51 Z

So I have my RD connection broker setup with Remote App, Personal Desktops, and VDI Pools, it is working great now I am ready to take it to the next level high availability and/or load balancing.

So I read the documentation on setting up a connection broker farm, I have the farm and DNS setup but my question is do I need a connection broker on each farm member or is the 1 sufficient? If I bring up more than 1 connection broker it screws up VDI and Remote App because the current connection broker (lets call it TS-CB1) has those servers registered with it so when I go to add them to connection broker 2 (TS-CB2) they do not work and I get the red X saying that the connection broker is not setup for VDI, and that I need to remove them from TS-CB1 before they will work with TS-CB2. Now this is where I am confused, if this load balancing is supposed to work the way the it is described in help then I need a CB on each server don't I? Also do clients now connect to the farm name? If so then it goes back to the 2 CB issue.

On to the next thing which kinda relates to the first, I want to set up a CB in a Failover cluster. My cluster is setup and running fine (it is hosting the Hyper-V servers running the VMs), and I add the RDCB to it and it comes online fine, but this is where I run into problems:

I wiped out the configs on the connection brokers before bringing the HA_CB online, but when I go to manage the broker it configures the server it is currently running on. I connect to CB_HA (the name of the highly available connection broker), in the snap-in and configure the broker but it seems to configure the server it is currently running on (say TS-CB1), so then I move it to another node (say TS-CB2), and the broker acts like it is not configured and picks up the settings of the node it is running on. If I reconfigure it then it configures that node. This wouldn't be a problem but again I run into the issue of my virtualization host servers not registering their VMs with the connection broker.

I put all the right computers in the right groups, but when i change servers i have to take them out and put them in the other server for it to work, which kinda defeats the purpose of high availability and fail-over if I have to redo configs. So what am I doing wrong here because I can't seem to figure out how to get the connection brokers to not fight over the virtualization host servers.

Is Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC available on Windows Server 2008 R2?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:56:37 Z

Background: Microsoft have created Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC for the Windows 7 environment. Obviously many small and medium businesses have problems running old applications in Windows 7 so by using XP mode in Windows 7 this has been solved. Excellent.
Now to my question: Is it possible to install Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC on a Windows Server 2008 R2? The reason for asking is that our customers run our software in a terminal session on that server. When they changed server from 2003 to 2008 things doesn't work any longer. So we would like to have our customers run our application in XP Mode on that terminal session in Windows Server 2008 R2. Is this possible?
Kind Regards,
Randy

Terminal server cannot locate the license server

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:15:11 Z

Hello,

I have installed a Terminal server to a different domain than the License server. The problem is that when I try to search it from Terminal server's end I cannot find it. I have used Terminal Server Licensing and manually set the License server IP. I can ping the License server's IP and domain name. Both servers are W2k3 Servers (enterprise). I can telnet to License server's port 135 so its not a firewall issue anymore?

Other Terminal servers in the same domain with the license server can connect to it just fine. They are manually connected, not via group policy.

I have tried to troubleshoot the problem with this guide and no help so far:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc758805%28WS.10%29.aspx#BKMK_1

Microsoft VDI supportability for Windows XP (XP here is either a member of an RD pool or acts as a PDD)

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:39:19 Z

Hi,

I need an information on Microsoft VDI urgently. Its regarding Microsoft VDI supportability for Windows XP.

Its not clear from Microsoft whether Windows XP would work in a RP Pool & PDD scenario. But I spoke with Virtualization support person who confirmed me that it

does.

There is a beautiful document to make Windows 7 work in RD Pool or PDD, which holds good for Vista as well. But for Windows XP, there is no documentation &

the steps don't seem to be pretty straight forward.

Following are the configuration settings that need to be done on the VM:

1.External network created is to be added to the network adapter of the VMs.

2.The name of the VM in the Hyper-V Manager tool matches the FQDN of the guest OS on that VM (this is mandated only for VMs being used in PDD scenarios)

3.Integration Components should be installed on the Virtual Machine (present by default on a Win7 client).

4.Remote Desktop must be enabled on that VM.

5.The RD Virtualization Host server hosting this VM should be added to the VM’s RDP-Tcp listener permissions group.

6.The registry entry ‘AllowRemoteRPC’ must be set to 1.

7.Firewall exception needs to be enabled for Remote Desktop and Remote Service Management

8.Users who need access to VM should members of the Remote Desktop Users group.

They work fine on Vista & Windows 7. As far as Windows XP is concerned, I am lost.

Refer to Step no. 5 - The RD Virtualization Host server hosting this VM should be added to the VM’s RDP-Tcp listener permissions group.

Does this group "RDP-Tcp listener permissions group" exist as a security group? I can't find it that easily said.

The proccess includes to grant the RDVH-SRV computer account permissions to the RDP protocol on the client and then restart the Remote Desktop Services service on the client. The RDVH-SRV computer account needs the WINSTATION_QUERY, WINSTATION_LOGOFF, and WINSTATION_DISCONNECT permissions

on client.

Here client is either a member of an RD pool or acts a PDD & RDVH-SRV is Remote Desktop Virtualization Host (RD Virtualization Host) server

To add RDP protocol permissions to a virtual machine:

1. Click Start, point to All Programs, and then click Accessories.

2. Right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator.

3. If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Yes.

4. At the command prompt, type the following commands:

wmic /node:localhost RDPERMISSIONS where TerminalName="RDP-Tcp" CALL AddAccount "contoso\rdvh-srv$",1

wmic /node:localhost RDACCOUNT where "(TerminalName='RDP-Tcp' or TerminalName='Console') and AccountName='contoso\\rdvh-srv$'" CALL ModifyPermissions 0,1

wmic /node:localhost RDACCOUNT where "(TerminalName='RDP-Tcp' or TerminalName='Console') and AccountName='contoso\\rdvh-srv$'" CALL ModifyPermissions 2,1

wmic /node:localhost RDACCOUNT where "(TerminalName='RDP-Tcp' or TerminalName='Console') and AccountName='contoso\\rdvh-srv$'" CALL ModifyPermissions 9,1

Net stop termservice

Net start termservice

5. Log off the client computer. This is required in order for Morgan Skinner to log on to the personal virtual desktop successfully.

Now the whole purpose of this question here is: How to grant RDP-Tcp listener permissions on an XP machine which either resides in an RP pool or acts as a PDD.

Any help on this is appreciated.

Regards,

Harish

Harry

Problem trying to rdp from a client in hyperv there is no problem

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:35:48 Z

I have the following topology:
server 2008 r2 hyper v
on the hyper v
i have a active directory with dns
then i have a server

all of them are based on windows 2008 r2

i joined the domain to the new server that is ok i enabled the remotedesktop.
and tried to logon from within the hyperv console with the domain user and password this works perfect.

Now i try to logon from a client pc to with the domain account and i get access denied.
if i logon with the original account of ther server i can logon.
so somewhere something is going wrong and i seriously need some help with this issue

i also tried to add the domain admins to the remote desktop users no result...

i hope somebody can help me with this issue.

{UPDATE}
I figured out that when i look at users on the server i can not add the domain admins.
i disabled ipv6 since it may also cause problems.

It looks like it is not really connected to the domain aldo i log on with my domain account :-S

any help would be great

kind regards,

Paul Keijzers

Web: http://wwww.kbworks.nl Follow me on twitter

Can't Remote Desktop Connection to RDS Session Host

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:18:05 Z

i Can't Remote Desktop Connection RDS Session Host Always Get Me Error

" Remote Desktop Connection Could Not Find The Destination Computer This Can Happen If The Computer Name Is Incorrect Or The Computeepar Is Not Yet Registered With Session Broker Try Connecting Again Or Contact Your Network Administrator"

RDS-Broker And RDS-Session separate and 2 RD VIRTUALIZATION Host Servers and RD-WEB So I Can't Run Any ReMOTE App I TESTED Remote Desktops Pool Run Very Good

I Notice This Error Appear When I select virtual machine redirection But Why This Error Happen With Virtual Machine Selection

Thanks

VMARE to Hyper-v

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:21:22 Z

Hello to all ,
Is the way to convert a VM of VMARE to a VM of Hyper-v ?
thanks,

Mkuriel

2008 R2 Hyper-V iSCSI problems

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:33:46 Z

I am in the process of testing a Hyper-V cluster setup with 2008 R2 RTM. I am having problems that seem related to the iSCSI connection to my SAN. I've been experimenting with the RC release and have really had no problems for quite awhile, until now. My environment includes the following
HW:
2 x Supermicro SuperServer 8045-3RB

4x Intel 7330 quad core Processors

16x 4GB 667mhz RAM = 64GB

2x 300GB 15k rpm SAS drives mirrored on a LSI MegaRAID controller

2x onboard Intel 82575eb NICs

2x Intel Pro 1000 PT quad port NIC low profile (one for iscsi, one for VMs)

All NICs running Intel ProSet 14.3 drivers

Windows Server 2008 R2

1 x Winchester SX2388R iSCSI SAN

This model has two controllers for redundancy each with 4x Gigabit Host ports

12x 7200rpm 1TB SAS drives
2x 4 drive RAID5 LUNS

1x 1GB (intended for quorum disk)

     So at this point I've installed the OS. Added Hyper-V. Installed Failover clustering, MPIO, and SNMP. I established four connections to my SAN from one quad port NIC (two to each SAN controller trunk using MCS). At this point I setup my cluster using one supermicro box and another highend intel workstation. I did this only very temporarilyso my production VMs would remain running on one supermicro box using Hyper-V 1.0 with VMs on the local disk until I could migrate them over to the cluster, then reformat with R2 and and join the cluster.  After creating the cluster and enabling CSV on one LUN, I moved 10(but not the most important) of my VMs to the CSV and ran them for 4 days.  My VMs are not "highly available" yet so that they would not fail over to my workstation. So today, I come in and see all my VM status at Saved-Critical.
           I go straight to my event viewer and fine many iSCSIPrt errors and warnings. These include:
1. Target did not respond in time for a SCSI request. The CDB is given in the dump data.
2. Initiator sent a task management command to reset the target. The target name is given in the dump data.
3. The description for Event ID 129 from source iSCSIPrt cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed or is corrupt...The following information was included with the event: \device\RaidPort1
These are repeated over and over every minute for hours.

There are also a bunch of Failover cluster errors that talk about physical disk not able to be brought online. These are all related to the dropped iscsi connections.
I also had a few of these errors:
4. The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000009e (0xfffffa80327ad1c0, 0x00000000000004b0, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: 081909-50107-01.

So within the iSCSICPL I show connections to both my SAN controllers. I show devices associated with the connections. When I go to Disk Manager I only see my c: drive and my DVD drive, no iSCSI drives. No amount of iscsi service resets, reboots, or reconnects have made my disks reappear. I ran for a few days flawlessly and was ready to start my move to full production when this happened. The 10 VMs that I was running are very low load with the exception of an ORION npm monitoring VM and a System Center Essentials VM. Has anyone else had problems with iSCSI connections in R2? Could this be related to my temporary cluster setup that I was using to transition me to production?    Any help here would be appreciated. I know there can't be too many people trying Hyper-V clustering with R2 RTM and iSCSI but I had so much success earlier that I was ready to jump right in anyhow.

As a final update while I was writing this, I reset my SAN and finally had my iSCSI drives show up. Does this point to a problem with my SAN, or a possible iSCSI initiator compatibility problem?

Thanks in advance,
EPLtech

How to make my pc to work like thin client?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:27:55 Z

How to make my pc to work like thin client?
I don want to buy a lot of thin clients, I want to use my existing pc's to work like thin clients. Is it possible ?

virtual processor configuration

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:42:11 Z

According to MS, each processor core can support up to 8 single processor virtual machines. I am wondering what setting do one use for the 8 VM configuraiton.

Thanks