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I recently had a problem with a couple of IBM Blades that I was trying to deploy as Hyper-V hosts. I employ the use of a replay volume from our Compellent storage to create an image for my blades. Basically, I install one, sysprep it, and then copy the volume mount the copy as the [...]
Where I work, we have been using Microsoft Virtualization since Virtual Server was in Beta. Of course, we don’t necessarily use all of the functions and features of all the software we have, but one feature that I have used a good bit is the “Convert physical server” action in System Center Virtual Machine Manager. [...]
We use Citrix Presentation Server for a number of applications, and lately we have had a significant increase in issues with one set of our Citrix servers. We have 3 main sets of Citrix servers and the problems have only been happening on one set. One of the sets doesn’t have this error, but wouldn’t [...]
I was trying to change from a “Legacy Network Adapter” to a “Network Adapter” on one of my Hyper-V VMs. I added the “Network Adapter” and removed the “Legacy Network Adapter”, and started the machine up. When the machine came up, it wouldn’t connect to the network. Having seen this before I knew exactly how [...]
We have several (15 or so) Hyper-V hosts running a number (126 or so) guests. We use DPM to backup our servers, but only a few of our VMs are backed up at the host level. Most are backed up as regular clients. I have been having trouble with a couple of the ones that [...]
Evidently, Windows Server 2003, running on Hyper-V, is confused and thinks it must be time traveling. Read below for the details… (Event ID 1054) Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer network. (An unexpected network error occurred.). Group Policy processing aborted. The customer explained to us that if he removes one of [...]
I have been trying to get a P2V of a production system to use in our DR plan. I have limited opportunity to do this, because I am not allowed to impact performance during production hours for this system, and the definition of production hours is fairly broad. I have been trying for a couple [...]
If you see this: ‘VMName’ failed to initialize. Could not initialize machine remoting system. Error: ‘Unspecified error’ (0×80004005). Could not find a usable certificate. Error: ‘Unspecified error’ (0×80004005). Then this could be your answer: Symptoms and resolution: § You may be unable to start or connect to virtual machines running on Windows Server 2008 or [...]
Of the new features coming in the R2 versions of Windows Server 2008 and SCVMM, I think these two are the obvious winners: Support for Live Migration: With Windows 2008 R2 adding support for Live migration, it’s now added as a new migration option in VMM R2. Live migration requires the source and destination host [...]
I managed to convince the “powers that be” that we didn’t need to have a dual quad-core server with the capacity for 32GB of RAM to and connectivity to our SAN sitting around doing nothing until they occasionally use it for upgrade testing… So I did a P2V (Physical to Virtual conversion) and shut down [...]