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Properly remove windows.old on Hyper-V Server 2012 R2

I have installed Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 on a server that had Hyper-V Server 2012. When I did this, the standard Windows.old folder was created. I now would like to remove that folder safely. The standard way to do that with a full GUI would be to…
MikeBaz - MSFT
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Hyper-V Manager - How do I Connect to Hyper-V Server using different credentials

I have Hyper-V Server 2012 (free version) running on a box that is not on any domain. My Windows 8.1 laptop is on our domain. Both machines are on the same physical network. On my laptop, when I run Hyper-V Manager and attempt to CONNECT TO SERVER I…
finisterre
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Best practices for file layout in a Hyper-V server?

We've got a Hyper-V server set up, and the layout of the files is inconsistent because it was set up by several people. Here are the two different "templates" that were used: Template 1 D:\Hyper-V\Virtual Machines\MACHINE_NAME_1\Virtual Hard…
Benjamin Peikes
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Determining VM doing I/O on a Hyper-V host

How do I find out which VM is responsible for the majority of the I/O I see with Hyper-V? The situation: I do have Hyper-V hosts with a number of VMs (around 30 per host) where I occasionally see prolonged periods of high disk utilization. I would…
the-wabbit
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Windows 2012 Core Extreme memory use on SVCHOST/Workstation service

We have approximately 200 servers, Hyper V, File Cluster, and IIS, that are all experiencing the same issue, an event occurs on the server through normal use that maxes out or near maxes out the RAM on the server. Once this happens, the…
Craig
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Guest OS install from Physical CD/DVD Hyper-v 2012 R2

I have been looking around if it's possible to install a Guest OS on Hyper-V 2012 R2 Using the physical CD/DVD drive. The only ways i see to install guest OS is by mounting an ISO. Is hyper-v able to access the Host physical CD/DVD at all? Same…
웃mauri
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Updating Hyper-V Server 2012 (free version)

I am setting up a cluster of Hyper-V Server 2012 machines. I've got remote access to the machines via windows 8 and the various remote management consoles. I can't seem to figure out how to run 'windows updates' on the hyper-v server. There are a…
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DNS resolution on Windows Server 2012 running Hyper-V

The problem shows as follows: Ping hostname <-- the host answers, it seems like the resolution is done over netbios nslookup hostname <-- hostname wasn't found by UnKnown: No response from server. Now comes the funny part. For a short period…
Kevin
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Intermittent 100% CPU on all VMs

We're a small shop, running a Dell T420 (dual CPU, only one present, 6 cores) w/32GB RAM as our main server. We have only 5 VMs, one of which is our WSE 2012 DC. From time to time, and at a rate for which we've not been able to establish a reliable…
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Hyper V Server 2012 Remote Management Using Workgroup

I'm trying to remotely manage Hyper V server 2012 from a windows 8 pc, both client and server are on a workgroup. I've spent about 3-4 hours trying to get this working with no luck so far trying the following: Creating a new administrator on the…
Chris Kolenko
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RemoteFX GPU not appearing in Add Hardware for HyperV

I'm trying a PoC for RemoteFX and am having issues adding a 'RemoteFX Video Adapter' to my Win8 Enterprise VM. I'm working on section four of this link and just don't have the option to add the video adapter to the guest. HyperV sees the card and…
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How to enable remote device manager?

I have a hyper-v-server-2012-r2 Core server thats not joined to any domain. What configuration must i do on the server and client to connect with MMC \ Device Manager? I have managed to connect with the Computer Management to the server and i can…
Peter
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Converting a Hyper-V VM with a vhdx drive to a VMWARE format

We've been looking at converting virtual machines from Hyper-V 2012 which use .VHDX drives into a vmware-compatible format. So far, we haven't found any tools that can actually do this. Any ideas ?
Adi Dembak
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Hyper-V Thread Priorities host and guest - how do they correspond?

Yes, funny question. Given: A host for Hyper-V virtual machines. A HPC type Cluster. THere are a number of virtual machines on it. They do not use up the CPU most of the time. We also run a HPC style Cluster in house - agents pull Jobs and process…
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USB Thumb Drive not recognized in Hyper-V Manager

I have the free, standalone core Hyper-V Server 2012 running on my physical machine. I set up remote management from my Windows 8 client. When I proceed to create a virtual machine I would like to install the OS from a usb thumb drive but it is not…
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