Category: Hyper-V

Microsoft Windows Power shell to list down the Hyper V Virtual Machines Memory configuration for Hyper V Cluster, you can also use it for non cluster environment with simple modification. #Start-Process powershell -Verb runAs Administrator if (!([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] “Administrator”)) { Start-Process Read More …

One of the key responsibility of Hyper V Administrator to keep track of Storage utilization and clean up of stale Virtual Hard Disk, sharing a Powershell script to list down the Virtual Machine. Script output will create CSV file with Read More …

Error description:  An error occurred while attempting to start the selected virtual machine(s). ‘VMName’ failed to start. (Virtual machine ID ‘SomeID’) ‘VMName’ Microsoft Emulated IDE Controller (Instance ID ‘SomeID’): Failed to Power on with Error ‘General access denied error’ (0x80070005). Read More …

Microsoft Hyper V administrators facing day to day challenges to maintain the Virtualization environment stable with 100% up-time of Virtual Servers. Following script is just a basic example of getting Server up-time report on regular basic which can be scheduled Read More …

Some times IT support staff are having nightmare due Security updates for Operating System or security products, recently came a cross one of the incident with Hyper V 2012 R2 where VM’s were went to shutdown state and not booting Read More …

How VMM determines whether a host is over-committed Find out the HAVM with the largest RAM. Let’s call this slot size. Calculate number of “used slots” on each host. For this: First sort all VMs on the host in ascending Read More …

Folks, following are the quick guide to extend CSV disk space for Hyper v 2008 & 2012 Cluster using diskpart. Steps to extend the CSV Disk RDP to current CSV owner Get the LUN ID Increase size of LUN on Read More …

If you are using windows server as a virtualized domain controller and you facing this error       Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We’re just collecting some error info, and then we’ll restart for Read More …

How to Delete Snapshots After a successful application upgrade on TGLAB-WSUS01, we no longer need to save the previous state of the VM and can remove the checkpoint. This step can be easily missed, but it’s important to remove the snapshot Read More …

You can now add a node running Windows Server 2016 to a Hyper-V Cluster with nodes running Windows Server 2012 R2. This allows you to upgrade the cluster without downtime. The cluster runs at a Windows Server 2012 R2 feature Read More …