I'm trying to add a physical hard drive (passthrough) to a VM where I have TrueNas installed, but this option is only showing up greyed out, even though the disk is in offline state. I'm running Hyper-V on Windows Server 2019.
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I'm beginning to think this is not possible but I have to ask. I have a Windows Server 2012R2 Datacenter server acting as a PDC and I have the Hyper-V role installed. This server has 15T of disk space but not a lot of CPU or RAM. I want to use it as a disk drive storage server for my VM Guest drives.
I also have a Server 2019 Core server that has more CPU power and 32G of RAM, but very little storage space. I want to use this server as my VM host machine, but I want to build all the storage on the 2012R2 server, but everything I have tried has failed. As expected, I can create VM guests if both the machine and disk is on this server, but if I try to create the disk on the other server it fails with an error similar to "Failed to create the virtual hard disk".
Is it just not possible to create the guest machine and disk on separate servers? Is this because of the 2012R2 and 2019 server differences? Is it possible and I just don't have the disk share setup properly?
Hyper-V is all new to me, it is a learning lab and I have a lot to learn. I've spent hours reading and going through articles but I just haven't found what I'm looking for yet. I think it's time I reach out to the experts and see it it is even possible first.
Thanks,
Tom
I can successfully create a guest if both the guest machine and disk are on the Host. When I try to create the disk on a a different host, I get the "Failed to create the virtual hard disk" error. I'm trying to maximize the use of the resources I have by splitting CPU/RAM on one host and Disk on another, but I am beginning to think it is not possible.
we are about to move TFS from phisical machine to Virtual. The machnie includes both application and Data Tier.
The rollback plan is to turn off the vm and turn on the Phisical machine.
Does anybody had issues with this process? or changes that needed to be done?. the machine will have the same name but diffrent IP.
Did I miss anything?
Migrating from physical machine to virtual went smoothly. I stopped the collection before the migration and started them back after and everything worked the same on all users stations.
We have some training machines (Windows Server 2008 r2) that we'd like to boot up and load the VM for the clients to use.
I thought it would be pretty simple via powershell, but so far. all i can do is get it to start up (Not connect).
doing searchs for connecting to VM obviously come up with random links to how to do a normal connect. Not load up the VM full screen mode if you log into the Hyper-V
Thanks for any help
S
Use remote desktop for full screen with Hyper-V.
Hello all I have a backed up about 30 servers using disk2vhd and now I have built my first of many hyper-v severs I did not realize this is all command line I did download CoreConfigurator and that does have some functionality I have been looking for. My question is how do I get the VHD files to run a Vitual Machines? its all command line I tried via vbs to mount the VHD's and I have not been able to any help on this would be great!
Thanks!
If you are using servercore, You maybe can do everything from the command line but I always prefer to have one computer running a Non server core version of windows 2008 to be the management server. You will load up Hyper-V manager on the non server core box and manage your Hyper-V server.
To have no "management" servers or desktops on your network will be a big pain IMO for management.
Using Hyper-V Manager you can quickly load the VHD's as VM's.
So load up Hyper-V Manager on a desktop PC on your localnet, and use its connect option to connect to your servercore. (Make sure your firewall settings are ok on servercore using coreconfig)
I'd like to import a real Windows Server 2008 server as a Hyper-V Virtual Server on another Windows Server 2008 instance.
Anyone have any idea how to do this?
I'm looking at the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 but it doesn't seem to import Windows Server 2008 - nor is it free.
Is there some other workaround (i.e. import the image into VMWare first, then convert to Hyper-V)?
Please help.
Regards,
Randall
while testing disaster recovery, iwas pleasantly surprised
(and impressed) that the builtin windows server backup
restored to hyper-v without a hitch.
this was on production hardware, with hw raid 5 and such -
so i expect it would work with slightly less exotic stuff as well.
I know from personal experience that using VMware's converter works to take an image of the system. You can then use Hyper V to import the VMware image you created.
When I was testing the the beta version of Hyper-V this was the only reliable method I found to import a physical system into a Hyper-V environment.
It's seems crazy to doubled convert something, but it worked!