When enabling the Hyper-V role on a Windows 2012 (R2) server, it creates a dynamic MAC address pool of 256 MAC addresses available for VMs. The MAC Address Pool configuration can be found in the Virtual Switch Manager under the Global Network Settings. The MAC address pool is generated as follows: …
Continue ReadingDuring a Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V implementation I needed to identify all the iSCSI disks (LUNs) presented by an EMC VNX SAN to the Hyper-v Failover cluster. Each presented iSCSI disk has a unique LUN ID. To View the LUN ID of a disk, you can use the diskpart command. Here are the steps to …
Continue ReadingFor testing I use Hyper-V and VMware Workstation 10 on my laptop. One restriction of VMware Workstation is that it does not support VHDX disk files (yet). VMware Workstation support VHD files, so the VHDX files must be converted to a VHD first. After the conversion VMware Workstation can select the …
Continue ReadingDuring a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Health Check I needed to know the snapshot file sizes for the all the snapshots on the Clustered Shared Volumes (CSVs). The Get-VMCheckpoint Cmdlet does not report the snapshot size. So I create a PowerShell one-liner that displays the following information: …
Continue ReadingOn TechEd Windows Server 2012 R2 is announced. Here are some highlights of “Hyper-V – What’s New in Windows Serve 2012 R2” session (MDC-B330): Windows Azure IaaS compatibility—Windows Azure IaaS uses exactly the same virtualization as Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. So VM’s on-premise can be moved to …
Continue ReadingRoger Osborne has create a huge checklist form of best practices on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. The Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V or Hyper-V 3 best practices focuses on the following topics: Host settings Anti-virus exclusions Physical NICs settings, NIC teaming, VLANS, Virtual Network …
Continue ReadingVMware has released the beta the public beta of VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.1. This beta supports Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V or Hyper-V Server 2012. Another new capability is to migrate VMs from your Hyper-V to your VMware vSphere environment . The VMware vCenter …
Continue ReadingLast week I created a simple example of a HealtCheck PowerShell script that connects to Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager and displays information about the Hyper-V hosts and VMs managed by this server. I run the PowerShell script from another Windows Server 2012 host. To make this …
Continue ReadingIn Windows Server 2012 you can choose between a Server Core and Server with a GUI (full) during the installation. The Full Server GUI has all the tools and options to configure and troubleshoot. Server core is a minimal Windows installation with less tools and options. Server Core has the following …
Continue ReadingVMware released the first version (1.0) of the vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager (MHM). MHM makes it possible to manage multiple heterogeneous hypervisors in VMware vCenter server. MHM supports only Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 as hypervisor! MHM requires vCenter …
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