170 questions with Windows Server | High availability | Virtualization and Hyper-V tags
Cluster Validation Stuck
Hello everyone, I'm having the following problem when creating a 2-node HA cluster (Server 2025) using the Windows Admin Center. Up to the point ‘Validate Cluster’ everything worked fine. Unfortunately, the process gets stuck at ‘1% Gathering data about…
Cannot create a virtual machine in the hyperv
Hello, when i to create a virtual machine the hyper v iam getting an error its called " Hyper-v encountered an error while configuring the network on new virual machine " Hello, When I try to create a new virtual machine using Hyper-V, I get…
iSCSI Hyper-V 2019 Host - Auto Configure (not finding any devices)
Hello, I am currently having issues with 'Auto configuration' in the iSCSI Initiator on a Hyper-V 2019 Host, the iSCSI is connected successfully and I've added my targets however Auto configuration does nothing. notes: Hyper VM 2019 Server Host no…
facing issue in hyper v manager to manage the server and their cummunication.
I have 2 physical server PowerEdge r450 and i installed window server 2022 core and install hyper v manager on window 11 to manage them. I am facing issue: 1: Cannot add the fibre channel 2: want to communication with 2server how can i do that. 3: how…
Hyper-V 2019 Supported Guest Operating Systems
Hello. Does Hyper-V on Windows Server 2019 support installation and running a Windows Server 2025 VM? For some reason, my VM is not booting using Server 2025 ISO. Thank you in advance! Best regards Igor Goncharenko
New-IscsiServerTarget : Unable to connect to the computer
I am trying to create an iSCSI Target Server in Windows Server 2025 Core (no GUI) which in running as a VM on Hyper-V. My VM has 10 disks attached which I will further want to use as target disks. But I am stuck at this step PS…
Increase the size of user profile disk in my remote desktop server
Hi all experts. I have a server for remote desktop services purposes, Windows 2016 standard, and domain joined. It is configured using User Profile Disk, and the maximum limit is set to 5GB. I want to increase the maximum limit but I can't do it under…
Migration from ESXi 8 to Hyper-V
Hi All, I have a 2node ESXi cluster with a Dell storage over iSCSI.Due to Broadcom I'd like to move to Hyper-V. I only purchased the servers and the SAN in 2022 so I don't want to replace this but I wondering how I can do the migration. I was thinking…
Hyper-V VM / Google Drive syncing issue
Hi everyone, I have a server running **Windows Server 2022**, named **"DATA SERVER"**. This server has two drives: **C and D**. What I Did: **Enabled Hyper-V** and created a virtual machine (VM) called **"DATA VM"**. Used…
Understanding HighMemoryMappedIoSpace Allocation in Hyper-V with NVIDIA GPUs Using DDA
Hi Everyone, I'm currently managing a Hyper-V environment and I am using the NVIDIA GPUs with Hyper-V VM using the Discrete Device Assignment (DDA) method. I need some guidance on a memory allocation issue I've encountered. Specifically, I'm trying to…
How to migrate virtual machine from Nutanix to Microsoft Hyper-V?
We are transitioning from a Nutanix HCI environment to Dell PowerEdge servers, specifically targeting Hyper-V as our hypervisor. Our primary challenge is migrating existing Virtual Machines from Nutanix to Hyper-V. Nutanix Move lacks support for…
Upgrading VM configuration makes live migrations fail
Hi, we have two different Failover Clusters of HyperV with slightly different hardware. Both clusters are running Windows Server 2022. Cluster A has an Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 as the CPU and Cluster B has Intel Xeon Gold 6148 as the CPU. Now when I tried…
Unable to create checkpoint for the hyper-v machine
Unable to create checkpoint for the hyper-v machine. Screenshot of the error message is in the link below: https://ibb.co/DC7NjC1
An error occured while attempting to connect to server "XXXX", Check the Virtual machine Management service is running and that you are authorized to connect to the server
Hi All Suddenly after the reboot of the HyperV, I am unable to open the HyperV Manager and having cluster issues. Please find below error: An error occured while attempting to connect to server "XXXX", Check the Virtual machine Management…
WIndows Server 2022 Partition Lost - ReFS to Raw
Hello, after leaving site for a few days, my main share partition is now RAW, where it was Refs 3.7 and was functioning well except dedupe never ran. I checked updates but it was just ones pending download, so I sort of ruled that out a bit from other…
Does Credential Guard conflict with antivirus programs?
Credential Guard is enabled by default in Windows Server 2025. Does this feature conflict with antivirus programs? How does it operate, and are there any known compatibility issues? Also, what is the compatibility of Credential Guard with Hyper-V…
NVIDIA L4 GPU Not Detected in Guest Hyper-V VM After DDA
Environment Details: Host Machine: OS: Windows Server 2022 GPU: NVIDIA L4 x 3 CPU: Intel Xeon Gold 6542Y (with VT-d enabled) IOMMU and SR-IOV: Enabled in BIOS Virtual Machine (VM): OS: Linux ( Debian 12) Hyper-V DDA Configurations completing…
Service account unable to execute powershell commands (Get-Cluster)
We have created service account in active directory. The user is assigned to administrator, Hyper-v administrator group. Also under the failover cluster settings the service account is assigned full permissions. But when we logged into the user and try…
Backup file are corrupted in Windows server
I use a backup application that uses the Windows Volume Shadow Copy feature to create snapshots and read files from the snapshots, and found that there are a lot files were corrupted in many snapshots. And I found that have been fixed in some version…
VM has created a duplicate vhdx ending copyforscan.vhdx.
Hi, This is something I've never came across before. I have a Windows Server 2019 VM with 2 hard drives. The system drive has duplicated with the name ending copyforscan.vhdx. I've no idea why or how to remove it. Is it safe to just delete it? I've…