In this blog post, we’ll discuss how to migrate your on-premises virtual machines to Azure – focusing mostly on Azure Site Recovery – along with key prerequisites but also limitations. Site Recovery Migrating virtual machines to the cloud can be painful and complicated unless you use the right tools for the job. Microsoft offers a […]
Tag: Hyper-V
NIC Teaming modes and Distribution algorithms in Windows Server 2012 R2
I find it quite hard to remember the distribution algorithms and the advantages of each teaming mode with switch configuration, so I’ve made a summary with pointers to grab when needed again. Use it to your advantage 🙂 ————————————– Outbound traffic can be distributed among the available links in many ways. One rule that guides […]
Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 3)
Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 1) Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 2) Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 3) In the previous 2 parts I explained what we can do with the Netapp conversion technology, in this part I will show how it’s done. […]
Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 1)
Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 1) Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 2) Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 3) Finally!!! A couple of months ago I started migrating from VMware to Hyper-v with frustrating speeds, 17MB/s, this is because of the file conversion which […]
Hyper-V / VMM MAC Addresses
In this post I’m going to talk about the MAC Address Pools in Hyper-V / VMM and the actual way they work. It seems easy to setup and never look at it again but this can cause some serious issues. There are many threads on technet forums about virtual machines changing MAC addresses and especially […]
VMM crashes when NIC team not completely up
Encountered some crashes today, after some troubleshooting I quickly found the issue, one of my NIC teams was not completely online. Log Name: VM Manager Source: Virtual Machine Manager Date: 8/23/2013 9:49:14 AM Event ID: 1 Task Category: None Level: […]
VMQ + Broadcom crashes servers
Yesterday I rebooted one of my hosts, and another host just crashed out of nowhere. After some diggin’ this event shows in the eventviewer: Event ID 113 Failed to allocate VMQ for NIC C777500C-AA7A-4F61-8862-0B8D09A2E967–A6F60352-0C31-4F30-9F27-F3FC8C1D5F87 (Friendly Name: VM) on switch DA1BEF5D-95DD-46FE-9E9E-43DE05FFCDDB (Friendly Name: Local). Reason – Maximum number of VMQs supported on the Protocol NIC is […]
0x80071008
An error occurred while moving the virtual machine(s) storage. Error Code: 0x80071008 Invalid parameter Solution: Unmount the mounted iso.
Set Port Classification based on VM Network
When you share one Logical network for two purposes like Management and Backup you might want to setup Port Classifications and Port Profiles. With the Port Classifications and Port Profiles you can setup QOS so the backup traffic will never influence the management traffic. One thing not to forget is to select the Port Profile, […]
Restore IP settings from registry Powershell Tool
I’m currently working on v2v from VMware to Hyper-v. Because the new VM’s on Hyper-V get new NIC’s all the IP settings are lost and because I didn’t want to restore the settings all manually I wanted to create a powershell script and eventually ended up with a Powershell tool with GUI. It uses the […]
