Manually ‘Installing’ Microsoft Integration Services Drivers
Jan31

Manually ‘Installing’ Microsoft Integration Services Drivers

KB ID 0001512 Problem If your OS is 2008R2 or newer then you wont need to do this as the drivers are already included. But what if you have a machine that you want to put the drivers in before you virtualise or migrate it. Well if you mount the ISO and run it this happens; Unsupported Guest Environment The Hyper-V integration services can only be installed inside of a virtual machine running Hyper-V Bah! You are not the boss of me! I...

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Conversion Error ‘Unsupported Disk Database Entry’
Jan23

Conversion Error ‘Unsupported Disk Database Entry’

KB ID 0001508 Problem Seen when attempting to convert a VMware disk (.vmdk) file to a Microsoft disk (.vhd or .vhdx) with Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter encountered an error while attempting to convert the virtual machine. Details: The entry “{value}’ is not a supported disk database entry for the descriptor. If you click on the ‘Log’ link you will see something line...

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Hyper V: Add a VM as a Cluster Resource
Jan23

Hyper V: Add a VM as a Cluster Resource

KB ID 0001390 Problem If you have a Hyper  V cluster, then you should add virtual machines with ‘Failover Cluster Manager’ but if someone does not, (i.e. they add them directly to a host), then you wont see them in the list! So how do you add them in? Solution In Cluster Failover Manager > Right Click the failover node > Configure Role. Next. Scroll down and select Virtual Machine > Next. Non clustered VM’s...

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Hyper V: Live Migration Error 0x80071008
Jan18

Hyper V: Live Migration Error 0x80071008

KB ID 0001387 Problem When attempting to perform a ‘live migration’ of a virtual machines storage, this happened. Error Invalid Parameter Code 0.80071008 Solution Oddly I had already moved one of the virtual machines drives to another cluster, before this happened, so I was a little confused. To get the migration to work, I needed to ‘unmount’ the parent VMs mounted .ISO file. The set the migration going again....

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Hyper V: Get All The Guest VM IP Addresses
Jan17

Hyper V: Get All The Guest VM IP Addresses

KB ID 0001386 Problem Getting the IP address for an individual guest VM is easy enough, but if you have a lot of guest VM’s then you need some PowerShell. Solution To get the IP’s of all the Guest VM’s on an individual Hyper-V host, use the following syntax; Get-VM | Select-Object -ExpandProperty NetworkAdapters | Select-Object VMName,IPAddresses | Format-Table -Auto Note: The entries with no IP, are either powered...

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