I’ve been working on some cool stuff with Hyper-V Replica across untrusted domains this week. As part of that I needed to get hold of the makecert.exe utility so that you can create your own SSL certificates. I had some challenges finding it and finally located it. Here’s what I did. Download the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 from here … [Read more...]
What size pagefile should I have on Hyper-V?
I’ve been trying to find specific guidance for some time on the size of a pagefile as recommended by Microsoft for a system running as a Hyper-V host. The theory is that on a Hyper-V host, Windows itself should never really use a page file at all. As a result, I’ve been setting page file to be 4GB – enough in case it’s needed, but not huge as we don’t need to waste … [Read more...]
If you virtualised Windows Server 2012–then you MUST get this patch..
NOTE: This issue applies to ANY Domain Controller running on top of a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Platform We’ve been fighting something very bad in the last week for a machine that was running on a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Platform. The problem is that we had a Hyper-V server reboot unexpectedly and as a result the guest machine was totally dead in the water. … [Read more...]
How to convert a ShadowProtect Backup to a VHD
I use a number of different backup products in my SBSfaq.com office environment, one of those is ShadowProtect. My Terminal Server is Windows Server 2008 R2 and it’s been running on top of a Windows 8 Hyper-V server as I test it out. I’ve had ShadowProtect running inside the Guest Virtual Machine so as to ensure I got a solid backup of my data should something go … [Read more...]
Windows 8 Virtual Machine on Hyper-V 2008 R2 Host
If you are running a Windows 8 VM on your Hyper-V 2008 R2 host, then you really need to check out this blog post. It turns out that there can be some issues with the Windows 8 VM if you don’t have the patch and it’s likely that most people will be testing Windows 8 on Windows Server 2008 R2 hosts as I have been. Note that Microsoft state that this is a REQUIRED hotfix, … [Read more...]