It’s difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, visit the help center. Closed 9 years ago. One of my system administrator had an virtual … Read more
Got a guy on the other side of Earth who needs a sole partition off of a vhd so he can do his job. The entire vhd is over 490gb. The 1 partition is about 80. So I want to split the the vhd up into its 3 partitions. A vhd file for every partition. … Read more
I want to copy files from VM to another. I’m running windows 2008 on the VM Manager. Both machines are Server 2012. I tuned them both off. Mounted the VHDs to the manger pc. I can see the both files and folders, but cannot copy. I want to move files from Windows/WinSxS to the other … Read more
I tested with creating a resource group, a storage account (Standard and Premium in seperate tests) and a Ubuntu VM, and then used Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer to locate the VHD file. From various articles, such as this ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blob-pageblob-overview?tabs=dotnet ), the VHD file should be stored in a page blob container. But in my … Read more
I attempted to do a backup of our virtualization server when moving from Hyper-V 2008 to R2. I changed the registry settings to register Hyper-V VSS with Windows Server Backup, and sent the backup on it’s way while I went on to other things. Apparently the VSS portion didn’t back-up the VM’s like I had … Read more
I have running Windows 2008 Server machine on my SSD disc from VHD file. Today while I was working with Windows the 30% of files disappeared. There are only folders left and no files. I can’t find some of files in User folder and Program Files but not all. I can’t start any program but … Read more
I have a Hyper-V host that has a bad VM that I am trying to restore from a backup copy on the SAN. I’ve copied over everything, created a new VM and attached the backup .vhd file but now Windows is in Startup Repair mode and asking for a Windows Server backup but it cant … Read more
I have a virtual machine running CentOS 5 on a Windows server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role installed. The virtual machine has two harddrives installed that points to physical disks on an iSCSI target (see image below for details) https://anonfiles.com/file/0c08492247344e60311bdc741e61497f Now I would like to convert these physical disks to VHD-files. How would I … Read more
i have 2 physical servers (3rd will come later) and 2 hyper-vs on 1st one. I would use Windows Server Backup utility for backup all systems. Was thinking about to buy NAS, so i bought it, Synology 12bay system, but it comes with SMB2 only, so 2012R2 doesnt support backing up to SMB2 (smb3 is … Read more
Hi all and thanks in advance for taking the time to read this. My employer has provided me with three VMDK files, each representing a different hard drive of a VM. My aim is to get these converted to VHD and uploaded into an Azure environment. The issue is, after I have converted these and … Read more
