Hello we have this terminal server on w2k12. Users login and have their profile mounted as virtual disk from VHDX file with filename like this C:\Users\Public\Documents\RDS_UserProfileDisks\UVHD-S-1-5-21-3626241538-2602771230-459845379-52949.vhdx I can see these as “user disk” with blue icons in disk management. We started to get incidents from our monitoring related to eventlogs An error was detected on … Read more
I have an ubuntu 16.04 VM on a Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V server. The VHDX (dynamically expanding VHD) size is 1.8TB but the VM inside reports that only 3% of the disk is used. I don’t understand why HV thinks that the disk is full. What can the be related to? Answer The virtual disk … Read more
I have a high-end desktop PC. MB: Intel DX79TO CPU: Intel i7-3820 @ 3.6GHz RAM: Quad Channel Kingston Hyper-X DDR3 16GB @ 2400 MHz SSD: Kingston Hiper-X 120GB (Host OS resides here) RAID5: 4 x 1TB – Windows Software RAID Host OS: Windows Server 2016 (full) The only server role enabled is Hyper-V. Actually the … Read more
We have a Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials server and several Windows 10 Pro PCs. We have a drive on the server with all our company documents on which is shared over the network and mapped to all the PCs. Some of these files (all in one folder) are confidential and need to be password … Read more
I want to provision an Azure VM with Terraform and configure it by using a custom AMI created by Packer. I want an attached, snapshotted, managed data-disk. I want to use Oracle Linux 7.4 What is the best way of Ensuring the data-disk is mounted on startup Ensuring that the data-disk is formatted before I … Read more
A windows 7 Virtual machine instance running on a windows 12 server had a ‘blue screen of death’ with a REGISTRY_ERROR (Code 51). After several unsuccessful reboots (successfully to safe-mode but could not a safe-mode with networking) a CHKDSK was run on the drive that stored the VirtualMachine’s hard disk (.VHDX) Once CHKDSK ran the … Read more
We have some troubles in migrating VM(Linux) from local HyperV on Win 10 to Azure Cloud. We got a linux vhd – deploy it on HyperV – then save as static and upload to blob storade in Azure. Based on that – we make a new VM but it fails to start. We got kernel … Read more
I have a storage container in Azure (Premium, LRS, General Purpose v1) which has about 7 disks , 1023 GiB each. Upon reviewing the subscription costs breakdown, half of the cost of this account is from snapshots that are sitting on the underlying VHDs in the vhd container. The snapshots are all created on random … Read more
I am trying to create a VHD file fixed size of window 2003 R2 server. As Hyper V role and Azure CLI is not supported i am not able to create it. Though Disk2VD creates VHD file but it is dynamic. Can someone tell me how to create VHD file of window 2003 R2 server … Read more
This is all in the context of Windows 10, both client and server. Background: Some programs block installation/running on shared network folders. I don’t mean errors due to sharing/file permissions or needing to enable policies in GPO/registry; I mean they outright tell you network installs “won’t work” and then block them, even when using a … Read more
