On my dev hyper-v host, that has been up an running for almost 2 years, no issue at all, then suddenly out of $null, I could not create a checkpoint??? This was […]
Bug – Checkpoint operation for ‘XYZ001’ failed.
Nice to Know – GUI based Tool to completely remove a virtual machine from a Hyper-V host, including all files (update 1)
I have had this tool for some years, but without a UI, working with customer, they need to ability to build and remove virtual machines on each dev computer, so I created […]
Event in Stockholm – Second Wednesday (2W): Storage Spaces Direct and Hyper Converged Online and Free! April 12 – 2017
(in Swedish, since the event is in Swedish) Jag och Jörgen kör ett kvälls event på LabCenter den 12:e april, då bjuder vi på lite tilltugg och 3 timmar med Storage Spaces […]
Nice to Know–It is possible to adjust when resynchronization is allowed to happen
So, Hyper-V replica is cool, but in Windows Server 2016 it became even cooler. It is now possible to configure the timeframe that resynchronization is allowed to happen. I was wrong, this […]
Windows 10 Insider – New Fun Feature
In future releases of Windows 10 (Build 15014 or later), there is a new feature in Hyper-V currently called “Quick Create” It basically means that you do not need to run trough […]
PowerShell is King – Find VM Configuration files (.vmcx) that have not been imported/registered
Sometime you need to move a large number of VMs, or you need to recover from a broken hyper-v host, or similar. If you have a few VM’s, that will be easy, […]
PowerShell is King – Find VHDs that are not connected to a VM
Working with VM’s in Hyper-V means that you will eventually have VHD’s that are not connected, not not even in use. That happens when you remove the VM configuration from Hyper-V manager, […]
PowerShell is King – Find out what Differencing disks that are in use
I use Hyper-V, in both production as well as for lab. One very effective way to spin up systems very fast is to use differencing disks, it also saves space. So I […]
The Deployment Bunny 