Hyper-V DR Scenario

I have a customer who has a production Hyper-V cluster managed by VMM (all good). Their DR site has a separate infrastructure which is not managed by VMM in any way.
Can we use Hyper-V replica for example as the storage between live and DR is clustered at a storage level to replicate the configuration to another cluster rather than the full VHDX?
I can achieve this using Orchestrator but reliance on another product is not ideal.
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Yes it did a little thanks :)
What if I had both Hyper-V clusters managed by a single VMM instance? Could we configure failover from one cluster to another?
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You don't need single VMM. Yes, you can replicate VM from one cluster to another. See for reference:
Why is the "Hyper-V Replica Broker" required?
http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2012/03/27/why-is-the-quot-hyper-v-replica-broker-quot-required.aspx
The following example will be used through the rest of the article:
Cluster-P – Failover Cluster in city 1
P1, P2, P3 (.contoso.com) – names of the cluster nodes on a cluster Cluster-P
P-Broker-CAP.contoso.com – the client access point of the broker on Cluster-P
VirtualMachine_Workload – the name of the virtual machine running on Cluster-P
Cluster-R – Failover Cluster in city 2
R1, R2 (.contoso.com) – names of the cluster nodes on the Cluster-R
R-Broker-CAP.contoso.com – the client access point of the broker on Cluster-R
Good luck :)
StarWind VSAN [Virtual SAN] clusters Hyper-V without SAS, Fibre Channel, SMB 3.0 or iSCSI, uses Ethernet to mirror internally mounted SATA disks between hosts.

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I am performing Hyper-V operations on a remote disk which is added to the hyper-V.
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Help with the Hyper-V lab scenario

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I need some help on the following :
This is what I am trying to do :
1. Install Server 2012 r2 on a machine.
2. Install DHCP, DNS and Hyper-V on the Host Machine.
3. Using Hyper-V install Windows 7 or Windows 8 guest OS
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Cluster VMs not accessible from other node hyper-v 2012 r2

I have implementing 3 node cluster using Windows server 2012 r2 hyper-v environment, Scenario as below....
3 HP server, every server 4 NIC`s, i made team using 4 NIC`s, and Cisco switch port configured as ether-channel and trunk port.
cluster up and running across all node, suddenly i have faced that i can`t access VM when its not on the same node from where i am accessing Cluster manager. but i can access that VM only if i log on that owned node via cluster manager.\
Please help.
Thanks
Shipon

Hi Shipon,
Your network configuration not meet the cluster network requirement,
Network adapters and cable (for network communication): The network hardware, like other components in the failover cluster solution, must be marked as "Certified for Windows
Server 2008 R2." If you use iSCSI, your network adapters should be dedicated to either network communication or iSCSI, not both.
In the network infrastructure that connects your cluster nodes, avoid having single points of failure. There are multiple ways of accomplishing this. You
can connect your cluster nodes by multiple, distinct networks. Alternatively, you can connect your cluster nodes with one network that is constructed with teamed network adapters, redundant switches, redundant routers, or similar hardware that removes single
points of failure.
The related KB:
Network Recommendations for a Hyper-V Cluster in Windows Server 2012
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn550728.aspx
Understanding Requirements for Failover Clusters
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771404.aspx
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Bug in Hyper-V: Network Bridge's ARP proxying broken in certain scenarios

Edit
I am quite sure now this is a bug. The ARP proxying does not work for VMs if the packet-recipient is not directly attached
to the external vswitch that is bridged to the wifi-nic!
/Edit
I am running a test lab on my Windows 8.1 using Hyper-V.
My problem is, that the virtual LAN has limited connectivity, when the external vSwitch is configured to use the wifi interface, instead of the cable interface. I am troubleshooting this issue for hours now and I reached the point where I believe the Network
Bridge, that is created by the Hyper-V Virtual Switch Manager, is not forwarding packets.
Pings are delivered from 192.168.178.2 to 192.168.178.1 and back again.
Pings from 192.168.0.10 are delivered to 192.168.178.1, and the reply does reach the wifi interface …
== Trace on the WiFi interface ==
Here you see a log of the trace on the WiFi interface of the Hyper-V-Host,
while 192.168.0.10 is pinging 192.168.178.1
No Time Source Destination HW Source HW Destination Protocol Info
3 0.003340000 192.168.0.10 192.168.178.1 24:65:11:cc:c0:9e 24:65:11:2b:35:e4 ICMP Echo (ping) request id=0x0001, seq=44/11264, ttl=127 (reply in 4)
4 0.006094000 192.168.178.1 192.168.0.10 24:65:11:2b:35:e4 24:65:11:cc:c0:9e ICMP Echo (ping) reply id=0x0001, seq=44/11264, ttl=64 (request in 3)
5 0.006152000 192.168.178.1 192.168.0.10 24:65:11:cc:c0:9e 24:65:11:2b:35:e4 ICMP Echo (ping) reply id=0x0001, seq=44/11264, ttl=64
… but is never forwarded to the Network Bridge interface.
== Trace on the Network Bridge interface ==
Here you see a log of the trace on the Network Bridge interface of the Hyper-V-Host,
while the Hyper-V-Host is pinging 192.168.178.1 (#1)
and the 192.168.178.2 is pinging 192.168.178.1 (#7)
-> Note: The ping-reply from 192.168.178.1 to 192.168.0.10 is missing!
1 0.000000000 192.168.178.1 192.168.178.21 24:65:11:2b:35:e4 24:65:11:cc:c0:9e ICMP Echo (ping) reply id=0x0001, seq=9/2304, ttl=64
7 7.852500000 192.168.178.1 192.168.178.2 24:65:11:2b:35:e4 00:15:5d:b2:21:18 ICMP Echo (ping) reply id=0x0001, seq=439/46849, ttl
How do I solve this problem?

Hi,
In that article I read this :
" This is supported on wired physical NICs (by putting the NIC in promiscuous mode),
but not supported on wireless NICs since the wireless channel established by the WiFi NIC and its access point only allows Ethernet packets with the WiFi NIC’s MAC address and nothing else. In other words, Hyper-V couldn’t use WiFi NICs for
an external switch if we continued to use the current virtual switch architecture."
Based on my understanding , the prerequisite of external virtual switch is physical NIC supports promiscuous mode . The blogger's opinion is that wireless NIC do not support promiscuous mode ,so the workaround "mac bridge " arises .
(but "microsoft MAC Bridge" is designed by microsoft to support creating external Vswitch on these wireless NIC which doesn't support promiscuous mode , so I think it is not a bug , it is by design ).
Also we have not yet tested with a wireless NIC which supports promiscuous mode .
"In computer networking, promiscuous mode or promisc mode is a mode for a
wired network interface controller (NIC) or wireless network interface controller
(WNIC) that causes the controller to pass all traffic it receives to the central processing unit (CPU) rather than passing only the frames that the controller is intended to receive. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promiscuous_mode
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Maximising throughput of a team in converged networking scenario using Hyper-V virtual switch

Hi,
Recently I have been looking into the converged network scenario, I have read quite a few resources about this but I am struggling to make sense of maximising the bandwidth I have available.
I understand that a single TCP stream can only go down 1 physical NIC, so even if I had a team of 6 x 1Gbps NICS – the team would be 6Gbps, but I will never have a single transfer go faster than 1 Gbps. I’m pretty sure that’s right, how I understood it anyway.
To make a converged network, I need to team adapters together, then make a virtual switch, and make virtual NIC’s off of that virtual switch. Each vNIC I can assign for different purposes,
such as ISCSI, data sync and backup traffic. In the diagram below I have shown this configuration, each green pNIC is only 1Gbps, on my blue vNICs I use the minimum weighting configuration.
In my example below, I have 1 ISCSI vNIC, if a physical NIC failed then I understand that to mean that the bandwidth won’t reduce for ISCSI because a single stream can only go down one
NIC anyway, the team will reduce to 5Gbps. No vNIC will go faster than 1Gbps.
If this is correct, then how would I increase bandwidth to the disk system using ISCSI, is it simply a case of creating an additional vNIC for ISCSI traffic, adding it to the same team
and configuring MPIO so the traffic will eventually end up through different pNICS? In my mind, MPIO can’t round robin ISCSI data to more physical NICs because the ISCSI and MPIO only know about the vNIC, I assume it is the team that ultimately handles the
placement of the stream onto the pNICS.
Do I simply do the same for Data Sync and Backup traffic?
I’m not too concerned about the VMNET team, I am mostly focused on getting the best out of the core cluster resources I have. I haven’t shown the physical switches to the right of the diagram,
but these are already configured to accept the VLAN traffic on the ports and the same is all configured for the other half of the solution.
Just a little confused over the whole thing on how I could potentially achieve the 6Gbps I have at my disposal. In this configuration and testing so far, it seems quite difficult for me
to exceed about 1.5-2Gbps combined across all the vNICS (in this particular test server I am limited to 1 physical disk so it’s hard to gauge the performance, the disk will take probably about 200MB/2Gbps maximum, that’s with ISCSI (file copying) and data
Sync going on between two servers at the same time.
many thanks for your help
Steve

Hi,
Recently I have been looking into the converged network scenario, I have read quite a few resources about this but I am struggling to make sense of maximising the bandwidth I have available.
I understand that a single TCP stream can only go down 1 physical NIC, so even if I had a team of 6 x 1Gbps NICS – the team would be 6Gbps, but I will never have a single transfer go faster than 1 Gbps. I’m pretty sure that’s right, how I understood it anyway.
To make a converged network, I need to team adapters together, then make a virtual switch, and make virtual NIC’s off of that virtual switch. Each vNIC I can assign for different purposes,
such as ISCSI, data sync and backup traffic. In the diagram below I have shown this configuration, each green pNIC is only 1Gbps, on my blue vNICs I use the minimum weighting configuration.
In my example below, I have 1 ISCSI vNIC, if a physical NIC failed then I understand that to mean that the bandwidth won’t reduce for ISCSI because a single stream can only go down one
NIC anyway, the team will reduce to 5Gbps. No vNIC will go faster than 1Gbps.
If this is correct, then how would I increase bandwidth to the disk system using ISCSI, is it simply a case of creating an additional vNIC for ISCSI traffic, adding it to the same team
and configuring MPIO so the traffic will eventually end up through different pNICS? In my mind, MPIO can’t round robin ISCSI data to more physical NICs because the ISCSI and MPIO only know about the vNIC, I assume it is the team that ultimately handles the
placement of the stream onto the pNICS.
Do I simply do the same for Data Sync and Backup traffic?
I’m not too concerned about the VMNET team, I am mostly focused on getting the best out of the core cluster resources I have. I haven’t shown the physical switches to the right of the diagram,
but these are already configured to accept the VLAN traffic on the ports and the same is all configured for the other half of the solution.
Just a little confused over the whole thing on how I could potentially achieve the 6Gbps I have at my disposal. In this configuration and testing so far, it seems quite difficult for me
to exceed about 1.5-2Gbps combined across all the vNICS (in this particular test server I am limited to 1 physical disk so it’s hard to gauge the performance, the disk will take probably about 200MB/2Gbps maximum, that’s with ISCSI (file copying) and data
Sync going on between two servers at the same time.
many thanks for your help
Steve

Windows Domain Controller on Windows Server 2012 R2: Hyper-V roaming profiles not loading due to slow connection

I have racked my brain and done everything that I know to do for about two weeks now. I am setting up a new system at our fire department and I am having the worst luck with getting the workstations to login to the domain controller with roaming
profiles. It keeps telling me that the roaming profile could not be loaded because of a slow connection. These are workstations that are connected directly to the switch that the DC is connected to. I have tried multiple connections regarding
the layout (DC into the router, router into the switch). The router is a Cisco RV220W. I have two VLANS, one for public and one for private domain. The Private VLAN has DHCP turned off since I am providing it through the DC. I currently
have a connection from the Private VLAN going to the unmanaged switch that the workstations and server are plugged into.
The server is a Dell PowerEdge R420 that has 6 NIC ports (1 dual port and 1 quad port). I have a virtual switch setup on Hyper-V for an external port (let's say Card 2 Port 3) that is assigned to the WS 2012R2 Domain Controller. The DC can see
the internet fine and the workstations can connect to the shared folders on the server. I can retrieve files by just using the computer name or FQDN. The DC is also running DNS and DHCP. The DNS has the _msdcs setup from when I installed
the active directory role. I have attempted to assign static IP addresses to the workstations:
IP:                     10.0.0.80
Subnet:             255.255.255.0
IPV4 Gateway: 10.0.0.1
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The server is assigned:
IP:                     10.0.0.12
Subnet:             255.255.255.0
IPV4 Gateway: 10.0.0.1
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I've enabled and disabled DHCP, I've installed a new VM just to create another DC to make sure that I didn't goof up when I created it.
I've lost my patience with this project and am sinking fast. Can someone please offer some advice as to what I've done wrong? I've created this exact scenario at work many times but, I've never done it with Windows Server 2012. Is this
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through the Dell Bios. Would the SR-IOV really cause the workstations to report a slow connection? When I login at the domain controller the roaming profiles and folder redirection work fine so, I know the GPO settings are correct. I don't
have "ignore slow connections" or any of those GPO's set. I need to get it working the correct way so, I didn't want to fool the server when there is another underlying problem. Any help that someone can offer, I am more than willing
to listen. If you need more information, please ask.
Thanks,
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So, I've managed to research this some more since Thursday and I've come to the conclusion that Hyper-V does a horrible job of supporting Qualcomm NIC cards. That's the only thing I can conclude as far as where the issue is originating. I've read many
post and walkthroughs but nothing that has helped. The issue wasn't with any settings in the domain controller. The issue was that there really is a slow connection originating at the domain controller that is a VM and has network connectivity through the
virtual switch from Hyper-V. So, next question is, how do I get the DC to have better connectivity through the NIC that Hyper-V won't give it? If hyper-v would allow passthrough, this would be so much simpler. VM-ware is looking really good at this point.
Im disappointed in MS right now.

Generate a report with date range and year as POV with Hyp Planning ?

Hi everybody,
I am starting with hyp planning and i need your help please.
I have to create some forms. In those forms, the final user is supposed to be able to display data in the forms between 2 dates and for a specific year.
My first problem : I don't know how you can display data in a form between 2 dates and for one specific year. I just have one dimension YEAR and one PERIOD, so if i selected them as a PAGE, the final user will just be able to choose the month and the year for his form ... and not displaying data between 2 dates.
My second problem is with the dimensions YEAR, SCENARIO and VERSION. I don't want to put the dimensions VERSION and SCENARIO as PAGE (it easier for the final user to just choose a year than to choose a year, scenario, and version) but as POV with a relationship with the dimension YEAR (because if the user chooses YEAR = actual_year (2012) the VERSION and the SCENARIO won't be the same than if the user chooses YEAR= last_year). IF YEAR = next_year, VERSION=Propuesta, SCENARIO=Forecast
IF YEAR = actual_year, VERSION=Propuesta, SCENARIO=Forecast AC
IF YEAR = last_year, VERSION=Actual, SCENARIA=Real
How can i do that?
Thank you for your help
Edited by: 932573 on May 7, 2012 3:44 PM
Edited by: 932573 on May 7, 2012 4:27 PM

I am not sure if you are using RAS or Enterprise SDK, but here are some code snippets to set range report parameters:
For scheduling:
// oReport is IReport object holding the crystal report.
oReportParameter = oReport.getReportParameters().get(i);
currentRangeValue = oReportParameter.getCurrentValues().addRangeValue();
currentRangeValue.getFromValue().setValue(dateParameter);
currentRangeValue.getToValue().setValue(dateParameter);
For viewing:
ParameterFieldRangeValue pfrv = new ParameterFieldRangeValue();
pfrv.setBeginValue(dateTimeValue);
pfrv.setEndValue(dateTimeValue1);
pfrv.setLowerBoundType(RangeValueBoundType.inclusive);
pfrv.setUpperBoundType(RangeValueBoundType.inclusive);
pf.getCurrentValues().add(pfrv);
f.add(pf);
f is Fields object and pass that to viewer.

How to move Hyper-V virtual backups to different DPM server

First off, I want to say that I've spent a large amount of time scanning the forums and internet for a solution to my problem with no luck. Here's the situation, as best as I can describe it:
We currently have 2 2012 R2 DPM servers. Let's call them DPM1 and DPM2.     DPM 1 was originally, before my employment here, setup as a primary DPM server backing up a Hyper-V HostServer1 (server 2012 R2) that had 4 virtuals
on it. DPM was setup to backup JUST the virtuals on HostServer1, nothing native on the host itself (files, etc.)
At some point later on DPM2 Server was created, and I believe setup as a Secondary DPM server to DPM1. (I'm not completely certain of this, as it does not appear to be setup that way now, but I can't tell for sure) but I believe it was because of the
specific error I'm getting (more on that in a moment)
We want to start backing up the virtuals that are on HostServer1 using DPM2, instead of DPM1.   Again, before I started here, the previously person removed all content from DPM1 (protection groups and replica's of the 4 virtual servers that were on
HostServer1, and uninstalled the DPM1 client from HostServer1.
Today I am attempting to add back protection of this HostServer1, but to DPM2. I am able to successfully install the DPM client from DPM2 to HostServer1.   When I create a new protection group to DPM2, and navigated down the protection options,
I can see the 4 virtuals running on HostServer1.    Here's the weird thing:
I can ADD 3 of the 4 virtuals to the protection group without issue, and successfully back them up!   However, ONE virtual, when I check the box throws this error:
"You have chosen to protect replicas on another DPM server (primary DPM server).   We recommend that you protect the DPM database of the primary DPM server along with the replicas. Without protecting the DPM Database, you will not be able
to recover the replicas of the primary DPM server in case of a disaster where the DPM Database and the replicas are lost."
It then throws this error:
"One or more of the selected data sources are already configured for protection on the primary DPM server. When you switch back protection, the replicas of these data sources will be protected from the primary DPN server. (ID: 31162)"
If I continue through the PG setup wizard, I see that under the PG game, the DPM1 server name listed, and then this one virtual listed underneath it and the replica shows "unable to configure protection."
I have found numerous threads with this error, but the solutions (ranging from running PS scripts using Attatch-ProductionServer.ps1, to Remove-ProductionServer.ps1 from the primary DPM1 box, etc.) all have failed.   Some of these threads are similar
it seems, to my issue, but most of the threads seem to be with an issue when the DPM client is on a protected server, instead of a Hyper-V box running off of a Hyper-V Host, as in my case.
I am either barking up the wrong tree, or not implementing these available DPM PS scripts properly. Can anyone assist me in pointing out what I might be doing wrong, or if that's not the issue, point me in the right direction?
The odd thing here is that 3 of the 4 virtuals work fine when I moved them to DPM2. Only one virtual (which doesn't have a DPM agent on it) throws this error. Somehow, it's as if this particular .vhd has something tagged on it that's making DPM2
think that it's being protected somehow, by DPM1, which is not, or no longer, the case.   If it was a DPMDB issue, why are 3 of the 4 other virtuals working fine?
There may be missing information here that's causing this confusing; I'm not entirely sure all 4 were originally backed up by DPM1; but I *BELIEVE* they were. it could be just the troublesome virtual was, not %100 certain of that.
There has to be some way to clear out the reference to DPM1 from this HostServer1, virtual, or DPMDB right? Wherever the issue lies? I would think it's in one of those.
We are not interested in having a Primary or Secondary server any longer, so if the fix somehow lies in clearing out all references the 2 DPM servers of "Primary vs. Secondary", that's fine too. We want 2 separate DPM servers protection two
different sets of Hyper-V hosts, unaware of each other.
Any assistance would be much appreciated!

Hi,
See DPM 2012 content: Unsupported Scenarios for DPM under heading "Moving protected servers with DPM
secondary servers"
With that said, if you call support have the DPM engineer reference ID 2507990- they can assist in cleaning up the DPM2 database so VM's can be protected.
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Server 2008 Hyper-V Failover Cluster Error on Domain Controller Reboot

I am pretty new to Hyper-V virtual but I have 2 Hyper-V Clusters, each with 2 Nodes and a SAN, 1 Physical Domain Controller for failover cluster management and 1 virtual domain controller as backup. All is running well, no issues. I installed
windows updates on the physical DC and upon reboot, got an error 5120 on cluster 2 that says "Cluster Shared Volume 'Volume1' ('Cluster Disk 1') is no longer available on this node because of 'STATUS_CONNECTION_DISCONNECTED(c000020c)'. All I/O will
temporarily be queued until a path to the volume is reestablished. It pointed to the 2nd node in that cluster as being the issue but when I look at it, it is online and all healthy so I don't understand why the error was triggered and if the DC would
go down for a failure, would that node not be able to access the CSV permanently.
Appreciate any help anyone can provide.

Hi mtnbikediver,
In theory, if you has the correct configuration of cluster the DC restart will not cause the CSV down, does your shared storage installed on your DC? Did you run
the cluster validation before you install the cluster? We strongly recommend you run the cluster validation before you build the cluster, same time please install the recommend update of 2008 cluster first.
Recommended hotfixes for Windows Server 2008-based server clusters
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957311
I found a similar scenario issue the DC restart will effect the cluster network name resource offline, but it is for 2008R2.
Cluster network name resource cannot be brought online when one of the domain controllers is partly down in Windows Server 2008 R2
http://support2.microsoft.com/?id=2860142
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SQL 2012 install fails with 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object" On windows 8.1 Hyper-V

Hi All,
Could you please help me here? On my Laptop which is running on windows 8.1 Operation system, I enabled the Hyper-V client feature and setup the Windows Fail-over Clustering using Windows 2012 Standard Edition. So, there are three machines which are running
on the Hyper-V. Below are the machine details;
1st machine - Working as Domain controller and its name is "ACONDomainGroup" and allocated to
1GB RAM to use.
2nd machine - Working as Node1 and its name is "AconNODE1W2K12STD"
and allocated to 2.5GB RAM to use.
3rd machine - Working as Node1 and its name is "AconNODE1W2K12STD"
and allocated to 1.5GB RAM to use.
and the windows virtual cluster name is "AconWinCLTR". While I am doing the SQL Cluster Installation, I am getting below mentioned error. all systems have 4.5 .net installed. May you please guide me where and what i am missing to complete sql clustering.....
Update Source: MU
User Input Settings:
ACTION: InstallFailoverCluster
AGTDOMAINGROUP: <empty>
AGTSVCACCOUNT: <empty>
AGTSVCPASSWORD: <empty>
ASBACKUPDIR: Backup
ASCOLLATION: Latin1_General_CI_AS
ASCONFIGDIR: Config
ASDATADIR: Data
ASLOGDIR: Log
ASPROVIDERMSOLAP: 1
ASSERVERMODE: MULTIDIMENSIONAL
ASSVCACCOUNT: <empty>
ASSVCPASSWORD: <empty>
ASSVCSTARTUPTYPE: Automatic
ASSYSADMINACCOUNTS: <empty>
ASTEMPDIR: Temp
COMMFABRICENCRYPTION: 0
COMMFABRICNETWORKLEVEL: 0
COMMFABRICPORT: 0
CONFIGURATIONFILE:
ENU: true
ERRORREPORTING: false
FAILOVERCLUSTERDISKS: <empty>
FAILOVERCLUSTERGROUP:
FAILOVERCLUSTERIPADDRESSES: <empty>
FAILOVERCLUSTERNETWORKNAME: <empty>
FEATURES:
FILESTREAMLEVEL: 0
FILESTREAMSHARENAME: <empty>
FTSVCACCOUNT: <empty>
FTSVCPASSWORD: <empty>
HELP: false
IACCEPTSQLSERVERLICENSETERMS: false
INDICATEPROGRESS: false
INSTALLSHAREDDIR: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\
INSTALLSHAREDWOWDIR: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\
INSTALLSQLDATADIR: <empty>
INSTANCEDIR: C:\Program Files\Microsoft
SQL Server\
INSTANCEID: <empty>
INSTANCENAME: <empty>
ISSVCACCOUNT: NT AUTHORITY\Network
Service
ISSVCPASSWORD: <empty>
ISSVCSTARTUPTYPE: Automatic
MATRIXCMBRICKCOMMPORT: 0
MATRIXCMSERVERNAME: <empty>
MATRIXNAME: <empty>
PID: *****
QUIET: false
QUIETSIMPLE: false
RSINSTALLMODE: DefaultNativeMode
RSSHPINSTALLMODE: DefaultSharePointMode
RSSVCACCOUNT: <empty>
RSSVCPASSWORD: <empty>
RSSVCSTARTUPTYPE: Automatic
SAPWD: <empty>
SECURITYMODE: <empty>
SQLBACKUPDIR: <empty>
SQLCOLLATION: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
SQLSVCACCOUNT: <empty>
SQLSVCPASSWORD: <empty>
SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS: <empty>
SQLTEMPDBDIR: <empty>
SQLTEMPDBLOGDIR: <empty>
SQLUSERDBDIR: <empty>
SQLUSERDBLOGDIR: <empty>
SQMREPORTING: false
UIMODE: Normal
UpdateEnabled: true
UpdateSource: MU
X86: false
Configuration file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Setup
Bootstrap\Log\20140420_052344\ConfigurationFile.ini
Rules with failures:
Global rules:
There are no scenario-specific rules.
Rules report file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Setup
Bootstrap\Log\20140420_052344\SystemConfigurationCheck_Report.htm
Exception summary:
The following is an exception stack listing the exceptions in outermost to innermost order
Inner exceptions are being indented
Exception type: System.NullReferenceException
Message:
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
HResult : 0x80004003
Data:
HelpLink.EvtType = 0x9AF1AE5E@0x44A889F9
DisableWatson = true
Stack:
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.RulesEngineExtension.RulesEngine.ShouldRuleRun(Rule
rule)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.RulesEngineExtension.RulesEngine.IsRuleSkipped(Rule
rule)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.RulesEngineExtension.RulesEngine.LoadRule(String
ruleId, List`1 ruleProperties, XmlSchema ruleSchema, XmlElementParserFactory elementParser)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.RulesEngineExtension.RulesEngine.LoadRules(IEnumerable`1
ruleIds)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.InstallWizard.RunRuleProgressController.Initialize()

Dharmendra, the log details are incomplete are not sufficient enough for I guess anyone to help. Besides, from the details above, I can see that the Failover Cluster Disks are not selected:-
FAILOVERCLUSTERDISKS: <empty>
FAILOVERCLUSTERGROUP:
FAILOVERCLUSTERIPADDRESSES: <empty>
FAILOVERCLUSTERNETWORKNAME: <empty>
Please mark the answer as helpful if i have answered your query. Thanks and Regards, Kartar Rana

How to get low performances alert for Hyper-v Host ON scom

Hello Expert,
We have to implement a scenario VM Live migration which involved (SCOM,SCVMM,SCORCH Parts).
where SCOM parts will monitor the performances of SCVMM 's Hyper-V hosts and VMs running the within the Hyper-v hosts.
when the VMs utilization exceed the threshold and then scom monitor checks the performances of Running Hyper-v Hosts ,then using SCORCH automation ,VMs are moved to one of the best performances the Hyper-v hosts.
To implement this ,I have integrated SCOM 2012 R2 AND SCVMM 2012 R2 AND enabled the PRO Tips.
but don't know how to get alerts and configured related to performances of VMs and Hyper-v host.
What will be next needed to achieved this from SCOM PARTS.
Thanks and Regards
RICHA KM

Hi,
In addition, hope the management pack for Hyper-v 2012 can be helpful for you, please download and import it to your management group:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36438
Regards,
Yan Li
Regards, Yan Li

Enabling VM Guest NLB w/Multicast IGMP on 2012 Hyper-V host w/ converged SCVMM fabric switch

What a mouthful.
As short as possible:
WHAT I'M ATTEMPTING:
I'm trying to build a new NLB cluster for a 2008 R2 SP1 Remote Desktop Services farm. And I'm trying to do it the right way, with multicast igmp, not unicast.
The two guest VMs with NLB install converge fine. VIP gets this:
IP: 192.168.100.157
MAC: 01-00-5e-7f-64-9d
NLB NIC is on the same VLAN & "Converged switch" in VMM as our mgmt/server traffic (That is to say it's on production VLAN, not on a separate vlan)
PROBLEM:
Can't ping 100.157. From VM guest itself, from host, or from Cisco 6509 switch.
Cisco show mac address lookup does not see that MAC anywhere
show ip igmp groups shows not igmp traffic at all. Clearing counters show sno multicast increment.
FURTHERMORE:
Host is setup thusly:
- Dell R810
- 8x1GbE Broadcom 5709c in a Server 2012 LACP/HASH team built via VMM powershell cmdlets
- On the physical switch side, those 8 nics are in a Cisco port-channel, trunked, all VLANs allowed
- Host has no "physical" nics per se, as in a 2008 R2 hyper-v host. Instead Host has these:
Set-VMNetworkAdapter -ManagementOS -Name "Live Migrate" -MinimumBandwidthWeight 35
Set-VMNetworkAdapter -ManagementOS -Name "MGMT" -MinimumBandwidthWeight 25
Set-VMNetworkAdapter -ManagementOS -Name "CSV" -MinimumBandwidthWeight 40
Set-VMNetworkAdapter -ManagementOS -Name "iSCSI #1" -MinimumBandwidthWeight 0
Set-VMNetworkAdapter -ManagementOS -Name "iSCSI #2" -MinimumBandwidthWeight 0
Set-VMNetworkAdapter -ManagementOS -Name "Aux" -MinimumBandwidthWeight 0
Get-VMSwitch outputs this on the converged v-switch:
ComputerName : My-host
Name : My awesome switch
Id : e2377ce3-12b4-4243-9f51-e14a21f91844
Notes :
SwitchType : External
AllowManagementOS : True
NetAdapterInterfaceDescription : Microsoft Network Adapter Multiplexor
Driver
AvailableVMQueues : 0
NumberVmqAllocated : 0
IovEnabled : False
IovVirtualFunctionCount : 0
IovVirtualFunctionsInUse : 0
IovQueuePairCount : 0
IovQueuePairsInUse : 0
AvailableIPSecSA : 0
NumberIPSecSAAllocated : 0
BandwidthPercentage : 0
BandwidthReservationMode : Weight
DefaultFlowMinimumBandwidthAbsolute : 0
DefaultFlowMinimumBandwidthWeight : 1
Extensions : {Microsoft NDIS Capture, Microsoft
Windows Filtering Platform, Microsoft
VMM DHCPv4 Server Switch Extension}
IovSupport : False
IovSupportReasons : {This network adapter does not support
SR-IOV.}
IsDeleted : False
Question:
Aside from a few of my favorite MS MVPs (shout out to
WorkingHardInIt for having this same question), I can't find much documentation on employing 2008 R2 NLB on guest VM within a fabric-oriented, VMM-built 2012 Hyper-Visor converged switch (no network virtualization...yet).
Yes I know all about VMM NLB but 1) I'm trying to wedge NLB in after building these VMs without a service template (NLB is the audible, essentially) and 2) MS NLB is configured in providers & I've created requisite VIP templates.
Even so, I ought to be able to create an NLB cluster without VMM's assistance in this scenario correct? Suboptimal, I know but possible, yes? Essentially I've put to synthetic NICs on each VM, set IPs manually, and assigned them to the same vlan. I can ping
each synthetic NIC, but not the cluster IP.
And yes: these particular vNICs have Mac Address Spoofing enabled.
Cisco:
I have a TAC case open with Cisco, but they can't quite figure it out either. IGMP Snooping enabled across the switch. And they insist that the old static arp entry to resolve this problem is no longer necessary, that Microsoft now complies with relevant
RFCs
Possible SOlution:
Only thing I can think of is flipping MulticastForwarding param below from disabled to enabled. Anybody ever tried it on a converged virtual switch on the Hyper visor? Is my virtual converged switch protecting
me from multicast igmp packets?
PS C:\utilities> Get-NetIPv4Protocol
DefaultHopLimit : 128
NeighborCacheLimit(Entries) : 1024
RouteCacheLimit(Entries) : 128
ReassemblyLimit(Bytes) : 1560173184
IcmpRedirects : Enabled
SourceRoutingBehavior : DontForward
DhcpMediaSense : Enabled
MediaSenseEventLog : Disabled
IGMPLevel : All
IGMPVersion : Version3
MulticastForwarding : Disabled
GroupForwardedFragments : Disabled
RandomizeIdentifiers : Enabled
AddressMaskReply : Disabled
Thanks for any thoughts.
Robert

Sorry for the poor follow-up Steven. We are using Server 2012 Hyper-V, not VMWare, on the hosts. You can close this but for the benefit of anyone who comes across it:
After working with Cisco, we decided not to implement multicast IGMP. Cisco says you still need to create a static ARP entry on the physical switch, though my cluster IP address & Microsoft NLB 2008 R2 were set up with igmp multicast, not multicast or
unicast. Here was his email:
Yes, we will need the static mapping for the NLB server in this case because the NLB mac address is multicast and the IP address is unicast. I was under the impression that even the server would be using IGMP but that’s not
the case. We won’t need to do the mapping for the nodes though if they use IGMP. To this end, following is the configuration that should make this work.rp 192.168.100.157
0100.5e7f.649d arpa
<u5:p></u5:p>
mac address-table static 0000.0000.649d vlan <> interface <> disable-snooping
ßThis is the switch interface where the NLB server is located<u5:p></u5:p>
interface vlan<>
<u5:p></u5:p>
ip pim sparse-dense-mode <- This is needed for the switch to elicit IGMP joins from the nodes<u5:p></u5:p>
end<u5:p></u5:p>
I don't think it got through to him that there was a virtual Layer 2/3 Hyper-V switch on top of 8 teamed GbE interfaces in LACP/hash. "Where the NLB server is located" = 1)a Cisco port-channel bound to one of six physical hosts; the NLB VM itself could be
on any of those port channels at any given time (We have a six node Hyper-V cluster).
Once I enabled pim I did see activity; but we killed this later as we realized we'd have to implement the same on 40+ managed routers globally
Anyway we further would have had to implement this across managed routers at 40 sites globally according to Cisco.
Robert

Installing SCVMM 2012 r2 in a VM on Hyper-V 2012 and windows failover cluseter

Hi,
I am planning to configure scvmm 2012 r2 that will be managing 30 hyper-v host servers, please guide me will it be ok if i install and configure both scvmm 2012 r2 and sql server 2012 on same VM running on Hyper-V Failover Cluster ?
Regards,
Afzal
[email protected]

Hi,
Like most of the time, there is a lot of possible topology to achieve your design.
Installing VMM and the database in a virtual machine on the same cluster that it manage is a supported scenario.
The first question you have to ask is : What is the availability level i need for my VMM infrastructure ?If
you shutdown the SCVMM instance for patching, you are not able to deploy new VM from template, and not able to create and manage Virtual Networks. It don't affect existing VM or Virtual Networks. Does this break your SLA ?
Most of the time, VMM don't need a guest cluster (unless you are a hosting provider with provisionning portal
available 24/24 7/7).
The main advice i will give you is :
Keep it simple as possible !
Don't build complex infrastructure if you don't need to achieve a very hight level of availability.
Availability, complexity and management cost have a exponential relation.
For large deployment, you can use a dedicated Hyper-V cluster to deploy System Center and infrastructures services (SCVMM, SCOM etc...) But there is nothing wrong in deploying VMM in the same cluster as the VM it manage. The design you have to achieve should
be thinking in terms of availability and serviceability.
I don't think that 30 Hyper-V hosts need a dedicated SQL Guest Cluster.
If you install VMM on one VM and SQL on another, you will not achieve more performances, but your VMM instance
will be less "portable".
Cheer.
Cedric.

Hyper-v 2012 R2 server core recommendations for single server setup

Hi All,
Next weekend I will be installing a brand new Dell 720 server for a client of mine.
I would like to hear some recommendations on how to install this hypervisor.
Let me state that I have had some experience with virtualization technology in the past with VMWARE ESXi.
This is a small client with under 10 users but I have learned that with the 2012 product offering you cannot get Small Business Server any more. I know Microsoft has Windows server 2012 Essentials but you would have to have Exchange server in the cloud which
my client does not want. He wants to run his Exchange server in house.
Also he needs Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Server) because his accounting application requires it.
He has an existing Windows 2003 domain controller that eventually has to be decommissioned because it is too old and slow.
So I thought I install Hyper-v 2012 R2 core on the new server and then create 2 VMs:
1) Windows 2012 STD to run as a secondary domain controller.
2) Windows 2012 STD member server with Exchange server 2013 and Remote Desktop Services role.
My questions here are these:
1) Do I install the Hypervisor in workgroup or domain mode?
2) When I am finished with the old server do I transfer the AD FSMO roles onto the VM that is acting as a domain controller?
The new server has 2 CPUs. How does Microsoft licensing go here? I know that Windows 2012 STD gives me 2 instances with the same product key on the same server for 1 CPU. What happens if you have 2?
Can someone give me some insight on how to go about this? I remember that I found this easier with VMWARE Esxi.
Now with Hyper-V I need to also get a management workstation with Windows 8 professional on it to manage the Hyper-V core server.
Thanks and regards
Alfred

In regard to the VM's:
1.) DC: If you're going to be installing a second domain controller that is 2012 R2, you might consider reading this guide first.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mweber/archive/2012/07/30/upgrading-an-active-directory-domain-from-windows-server-2003-or-windows-server-2003-r2-to-windows-server-2012.aspx
2.) Exchange: Here's the guide for installing Exchange 2013 on Server 2012. I don't believe R2 is supported yet for 2013.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14506.how-to-install-exchange-2013-on-windows-server-2012.aspx
3.) Host: You'd install the host in domain mode....but that point may be moot after you read #5.
4.) FSMO: I would verify the health of the 2012 DC before moving the roles. All too often I'll see a new DC get stood up, sysvol won't be published, the engineer will be in a rush to move the FSMO's, and things get a little sideways. Ultimately
you don't HAVE to move the FSMO's until you are ready to decommission the 2003 box.
5.) Licensing: No licensing rights convey with Hyper-V Core, so this may not be best for your scenario. See the queen mother of all Hyper-V licensing posts here -
http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=13090
For what it's worth, plenty of SMB's are going to Office 365 to avoid the on-prem administration headache, but your client wants what your client wants. Sorry if this isn't the news you wanted but I hope it helps.

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