Moving Virtual Machine - Attach VHD with new VM

Hi All,
We wants to migrate 2 virtual machines from one location to another location.
Present Location :- Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise (IBM X3400 M3)
VM 1 - Server 2008 R2 Standard with Additional Domain Controller and Exchange Server 2010 SP3 in size of 1.3 TB
VM 2 - Server 2008 R2 Standard with Primary Domain Controller in size of 50 GB
New Location :- Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard (HP DL 380P Gen 8)
Last Sunday we have tried export and Import which is failed because I get to know that exported from Server 2008 R2 cant import on Server 2012 R2. It took 15 hours to export 1.3 TB VM :-( and it failed.
Now my question is :-
Option A - Can we move our entire Datacetre to new location which I don't want to do
OR
Option B - Just copy VHD and paste it on new server and create new VM and attach it. If I uses this option than my VM with ADC with Exchange and VM with PDC will work or not? Because of Machine ID and hardware will get changed.
or any other you can suggest. Exchange and DC on risk and I am not an expert of Exchange Server and Domain controller.
Thanks for Help

Hi Server.Tech,
>>Last Sunday we have tried export and Import which is failed because I get to know that exported from Server 2008 R2 cant import on Server 2012 R2. It took 15 hours to export 1.3 TB VM and it failed.
As Brian mentioned , if there is no snapshot , copy vhd then attach it to a new VM is quick and easy.
If snapshot exists and you want to keep it , you may need to use server2012 as "bridge" for export/import .
For details please refer to following link:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmilne/archive/2013/12/02/how-to-import-windows-2008-r2-vm-to-windows-2012-or-8-1-using-boot-to-vhd.aspx
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ie. I want to switch my time machine backups to a larger drive, but I want to take all my existing backup history to the new drive, rather than just doing a fresh backup to the new drive.

bilbo_baggins wrote:
Just wondering whether using Disk Utility to 'restore' the drive (ie. making a duplicate to a new larger drive) would be 100% functional and compatible with Time Machine?
yes, it will work. just turn off TM while you are doing this.
ie. I want to switch my time machine backups to a larger drive, but I want to take all my existing backup history to the new drive, rather than just doing a fresh backup to the new drive.

Time Machine stopped working with new Mac address.

Greetings,
I have an IOMEGA 500, FireWire which I used to use for Time Machine. I now have a new Mac address and do not have access to the old Mac address. Is there any way that I can get the IOMEGA to start working with Time Machine? If so please give me step by steps instructions on how to make this external hard drive work again with Time Machine.
Any help is most appreciated.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.

macuserr222 wrote:
Greetings,
I have an IOMEGA 500, FireWire which I used to use for Time Machine. I now have a new Mac address
Do you have a new Mac, or a new logic board? Either will get you a new MAC (Media Access Control) address, which Time Machine interprets as a different Mac.
Do you mean you haven't started doing backups of the new Mac, and want to view the old ones? If so, see #E2 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum).
If you want to use the old backups to set up a new Mac, see [Setting up a new Mac from an old one or its backups|http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/Setup.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
When you do your first backup, OSX should ask how you want to handle the old backups. See #B5 in Troubleshooting for details.
If that's not what you mean, please explain exactly what's going on, and what happens when you try to do whatever you're doing.
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Time Machine re-Backuping with new network connection!

Hi,
I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro, running 10.8.5. I have a new 3TB Time Capsule I set up last Sept 25 (2013). Well, when I did that I backed up the MacBook to the Time Capsule via WiFi (about 100GB of data). And used WiFi ever since.
Well today I connected my MacBook to my local network via an Ethernet cable. Both WiFi and Ethernet conections are on my same local network. All was working well. Then after a couple hours I noticed the Time Machine was backing up, so I opened the Time Machine to see what it was doing and I see it was backup up 25GB of data!!! And it said "Oldest backup: September 25.2013"!!
I then noticed the size of the backup kept growing, "Backing up 25GB of 26.1GB" became "Backing up 32GB of 33.1GB"!! ....both numbers just kept growing! And using up space on my Time Capsule! I finally selected "Stop Backing Up".
I just restarted the backup, and the same thing is happening! Why is it doiong this? Why is Time Machine apperantly backing up all my files again to the same backup on the Time Capsule? Simply because I change the network connection?? Will it re-backup up another 100GB+ if I go back to using WiFi??
Why can't I use WiFi OR Ethernet with Time Machine??
I have turned off Time Machine on the MacBook until I can figure out whats going on here.
Thanks,
Jeff

I used "Verify Backups" from the TM menu, I saw it was verifing the backup so I went to do something else, it was going to take a while....when I came back it appears to have completed the Verify.....but there is no message as whether it was sucessful or not??? eeeee
PS How come spell checker doesnt work on these forums??

Email Attachment Problems with New Photos Program

I just spent two hours online with Apple Support to try to figure out why I couldn't get my photos to upload to my gmail - or any mail other than the Mail that's hooked directly into the new Photos program. After two hours I was told that the only way to do this without using Photos was to send the pictures to my email of choice, download them back to my computer (are you kidding!) and then save them to a location other than the Photos program. What the what?!!
I take photos for charities and sports teams that are used by our local papers and websites. If you're sending photos to a business or person who does not use Apple products there are issues opening up the attached photos. I tried sending my photos through the new Photos program today but as feared the newspaper called to say they could not open my photos. They do not use Apple products. I had to go through a ridiculous number of steps to get these photos sent, instead of the simple attachment that used to be available with iPhoto.
My question is WHY? Why is Apple making what used to be so simple so difficult? Please tell me this issue will be fixed and fixed soon! I never thought I would say this but it may be time to look at a Chromebook or something other than a MacBook. What used to be so intuitive and creative has now become a mess worse than anything Microsoft could cook up.
Julie Gilbertson

Follow up, Julie!
Remember that you can use any mail provider in your Mac Mail that you wish.**
I have several different email providers as I have multiple email accounts.
When you select your pictures(s) within Photos and
click on the Share option via Email
your selected pictures get placed within the email,
you then select - within your email - which email provider you are using ( e.g. your Yahoo mail, your Google mail account, you name it).
Your choice. It is really quite easy.
Looks kind of like this
Somebody, somewhere, is now realizing that they can use any mail provider in your Mac Mail that they want.
They do not have to log into Gmail or Yahoo mail or other web based mail servers.
http://macintoshhowto.com/email/how-to-set-up-a-gmail-account-to-work-with-apple -mail.html
This is akin to the epiphany of years ago when millions realized they did not have to have AOL to surf the web.

Installing the New Virtual Machine and XP Mode in Win7x64 on the Intel 2x E5-2620 Architecture (12 cores, 24 cpus)

I have been hibernating quietly at school with an Intel Core Duo T7300 on XP, and have been insulated from the madness of multi-core processors. I gather that there were problems with installing the XP Virtual Machine on Vista under Quad architectures,
but that these eventually got resolved in 2009.
The newer problem is concerned with installing the XP Virtual Machine on Win7x64 with greater than four cores in the cpu architecture. Others have mentioned this problem over this past Summer 2012. The problem is that at the very last step of
the complete install, Win7x64 reports a failure to install the XP Virtual Machine, and with no further comment.
Apparently KB/2519949 gave a temporary (MSFT qualifies this as "temporary") hotfix solution to this problem for AMD 8-core chips in the Bulldozer series. However MSFT cautions that this problem requires further research. This was earlier
this Summer 2012.
My problem is that I have an Intel 2xE5-2620 duo-processor cpu architecture (2x6=12 cores, 24 cpus in Windows). The cpu architecture is both Intel, and with far more than the old standard of four cores. The XP Virtual Machine in Win7x64 will
not install, as described above.
I have an armload of new 64-bit software all of which has installed pristinely in Win7x64 under this 2xE5-2620 Intel architecture. However, I have one very important piece of legacy (latest version incompatible beyond XP type of legacy) technical writing
software that is critical to my PhD thesis. In need the XP Virtual Machine for this, and I have no idea how to get it. My PhD thesis supervisor also needs this particular piece of "legacy" technical writing software for his new book on Probability
Theory.
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I have news about this issue with XP Mode on Workstation machines. I have actually known about this for a couple of months, but it has not been until these Christmas 2012 holidays that I have had a chance to follow up with an implementation.
In review, I purchased a Workstation computer for scientific computation purposes this past August 2012. My chipset is an Intel 2x E5-2620 for a total of 12 cores, and it turns out that this was not the problem for XP Mode. My OEM shipped this
machine with Windows 7, but without XP Mode, and there is a reason why.
As an aside, it should be mentioned that the main line MSFT OS, Windows 7 or 8, is what I want for this machine, and not Server 2012. The reason is that most of the scientific computation and technical writing software that I use is written only for
Windows, and not for Server. Then also hopefully Hyper-V can do in Windows 8 most of what XP Mode is doing for me in Windows 7.
My dealer was able to tell me, when he got back from holidays in late September, that the reason that XP Mode failed to install on this Workstation, and the reason it was not included by the OEM, was that the original HDD configuration was for RAID (3 available
bays) and formatted for drives of at least 1TB in size. Although the original HDD installation was only a single HDD with only 500GB, the machine was equipped to have something much larger installed. But this format excluded the possibility of
XP Mode.
So we changed the hard drive installation to something that I preferred. We installed Windows 7 on a 480GB SSD, and I installed all my software on this drive, as well as all my important data. Most importantly, since this drive is less than 1TB,
we could use the MBR format which allows XP mode. Then we also formatted the original HDD of 500GB in MBR, and decided to run it with Intel RST. This second drive is for unimportant data, and large files. For backup we chose a 2TB USB 3.0
external. In this setting, installing Windows XP Mode was easy, as the only thing we needed to do was modify BIOS to enable virtualization which was part of the Intel 2x E5-2620 chipset already.
I am very pleased with XP Mode. The scientific writing software for my thesis that I was worried about does actually run in Windows 7 under compatibility mode, but there have been some huge advantages to installing in in XP Mode as well. I still have licensed
copies of Office 2003, Acrobat Pro 9, and MathType 5.2, and other old software as well. I now have all new software, for example Office 2010 (64-bit), Acrobat Pro 10 (32-bit for 64-bit), and MathType 6.8 (64-bit), and lots of other things. However, now that
I have my scientific wrtiting software (for which the maker has not caught up with Windows Vista/7) installed in XP Mode, I have also installed WORD 2003 with MathType 5.2 in XP Mode. My scientific writing software can translate WORD 2003/MathType 5.2 in RTF
format to LaTeX. So lets hope these guys eventually catch up with Windows 7 and 8.
I am also using XP Mode to archive a large block of my old data from the XP days. I still have licensed copies of the out of date software. And I would rather not update every single old file I have to a current format. So altogether, XP Mode is working
out quite well. It is very fast with my Intel 2x E5-2620 and maximum RAM.
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Type 2 Virtual Machine in Hyper-V will not PXE boot with WDS

Hi
Bit of a wierd scenario this but I'm doing a bit of a lab experiment kind of thing. The setup is as follows:
VMWare Workstation 10 with Windows Server 2012 R2 running as a virtual machine. In VMW10 I have a NAT network interface and a Bridging interface set to load with the virtual machine. These seem to work fine (although the NAT doesn't seem to want to connect
to the internet but that's why the bridging one is there in addition).
Server 2012 is configured with the following roles:
ADDS, DHCP, DNS, Hyper-V, Printer, WDS
I have correctly configured WDS to work on the same machine as DHCP and I can get PXE boot working with WDS on a Type1 Virtual Machine in Hyper-V using the Legacy Network adapter. My problem is when I try and PXE boot on a Type2 Virtual Machine (this type
is new in R2 and should eliminate the need for a legacy network adapter) using the same network interface that I used for the Type1 machine, I get an IP address from DHCP but WDS doesn't seem to respond. Instead I get the "PXE-E16: No Offer Received"
message. I have tried just about everything I can think of and spent the whole day trying to figure out why this is the case but came up with nothing. Has anyone else encountered this or can anyone shed any light on the matter?
Many thanks in advance

"VMWare Workstation 10 with Windows Server 2012 R2"and "Server 2012 is configured with the following roles: ADDS, DHCP, DNS, Hyper-V, Printer, WDS"
Hyper-V is not supported to be run as a VM. It is a Type 1 hypervisor, which means it works on the bare metal. You have it running as a VM on a Type-2 hypervisor, so it has no access to the bare metal. Yes, VMware may have made it so some
things work in that environment, but it is not a supported (or tested) environment for Hyper-V.
.:|:.:|:. tim

License management with virtual machines

Folks:
We are using virtual machines. If we have a staff change or a corrupted virtual machine, we create a new virtual machine by duplicating an existing hard drive, creating a new virtual machine, and assigning the duplicate hard drive to the new machine. Works beautifully.
The problem is that Acrobat thinks we have installed it on a new computer and therefore requires relicensing, and it won't re-license automatically because it thinks the license is in use already.
Is there a way around this problem?
Is there a way to convert our retail licenses to some kind of volume license where there is but one license code that can be used X number of times?
Thanks.
Micah

I don't see such an option here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/AdminGuide/licensing.html?highlight=volu me.
I don't think you can do that.
Ben

Where my virtual machines are stored?

Hi
When i do install a new virtual machine on hyper- v where is it stored?
so can I copy this virtual machine file and use it in another hyper-v machine?
thanks?

Hi
When i do install a new virtual machine on hyper- v where is it stored?
so can I copy this virtual machine file and use it in another hyper-v machine?
thanks?
It's stored where you point at. If you did not do much that would be default location. See:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/05/06/managing-the-default-virtual-machine-location-with-hyper-v.aspx
Sure you can move VM to another host. Just make sure you don't boot both VMs @ the same time as that's a license violation. About migration see:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/brucecowper/archive/2010/04/09/moving-virtual-machines-from-one-host-to-another-on-hyper-v.aspx
Hope this helped :)
StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS

Virtual Machines disappear from Hyper-V Manager on reboot

I have a Windows 2012 RC server that has fail-over clustering installed (single server at the moment), and it has an iSCSI disk that is configured as a CSV volume. When I create a new VM in Hyper-V Manager, I am storing the .vhdx and machine definition
on that CSV. Everything is good until I reboot the server. Once I do that, the VM disappears from the Hyper-V console even though the symbolic link to the server still exists in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V\Virtual Machines.
I have tried to add the VM to the cluster manager (Configure Role...High Availability Wizard), but it fails with no error message that indicates why it is failing. I get the following two errors in the report:
An error occurred while configuring the virtual machine configuration resource 'Virtual Machine Configuration MYVM' with information about the virtual machine.
and
There was a failure configuring the virtual machine role for 'MYVM'.
Please, override 'Header' property The object has been deleted from the cluster.
The first error occurs after "Notifying virtual machine configuration resource 'Virtual Machine Configuration BUF-FS-SQL' that its configuration has changed..."
I sense it might be related to permissions on the CSV, but not sure what permissions may need to be set?
Thanks,
Bob

That did not work. VM still does not show up after restart. I have tried to import the VM from the original location on the CSV, but I get:
"Hyper-V encountered an error while loading the virtual machine configuration from C:\ClusterStorage\Host\Hyper-V\Virtual Machines\Test\Virtual....\GUID....
Hyper-V encountered an error trying to access an object on computer 'localhost' because the object was not found. The object might have been deleted, or you might not have permission to perform the task.".....
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