Category Archives: Hyper-V Server 2008

Number of Supported Virtual CPU’s for a Guest on Hyper-V

Posted on June 2, 2011 by

Question: How many virtual processors (virtual CPU’s) are officially supported by Microsoft for a guest virtual machine (VM) running on Hyper-V? Answer: You may be thinking the answer to this question is four since that is the number you can … Continue reading →

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Rename a Network Interface from the Command Line

Posted on April 7, 2011 by

While building a Hyper-V server this week, I decided to rename the network interfaces to something that would make identifying the iSCSI connections a little easier. Since the server was installed with only the core (no GUI) installation of Windows Server … Continue reading →

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Remote Management of Hyper-V Server or Server Core

Posted on September 21, 2009 by

Problem: You receive an error Virtual Disk Manager “The RPC server is unavailable” when attempting to remotely manage Hyper-V Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 Core Installation: Solution: Run the following command on the client and on the server: You have … Continue reading →

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Hyper-V Server or Server Core Command Prompt Window

Posted on September 21, 2009 by

Problem: You’ve closed your command prompt window on Hyper-V Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 Core Installation and need to re-open it: Solution: Start Windows Task Manager by pressing Ctrl & Shift & Esc. Click File>New Task: Type cmd.exe and … Continue reading →

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