About Hyper-V.nu

This Hyper-V Community was founded in 2008 in The Netherlands by Jaap Wesselius during one of the first Hyper-V deployments in The Netherlands. Jaap was quickly accomponied by Hans Vredevoort. Recently our team was expanded with two new authors:

Maarten Wijsman introduces himself with the following text:

My name is Maarten Wijsman and I’m currently working at Wortell. Wortell finds inspiration in technological developments on the Microsoft platform. At Wortell I’m currently fulfilling the function as Senior Infrastructure Engineer shifting my focus more and more to Hyper-V. It this role I’m responsible for designing and deploying Hyper-V environments which meet the customers’ demands and wishes. My main goal with the blogs I will be writing for Hyper-V.nu is sharing my experiences from the field with you and hopefully learn from your comments and/or remarks.

And Peter Noorderijk’s introduction:

My name is Peter Noorderijk. I work since 2001 in the ICT sector. Started as an all-round system administrator and grown to a senior consultant. Since april 2008 I’m working for PQR. Focusing on Server & Storage, Virtualization and Application Delivery solutions, PQR implements and migrates advanced ICT-infrastructures and has achieved the highest certifications of its most important partners: HP Preferred Partner Gold, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Citrix Platinum Solution Advisor, VMware Premier and Consultancy Partner.

I’ve a strong focus on Backend Virtualization soluitons and especially Microsoft Hyper-V. Off course I’m also focused on the Microsoft System Center solutions because of the tight integration with Hyper-V. Last but not least I’m focused on Microsoft Exchange solutions.

I’m blogging and publishing about these focus area’s at different places but I’m very pleased to blog about Hyper-V only here at HYPER-V.NU!

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#1 written by soheil
about 8 months ago

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hi Hans
i am winodws sys admin, now i wana improve my skill in Hyper-v and system center technology. can u guide me how should i become like u ?
i need some one show me the path. i am celever student.
- #2 written by adminHans
  about 8 months ago
  
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  Thank you.
  I can advise you to use the study and test material on Microsoft Virtual Academy: http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/Home.aspx
  You should also try to install a Hyper-V cluster with Microsoft Software iSCSI Target (freely downloadable)
  Start a blog
  Exchange ideas and questions on Twitter
  
  Good luck!
  
  Hans
#3 written by Umar Khan
about 8 months ago

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Hi Hans,

I am the reader of your website. We implement failover over cluster with Hyper-V vm on HP-BL 460c G7 blade servers and HP EVA SAN Storage.
Recently we are working on Oracle Vm 2.2 cluster with windows vm’s which seems to be future leader in the next generation.
I request if possible you guys can differentiate virtualization on different platform whole IT will runs virtualization in next 2 years and takes example from from your website.
- #4 written by adminHans
  about 8 months ago
  
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  Thanks Umar,
  
  Our website thrives on what its name says: Hyper-V
  I like the hardware you are using but don’t believe in the virtualization software from the #1 lock-in vendor in the world. Be careful you are not forced to replace HP by SUN which they are now the owner of
#5 written by Umar Khan
about 8 months ago

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Hyper-V NU will become one of the best website for all IT professionals in Virtualization World.
#6 written by Zorian Rotenberg
about 3 months ago

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Hi. we would like to sponsor your blog with a banner ad about our Hyper-V Backup product. Please let me know how we can do this.

Thank you,
Zorian
#7 written by Matt Lehmann
about 1 month ago

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I am working on a three node cluster with windows 2008 R2 SP1.

My question is regarding a teamed adapter for the VM’s. I have a pair of adapters teamed. The resultant teamed adapter is set up in the cisco switch as an 802.1q Trunk port. My question is how to present this or configure this network within failover clustering.

the adapter will not have an ip address since the adapter itself is just a vehicle for transferring vlan tagged packets. since it isnt configured with an ip address it gets auto configuration ip address in the realm of 169.x.x.x. therefore failover cluster ignores it.

i have searched the internet far and wide. i even read many of the non-english blogs of the people who post here (thanks to chrome translation). i am unable to find solid information as to how to proceed with configuring trunked nic with failover clustering.

As i re-read this, i realize that teamed adapter is not important. it is merely a trunked port that is my problem. it could be a single adapter in a trunk configuration or a set of adapters in a teamed.

Any help is appreciated.

Matt Lehmann
- #8 written by adminHans
  about 1 month ago
  
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  Hi Matt,
  
  The teamed or unteamed NIC for VM’s is not relevant to the cluster as you have probably unticked management partition access on the virtual network. This is fine. The trunked NIC (team) can be configured without a VLAN, or with one or more VLANs. How this is done depends on your teaming software. In HP NCU youn can either create 802.1q VLANs which will each show up as a separate NIC on the parent.
  My preferred solution is to use VLAN passthrough (enable promiscuous mode on team). After this you only have to set the VLAN id on the virtual NIC in your guests. Be sure to do this from VMM or FCM because changes in Hyper-V Manager don’t pass through to your Virtual Machine cluster resource configuration. There is also an task for updating the VM configuration in Failover Cluster Manager for this.
  
  Please let me know how you fare!
  
  Cheers,
  Hans
#9 written by Matt Lehmann
about 1 month ago

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i think if i understand you, and from what i have read previously, i am shooting for passthru. the problem that i am having is regarding the cluster creation. does the cluster have to see that 802.1q adapter?

before i create cluster i have four adapters:

1 – parent – has ip address on vlan 10
2 – cluster migration – has ip address on vlan 11
3 – cluster heartbeat – has ip address on vlan 12
4 – vm communications – this is the one that will have a virtual switch bound to it – it will be a trunk connection for vm’s

once i create the cluster i have the following networks (after being renamed)
1 – parent
2 – cluster migration
3 – cluster heartbeat

there is no network for the fourth one.

Thank you for taking the time you already have. i have honestly searched for days to find information on this aspect of hyper-v clusters. i have studied and read for months on hyper-v clustering and thought i was good to go. for the most part i havent had problems until i got to this part.
#10 written by Hans Vredevoort
about 1 month ago

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Hi Matt,

This looks good. One thing you still have to check which of the remaining adapters does what. Cluster Shared Volumes communications automatically chooses network with lowest metric. Live Migration chooses network with lowest metric but one. Take a look at this or similar blogs:
http://marckean.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/hyper-v-cluster-network-configuration/

Cheers, Hans
#11 written by Matt Lehmann
about 1 month ago

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Hans,

so are you saying that it makes sense that my 802.1q trunk adapter for vm communications doesnt show up in cluster manager as a network resource?
#12 written by Matt Lehmann
about 1 month ago

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Thanx for the link. I looked thru the site you linked and it doesnt show anything about how to handle a trunked adapter.
#13 written by Hans Vredevoort
about 4 weeks ago

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That depends on the teaming software you use. In my examples I use HP Network Configuration Utility. Search this site for promiscuous and teaming