Working with the team in creating new virtual machine templates I found that some of our Windows 7 templates when they are being deployed with the following error: Virtual Machine Manager was unable to find a value for the required Sysprep parameter ProductKey. (StatusCode: 610–MandatorySysPrepEntryNotFound) I attempted to do some google searching which gave me no information for […]
Tag: Hyper-V Server
I am attempting to do some quick cleanup on a Hyper-V host used for testing. To do this I compacted the Hyper-V Virtual Disks. Open the Hyper-V Management console Right click on VM Guest Select Settings Select the Hard Drive for the VM Guest Click the Edit button Select Compact Click Finish *note* you want to […]
I was facing an issue where vm guest are paused with the following “Paused-Critical Virtual Machine State” message. Each attempt to resume the guest, end in them being pause once again. This happens when the host volume is running low on available disk space. Here are some actions you can take to help with this: Expand […]
And this happened . . . I was introducing a change the Virtual Switch Manager of my Hyper-V host, where I attempted to give guest machines bridged network access. After making my change I had lost access to the server. On a good note, the server picked up a new address its virtual interface that I created. However I […]
I have been looking into using Hyper-V Server and its features. One of those features are the Clustering feature for migrations and fail-over. After many articles telling me to do this, try that, this may work , and here is a step by step filled with many links to other pages, and sites. I now […]