Hi! I'm Danny. I am an IT generalist looking to up my game and add my 2c where I can. 33 and recently married and I have almost zero experience with Linux based distros and tons with Microsoft.
Browsing this site I've already ingested a ton Of new Knowledge. I love it and hope I can give back
Hyper-V server 2012 R2 is a completely free and fully functional stand alone product. It is GUI free but you can manage it through the usual tools. Server Manager works great. You can download it from the Microsoft Technet Evaluation Center
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-hyper-v-server-2012-r2
And yes, clustering is an available feature.
@gjacobse you may want to check your site link replication schedule. The default is 180 minutes. You can drop it down to 15 minutes
The avhdx is created after you take the snapshot. The vhdx is the original file. You May need to merge them for this to work. Use Hyper-V manager to inspect the disks so you know which is the parent image.
Make copies of everything before you try to create a new VM!
Danny
There shouldn't be any problem. Remove it from WDS before you delete any files and you should be good.
@alex.olynyk said:
We will soon be purchasing some Dell servers with Server 2012 and I will need to setup some group policies once we bring all centers under 1 domain.
I plan to create a policy to enable PS Remoting across the domain. What are some other GPO's I should consider creating?
Use Group Policy Prefernces wherever you can. Item level targeting makes mapping different drives to different users incredibly easy. One GPO to rule them all! Use these for desktop shortcuts too.
I am also using GPO's to set IE compatibility view and trusted sites etc. Windows updates especially with multiple locations. you can use GPO's to configure BITS throttling to save bandwidth during the day or schedule WSUS etc.
If you made backups of these two vhdx I would try merging the two into one. Test and verify that all your data is there.
Have you tried to "Enable loopback policy" setting in the computer section of the GPO? This will apply these user settings to anyone logged into the computer the GPO is applied to.