Hyper-V: Troubleshooting
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Hyper-V Versions
[[Windows Server 2008]]
[[Windows Server 2008 R2]]
[[Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008]]
[[Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2]]
Health Model
Tools
Microsoft Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool (does not work for Windows Server 2008 R2)
Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows Vista with SP1 (x64)
Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows Vista with SP1 (x86)
Microsoft Hyper-V VM State to Memory Dump Converter (vm2dmp.exe)
Virtualization Detect Tool (VpDetect.exe) — included in the Windows Logo Kit NOTE: Microsoft Connect (log-in required).
Virtual Machine Detect Tool (aka IsVM, DetectVM.exe) — included in the Windows Logo Kit NOTE: Microsoft Connect (log-in required)
[[Core Configurator 2.0]]
Procedures
Best Practices
- Follow Best Practices, if there is a Best Practice Analyzer for the product, use it. BPAs are written to find and fix the most common configuration issues.
- Measuring Performance on Hyper-V
- use the perf counter “\Hyper-V Hypervisor Logical Processor(_Total)\ Total Run Time” to measure CPU in a Hyper-V environment
- Failover Clustering Performance Counters - Part 1
- Failover Clustering Performance Counters - Part 2
Virtualization Server/Host-based Troubleshooting
- Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management Stopped/Freezing
- Note: SCCM 2012 (SMS Agent Host - Service ) automatically stopping the "Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management Service". Please disabled "SMS Agent Host service" or installed the previous hotfix to keep active the "HVMM service".