Missing Virtual Machines After An Unexpected Shutdown of Hyper-V Host
I’m not having any luck with computers lately. This is why all my recent posts are related to my troubleshooting experience. Yesterday morning, there were some tradies working in my house fixing a leakage in my shower. I was just about to get in the car leaving home for the MS 70-246 exam, they connected [...]
My Home Test Lab – Part 2
This is the part 2 of my 2-part series on how my home test lab is configured. Part 1 can be found here. In this second part, I’m going to talk about my previous experience with vyatta virtual router appliance and how I replaced vyatta with CentOS. Disclaimer: The content of this article is purely [...]
My Home Test Lab – Part 1
Background I started a lab environment at home around 2 years ago and I’ve been keep investing in this lab environment over the time. I often get asked how was my lab setup. And most of the time when I tried to answer the question and explain how it was setup, I often forget some [...]
Hyper-V virtual machines with “Missing” status
I’m currently running Hyper-V R2 on a machine with 24GB of memory at home. It hosts most of my test machines such as SCCM, SCOM, Exchange, etc. System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 (VMM) is installed on a separate box to manage this Hyper-V Host. Few days ago the Hyper-V machine was powered off [...]