Category Archives: Hyper-V

VM Fails to Start with Error 12711

System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) can be a bit less than helpful when describing reasons for failed operations.

Use PowerShell to Remove a Stubborn VM

During a recent cleanup effort in the System Center Virtual Machine Manager console, I found a powered off guest machine. The status showed the VM as having an “Unsupported Cluster Configuration State”.

PXE Boot a VM in Hyper-V

In most technology environments, automation is everything. Part of that automation is the deployment of operating systems to servers and workstations via Windows Deployment Services, with help of PXE boot. Here’s how to PXE boot a guest in Hyper-V.

Monitoring, virtualization, and code. Oh, my.

Things have been pretty quiet around here lately, haven’t they? So it would seem.

Making the Jump Away from VMware

Thinking of moving away from VMWare? Can Hyper-V provide the functionality that you require to keep your systems available? I can tell you that paying the VMware tax has become a bit tedious.