• Resource Misallocation

Many administrators do a common mistake: Hyper-V virtual hard disks (VHDXs) for everything.
VHDX, despite being beneficial in many ways, are mostly wasteful.

• Imbalance of Memory and CPUs

Microsoft recommends a maximum of 12 virtual CPUs per physical core. Keeping this in mind, it is necessary to have a balance between CPUs and RAM.  Using a Performance monitor tracing helps you get that balance so that you do not run out of memory before you run out CPU.

• Blindly Accepting VM Configuration Defaults

Most people often overlook the options while configuring the VM and end up accepting the default settings. In reality, you only get to have one vCPU in the default settings and the Virtual memory is set to 1 TB (you pretty much would never need this much of Virtual memory, honestly!). For guest OS XP/ Server 2003, the requirement automatically becomes at least 2 vCPUs. By accepting default configurations, you might end up risking the distribution of resource allocation by the host.

• Imbalance of SSD and Spinning Disks

For optimal Hyper-V server manager settings one good Hyper-V Management practice is to have a balance between SSD and spinning Disks via the Hyper-V virtual machine manager. In ideal case, an SSD churns the spinning disk while the Hyper-V server is installed directly over it. So, the SSD’s fast speed must be leveraged on to work with the VM data.

• Not Joining a Domain

Joining a Domain is another sane thing to do for better Hyper-V Management.  Generally Hyper-V hosts should never reside on a perimeter network. Leaving a host in a work-group makes it vulnerable to attacks. An attacker can penetrate and get unauthorized access to all VHDX files.

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The golden Tip: Don’t Avoid PowerShell

It is without a doubt that PowerShell requires some effort to learn, however, once administrators get their hands on the awesome tool, they can easily manage multiple tasks in parallel. PowerShell allows the users to get access on the following:

• .NET Framework API
• Windows Management Instrumentation
• Windows Component Object Model
• Command Prompt
• PowerShell Commands

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• Storage Problems

One of the biggest problem businesses face after their business tends to scale is the slow storage performance. One big reason for this issue is the storage architecture within the Microsoft Hyper-V environment. It is important to check whether the virtual machine component is properly placed. Virtual machine components have to reside on a dedicated storage. And the architecture should deliver mirror redundancy. We will see this in Backup related problems in a few minutes. To cater for the issue of slow Storage problem, Microsoft prefers every Cloud service Provider implements VHDX based virtual hard disks for a better Storage performance to avoid Hyper-V cloud issues.

• iSCSI Multi-Path Not Working Correctly

For SMBs, iSCSI storage is a popular choice. With this, you can get the benefits of a shared and clustered environment without the cost and complexity of a Fiber Channel. With any issue arising with Microsoft Multi-path, it is important to verify the Multi-Path I/O first using:

Get-WindowsFeature –Name ‘Multipath-IO’

If the feature isn’t installed in the first place, you can install it by the following command:

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature –Online –FeatureName MultiPathIO

After this, you can make sure that there are no configuration issues using the Multi-Path I/O Control Panel to avoid any Hyper V cloud issues.

• Live Migration Failure

This is typically the most annoying issue that your customers can experience. To avoid a Live migration failure, it is important to take services from an experienced Cloud Service Provider who has a team of experts to know how to avoid a Live Migration failure and other Hyper-V cloud issues. However, if such an issue arises, it is important to perform the following checks:

1. Check for Missing permissions
2. Validate any incorrect Authentication protocol
3. Check for Mix Match configurations

• Backup Related Problems

As mentioned above, a misconfiguration or wrong judgment at the time of placement of virtual machine leads to backup and storage problems. The best possible way to cater this issue is to create Child VM Snapshot backups. This is done by deploying a Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) having three main components: VSS Writer, VSS Requestor and VSS Provider.

VSSAdmin is a command line tool used to diagnose Volume Shadow Copy Services problems.

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