Do you need a list of all virtual disks on a Hyper-V server? Simply run this PowerShell script and it will give you a list of all VHD and VHDX files that are connected to virtual machines in Hyper-V: $MyVMs = Get-VM Foreach ($MyVM in $MyVMs) { $AllHardDrives = $MyVM.HardDrives Foreach ($HardDriveItem in $AllHardDrives) { […]
Below are the download links for the final release of Windows 11 in ISO format, directly from Microsoft: Windows 11 ISO English (22000.194.210913-1444.co_release_svc_refresh_CLIENTENTERPRISEEVAL_OEMRET_x64FRE_en-us.iso) Download Windows 11 English ISO Windows 11 ISO German (22000.194.210913-1444.co_release_svc_refresh_CLIENTENTERPRISEEVAL_OEMRET_x64FRE_de-de.iso) Download Windows 11 German ISO While You’re Waiting for Your Download, Check out BackupChain The Lightweight, Yet Powerful Windows 11 and Windows […]
The official ISO download link for Windows Server 2022 Release ISO is as follows. Click on the link below to download directly from Microsoft: Windows Server 2022 Final Release ISO Download (US English) While You’re Waiting for Your Download, Check out BackupChain The Lightweight, Yet Powerful Windows Server Backup Software for IT Professionals The all-in-one, […]
To mount a VHDX to Windows as a drive using PowerShell, run the command: Mount-VHD -Path c:\my-folder\MyVirtualDisk.vhdx or Mount-VHD -Path c:\my-folder\MyVirtualDisk.vhdx -ReadOnly Then remove the drive again by using: Dismount-VHD -Path c:\my-folder\MyVirtualDisk.vhdx This method can be used to copy files into a VM, for example, or to copy files from one VM to another, […]
Copying a file from the host into a VM is easy with Powershell and you can embed it into a script. The syntax is: Copy-VMFile “Test VM” -SourcePath “C:\FileOnHost.txt” -DestinationPath “D:\FolderInsideVM\file.txt” -CreateFullPath -FileSource Host The above command will also create the target folder if it doesn’t exist. You could use this command to push software […]
The official ISO download links for Windows Server 2019 ISO (final release) and Hyper-V Server 2019 are as follows. Click on these links below to download directly from Microsoft: Hyper-V Server 2019 ISO Download (US English) Windows Server 2019 Standard/Datacenter ISO Download (US English) 17763.737.190906-2324.rs5_release_svc_refresh_SERVER_EVAL_x64FRE_en-us_1.iso Windows Server 2019 Standard/Datacenter ISO Download (German) 17763.737.190906-2324.rs5_release_svc_refresh_SERVER_EVAL_x64FRE_de-de_1.iso Windows Server […]
In order to create a backup of your Hyper-V host as well as the virtual machines on it, the best option is to split the workload into two portions: the Hyper-V host backup (the physical machine), and the Hyper-V virtual machine backup (the virtual servers). BackupChain offers several backup components to accomplish this easily and […]
From a security point of view, a secure option that is being used for example by VPS hosting providers that we work with, is to DMZ the VMs, not the hyper-v host. By DMZ-ing the VMs instead of the host, you can access and backup the host as usual and have only the VMs exposed […]
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If you ran into this type of VSS error “MSMQ Writer”, the fix below might work for you: Symptoms The Event Viewer logs on the host and inside the virtual machine, at the time of backup, might show the following entries. The VSS writer MSMQ Writer (MSMQ) failed with status 8 and writer specific failure […]