@scottalanmiller said:

I still have a VIC20, a C64 and an Amiga 1000. Never used a BBS though because I grew up in the Rochester LATA so the cost to dial one would have been insane.

I had an Amiga 2000 (2500 actually) for many years until the Emulation become so good that I didn't need the clutter of them in my office. Amiga and C64 forever plus the ROMS work great. A part of me still kind of wants an Amiga 4000 with a Video Toaster Flyer just for nostalgic reasons. I have an Amiga 500 in the attic with most of my floppies. There are some word processing documents I'd love to get off of there and convert somehow.

I do, however, have over 100 boxed, classic Atari 2600 games and a mini 2600 and an Atari 7800. I may never part with them.

@scottalanmiller said:

A network engineer isn't a discipline that would know anything about this nor understand the ramifications.

OH, I know...just enjoyed his perspective. At least I don't have to pull his long hours and sometimes crazy on-call schedules.

@scottalanmiller said:

Honestly just install ESXi or XenServer. They aren't all weird and picky like HyperV.

You may be right...and may be crazy! LOL...I had a network engineer tell me last night to just say physical in my environment...love the varied opinions I get.

@scottalanmiller said:

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller said:

This is where installing to USB is recommended. Just have a spare USB copy laying around.

Except you cannot install Server 2012 + Hyper-V to a USB.

Are you sure? Microsoft just recommended that two weeks ago on SW.

Well, something is causing extreme slowness just copying a file from my PC to the drive on my VM2 (services01). Horrendous. Is it network or VDISK related? I have a week now but got to get this resolved right away.

Any one have great memories from the BBS days? I remember running my first BBS. On a Vic-20, I wrote it myself. It was extremely linear, per se, but did offer menus and options. I was using the original Vic-Modem, 300 baud, and people had to call me first to say they wanted to connect to it. Then they would call me back with their modem, I would disconnect the handset and plug the cord into the modem (it wasn't auto dial/answer)...I eventually got a Commodore 64 with 4 1541 Drives and a 1 Meg drive that held tons of stuff. I mostly ran Ivory Joe BBS but did try CNET for a while until I just wanted something simple. I remember, sleeping in my room as a teen, hearing the drives access if someone called it during the night. Great times...

I eventually moved to an Amiga but never ran a BBS then. Just called them!

@garak0410 said:

@JaredBusch said:

@garak0410 said:

@JaredBusch said:

@garak0410 look at the tcp offload settings. I am not at a place to look at the client where I had the same problem. but there is a setting in hyper-v manager that I had to change then reboot everything in order get get the network to perform correctly.

So I should turn off the TCP Checksum offload for IPv4 on both virtual adapters?

Just logged into that server. It was VMQ that I had to disable. I think it was on by default and I never checked if it was supported or not. The users were screaming down my back so I just disabled it.

OK I'll check that because turning off TCP Checksum offload for IPv4 has no effect and was even show to delete files from that drive...took 3 minutes to delete 10 meg...

Is turning off VMQ a command line or a GUI option? Not seeing it.

@JaredBusch said:

@garak0410 said:

@JaredBusch said:

@garak0410 look at the tcp offload settings. I am not at a place to look at the client where I had the same problem. but there is a setting in hyper-v manager that I had to change then reboot everything in order get get the network to perform correctly.

So I should turn off the TCP Checksum offload for IPv4 on both virtual adapters?

Just logged into that server. It was VMQ that I had to disable. I think it was on by default and I never checked if it was supported or not. The users were screaming down my back so I just disabled it.

OK I'll check that because turning off TCP Checksum offload for IPv4 has no effect and was even show to delete files from that drive...took 3 minutes to delete 10 meg...

@JaredBusch said:

@garak0410 look at the tcp offload settings. I am not at a place to look at the client where I had the same problem. but there is a setting in hyper-v manager that I had to change then reboot everything in order get get the network to perform correctly.

So I should turn off the TCP Checksum offload for IPv4 on both virtual adapters?

Looks like picture didn't attach well...basically showing 25 minutes to copy just 82 meg from my PC to the drive on VM2, that will eventually be our main file server drive. In addition, task manager shows 89% memory usage (of the 4GB allocated and on dynamic)...about to reboot the VM2 and see what happens but this is scary.

Here's the slowness I've been talking about in my VM2 (File Server called services01)

This is only a 82 MEG file...taking FOREVER to copy to the drive on VM2:


You've been patient and a major help! Will update as I can and take advantage of this site!

Got my "chill pill." Putting this off another week so I can test Unitrends, do some testing of our simple applications and procedures, try the DHCP things and flesh out my understanding of Hyper-V.

I am about to collate my notes and go talk to owners...I may put this off until next week. The recent DHCP discussion and the way the VM's are sluggish in a remote desktop session makes me a little nervous about how it will react in a real environment...I am about to test some things with a mapped drive to the services01 VM right now.

@scottalanmiller said:

@garak0410 said:

@scottalanmiller

Hosts, as in HyperVisors?

Sorry, I mean devices with IP address. Like desktops, printers, etc.

About 50 workstations...several printers with IP's (not via print server)...SQL Server, two nas's...software firewall...

@scottalanmiller

Hosts, as in HyperVisors?

@scottalanmiller said:

You want them to all be static? Why not DHCP?

Again, my weak areas are showing. Networking...I've never configured DHCP.

@scottalanmiller said:

@garak0410 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Oh. You've just forgotten to make its DNS entry, that's all. Not an AD or RDP issue. Just needs normal DNS management.

Done...waiting on replication now. Now that I am thinking of it, most of our workstations have static IP's pointing to the current DNS server (also Domain Controller). After the new domain controller is promoted and the other one demoted, it is safe to change the IP on the new one to the old IP?

That's not a good process. I've done that and it is unnecessarily painful. Instead use DHCP to push out the new IP address as the primary and the old one as the secondary.

IN a sick way, I am OK with manually going to each PC on the night I do this to change the preferred DNS server address...that way, I can catch the PC's not on a static and make them static...it is also another way I can verify the migration worked and all PC's look good.

I think I am going to wait until NEXT Friday. Either I am making this harder than it is or I am constantly encountering more detours and new considerations.

@scottalanmiller said:

Oh. You've just forgotten to make its DNS entry, that's all. Not an AD or RDP issue. Just needs normal DNS management.

The host has two virtual switches...which one do I make the DNS entry for? Doesn't matter really?

@scottalanmiller said:

Oh. You've just forgotten to make its DNS entry, that's all. Not an AD or RDP issue. Just needs normal DNS management.

Done...waiting on replication now. Now that I am thinking of it, most of our workstations have static IP's pointing to the current DNS server (also Domain Controller). After the new domain controller is promoted and the other one demoted, it is safe to change the IP on the new one to the old IP?