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    I installed Windows Server 10 TP on my servers yesterday, I setup a brand new environment of VM's with Generation 2 as a baseline across it, Windows Server 2012 R2(1 x DC, 1 x AD CS, 1 x Exchange, 1 x SCCM 2012 R2) and Windows Server 10 Technical Preview(1 x DC + 2 x Hyper-V nodes). These all appear fine.

    I also setup some new Debian Wheezy (7.4 and 7.6 mix) VM's as Generation 1 to start playing with logstash/influxdb. These disappeared after they were setup from the Hyper-V Manager on the Hyper-V node. The Hyper-V node is not domain joined and as such there is only one user account at the moment on it, of which everything was installed as.

    I noticed the used memory after reboot stayed high (40%+) even with all Windows VM's powered off. Using Get-VM, I can see all the Linux VM's I installed previously. The question is why are these not appearing in the Hyper-V manager, is this to force me to learn more powershell when I use *nix systems?

    Using SSH to the IP's of each VM I am able to connect to all of them, so they are running as they should underneath the covers.

    I have not seen this behavior on either Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2 where the VM's of any sort (supported), appear properly in the Hyper-V Manager.

    Thoughts?

    Saturday, October 4, 2014 10:23 AM

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    Hi!

    Unfortunately, this is a known bug in the Technical Preview release.

    The specific issue is that Hyper-V Manager gets confused if a virtual machine returns basic heartbeat information, and does not include application health state.  Luckily - there is a simple work around.  If you run the following PowerShell line:

    get-vm | ?{$_.heartbeat -eq "OKApplicationsUnknown"} | Disable-VMIntegrationService "Heartbeat"

    This will turn off the Heartbeat service for any virtual machine that is not returning application state.

    Cheers,
    Ben

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    Saturday, October 4, 2014 7:34 PM

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    I'm seeing a similar issue.  I notice a VM "Win7" was missing.  It was indeed accessible via ping and RDP.  Create a second VM "Win7--" and reboot server...now it's gone?

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    Saturday, October 4, 2014 11:14 AM
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    So I think I see my issue...I renamed "Win7" to "_Win7" and now it appears.  I've done this with other VMs with WinXX as the name and they are appear now.

    Strange.

    d

    Saturday, October 4, 2014 11:24 AM
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    More insight....

    If I connect to the Hyper-V manager via a Win8 or downlevel client...all the VMs appear.

    d

    Saturday, October 4, 2014 11:42 AM
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    Hi!

    Unfortunately, this is a known bug in the Technical Preview release.

    The specific issue is that Hyper-V Manager gets confused if a virtual machine returns basic heartbeat information, and does not include application health state.  Luckily - there is a simple work around.  If you run the following PowerShell line:

    get-vm | ?{$_.heartbeat -eq "OKApplicationsUnknown"} | Disable-VMIntegrationService "Heartbeat"

    This will turn off the Heartbeat service for any virtual machine that is not returning application state.

    Cheers,
    Ben

    This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties, and confers no rights. You assume all risk for your use.

    Saturday, October 4, 2014 7:34 PM
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    Thanks Ben, the powershell commandlet solved it!

    Tuesday, October 7, 2014 8:48 PM
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    Yep ! Thanks Ben. Solved also
    Wednesday, November 5, 2014 8:50 AM