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Find which updates are installed using command line
To find out what updates have already been installed on a Windows 2012 server Core (like Hyper-V 2012), run this command: wmic qfe get hotfixid
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SC VMM does not see dynamic GPT volumes
Ok so I found this one out the hard way…hit and trial No matter what I did, one volume on a Hyper-V 2012 server did not show up in my SC VMM. I finally figured it out. I had to delete and recreate that volume as a basic disk (not dynamic), which is by default anyway. ONLY then the VMM was able to see the volume. I hope this helps someone out there.
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Convert a Hyper-V 2012’s vhdx to VMware’s vmdk
I have been searching for ways to convert a Hyper-V VM to VMware. I have not having good luck with this. We (at work) are not trying to migrate from Hyper-V to VMware… it is just that sometimes we have to send out one of our virtual servers to another datacenter who run VMware there. Of course, there is a simple way to install a client and do a P2V kind of conversion which spits out a VMDK created out of a running VM. I was not interested in that type of conversion. I had a VHDX, lets just convert it to VMDK!
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Convert vhdx to vhd
Hyper-V manager has a quick tool to convert Hyper-V’s vhdx format to vhd format. It is available in the actions pane called “edit disk”. Among the various options there is one which will let you convert the vhdx to vhd format. There is also a PowerShell cmdlet which is reported to do the same thing. By the way, I am trying this conversion to see if I will be able to import a VM from Hyper-V to VMware. Result: Nope, it does not work At the time of importing, VMware client throws up an error. So I am wondering why would one want to do the vhdx to vhd conversion…
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Tool to export Hyper-V VMs to OVF? Yeah right!
Microsoft has provided a tool for exporting out Hyper-V VMs to OVF. They have it’s documentation here. Frankly, this tool is useless. It does not convert Hyper-V’s vhdx format to a format which vSphere or XenServer will understand. All this tool does is to create the XML file with a .ovf extension. I be fair to Microsoft, they do mention this fact in the second paragraph of the technet document (linked above). I used it, it just spits out the exact same vhdx file which I could have got like this:1. stop VM2. copy the vhdx files off the hard disk.Simple! Maybe I was hoping to something better. Now I…