You may run into a situation where some Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) shadows can’t be deleted. You tried: vssadmin delete shadows /all but receive the error message: Error: Snapshots were found, but they were outside of your allowed context. Try removing them with the backup application which created them. This peculiar error basically […]
This article shows the steps needed to turn off and get rid of one of the worst nag screens in PC history: “Upgrade to Windows 10″. And there is no ‘no, thank you” button! It’s so annoying, some people say it’s as bad as a virus. Well at least it gives us a taste of […]
This article summarizes the steps needed to fix the error ID 10102, Hyper-V VMMS (Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS) “Failed to create the backup of virtual machine”. There are various reasons why this error may occur: Virtual machine files are stored in root folders of a drive or mounted folder. If that’s the case please move all Hyper-V virtual […]
Download the final release of Windows 10 Enterprise (July 29, 2015), directly from Microsoft: http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/6/2/4/624ECF83-38A6-4D64-8758-FABC099503DC/10240.16384.150709-1700.TH1_CLIENTENTERPRISE_S_EVAL_X64FRE_EN-US.ISO The ISO name is: 10240.16384.150709-1700.TH1_CLIENTENTERPRISE_S_EVAL_X64FRE_EN-US.ISO A Windows 10 product key is not necessary for this evaluation CD. BackupChain Features BackupChain backup software is a Windows Server product that is now available for Windows PC backup as well. Our cloud storage […]
Whether or not you are using our Hyper-V backup solution, if you are planning on purchasing a NAS backup (Synology, Qnap, Netgear, Drobo, Buffalo, etc.) device to serve as a target for Hyper-V NAS backup, below are a few NAS product features to consider before purchasing the NAS and when setting things up with your […]
This article outlines some considerations when using fixed disks for Hyper-V and fixed disk Hyper-V backup. Performance of Fixed Disks at Run-time Fixed-sized VHDX are great building blocks for VMs as they greatly reduce overhead in Hyper-V. Assuming you refrain from using Hyper-V checkpoints, disk access to fixed disks is always linear. In addition, neighboring […]
Pass-through disks in Hyper-V are touted to offer better performance; however, the speed advantage is rather minimal and below 5% compared to a fixed-sized VHDX. When using pass-through disks one needs to be aware of a couple of disadvantages: Exclusive Use Pass-through disks are under exclusive use by the VM, even though the access is […]
Dynamic disks in Hyper-V may be a bad choice under certain circumstances, especially for Hyper-V backup and for general performance reasons. First of all we need to distinguish between dynamic disks and dynamically expanding disks. Dynamically expanding disks are VHDX files that grow over time. Hyper-V uses them internally also for checkpoints (a.k.a. snapshots) of […]
USB disks and other external disks can be used with Hyper-V in many different ways; some relate to Hyper-V backup to USB disk, some don’t: mounted directly as a disk inside the VM shared between host and guest VMs as host storage to hold Hyper-V VMs as a target Hyper-V backup drive Mounting USB Disk […]
