{"id":8534,"date":"2015-07-19T16:46:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T15:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=8534"},"modified":"2015-07-20T22:13:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T21:13:05","slug":"hyper-v-remote-management-rpc-server-unavailable-unable-to-establish-connection-between-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=8534","title":{"rendered":"Hyper-V Remote Management RPC Server unavailable. Unable to establish connection between Hyper-V Host and Client PC."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Windows81.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8535\" src=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Windows81.png\" alt=\"RPC Server\" width=\"600\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Windows81.png 885w, https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Windows81-300x67.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interesting quirk of running Virtual Machines for this post&#8230; the background is\u00a0my &#8216;main work PC&#8217;\u00a0is currently running Windows 7; in order to remotely manage a Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 machine I had installed <strong>Oracle VirtualBox<\/strong> onto my main PC and inside that had setup a <strong>Windows 8.1 VM<\/strong> to <strong>remotely manage<\/strong> the <strong>Hyper-V Server instance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However after setting up remote management I found that I could connect to all of the remote management tools on my Hyper-V machine with the exception of Disk Management and Hyper-V Manager with the following error message generated in Hyper-V Manager.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RPC Server unavailable. Unable to establish connection between &lt;Hyper-V Host&gt; and &lt;Client PC&gt;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After much investigation\u00a0into this issue (and after following a number of dead ends relating to firewall settings, the hosts file and COM security) it transpires that the issue was related to the way that I had setup the network adapter within VirtualBox.<\/p>\n<p>In particular the adapter had been set to NAT mode, now given the properties of NAT it seems plausible that some vital information might have been mangled in the process &#8211; if anyone feels like doing some Wireshark on this to discover the cause then please do!<\/p>\n<p>The resolution was simple\u00a0&#8211; setting the adapter to bridged mode instead which allowed the traffic to pass through the virtual adapter just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting quirk of running Virtual Machines for this post&#8230; the background is\u00a0my &#8216;main work PC&#8217;\u00a0is currently running Windows 7; in order to remotely manage a Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 machine I had installed Oracle VirtualBox onto my main PC and inside that had setup a Windows 8.1 VM to remotely manage the Hyper-V Server instance. However after setting up&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=8534\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,24,11],"tags":[80,257,258,259,132,71,200],"series":[],"class_list":["post-8534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-mobile-working","category-servers","tag-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v-server-2012-r2","tag-remote-management","tag-rpc","tag-virtualbox","tag-windows-7","tag-windows-8-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8534"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9545,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions\/9545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8534"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=8534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}