The first thing that I needed to do as part of my big rebuild was to move non-critical virtual machines to a remote file server. The easiest way to do this would have been to export the virtual machines to a local location and then move them up to a network share. Unfortunately I did not have enough space on the local hard disk to do this. So what I needed to do was to export the virtual machines directly to a remote network share.
Luckily I had two things working in my favor:
- Both my Hyper-V server and my file server (okay, it was actually my desktop computer) are in the same domain
- I was performing the operation directly from the Hyper-V console (not using remote management tools)
Now it is possible to do this still if the above two items are not true – but it gets a lot more complicated.
Given this setup I needed to create and configure a share for the exported virtual machines to be created on. I logged into my desktop computer and created a share – which granted full access to my user account by default. But this is not enough for Hyper-V.
Hyper-V does a lot of operations using local service accounts on the Hyper-V computer. So the network share needs to have permission granted for both the user account that you are using and for the computer account for the Hyper-V server. The user account is easy to setup (and in my case was setup by default). Setting up the computer account is a little trickier.
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