Hyper-V 2019 Installation guidance
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So I have three servers, all Dells R620, R720 and an R520, they all have the same RAID card an H710 and all have the same amount of storage. 2TB disks with a total of 8 disk per server in OBR10.
I'm doing some weird stuff where I want to have 2 partitions on this OBR10, so I create custom partitions from within Windows Server to do this for me.
So I create two partitions, one for the boot partition and the rest to act as a VM store. I reboot and now the system just hangs.
How can I install Hyper-V 2019 onto these three host and ensure that I have as much possible space on each of them without doing weird things or getting weird results like I'm seeing?
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@DustinB3403 said in Hyper-V 2019 Installation guidance:
so I create custom partitions from within Windows Server to do this for me.
What does this mean? Hyper-V is not Windows - so I'm double checking what you are actually doing.
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Download Hyper-V 2019, install this directly into the OBR10 arrays. Allow the installation (of Hyper-V 2019) here to guide you through the process of creating your Storage Repos for your virtual machines.
It is never a great idea to install Windows Server X first and then install the Hyper-V role as it adds complexity and licensing restrictions for very little benefit.
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@DustinB3403 said in Hyper-V 2019 Installation guidance:
Download Hyper-V 2019, install this directly into the OBR10 arrays. Allow the installation here to guide you through the process of creating your Storage Repos for your virtual machines.
It is never a great idea to install Windows Server X first and then install the Hyper-V role as it adds complexity and licensing restrictions for very little benefit.
Are you answering your own post?
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@murpheous said in Hyper-V 2019 Installation guidance:
@DustinB3403 said in Hyper-V 2019 Installation guidance:
Download Hyper-V 2019, install this directly into the OBR10 arrays. Allow the installation here to guide you through the process of creating your Storage Repos for your virtual machines.
It is never a great idea to install Windows Server X first and then install the Hyper-V role as it adds complexity and licensing restrictions for very little benefit.
Are you answering your own post?
Something like that.
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Are you answering your own post?
I've actually seen this a lot
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To dig a bit deeper into this topic, I'm booting into the Windows installation environment before anything gets installed, starting up diskpart and changing the partitioning and formatting of my OBR10. I'm able to create a partition that is ~100GB in size and get that to boot into Windows, run updates and get my network setup etc.
Why I'm doing this I have no idea, but it seems to work until I restart the system.
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Sounds like 2019 has an issue that 2016 doesn't have.
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@DustinB3403 said in Hyper-V 2019 Installation guidance:
To dig a bit deeper into this topic, I'm booting into the Windows installation environment before anything gets installed, starting up diskpart and changing the partitioning and formatting of my OBR10. I'm able to create a partition that is ~100GB in size and get that to boot into Windows, run updates and get my network setup etc.
Why I'm doing this I have no idea, but it seems to work until I restart the system.
What happens after the restart?
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@dbeato The system just hangs and doesn't boot.
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@DustinB3403 said in Hyper-V 2019 Installation guidance:
@dbeato The system just hangs and doesn't boot.
Why not install everything on one partition on the OBR10, and then resize the OS drive after the install has finished, and then create a data partition after that?
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@dafyre I can't say why that isn't being done as I honestly have no clue.
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@DustinB3403 said in Hyper-V 2019 Installation guidance:
@dafyre I can't say why that isn't being done as I honestly have no clue.
I don't know if this is a lab or not, but what if you created a RAID1 and a RAID 10 and install Windows 2019 on the RAID1 (for testing purposes) It may be a quick way to point you in a different direction with regards to the OBR10.
I am out of my league in this area (I use 2TB or less) but am paying attention as I will be in this situation in a few months for my R520.
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UEFI or BIOS boot issue?
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@Dashrender said in Hyper-V 2019 Installation guidance:
Sounds like 2019 has an issue that 2016 doesn't have.
Par for the course with Microsoft products these days. Moving forward is not part of what they seem to be doing.
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Did you ever figure out the issue with the RX20's?
