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ScottStonehouse
Asked: 2012-04-14 05:07:04 +0800 CST

Does Hyper-V support GPT disks on the host?

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Are there any issues with Hyper-V (on Server 2008 r2) if the host is formatted as GPT? Someone out there has tried this...

hyper-v storage gpt hyper-v-server-2008-r2

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    Are there any issues with Hyper-V (on Server 2008 r2) if the host is formatted as GPT?

    EUFI/EFI based systems can boot to a GPT disk, all can use GPT disks as secondary disks.

    Someone out there has tried this...

    Yes, yes they have.

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  2. Hyper-V is just Windows in this regard. It boots from anything Windows boots from.

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  3. Yes, I can confirm that it does work with GPT disks. I have 3 Hyper-V deployments, one CSV based and the other two using standalone environments connected to a storage array using iSCSI.

    The two standalone are using GPT as they are allocated 3TB of storage each.

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