Mr. Raspberry's questions

We currently have one big Dell server T610 physically hosting 4 Hyper-V VMs all Win2008R2. Running smoothly for years. We now need to purchase a new Dell server since Dell won't renew the existing service contract's 'end-of-life' T610.

We're a small biz at a single site. We've always been nervous about the ONE physical server. I think we need two servers one-site for full redundancy. If one box dies one day, we need to be back up in short time.

We need advice on what we should be looking at. Windows Server Clustering? Hyper-V replia? We simply need protection from our current single point of failure exposure.

Been trying to test Hyper-v 2016 this afternooon but I am unable to get my R630 to boot from the USB I configured using the following instructions https://technet.microsoft.com/library/ee731893(ws.10).aspx

I used the exact same guide on Hyper-v 2012 R2 with no problems.

Anyone have any luck with this?

I have notices the issues after I let run Windows it updates a week ago. O The issue is illustrated here. What's happening is that when I open a link (or a new tab, etc), it's very likely the first request will give me the Chrome error page for no DNS entry for the URL, however on a refresh it resolves it just fine.

If there are other domains being requested on the page (e.g. as an embedded image), they have a high chance of failing also, leading to many occasions where the page finally retrieved is a plain white page with text. One more refresh and most issues are completely gone.

It appears to be occurring system-wide, just the only way I can easily "see" it is via Chrome or Firefox. The issue does not appear to be present at all on my phone (while under Wi-fi). I have no idea what's causing this suddenly - I've run several malware scans and nothing has fixed it, I've tried using both Google's public DNS as well as OpenDNS and neither has fixed it (and in the former case I often get the DNS errors when searching on Google).

Any help in resolving this would be so tremendously appreciated.