Seems like a June 6th post by Dell states that the RTM version of Windows Server 2012 should have all the necessary drivers for a Dell G1 1950 -> SAS5 -> md3000 setup.
Can anybody who's tried this verify if it works or not?
(And yes I'd love to upgrade this stuff but I don't think there's a budget for that.)
I've been testing native vhd boot on several servers. It seems to be pretty transparent in terms of deployment and with my seat of the pants testing I have not noticed any difference in performance. The main reason that I want to boot vhd is due to their transportablility between different hardware and to hyper-v servers.
the following roles will be installed.
dfsr
dhcp
iis
application server
dc <- haven't tested this yet but see no reason why it won't work.
With the above low impact (in terms of performance) roles do you thing booting from VHD is appropriate.
thx
Around here the clusters (not hyper-v clusters) are typically configured as n+1, so they are asking me to create a n+1 hyper-v r2 clusters. These will configured with both csv's and live migration and managed via scvmm r2. My thinking is that its a waste in having a node sitting there idle. In my opinion it would be better to have headroom left over for what would traditionally the +1 server spread amongst the N nodes. Anybody have an opinion on this. thanks
I have a server that san boots that I want to p2v. I have many options disk2vhd, scvmm etc but I was thinking about cloning the lun (flexclone, netapp) presenting it to my hyper-v r2 server. Within the hv manager do a create new disk then have it copy the cloned lun to a vhd file. Then do the bcdedit\bootsect stuff to it. Should work right? I'm also curious if anybodys booting vhd's that are on bootable luns? I've booted native vhd's just fine was just curious about the running them off a bootable lun. I think that this has quite a few advantages like instant p2v etc.. any thoughts on this?
hmm dang as I was typing this I realized that I should not use the hv manager new disk copy routine, I should just disk2vhd the mounted lun. This has advantages in that it should be a lot faster!!
discovered that disk2vhd may be flaky, crashed the first time I ran it! thanks