Hyper-V R2 RC Upgrade

Mark — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:05:04 +0000

I decided i was going to upgrade my copy of Hyper-V server R2 Beta over the weekend to the RC version, after checking the Microsoft website for any possible repercussions it seemed to suggest it was a simple upgrade, so after some full backup of the guest operating systems (always a wise move before making any changes) i shut down the os’s and put the disk in and ran setup.

It went throught the usual install routine copy files, expanding files etc and then rebooted, all seemed ok accept after a few minutes when i would normally be able to access my server, nothing, oh for god’s sake was the first thing that ran through my mind, and out of my mouth for that matter.

But a quick look in Hyper-V manager revealed it couldn’t find 2 passthrough drives, although they were still in the list so i simply selected them again and hit start and it began to boot, i didn’t look into the problem at any depths i was just glad it started working, but the only thing i noticed was the drives were both 500gb Samsung hard drives.

SBS 2008 on Hyper-V Server

Mark — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:53:25 +0000

Well its my first post and i just finished installing SBS 2008 on Hyper-v server R2 Beta with no real problems what so ever i expected it to run incredibly slow but i was pleasently supprised with the speed of it, there were a couple of quirks when it comes to adding extra hard drives etc you need to take the disk offline so it is not availible to the host operating system using the List Disk command at the command prompt, for example

type DISKPART

type List Disk

type Select Disk (number)

type Offline Disk

this them makes the disk offline and it is availible to the guest os in the hyper v manager, appart from that i am otherwise quite impressed.

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Hyper-V R2 RC Upgrade

SBS 2008 on Hyper-V Server