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Watch out installing SP1 on your Hyper-V R2 cluster

Ivo Beerens
Date : March 25, 2011
Categories : hyper-v
Tags : hyper-v-r2

Yesterday I spoke a customer who has problems after applying Windows 2008 R2 SP1 on his 5 node Hyper-V cluster. When validating the storage on the cluster, the following error “disk with identifier “2ef8c0……” has a persistent reservation” is displayed on multiple cluster disks. The problem can occur …

Homebrew / Whitelist Hyper-V R2 home server NAS

Ivo Beerens
Date : March 18, 2011
Categories : homelab ,hyper-v ,server ,VMware
Tags : homelab ,hyper-v-r2 ,VMware

For my home lab i was looking for a home server with NAS functionality. My current Iomega IX2 (2x500GB) NAS is replaced by this server. For this server I had the following requirements Low power consumption (24x7) Low noise Flexibly and room to expand with extra hard drive(s),hardware RAID and a NIC …

Create a bootable USB to install Windows 8 Server or Hyper-V Server 8

Ivo Beerens
Date : October 21, 2010
Categories : hyper-v ,usb ,windows-8
Tags : boot ,hyper-v-2 ,hyper-v-r2 ,usb ,windows-8

Not all servers nowadays have DVD player installed. Sometimes it is handy to boot from USB and install for example Windows Server 8. Here’s a example how to make the USB stick bootable for the following OS versions: Windows Server 8 Hyper-V Server 8 Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Server R2 Preparation: Need …