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October 2nd, 2013 17:00
DO NOT use Dell provided Hyper-V base image VHD file!!!!
Bought a Dell PE server recently and made mistake of using the Dell provided Win2K8r2 blank VHD file for use in Hyper-V.
Turns out some genius made the .vhd a dynamically expanding hard drive file (NOT optimal performance in Hyper-V) that has a max size of something (way) over 2 Terabytes!
This makes it almost impossible to convert to fixed disk as one must have a hard drive laying around that is at least 3TB AND have access to Win2012 so it can be converted to a fixed .VHDX then reduced down to something usable.
Who made this image for Dell customers? They should be fired or re-assigned to a non-technical post.
WARNING to other Dell server customers: DO NOT use this image/vhd file on your Hyper-V environment. Make your own generic one (as a fixed ~80GB) install updates and run sysprep on it and shut it down. Then save the VHD file for new servers. Fixed VHD files are MUCH better for a server C: / OS anyway.....
Sincerely,
Jeff
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October 2nd, 2013 17:00
Bought a Dell PE server recently and made mistake of using the Dell provided Win2K8r2 blank VHD file for use in Hyper-V.
Turns out some genius made the .vhd a dynamically expanding hard drive file (NOT optimal performance in Hyper-V) that has a max size of something over 2 Terabytes!
This makes it almost impossible to convert to fixed disk as one must have a hard drive laying around that is at least 3TB AND have access to Win2012 so it can be converted to a fixed .VHDX then reduced down to something usable.
Who made this image for Dell customers? They should be fired or re-assigned to a non-technical post.
WARNING to other Dell server customers: DO NOT use this image/vhd file on your Hyper-V environment. Make your own generic one install updates and run sysprep on it and shut it down. Then save the VHD file for new servers. Fixed VHD files are MUCH better for a server C: / OS anyway.....
Sincerely,
Jeff
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October 2nd, 2013 18:00
Some time ago, I received a Dell server configured with a fixed VHD ... I ended up, as I usually do, wiping the server and reinstalling/setting up everything per my specs, but I do remember it was a fixed disk of around 80GB. Not sure how yours ended up that way.