Looking for advice on setting up drives for VMs on Hyper-V

Hardware - Xeon E3 server, 16GB ram, 256Gb SSD, and 7 3-4 TB drives
Hyper-V core 2012 R2 installed on the SSD - did not take much space
Goal: To setup 2 VMs, one Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2 (use=home server) using a majority of the space, and hopefully backup space too, and a separate VM for Ubuntu LAMP server for learning.
I have a separate machine with Windows 8.1 Pro, remote desktop to the Hyper-V computer is working as is Hyper-V Manager.
I have 7 HDDs, right now all in one storage pool. That might have been a mistake, as some of those drives are supposedly for server backup.
Questions:
Should I plan on installing WSE 2012 R2 to the SSD?
Should I create one giant drive from the storage pool, or separate drives for the VM uses. I guess I am not sure whether to create one giant storage space, and then create multiple VDHX drives as needed for the VMs. Can WSE 2012 backup
to a Virtual Drive?
For instance should I create one 1TB storage space, format it, give it a letter, and then create the VM for the Ubuntu LAMP install?
Create another storage space for the data for the WSE, and another for Backup space for WSE?
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks, Ross

Hi Ross,
I think you can either install WSE 2012 R2 either to the SSD or to a Virtual Drive created on the top of a storage space.
If you create one giant drive from a storage space, and then create multiple VDHX drives as needed for the VMs, then the disks are called Pass-Through Disks. If you create multiple separate Virtual disks for the VM uses, then the disks are called Fixed Disks.
You could refer to the threads below to know the difference between the two disks:
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. VHD or Pass-through Disk?
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/7db96291-bd07-485a-936a-837f5bce529a/windows-server-2012-hyperv-vhd-or-passthrough-disk?forum=winserverhyperv
Need better understanding between fixed and pass-through disks
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/66004c40-8458-4d53-a073-d6f4061ae23b/need-better-understanding-between-fixed-and-passthrough-disks?forum=winserverhyperv
And we don't need to create another storage space for the data for the WSE, and another storage space for Backup space for WSE. Then can use the drives in the same storage space.
Regards,
Mandy
We
are trying to better understand customer views on social support experience, so your participation in this
interview project would be greatly appreciated if you have time.
Thanks for helping make community forums a great place.

Similar Messages

Advice on external hard drives for Macbook pro

I am looking to buy an external hard drive for my macbook pro urgently.
I was intending to purchase a time capsule but am really concerned with the reliability concerns of the time capsules where they stop working after 6 months to 18 months as posted on various forums.
I was considering purchasing a western digital external hard drive but they also receive a lot of negative feedback.
I have never used firewire previously but am interested in getting feedback as to how useful forum readers find this feature.
In terms of size am looking for 1TB approx.
Thanks in advance for your assistance as i need to purchase one immediately and i do not have time to research fully. Make, model number and approximate cost would be very helpful as well as where i could purchase hard drive in london. I am more concerned with quality rather than cost.

Opinions vary and people have different experiences ...
I'd recommend the LaCie 1TB Quadra drive at £134 it has eSATA, USB2 and FW400 and FW800 Interfaces (it comes with all four cables) and I've found them reliable and rugged.
http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=11158
http://www.lacie.com/uk/wheretobuy/index.htm

Hi i have tryed looking for my high definition device driver for my acer

Hi i have tryed looking for my high definition device driver for my acer
I have looked on the acar web site and i cant find it at all i am on windows 7 and the updates didn't install it
can some 1 help me find it plz or give me a website to get it

You might want to repost your inquiry to the Acer experts in the
Acer Notebook Support Forum.
Carey Frisch

I am looking to buy an external hard drive for my maced to time machine.

I am looking an external hard drive for my mac and I do see one in PC world that is compatible with time machine. I do not want it connected to time machine and wonder if I can use it without connecting.

In my view you need to have one external drive connected to Time Machine all the time in order to receive the true benefits it can give. Do not use your internal HD for this purpose.
Having said that, to double up on back ups is a very practical thing to do. I would advise you get a portable HD, say 1TB, from WD or the like, back up your system, disconnect, then top up by connecting it every couple of months or so.
You can then store the portable away from the machine, perhaps with a trusted relative, so adding safe keeping against fire, theft or power disasters
Message was edited by: seventy one

Looking for a NICOLET BE490 Series Driver for WIN- NT

Hi,
is there anybody, who has written a driver for the NICOLET BE490 Series
Transient Recorder Board.
Geetings Ruediger

Hello,
I just visited the Nicolet website and found an information sheet on this device that mentions "import and export capability" with LabVIEW...perhaps Nicolet can provide you with some LabVIEW resources to use this board.
On another note...I took a look at the specifications for this device, and it looks like it would be more than adequately matched in performance by our E Series measurement devices, which integrate seamlessly with LabVIEW through our free NI-DAQ software. I recommend you visit www.ni.com/daq for more information about our high-class DAQ products.
Good luck with your application, and have a pleasant day.
Sincerely,
Darren Nattinger
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
Darren Nattinger, CLA
LabVIEW Artisan and Nugget Penman

Setting Up Driver for Canon IR 3220

I'm trying to set up an IP printer with my iMac and am having no luck with the driver. I downloaded the driver and tried adding it in Printer Setup Utility and it won't recognize it. I've heard this is difficult to do but I don't know what else I could be doing to make it work. Any insight?? Thanks!
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.9)

For the iR C3220, there was three print controller options. You had the internal Canon board and two EFI 'Fiery' print controller options. As each is slightly different from the other you need to know which one you have before installing a driver and adding the printer.
For the Canon board, you either need to use the Canon PS driver (now v1.70) or the Canon PPD installer.
The Canon PS driver doesn't support AppleTalk, so you will need to have an IP address set in the copier and have LPD enabled. Then on the Mac, to add the printer after installing the driver, you open Printer Setup Utility, click Add then More Printers. Select Canon IP (PS) from the list and then enter the IP address of the iR C3220. For the queue name you can leave it empty or have LP. When you OK this window, the driver will be automatically determined by querying the printer. Now you should be okay to print a test.
If you have an Intel Mac, the Canon IP (PS) will not appear if you are using a version of the Canon PS driver prior to 1.60 (which is Universal). So make sure you get this version or later.
If your iR C3220 has a Fiery attached, you will need to get the appropriate driver for the model you have. The driver consists of an OS X installer package which will add all the necessary files and PPD to your Mac. Both Fiery's also support AppleTalk, LPR and RAW, but they have to be enabled if they aren't already. A config page for the RIP will show you which protocol you can use.
One important point if you use LPR/LPD for the Fiery option. You need to enter a queue name, 'print' is the preferred, and it needs to be entered in lower case. Failure to do this will mean your jobs will never print.

Need advice on new hard drive for Time Machine, and have Firewire questions

I have an Intel iMac 2.66GHz with 500GB internal drive. I am going to buy an OWC 1TB drive to use for Time Machine.
I also have an older 160GB external drive with Firewire 400. I'd like to continue using it for extra storage, and would like both the iMac's internal drive and the 160GB external drive to be backed up to the new drive.
OWC's 1TB drive is available with Firewire 400 & USB 2. For an additional $30, it will also have Firewire 800. If I get the Firewire 800 drive and daisy-chain the iMac > new 1TB drive > old 160GB drive, will the iMac to 1TB drive run at 800, or will the 160GB drive's limitation of Firewire 400 pull the speed of the whole connection down to 400? (If the latter is true, then it would be a waste of money to get Firewire 800.)
Also, will it make much difference whether I use Firewire 800 or 400 for a drive dedicated to Time Machine?
Finally, the 1TB drive with a 32MB cache costs $20 more than one with a 16MB cache. Is a 32MB cache worth the extra expense for using with Time Machine?
Thanks!
Message was edited by: Patrick Houlihan

Patrick Houlihan wrote:
If I get the Firewire 800 drive and daisy-chain the iMac > new 1TB drive > old 160GB drive, will the iMac to 1TB drive run at 800, or will the 160GB drive's limitation of Firewire 400 pull the speed of the whole connection down to 400? (If the latter is true, then it would be a waste of money to get Firewire 800.)
I believe it will operate the entire bus at the slowest speed, but can't say for sure.
Finally, the 1TB drive with a 32MB cache costs $20 more than one with a 16MB cache. Is a 32MB cache worth the extra expense for using with Time Machine?
I went with the cheaper, smaller cache OWC drives for my backups on the theory that if caches speed repeated access of the same data, and a backup is always a single-pass stream of non-repeating data, then with a backup the data that goes in the cache doesn't need to be fetched again and therefore the cache isn't much help for backups. I'd love to hear if that's true.
I didn't answer the one about FireWire 800 for Time Machine because my Time Machine backups are over the network to Time Capsule. However, having a faster Time Machine drive interface should be faster. FireWire 800 certainly speeds things up for non-Time Machine backup software like SuperDuper which I also use.

Looking for a generic Labview GBIB driver for a 10X10 switch matrix.

This is for a Dowkey 2101 10X10 microwave switch matrix.

Unfortunately I was unable to find a driver for this instrument in the National Instruments Instrument Driver Network (http://zone.ni.com/idnet). This leaves you with one of a couple options. First, you can submit a request for this driver at:
http://zone.ni.com/idnet/other.htm
We develop drivers based on demand and popularity so the more requests we have for it, the greater the possibility that we will develop one.
If you would like to try developing your own instrument driver (or modify the existing one), we have documentation, model instrument drivers, and driver templates to help at :
http://zone.ni.com/idnet/development.htm).
Also, National Instrument sponsors third party vendors that specialize in National Instruments' products and services. Som
e of the vendors specialize in driver development. I would suggest contacting one of the Alliance members at:
http://www.ni.com/alliance
Ryan Mosley
National Instrument
http://www.ni.com/exchange

Looking for a 488.2 device driver for LynxOS.

Hi,
I am working on a NI6781 controller with integrated GPIB (IEEE 488.2) Device (PCI-GPIB, pci-Device Id:c801). The operating system is LynxOS 4.0.
Is there a device driver available for the IEEE 488.2 device for LynxOS?
Thanks
Harald

Hello Harald,
National Instruments does not provide a driver for the PCI-GPIB interface on LynxOS. We do provide a driver development kit (DDK) for GPIB that would allow you to implement such a driver if you would like to add support for another operating system (such as LynxOS). Please see http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/nioc.vp?lang=US&cid=4873 for more information on the DDK.
Scott B.
National Instruments
Applications Engineer

Best Practice for Buy in Set and Dismantle for Sales

Hi All SAP Masters,
We have a scenario that when purchasing an item as "set", in this set, it has a few components inside this set (something like a material BOM). Example, a machine which comes with several parts. However, when the user received this set from the supplier, the user would further dismantle certain part(s) from the set/"machine" and sell it separately to the customer as a component/"single item".
What is the best practice in the SAP process to be adopted?
Please help. Thank you.
Warmest Regards,
Edwin

If your client have PP module , then follow this steps
Consider A is the purchased material and going to dismantle the A into B, and C
1) create a BOM for B material
and assign the header material A as consumption material with + ve qty
and C component as byproduct and maintain - ve qty in BOM
2) maintain backflush indicator for A & C in material master MRP2 view
3) create routing for B and maintain auto GR for final operation
4) create a production order for B
5) confirm the order in Co11n, A will be consumed in 261 movement, C will be receipt with 531 movement
B will receipt in 101 movement .
once the stock is posted into unrestricted you can sale B & C

Newbie looking for advice on spry tabbed panels for record view/add/edit

I have just got CS 5.5. Although old hand at IT this is fist use of DW. Have been through "The Missing Manual" and I am now trying somethings out.
I have an SQL DB and some "management" tables. I thought that in the admin section I could use the Spry tabbed panel to create a List, Add, Edit and Delete panel.
linking on a row in List will set the value of a variable (unique column) which is used by the Edit and Delete tabs. Add is just the wizard.
I am only trying things out. Is this is a sensible approach or should I look to have a page for each of the 3 functions which are linked from the list of rows. As given in the example in the book?
Regards

Thank you for this. I see that spry is now dead but I have the bit between my teeth for working this out. Partly because it helps me understand the way things are put together. So although Spry is not important. Understanding the system that I will then adapt into other circumstances and other variants is. So please bear with me.
So if anyone out there has some SPRY experience you may be able to tell me what knowledge I am missing here.
So at the moment I have a tabbed panel within a tabbed panel.
Header tabbed panel is called "TPMain"
Sub TB is called "TPAges"
TPAges has 4 tabs "List", "Add", "Edit" and "Delete"
"List" being the default tab.
Link style 1
Playing with forms and links, I have worked out that I can create a repeat region in the list and add a column with 1 hidden value (the id) and a submit button to set the value of the id, but the code to end up showing the Edit panel is not functioning. This is the form code in the table of the List Tab
     <form action="testtab.php?tab=3&panel=3#TPAges" method="post" name="FrmEdit" id="FrmEdit">
                      <input type="hidden" name="EditID" value= <?php echo $row_rsAges['oid']; ?>/>
                        <input type="submit" name="btnEdit" id="btnEdit" value="Edit">
                      </form>
In the edit tab I have the code
     <p><?php echo "*".$_POST['EditID']."*"; ?></p>
The page reloads but on TPMain and on the first tab (people) and not the second tab (Ages)
The value is correctly shown but with teh slash (/) character at the end?
Link style 2
I thought I would try and access it via an href. From googling I came up with this on one of the columns. I know it doesn't set the variable but I wanted to know if I could make it show the panel.
     <a href="javascript:; onclick=TPAges.ShowPanel(3)"><?php echo $row_rsAges['description']; ?></a
No errors just does nothing.
I'm off to hunt for jQuery tab as osgood suggests but would like to crack this out of sheer bloody mindedness.
Regards

Looking for a reliable bigger Hard Drive for MacBook

Hi all, I'm running out of space on my MacBook so I'm in the market for a bigger maybe faster Hard Drive, I understand it have to be a 2.5 inch ATA Fujitsu. My wish is to get a 1TB but 500GB or so will do it. I also understand it came with a 5400 RPM and wondering if would be a problem to install a faster 7200 RPM. Please if you have a model or brand you trust, I will appreciate your advice.
Message was edited by: AppleMartini74

Another question for this thread. This regarding backing up the primary HD. I started with my PC because it is in the most danger of crashing. I used ¨CLONE¨ to my external hard drive. My understanding is that this will give me a backup external HD with everything, including applications, settings, data, pictures, mail and all, just in case I need to restore an entire hard drive, as has happened before.
The backup software also has a program for "IMAGE" although the instructions do not say what is the difference. Can you tell me the difference?
It seems to me that in past times, when I thought I backed up everything, the applications were not backed up and I lost any that I had downloaded from the Internet or that I lost the original discs. In one instance I did not lose the original disc, but the required license number. (Microsoft XP and I've lost it again) Try to convince Microsoft you lost that number you need to load XP! I am unsure of what backup software I was using and once it was a technician in Best Buy doing the backup of the PC to change the hard drive.
I have not started new with my MacBook, since it has proven reliable and I have the important things backed up in various ways, if not the best way yet.
So, I am asking what is the difference, if any, between CLONE and IMAGE in backup software language? Also, will EVERYTHING, including applications, settings etc. be backup.

Looking for best 1tb external hard drive for 2008 I-mac?

Hi, I'm currently running Snow Leopard 10.6.8, but might upgrade to Mavericks at some point. I have 3GB of RAM, but will upgrade to 6GB soon. I would like to get a reliable 1tb external hard drive. It's only for the desktop, so it doesn't have to be portable, although it might be nice to have a smaller one. I don't have much money to spend (not more than 90$), so if I could get a good one that doesn't cost too much (perhaps on sale?) that would be perfect. I mainly need it to store a lot of photos and videos, nothing fancy. What would be a good drive, or reliable company? I thought about this one: WD My Passport for Mac 1TB Portable External Hard Drive Storage USB 3.0 (WDBLUZ0010BSL-NESN) which I found on sale at 59,99$. It appeared to have a lot of good reviews on other sites, but many bad ones on this one, so I'm not sure. It also says on here that it needs 10.7 or higher to work, although someone else said it would work with Snow Leopard as well.
Any suggestions? Thanks!

Very easy. Plug in the drive, open Disk Utility (in the Utilities folder which in the Applications folder).
Select the drive in the sidebar. Select the partition tab, and select the number of partitions (one is fine).
Click options at the bottom of the screen. Select GUID.
Make sure the format is Mac OS Extended (journaled), name the disk and click apply.
It takes longer to type how to do it than to actually do it.

Advice on purchasing SATA Drive for Thinkserver TS 130

Hi Folks,
My Current server has 500GB. Looking to add and additonal 500GB, based on the product specs, this is the p/n:
P/N 67Y2613 ThinkServer 500GB 7.2K 3.5 Enterprise SATA Hard Drive
what's the best place to buy online?. Can I get any SATA drive?
Thanks,
Edwin

i wouldn't consider the warranty an issue per se, more a choice. it's the owner's choice between having lenovo cover hardware under warranty or the drive's manufacturer. many companies and IT departments require the level of service and support offered by the PC manufacturer where others can get by supporting components on their own. again, it's a choice.
my personal advice would be to choose whichever option suits your needs best. if it's an aftermarket drive, that's ok.
jessica asked a similar question recently and you might find the discussion helpful.
ThinkStation C20
ThinkPad X1C · X220 · X60T · s30 · 600

I am looking for HP Laserjet CM2320 MFP driver for OSX 10.8.1

I have a LaserColor printer with all in one it is namely HP Color Laserjet CM2320nf MFP, once I upgraded my computer to the mountain lion OSX 10.8.1 I cannot scan any document, how can I go about this, any one help is appreciated. Thanks

Hi awwadalhabli,
There seems to be of documentation for the specific model compatibility with Mountain lion, the support currently provided include print & fax capabilities but not scanning support.
Did you upgraded your operating system from 10.6 or 10.7?
You should have the HP Laserjet MFP folder, what happens when you try using the HP Scan application?
Please let me know the answers to my question in order to better understand how we may bypass this limitation
Regards,
Shlomi
Say thanks by clicking the Kudos thumb up in the post.
If my post resolve your problem please mark it as an Accepted Solution

Looking for advice on setting up drives for VMs on Hyper-V

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for