You can install Hyper-V 2012 on a USB stick that presents as both a USB stick and as a hard drive. Otherwise, you have to go through a set of machinations.
What the problem is, most likely, is you need to load the PERC drivers. Put THEM on a USB stick and load drivers during the boot process from the USB stick. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Berry [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 4:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: semi-OT: installing hyper-v 2012 as Layer 1 on PERC based dell server I have a lab PE R900 that used to run ESXi 4.x off a USB stick with 8x146GB SAS drives on a single virtual disk ... tried to pave it and just redo it as a layer 1 Hyper-V 2012 server booting from the ISO to install, and it doesn't like the RAID partition regardless of how I present it? Completely doesn't see the USB stick at all, 32GB puppy. BIOS is up to date. It sees the correct size, but regardless of it being blank or formatted (or set primary or whatever other DISKPART things I've tried) it doesn't want to install on it. Nor does it wish to see the USB stick as a install target like ESXi does. I googled around, didn't really see much to guide me but I may be completely missing the point (never did mess around with the prior version of Hyper-V as a straight hypervisor install like ESXi) ... so assuming I'm missing something basic and embarrassingly stupid like "you can't install it onto a PERC array directly". Or maybe I'm mistaken in another assumption about layer 1 installation of hyperv 2012 along the chain ... I'm going to venture to guess that the USB stick is not an option like it would be for ESXi? Rick ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
