Hyper-V 2012 & boot-from-SAN - installation
Finally...a non-Miata post.
Had a devil of a time trying to get Hyper-V 2012 installed on one of our spare servers (HP DL360 G5). Was installing from a DVD (iLO was not online originally) and using a USB key for the Qlogic drivers. iSCSI HBA is a Qlogic 4062c.
Note this was an ESX 3.5 host when I started.
The error: "We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information, see the Setup log files."
Googling around gave me options...here is the order I tried them in:
Moral of the story: You CANNOT have any USB devices attached in any way/shape/form when trying to install in a boot-from-SAN environment. (maybe any environment?)
Also...40GB is not enough, apparently wants 42GB (documentation says 32GB...?). Just a warning.
Sources
* http://ixrv.blogspot.ca/2012/09/unable-to-install-windows-server-2012.html
Had a devil of a time trying to get Hyper-V 2012 installed on one of our spare servers (HP DL360 G5). Was installing from a DVD (iLO was not online originally) and using a USB key for the Qlogic drivers. iSCSI HBA is a Qlogic 4062c.
Note this was an ESX 3.5 host when I started.
The error: "We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information, see the Setup log files."
Googling around gave me options...here is the order I tried them in:
- Boot off physical DVD, load drivers from USB
- Deleted old ESX partitions
- Got error
- Use repair function to clean drive and create/assign a new partition
- Got error
- Use the HP update DVD to bring firmware/BIOS up to date
- Got error
- Use iLO DVD image and USB key drivers (this was silly)
- Got error
- Checked inside server to ensure no USB devices plugged in (there were none)
- Removed USB key, attached USB key to PC, then to server via iLO as virtual device
- Got error
- Used 'bfi.exe' to build a floppy image, attached via iLO
- Successful installation!
Moral of the story: You CANNOT have any USB devices attached in any way/shape/form when trying to install in a boot-from-SAN environment. (maybe any environment?)
Also...40GB is not enough, apparently wants 42GB (documentation says 32GB...?). Just a warning.
Sources
* http://ixrv.blogspot.ca/2012/09/unable-to-install-windows-server-2012.html
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