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Setting up the lab environment – Hyper-V: Virtual Machines

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Now to the good stuff Usually when working with Hyper-V I use reference disks, mainly to save space on rather expensive disks. But is there much to gain when using deduplication? I was on sure, so asked in Tech Konnect The response from Tech Konnect confirmed, when using deduplication, it out wages the other issues with reference disks, rather than saving disk space. Since it’s not possible to create folders or groups within the Hyper-V Management Console, I will be using a naming standard: <Group> – <Generation> – <OS> – <hostname> The first Virtual Machine will be a Domain Controller, … Continue reading →

Setting up the lab environment – Deduplication

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The next step for the lab or so-called home data center: Installing and Configuring Deduplication I was going to use a USB stick for the Windows Server 2016 OS. The main reason for this: DEDUPLICATION. I did start out with a USB stick, but due to performance issues this was changed – read the follow-up post (https://blog.thomasmarcussen.com/follow-up-on-the-home-datacenter-hardware/) The reason for having the OS on a separate volume: Deduplication is not supported on system or boot volumes. Read more about Deduplication here: About Data Deduplication Let’s get started Installing and Configuring Deduplication Open an elevated PowerShell prompt Execute: Import-Module ServerManager Execute: Add-WindowsFeature … Continue reading →

Follow up on the home datacenter hardware

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It’s time for a small update – the previous post is available here: https://blog.thomasmarcussen.com/new-lab-home-datacenter/ The datacenter has been running for about a week now – quite good…. but….. I’ve been using the Samsung USB as OS drive – Samsung USB 3.0 Flash Drive FIT 32GB It does have fast read, and a not that slow write, according to Samsung: Up to 130 MB/s The week passed with setting up and installing VMs – using the actual VMs etc. But when installing Windows Updates on the Hyper-V host, installing Features/Roles or anykind of configuration, it seems to slow down to useless/freeze. … Continue reading →