A day 0 to prep. Sounds great! They say each day’s lesson should take between 1 and 2 hours depending on your skill level. So I do appreciate them giving some prep before the lessons start in June. Day 0 is focused on preparing your own server. They are recommending Google Cloud as the platform to set up with. I’m familiar with setting up servers in AWS and Azure so I’m going to...
After my little side trip down Hyper-V Manager configuration errors I’m ready to finish setting up in Hyper-V. From Windows Admin Center I create a 300GB drive partition to get me started with setting up some virtual machines. I set Hyper-V’s default disk and VM paths to this drive. I then set up a few virtual switches. That will do it I am ready to set up some virtual machines and...
Coming back to that error I experienced connecting to the server from Hyper-V Manager on my desktop: …Check that the Virtual Machine Management service is running and that you are authorized to connect to the server.You do not have the required permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer… I go back through Microsoft’s...
Well with my OS on a trusty thumb drive I plug it into the server and came back to my desktop. I finish the Lifecycle wizard and the server reboots. It boots right up from the thumb drive and begins the Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019 installation. I create a 75GB partition for the OS. I am old dog and remember the days of gnashing your teeth over that OS drive being full and having no good options...
I got to play some more with my new server this weekend! I plugged in some ethernet cables. What an old hodgepodge collection of cables I have sitting around. Maybe at some point I’ll clean up my cabling. I sat down and read through the server’s documentation. I keep seeing info about Lifecycle, this is newer and I’ve never worked with it before. Let’s play with it! I boot...