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Fileserver Offline, Part Two

Fileserver Offline, Part Two

I woke up extra early today, my mind racing about this hard drive. If you remember from yesterday my operating system drive for HV-01 failed yesterday. I was able to replace it with a nice brand new SSD and reinstall the operating system. However one of the eight data drives

Fileserver Offline

Fileserver Offline

I came home late and my little one told me he could not reach the fileserver. I go downstairs to take a look and as I get close to HV-01 I can hear a hard drive spinning like mad. It is super loud. A quick check confirms that the HV-01

Upgrade HV-01 Hard Drives, Part Four

Upgrade HV-01 Hard Drives, Part Four

So I decided to go ahead and migrate VM-02 to HV-03. The migration is very quick and easy. So I started running some diagnostics on the hard drives in HV-01. They all come back fine. Weird. What is going on? I ran multiple diagnostics from a few different pieces of

Upgrade HV-01 Hard Drives, Part Three

Upgrade HV-01 Hard Drives, Part Three

Well that's surprising. The migration ultimately failed due to it not being able to find one of the files. That seems less than ideal to be honest. Well while I'm checking on things I decide to turn on VM-01. VM-01 fails to start though. "Virtual

Upgrade HV-01 Hard Drives, Part Two

Upgrade HV-01 Hard Drives, Part Two

Today I start by opening Windows Admin Center and connect to HV-01. I head to virtual machines and select VM-01. I tell VM-01 to shut down. Then I move VM-01 to the C: temporarily. After VM-01 boots back up I verify it is running properly. I then power down HV-01

Upgrade HV-01 Hard Drives

Upgrade HV-01 Hard Drives

So I've run into a problem running a few virtual machines on HV-01. Some background, HV-01 is a consumer grade computer running Hyper-V standalone. It's primary function is to act as a file server via it's primary virtual machine. Then I have a few