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R730

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Linux Up Skill - Day 0

Linux Up Skill - Day 0

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

Setting Up R730, Part Four

Setting Up R730, Part Four

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

Setting Up R730, Part Three

Setting Up R730, Part Three

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

Setting Up R730, Part Two

Setting Up R730, Part Two

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

Setting up R730

Setting up R730

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

Server Arrival

My server arrived today! How very exciting! A Dell PowerEdge R730. Here’s some specs for those that enjoy that sort of thing: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2560 v4 processors 128GB RAM 8 x 300GB 15K SAS hard drives I took the box downstairs to where the server is going