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Thank you for the replies. I'm hearing that there is really no need to mirror the hyper-v host system disk itself. How about this approach? -Use one of the 500GB SSD's for the host in a small partition -Host the guest VM's in the remaining space -Have a replication/backup strategy...

I'm seeing a lot of varying information on this subject. I am building a new Hyper-V home lab and want to setup my Host system drive + Guest system drive strategy. Have purchased two Samsung 860 500gb drives with the intent to mirror and solve for both host and then guest system drives in...

That Solved it! It looked like it had a current firmware, but i downloaded new copies and reflashed... All is well. Thank you.

Additionally, When I boot from a linux usb boot image. It will find all my drives. The 4 LSI HBA SCU drives plus the embedded motherboard SCU attached drives. It is just Hyper-V that is not finding the drives. I've tried manually installing the intel drivers via .inf files etc.

Only one of the two 4x SAS ports on my LSI HBA appears to be working. I have an 8 drive backplane, this HBA card has one 4x port feeding the top 4 drives and the other 4x port feeding the bottom 4 drives. Only port 1, the slot at the back of the card works. Allowing the 4 drives connected to...

forgot to mention, I have the latest 3.2 bios firmware installed.

Hi All, I have a new (to me) home lab box with the X9DR3 (C606 chipset). I initially installed Hyper-V 2016 with GPT but I cannot get the system to self boot into the OS. I can manually (F11) choose my boot device each time and select "Windows Boot Manager" and it boots just fine. In the...