Diagnosing hard disk failure with Hyper-V

re: Diagnosing hard disk failure with Hyper-V

Benjamin Armstrong — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:40:45 GMT

Hi All,

This is not entirely accurate at the moment - but you can get an idea of the sort of configuration I have by reading these two posts:

blogs.msdn.com/.../hyper-v-in-my-house.aspx

blogs.msdn.com/.../the-big-re-build.aspx

Cheers,

Ben

re: Diagnosing hard disk failure with Hyper-V

Kai — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:20:22 GMT

One reason to use VHDs in stead of pass-thru physical disks is to use USB-attached drives with virtualised WHS. I understand this is not the case here, but in my server it is.

re: Diagnosing hard disk failure with Hyper-V

cornelius — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 06:24:01 GMT

I was wondering I you would recommend using "Aurora" in such a fashion? You know the successor of WHS with AD... Would you setup the AD on the Host to part of the WHS (quest) or are there other possibilities I don't understand? (I'm not an admin)

re: Diagnosing hard disk failure with Hyper-V

Cameron — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:30:48 GMT

Can I do a +1 on Magnus' question. I built my WHS on Hyper-V 2008R2 on the weekend, and offlined the disks for Hyper-V, passing them through to WHS directly. I'm still in the process of loading data, so I have time to change the approach if there is a better way.

Regards

re: Diagnosing hard disk failure with Hyper-V

Magnus — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:51:50 GMT

Ben, could you please tell us a little bit about your disk setup for the Home Server? If I understand it correctly, you have a couple of physical disks (E: to H: ?) that you map to the Home Server instance using VHDs. What is the benefit of doing so compared to pass-through the physical disks to the Home Server? In my setup, I took the physical disks offline (on the Hyper-V host) and attached the disk directly to the Home Server. Which method is preferrable, and what are the benefits?

re: Diagnosing hard disk failure with Hyper-V

Jake — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:28:55 GMT

I had the same drive type from Seagate die on me about 2 months ago as well. I figured out which port it was on and removed/replaced it. Came up inside of windows 2003 and I opened up the same "Matrix Storage Console". My almost full 1.5tb drive remirrored back in about 6 hours. This was on my home theater setup.