GPT Disk and Hyper-V
I have a server that I am building into a Hyper-V machine. It has 2 300 Gb Raid 1 disks that I am using for Server cor and then I have 6 - 900 Gb Raid 5 disks that I am going to use for my Hyper-V machines and data associated with the hyper-v machines.
In a Hyper-V installation how do I get Windows Server 2012 R2 to see a larger disk?
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When I attempt to install Windows Server into Hyper-V I see the following disk(s) available.
Howe do I get all disk space available?
In a Hyper-V installation how do I get Windows Server 2012 R2 to see a larger disk?
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When I attempt to install Windows Server into Hyper-V I see the following disk(s) available.
Howe do I get all disk space available?
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I suppose that a better question to ask is how do I set the data disk to UEFI?That is in BIOS isn't it?
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No, that isn't set in the BIOS. You do that via diskmanagement, and you don't set it to UEFI, but rather to GPT.
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I am assuming that you want the guest VM to recognize a disk larger than 2TB for it's boot partition? If so, you need to be running Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2 (which you state that your host operating system is). Then you need to specify a Generation 2 VM.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn282285.aspx
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https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn282285.aspx
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Thanks for your input. I have set up an OS drive of 350 Gb and I will add Data drives later. I have never done the data drive thing on Hyper-V. I assume it is the same as a Physical server.
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then it can use the entire drive
that's why you see only 2tb, then 1tb
if you select the 1tb, it will tell you that windows cannot be installed there; even after installing in the 2tb space, that 1tb won't be available as MBR