Dell R520: Lets try Proxmox (July 2021)

I started writing this in July but am publishing it in September. I realize not all of below seems accurate but I was just learning about Proxmox. After a mostly unsuccessful attempt at using my Dell R520 with Hyper-V Server 2019 as a hypervisor, I've officially run out of patients with both the OS and … Continue reading Dell R520: Lets try Proxmox (July 2021) →

Hyper-V 2019: Installing a second server, drivers included (throwback)

July 2021: Below is a blog post I wrote and re-wrote several times over the past 18 months at least. I have since decided to go in a different direction with hypervisors and the purpose of the this spare/old core i7. I've decided to publish this anyway as-is for reference in the future. And a … Continue reading Hyper-V 2019: Installing a second server, drivers included (throwback) →

R520 Hyper-V 2019: News and updates (Late Nov 2019)

I mentioned in my prior post (updates to that post below) I had to re-install the Hyper-V server OS. This did indeed go smoothly and has worked since then. The main problem I have with the OS this time is very intermittent errors with connecting to it with Hyper-V manager. Server Manager works, WAC works … Continue reading R520 Hyper-V 2019: News and updates (Late Nov 2019) →

R520 Hyper-V 2019: Lets try this again

After being very frustrated with the performance of the combination of virtual machines and my drive pool, I decided to re-install Hyper-V server 2019. Before doing so however I decided it would be a good idea to go through and record some settings in case I needed to go back to a prior configuration. It … Continue reading R520 Hyper-V 2019: Lets try this again →

R520 Hyper-V 2019: Well that was fun

After spending I don't know how long on various adventures through first setting up Hyper-V 2019 on the server then further adventures of properly configuring networking on the server I've come to the conclusion the performance of the virtual machines is not good enough. I went through several iterations of what I'm loosely calling "benchmarks" … Continue reading R520 Hyper-V 2019: Well that was fun →

Hyper-V 2019: The v-switchening

This is a follow up post to my several prior posts about both Hyper-V 2019 as an OS, using the Hyper-V hypervisor for virtualization and my server hardware of choice, the Dell R520. I have a summary and conclusions clarifying the things I learned as I wrote this post at the bottom. Any corrections/comments etc … Continue reading Hyper-V 2019: The v-switchening →

Hyper-V 2019, on a R520

This is a follow up post to my several prior posts about both Hyper-V 2019 as an OS, using the Hyper-V hyper-visor for virtualization and my server hardware of choice the Dell R520. This post will act as both re-write and follow-up to my previous post about Hyper-V 2019. I'm going to just leave the … Continue reading Hyper-V 2019, on a R520 →

Server 2019 management

I have been playing on and off with some form of Hyper-V Server 2019 for a few years now. Note: I worked on this post over a really long time and it's become something of a mess. It's less of a guide and more of a random reference for later. Hyper-V Server in particular is … Continue reading Server 2019 management →