https://blog.insanegenius.com/tag/hyper-v/Recent content in Hyper-V on Pieter Viljoen's BlogHugoenMon, 06 May 2019 01:34:42 +0000https://blog.insanegenius.com/2019/05/05/moving-from-w2k16-to-unraid/Mon, 06 May 2019 01:34:42 +0000https://blog.insanegenius.com/2019/05/05/moving-from-w2k16-to-unraid/<p>I have been happy with <a href="https://blog.insanegenius.com/2014/10/08/rack-that-server/">my server rack</a> running my <a href="https://unifi-sdn.ui.com/">UniFi</a> network equipment and two Windows Server 2016 (W2K16) instances. I use the servers for <a href="https://blog.insanegenius.com/2011/04/22/archiving-my-cd-dvd-and-bd-collection/">archiving my media collection</a> and running Hyper-V for all sorts of home projects and work related experiments. But, time moves on, one can never have enough storage, and technology changes. So I set about a path that led to me replacing my W2K16 servers with <a href="https://unraid.net/">Unraid</a>.</p> <p>I currently use Adaptec <a href="https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/support/raid/sas_raid/sas-7805q/">7805Q</a> and <a href="https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/support/raid/sas_raid/asr-81605zq/">81605ZQ</a> RAID cards, with a mixture of SSD for caching, SSD RAID1 for boot and VM images, and HDD RAID6 for the large media storage array. The setup has been solid, and although I&rsquo;ve had both SSD and HDD failures, the hot spares kicked in, and I replaced the failed drives with new hot spares, no data lost.</p>