A common question I\u2019ve seen is \u201cCan I install Hyper-V on USB?\u201d. The answer is \u2026 sort of.<\/p>\n
In the article, What’s New in Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012<\/a>, it says:<\/p>\n Hyper-V Server 2012 supports all of the new features in the Hyper-V server role of Windows Server 2012 and a number of other general Windows Server 2012 features. It continues to support features from Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 such as failover clustering, multipath I\/O, server backup, and the ability to install this product on bootable USB flash drives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Please pay careful<\/em> attention: It refers to the free product Hyper-V Server 2012. No where<\/em>, I repeat \u2026 NO WHERE<\/em><\/u><\/strong> does it say that Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V is supported on USB. It\u2019ll be entirely your fault if you assume that you have support to install Windows Server 2012 on USB and enable Hyper-V. The TechNet text only mentions Hyper-V Server 2012 and that is a different product.<\/p>\n Remember my mantra on this: if you assume, then assume that you are wrong.<\/p>\n If you follow the link to the USB instructions (which are dated for Hyper-V Server 2008 R2) you will see another important sentence:<\/p>\n The scenario described in this document is only supported for original equipment manufacturers (OEM).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n In other words, it is OK for Dell, HP, etc, to install Hyper-V Server 2012 on a USB stick and ship it to you. It is not supported if you do this for yourself. The instructions are there<\/a>; you can use them to build yourself a lab<\/em><\/u><\/strong> that runs from USB. And that\u2019s that. Do not go building this for yourself for production support. You have been warned.<\/p>\n Before anyone asks, no, I have not seen a server company offer this. In fact, I talked to some very senior server people in one of those companies a few months ago and they had never even heard of this boot option. They even thought it was an ESXi only solution.<\/p>\n Also, boot from SD is not listed as an option.<\/p>\n A common question I\u2019ve seen is \u201cCan I install Hyper-V on USB?\u201d. The answer is \u2026 sort of. In the article, What’s New in Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012, it says: Hyper-V Server 2012 supports all of the new features in the Hyper-V server role of Windows Server 2012 and a number of other general Windows … Continue reading “Install Hyper-V Server 2012 On USB Flash Drives”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[181,67,195],"class_list":["post-13580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v-server","tag-virtualisation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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