Server Rebuild – Hyper V

In a continuing effort to reduce the number of physical servers and move existing servers into flexible moveable vhd images running in Hyper-V -, I reconfigured the Destiny library catalog system server(http://www.geneseoschoollibrary.org).  Before installing the Windows Server 2008 I created a VHD image of the existing system and then loaded it as a Hyper-V image on another Hyper-V host.  Server is a Poweredge 2950 III with two Xeon chips totaling 8 logical cores.  Upgraded RAM to 16 gigs and enabled VT-X virtualization in bios.

This server is 4 years old and I decided to replace the Hard Drives with Western Digital RE4 drives and have them run in a RAID 10 configuration.

Copied Destiny library back to its original server now running as virtual machine with plans for the machine to host 3 other virtual machines.

There is one last older Pentium III based server left in the district and will plan to move it to a vhd image and run on this hyper-v host as well.