Windows 2012 drivers for HP GL160 G6?
Hi everyone, does anyone know what I do for drivers on this system? Just bought it used, says it's 2 or 3 years old. The HP site only has up to Windows 2008 drivers and when I run them it says my OS...
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Look at this as a blessing. The OS should "never" have hardware drivers. This protected you. Install the hypervisor, that's the only thing that the hardware needs to support. Then the OS goes on...
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Got it that makes sense thanks. What about windows updates on the physical server though? I assume I should apply them?
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lee.moreau wrote:Got it that makes sense thanks. What about windows updates on the physical server though? I assume I should apply them?If there is no Windows on the physical box, there are no Windows...
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Well there's Windows Server 2012 on the physical box with just the Hyper-V role. I'm not using core as since i'm newer at this I was advised by many to use the full GUI. So that was where I was...
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lee.moreau wrote:Well there's Windows Server 2012 on the physical box with just the Hyper-V role. This is a misconception. HyperV is a type 1 hypevisor. The OS can never touch the hardware with a...
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lee.moreau wrote:I'm not using core as since i'm newer at this I was advised by many to use the full GUI. The GUI, I think, makes things far more confusing although it can make things easier. VMware...
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lee.moreau wrote:So was asking if on this machine I should also do windows updates etc.All software needs updates no matter where or how it is deployed. Just the nature of software.
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lee.moreau wrote:So that was where I was trying to update drivers, since RAID and one other thing have ? in Device Manager. You are updating the RAID controller for HyperV via the parent environment?...
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Since your OS is not supported (or in a convoluted way, HyperV is not supported) it sounds like you need to choose something other than HyperV. HyperV is not Windows but most of its hardware support...
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Thanks that all makes sense. I was referring to Hyper V role on a Windows Server 2012 installation, the one that's on the physical server not the VMs themselves. I am going to try ESXi as that's what...
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Scott Alan Miller wrote:lee.moreau wrote:Well there's Windows Server 2012 on the physical box with just the Hyper-V role. This is a misconception. HyperV is a type 1 hypevisor. The OS can never touch...
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You will need to check that the Raid controller in this server is supported on VMware, as a lot of the low end HP servers have onboard raid that is done in the chipset (rather than a dedicated Smart...
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I have 2 1TB drives with RAID 0 as I want performance not reliability right now, and I have a 128GB SSD. I have an actual RAID card, it's like a PCI looking card attached to the system with a big plug...
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I would suggest looking at Microsoft's HCL for Windows Server, available at www.windowservercatalog.com Opens a new windowAccording to the site, the DL160 G6 isn't certified for Server 2012/2012R2. So...
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