pcdoc Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 I am now on roughly my 15th install of Essentials R2 on my Haswell and I can not get my Haswell system to properly install a VM guest in Hyper V. Hyper V installed fine but the guests hang. Wasted the whole weekend on this and tried 2 different SSDs, two different drives, two motherboard, a BIOS upgrade, and 5 sets of memory. What a POS. They could have not possibly tested essentials on new hardware before releasing it. Of course it all works fine on a Sandy Bridge. I am at my wits end and have given up trying to make that combo work. I guest I will have to wait for RTM 2. I would love to just go back to sandy/ivy bridge but I need a few more sata 3 for the new server so I am stuck waiting. Configuration: Asus Z87M-Plus/Gigabyte Z87MX I-5 4570S Crucial/Gskill Memory (test in two and 4 banks, with 16 and 32 gig configurations) 2 Intel SSD 2 Two Seagate 3T My frustration is beyond words. So do yourself a favor and do use Haswell on if you plan of using Hyper-V and essentials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drashna Jaelre Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 I'm assuming you've installed 2012 Standard or HyperV Core on the same hardware and have gotten it to work? And yeah, that would definitely be very frustrating. I wonder if HyperV Server 2012 R2 exhibits the same behavior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Just adding the word NOT to pcdoc's statement. No doubt he was so frustrated he simply forgot it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwills Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 RTM 2? Never heard of that release. Maybe SP1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 I think pcdoc is referring to the rumour that MS may change the code between the MSDN/TechNet RTM and the general RTM in October. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 I've found R2 to be equally painful on my Ivy bridge system. Back to R1 until perhaps one serious R2 Service Pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwills Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 I guess I'm just sitting here in "Happy, Happy, Happy" land running in a VM. No issues for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Worm Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 (edited) No offense, but why would Microsoft test a server OS on consumer level hardware? Edited September 30, 2013 by Big Worm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwills Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 I'd bet that 75% + of the Essential installs will be on "consumer grade" equipment, and not "enterprise grade" equipment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drashna Jaelre Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 I'd bet that 75% + of the Essential installs will be on "consumer grade" equipment, and not "enterprise grade" equipment. Isn't that the point of Essentials, actually? It's meant to be a consumer grade server after all. Or at least a SOHO server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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