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Vail Abandons Drive Extender V2 – An Opportunity for Microsoft, I Hope

Posted on 24 November 2010. Tags: microsoft, vail, WHS, whs v2, WHS V2 Vail

As many people have seen, the Windows Home Server team stated that Microsoft is abandoning Drive Extender V2 in Vail. Many are crying foul and have even started to petition Microsoft to bring the new Drive Extender back which currently has approximately 1,500 signers. While most other sites are crying foul, as Drive Extender in Vail added some RAID 10 features with check summing, I have been of the position that Windows Home Server V1 and Vail are better off without using Drive Extender V2. Read the full story

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Exclude System Disk from Server Storage in Windows Home Server (WHS) V2 Vail

Posted on 29 April 2010. Tags: agility, conjecture, counterparts, default installation, disk space requirement, hard drives, home server, Norco, Raid 1, redundancy, rpc, SAS, server machines, server storage, server v2, SSD, system os, vail, vertex, whs v2, WHS V2 Vail, Windows Home Server, windows home server v2, windows home server vail, x25

Many Windows Home Server machines utilize a smaller OS disk (oftentimes in Raid 1 for redundancy) and then large SATA 3.5″ disks for storage. Common 2.5″ disks are laptop drives as well as SSDs. Another factor influencing their popularity in home-built WHS boxes is the fact that the Norco RPC-4220 (a popular home server 4U rackmount enclosure) has the ability to house two 2.5″ hard drives in addition to 20 SAS or SATA drives. Smaller form factor drives tend to be of lower capacity than larger 3.5″ counterparts, so some users may be wondering with the new requirement of a 160GB Operating System (OS) disk in Windows Home Server (WHS) V2 Vail if it is possible to lower the OS disk space requirement.

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Windows Home Server (WHS) V2 VAIL – Installed in Hyper-V – Early Release Clue

Posted on 26 April 2010. Tags: 1tb, Areca, case 2, codename, codename vail, codenamed, cpu intel, expanders, guest os, home server, host os, hyper-v, integration tools, intel pro, keyboard shortcuts, mouse support, Norco, public preview, server v2, test configuration, vail, vhd, virtual machine, virtualization, virtualized, vm, WHS, whs v2, windows home server v2, windows home server vail

If one browses this site they will quickly see that I am a fan of Hyper-V virtualization and also Windows Home Server. On April 26, 2010, Microsoft released the public preview of the long awaited Windows Home Server V2 codenamed VAIL. Of course, I did have a test system lying around, but the WHS V2 code base is supposed to be Windows Server 2008 R2 which is why it requires a 64-bit CPU. Now, I could have installed the VAIL preview onto a physical machine, but there are probably editors at 30 sites doing that right now. So how about something interesting, and more appropriate for software labeled beta and preview, a Hyper-V installation!

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