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Oct 22, 2012. John Joyner shows you the steps you need to take to successfully install Windows Server 2012 on HP ProLiant servers. Here are tips on HP drivers and utilities, firmware and software updates, and techniques for assisted installation.

Empire Efi Bootloader Iso Download. Secondly I'll take this opportunity to ask another question that; which is the preferred way to configure RAID 1 & Server 2008/2012 installation either. 1) Manually configuring RAID 1 using System BIOS (Ctrl+R) menu then install Windows Server OS directly by the Microsoft Media? 2) Using Dell Systems. Sep 22, 2016. Software RAID, typically a feature of the motherboard and typically limited to RAID 1 for use as a redundant drive setup. Hardware RAID, which. Storage Spaces, which is the storage pooling technology first introduced in Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 Essentials.

Checkout the Users are encouraged to contribute to and grow our Wiki. So you want to be a sysadmin? Official IRC Channel - #reddit-sysadmin on Official Discord - •. So I've already setup the RAID1 configuration and have the OS ready to roll to install on my setup, BUT I can't figure out for the life of me how to get past the 2TB limit. I've tried using to convert to GPT from MBR. Then I install the OS on the partition (disk) and when all is done, I go to Computer Management and this is what I see: What can I do to make this happen?

Do I need to install a third HD to have the OS run on and just have the other drives running in RAID1? And then I can expand it to 3TB? Here's my setup: • HP 800G1 SFF • Two 3TB WD RED NAS HDD's running in Intel RAID1 (no controller) Thank you in advance! 03/06/16 EDIT: SOLVED! Thank you everyone for your help, I greatly appreciate it. I love the reddit community.

So, this is what I did in order to get this to work: • 1.) Created a bootable USB with Rufus and selected these options: • 2.) Inserted into new server >rebooted >entered Bios >disabled all Legacy USB options, thus leaving only UEFI USB options • 3.) Saved settings >rebooted >booted into Server 2012 R2 setup from USB drive • 4.) Deleted old partitions >went back a step >followed these instructions: (may be redundant, but not sure, did it anyway.) • 5.) Created a separate partition just for the OS like everyone recommended. Gave it 150GB which is more than enough for me. • 6.) Finished setup >entered OS >went to Disk Management >had to create a new Simple Volume from remaining space on Disk. • 7.) I now have the following Disks / Partitions: Thanks again everyone, truly appreciate the help.