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Hello,

Has anyone been able to install Hyper-V server 2016 on Proliant DL380 G6 ?

HP site seems to only have the drivers for up to 2012 R2. It will be great if I can use the older servers as a secondary host server for our new deployment.

If this is not possible I think I will use a 2012 R2 host. Any experience or thoughts are most appreciated.

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Just came up 2 days ago. The 2012 drivers were fine, but the raid card firmware was the culprit.

I know my G6 needed updates to even run 2012R2

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Haven’t tried it. But I’m running 2012R2 on my G5s if that gives you any hope.

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Update:

I was able to install Hyper-V Server 2016 on my DL380 Gen6s without any issues. Very stable as I have had them for 4 weeks now. I threw in a couple of inexpensive SSDs, 64GIG extra RAM, and 6 10K HDD and they are doing very well. Hosting several test or temp VMs. One of them is mainly running my Veeam server to take care of the main Hyper-V Hosts.

I had to upgrade the firmware on the P410e controller of course. Used the last HP SPP 2016 -10 ISO. One needs an active contract with HP to download it and mine had expired as I moved to DELL for this project ($). SO I got it elsewhere!

Once that was done Both 2012 R2 and 2016 servers installed effortlessly. I did not even need to provide the driver during the install!.

I think dual processor DL380s are great servers and if the moving parts can be replaced and the software and firmware are updated with a clean install they can do a few things in the server room.

Thanks for all the helpful comments :slight_smile:

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Hi , im trying to install server 2016 on dl380g7 but asks for drivers…for my p410i Know where to find them ?

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How did you deploy hyper-v? USB or CD? I am having problem with creating of bootable USB. Also except for the SPP update, you did not have to run any extra drivers?

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I used a mounted iso on another pc. No drivers were needed after the latest SPP. Good luck…mine is doing very well … added some Crucial SSDs as well.

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I did it from a mounted ISO on another machine. And you are correct no other drivers were needed

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How you install it from a different machine - never heard of that technique.

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USB and DVD both worked as well… I just had the boot media to do it that way

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That is interesting. I had a hard time to boot if of the USB. I tried couple different instructions and they all failed.

How you set your USB device to boot?

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I must admit I do not remember the details of what I configured on the Bios to boot off the USB, but it was very pedestrian like a boot order config. I am sure you will see it if you look in the options.

If not I will go in and look at my Bios and will let you know. It might take a couple days to get to do that though for obvious reasons :slight_smile:

Please tell me all your issues so when I reboot the server I can look for all of them at once. It really is a sweet solution and works VERY reliably on 2016 although they did this for 2012.

Greetings

Farzin

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)Actually, I think my boot setup was fine on the server - I basically switched it to the USB as a first device (let’s say something like in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzo_PQ4Eknc ). I thought my thumb drive was set improperly.

Did you just “copy” drop hyper-v files on it?

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I installed the Hyper-V server, the free version… on most of my hosts. Just one has the full 2016 version with hyper-V feature.

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Sure! The video was just in reference to the BIOS. I am also looking at the Hyper-v Server 2016 ;).

Sorry for the confusion.

Filip