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Migrating to a Dell PowerEdge R515 server from two legacy database servers
APPENDIX D – CREATING VIRTUAL MACHINES
Below, we provide detailed steps on creating your virtual machines
using Hyper-V manager. Note that drive availability and required
number of VHD files may vary based on your environment.
1. Click StartAdministrative ToolsHyper-V Manager.
2. From the Action menu, select NewVirtual Hard Disk.
3. Choose Fixed Size, assign 25GB for size, and place the VHD in the
appropriate folder on the server. We chose to store all of our VHD
files on our six disk RAID 10 volume.
4. Repeat Step 3 for the remaining VHDs necessary for your VMs. On
our SQL Server VMs, for flexibility, we created a VHD for the OS, a
VHD for SQL Server data, a VHD for SQL Server logs, and a VHD for
backup and utility files.
5. From the Action menu, select NewVirtual Machine.
6. On the Before You Begin page, click Next.
7. On the Specify Name and Location page, enter the name for your
new virtual machine, and click Next.
8. On the Assign Memory page, enter the RAM amount.
9. On the Configure Networking, choose the network assigned to VM
traffic, and click Next.
10. Choose to add a virtual hard disk later.
11. On the Installation Options page, accept the default of Install an
operating system later, and click Next.
12. On the Completing the New Virtual Machine Wizard page, click
Finish.
13. Right-click the virtual machine, and choose Settings.
14. Click Processors, and choose the number of virtual processors. We
chose two virtual processors for our database virtual machines.
15. Click the virtual IDE controller 0.
16. Click Add, and click Hard Drive.
17. Browse to the first VHD you created in Step 4, and choose that
VHD for the guest OS VHD.
18. Click Apply.
19. Click the SCSI controller.
20. Click Add, and click Hard Drive.
21. Browse to the second VHD you created in Step 4, and choose that
VHD for the SQL Server data VHD.
22. Click Apply.
23. Repeat steps 19 through 22 for the remaining SQL Server related
VHDs.
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