Daily Archives: December 7, 2012

When attempting to install Windows Server 2008 R2 on an IBM HS23 Blade, there is an error message about the disk being offline. “Windows cannot be installed on the selected disk because the disk is "offline." This error can be ignored and you can proceed with the installation. This is a known issue on IBM’s…

When a backup job using snapshot technology (like DPM) runs against Server 2012 Hyper-V, NTFS might briefly report free volume size to be 0 for a brief period. If VMMS queries free volume size and find that there is none it will pause VMs. So if VMMS is unlucky and does the query at the…