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September 7th, 2017 14:00
PowerEdge R710 Dual/multi boot options?
I'm new to Dells. I have an R710 with VMware ESXi 6.5 (a bare-metal hypervisor) currently booting from a drive in drive slot 0 [defined as virtual disk 0 in the PERC console]. This works fine for the VMware VMs I need to run.
I now have an additional need to run several Hyper-V VMs under Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter - if possible I'd like to define another virtual disk [virtual disk 1] in the PERC6 mgmt console and selectively boot from it as well. Is this possible?
If the above is not, are there any other workable options? I guess I could swap different disk caddies into slot 0, but that seems clunky.
Thanks for any thoughts on this - Tom
PERC 6/i - firmware rev 1.22.32-1371
iDRAC6 firmware rev 1.95.05
R710 Bios 6.4.0
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September 7th, 2017 17:00
Hi, you can make multiple virtual disks 1 Press to access the Ctrl Mgmt menu screen.
2 Press to move the cursor to the Select Bootable VD in the Settings box.
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September 7th, 2017 19:00
Thanks Josh, I'll see if that works for me tomorrow and update you then.
Tom