This article is not part of the System Center Cloud series but we will use the these servers as our Hyper-V hosts.

Naming convention

• We should continue and set names of the new servers.
  • The nodes will be named: conthostclu0n0
    • cont – Our fictional company is Contoso
    • host – It will be Hyper-V host
    • clu0 – It will be part of the cluster no. 0
    • n0 – It will be cluster node no. 0
• PowerShell: Rename-Computer -NewName conthostclu0n0 -Restart -Force
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Disk configuration

Some VMs will not be highly-available and will be located on the local disk. It is always best practice to separate application data from the system so I will add a new volume.

• You cannot shrink the partition and the volume in the new Server Manager.
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• Use diskmgmt.msc or PowerShell

Resize-Partition -DriveLetter C -Size 140gb
New-Partition -DiskNumber 0 -AssignDriveLetter -UseMaximumSize | Format-Volume

Hyper-V configuration

Now it is a good idea to configure the Hyper-V hosts.

• All paths: D:\Hyper-V
• Enhanced Session: Yes
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• Rename virtual switch.
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