Hyper-V
The HP Z840 workstation now has Windows 2022 Standard Hyper-V installed on it. I am working on my Minecraft Servers. Veeam 11A has been configured to backup Hyper-V VMs the same way it backs up my VMware 6 VMs. I am slowly migrating the VMs off of VMWare 6.
Minecraft notes
4.12.26: I moved five Java Minecraft servers into one Ubuntu 24.04 LTS VM. See Java Master Server.
4.14.26: I moved Two Bedrock Minecraft servers into one Ubuntu 24.04 LTS VM. See Bedrock Master Server
CPU: A pair of Intel Xeon E5-2620 2.1 GHz
8 cores per CPU
16 cores
32 Logical Processors
64 GB of RAM
RAID 1 : 2 TB Inland Platinum SSD drives for Hyper-V
I can add another pair of SSD drives to drive bay slots 3 and 4 in the future for RAID 10 or RAID 0+1
I used Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for my virtual machines. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS should be coming out next month.
I have been migrating the Minecraft configurations from VMWare Ubuntu to Hyper-V Ubuntu on this server. I have installed 3 Bedrock and 1 Java Minecraft Server so far. I want to migrate our Skyblock, Oneblock and Forge mod server. Our daughter and son want to use redstone devices in Minecraft.
Virtual Hard Disks : Dynamically Expanding
Dynamic disks in Windows Server 2022 enable advanced volume management, including spanned, mirrored, and striped (RAID-5) volumes, allowing noncontiguous space usage across physical drives. While supported, Microsoft deems them deprecated, recommending Storage Spaces for volume pooling. They are best for software RAID, but not supported in clustered environments.
The HP Z840 workstation features an embedded LSI SAS 2308 controller, supporting software-based RAID 0, 1, and 10, alongside an Intel C612 chipset that supports SATA RAID 5. It enables high-speed storage via onboard connectors or optional Z Turbo Drive PCIe cards, with setup managed through the BIOS Storage Options or the LSI BIOS Configuration Utility
powershell to create VM hard drives.
I use this powershell script to create separate partitions for my Ubuntu VMs.
Boot: I create a separate partition for /boot. I usually configure it as 2 GB. I could make it 1.5 GB.
Root or /: I create is for Mariadb when building a web server. I will create a separate /var for the web site files.
Swap: This is a separate partition for the swap space of Ubuntu.
Minecraft uses 4-6 GB of disk space for a decent size build. I usually start out at 10GB. I can go larger. The multi-server builds have more space allocated for all the Minecraft Servers.
When I create the Hyper-V VM, I tell it I will add the storage after it is done. I use browse to create SCSI storage. I add the Ubuntu ISO as SCSI CD-ROM.
New-VHD -Path ‘E:\Hyper-V\Ubuntu\Ubuntu_boot.vhdx’ -SizeBytes 2GB -Dynamic -BlockSizeBytes 1MB
New-VHD -Path ‘E:\Hyper-V\Ubuntu\Ubuntu_root.vhdx’ -SizeBytes 10GB -Dynamic -BlockSizeBytes 1MB
New-VHD -Path ‘E:\Hyper-V\Ubuntu\Ubuntu_swap.vhdx’ -SizeBytes 8GB -Dynamic -BlockSizeBytes 1MB