Data is mirrored at the shared folder level, so that two copies of a folder are always stored on two different physical hard drives.{{cut out}}
All that is is software raid.
From the wiki:
* A single folder namespace (no drive letters)
Users (specifically those who configure a family's home server)
deal with storage at two levels: Shared Folders and Disks. The
only concepts relevant regarding disks is whether they have been
"added" to the home server's storage pool or not and whether the
disk appears healthy to the system or not. This is in contrast with
Windows' Logical Disk Manager which requires a greater degree of
technical understanding in order to correctly configure a RAID
array.
512MB RAM and 32GB disk are minimums (Exactly so, I failed on the latter on account of the VHD being JUST under 32GB). Under those setup will point-blank refuse to load.
In its current state it's a little weird: The setup startup is like WVI, including the loading screen with just the progress bar. Then you get a cursor on the Vista install background, but when setup starts, it's like 2003's! Also, the logo just says "Microsoft Windows" with the NT 5.1+ style flag.
Any and all hard disks it can find are departitioned, NTFSd and formatted and set up according to scheme. You even have to select a checkbox, similar to the licensing one that actually says "I acknowledge that all hard disks on the system will be destroyed" or something like that with legal sounding language. Even after that it STILL asks you if you're sure.
And it infact did, without even asking about partition options.
Two things, however, come to mind: A: This is a beta, they may enable an "Advanced option" as development progresses and, B: people are sure to hack it. As it is, I can think of one way: Install it to a single HD and then make that a slave drive and add it to the main bootloader.
i'd recommend to stay out of trouble and wait for ms to
officially offer it as a download. but if you are like me then here
to go.
My Thanks Anantha92, I'm obtaining it now and it's rolling fast
on the start but has settled to 9 kbs.
This may use a known kernal but it's a whole new animal we
haven't seen the likes of yet and I think I'm going to like it. I'm
going to have the beta before I get the machine running and
will probably get the regular one when it's out.
As Q said you need a 32 gig hard drive size minimum with 512Meg of ram.
"512MB RAM and 32GB disk are minimums (Exactly so, I failed on the latter on account of the VHD being JUST under 32GB). Under those setup will point-blank refuse to load."
So anything of at least P4 nature I'm guessing as a minimum Proc.
This has 1 dvd install, A restore cd and another cd called startup something or over. I'll say what they are called properly when it finnishes in an hour or so.
Ah well I'm not going to take the survey :P Anyway thanks for listing the rough specs Thump, got a new copy and this time it works so I'm going to test it tomorrow on a virtual machine.
im seeding now and vpc is out of the question for me since it requires 512 mb ram and im running on a 1 gig stick. Vpc doesent let me go over 500 mb since it says the host operating system has insufficient memory.This isnt going to work on a vpc if you have l gig> Any other suggestions for dual booting?
Thats strange anantha92, I have one gig of ram, but i can set my VPC's (in VPC2007) to ahve at least 768 meg of ram for any operating system. There has to be at least 256 for windows to run.
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* A single folder namespace (no drive letters)
Users (specifically those who configure a family's home server)
deal with storage at two levels: Shared Folders and Disks. The
only concepts relevant regarding disks is whether they have been
"added" to the home server's storage pool or not and whether the
disk appears healthy to the system or not. This is in contrast with
Windows' Logical Disk Manager which requires a greater degree of
technical understanding in order to correctly configure a RAID
array.
Thump
-Q
will be backed up or not redundent where it won't be duplicated.
I don't really know and this is just the beta.
Thump
512MB RAM and 32GB disk are minimums (Exactly so, I failed on the latter on account of the VHD being JUST under 32GB). Under those setup will point-blank refuse to load.
In its current state it's a little weird: The setup startup is like WVI, including the loading screen with just the progress bar. Then you get a cursor on the Vista install background, but when setup starts, it's like 2003's! Also, the logo just says "Microsoft Windows" with the NT 5.1+ style flag.
-Q
Edit: The second part of setup identifies itself as "Windows Server 2003 for Small Business Server Setup". There's also a "amdk6.sys" file copied!
-Q
And it infact did, without even asking about partition options.
-Q
Two things, however, come to mind: A: This is a beta, they may enable an "Advanced option" as development progresses and, B: people are sure to hack it. As it is, I can think of one way: Install it to a single HD and then make that a slave drive and add it to the main bootloader.
-Q
-Q
Anyway for those interested here is the torrent:
http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/3644929/Microsoft_Windows_Home_Server_-_Beta__2_with._keys.3644929.TPB.torrent
KEYS:
- CFT77-7RWGK-KQ7MW-K8CYX-DVRVY
- DK6PM-CQW9C-X7CY9-BFKVY-X3TRB
- W4777-J2W8T-C4KQF-78GXJ-KRVMM
i'd recommend to stay out of trouble and wait for ms to officially offer it as a download. but if you are like me then here to go.
on the start but has settled to 9 kbs.
This may use a known kernal but it's a whole new animal we
haven't seen the likes of yet and I think I'm going to like it. I'm
going to have the beta before I get the machine running and
will probably get the regular one when it's out.
Thump
What`s the minimum Memory requests for run the OS???
It will run in my pc??
"512MB RAM and 32GB disk are minimums (Exactly so, I failed on the latter on account of the VHD being JUST under 32GB). Under those setup will point-blank refuse to load."
So anything of at least P4 nature I'm guessing as a minimum Proc.
Also, the setup is extremely rough around the edges, it restarted at least 10 times, once just so it could restart AGAIN!
Also, Thump, if you want it more directly or that torrent fails.
-Q
-Q
5. Can you dedicate a computer to testing Windows Home Server
(512+ MB RAM, 80+ GB hard disk space, 1+ Ghz Processor and can
boot from a DVD drive)? *
The torrent has slowed to a crawl but I'm not in a hurry 'cause I
don't even have the machine ready but hope to work on it some
this afternoon.
Thump
Uh, that's a no no. It's not to be mentioned but you can edit it
out and I'll edit this one out to.
Thump
Thump