Windows 2016 – Virtually Fun https://virtuallyfun.com Fun with Virtualization Sun, 22 Jun 2025 13:51:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 quick note on re-purposing old Windows Hyper-V servers https://virtuallyfun.com/2025/06/22/quick-note-on-re-purposing-old-windows-hyper-v-servers/ https://virtuallyfun.com/2025/06/22/quick-note-on-re-purposing-old-windows-hyper-v-servers/#respond Sun, 22 Jun 2025 13:51:57 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=15309 Continue reading →]]> imagine being so pressed for time, not having any OS CDs or a boot server as it’s all gone.

you find these old servers, pull them off the domain and join a new one, and much to your amazement they remember where they were.

endless problems .

but you don’t have the time to format, you need a cluster built of garbage and you need it quickly. Simply run this from PowerShell:

Clear-ClusterNode

running that zapped the cluster config.

which is odd, I thought it lived in AD.

also using TruNAS it doesn’t load for anything over the ilo console. Didn’t have the time again. Using Rufus, use the 2nd option, DD mode, and it installed like a snap.

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