KevinArvixe

At Arvixe Webhosting, we utilize: Windows 08 R2 x64/CentOS 5.5 x64 Dual Quad Core Xeon E5520 24GB Ram 2TB Usable Storage, 4 Physical, RAID5 Hundreds of servers with this configuration, and its been going us well so far.

Whereas I do not have experience with this, Im willing to say that if 03 had the issue, then 08 will too. I assume you have to do it over IPMI because your server is at a datacenter? Cant their NOC personnel do this for you? Any host that requires you to pay for a reformat of your server is kinda shady...

Ahh so heres the problem... See, the option is sort of misleading. It says: "No auto-restart....". So if you disable this, its a double negative. Its like saying "I dont want you to not restart" which is like saying "restart". Try enabling this instead.

This would be ok if you didnt plan on doing anything with it. I forgot whether the Windows 2008 MCP exam contained Hyper-V or not, but if it does, I dont think your processor supports VT-X instructions, making it kinda hard to run Hyper-V. My suggestion is, if you are a student who really doenst have a whole lot of money to spend, this is fine. But if you can afford to make a $300-400 investment, go but an old server or a cheap tower. Make sure the processor support VT-X, and you will be set. Otherwise, this should work, but you are going to get frustrated alot :)

An 8gb flash drive definitely has the space to do it. Make sure you format the drop and there are no little partitions laying around on it. Here are some instructions on how to do this: Format the thumb drive 1. from a DOS prompt execute: diskpart 2. list disk 3. select disk 1 (assuming disk 1 was your thumb drive in the above list disk command) 4. clean 5. create partition primary 6. select partition 1 7. active 8. ormat fs=fat32 9. assign 10. exit Copy the Win2008 install files 1. Mount your iso with an application like Daemon-Tools or VirtualCloneDrive xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (assumes your virtual drive is drive D: and your thumb drive is drive E:\, adjust accordingly) Lastly... Make sure your BIOS is set to boot from USB!