Windows Hyper-V Server Host Windows Search via a Guest Win2019 Server

Josh Rideout 6 Reputation points
2020-12-29T20:36:35.947+00:00

I have a bare-metal installation of Windows Hyper-v Server 2019 with two virtual Windows 2019 servers running as guests. One is the Domain Controller and the other host all the other Roles including the RDSH Role which I understand is incompatible with the Windows Search Service. So I have the Search Service running on the Domain Controller but the available locations only index physical disks. This virtual server resides on a vhdx Virtual Drive and the drive I want to index is a partition on the bare-metal machine. I know that you can set a pass-through physical drive in he virtual machine settings, but it doesn't seem that you can pass in a physical partition from the host. How can you index a partition on the bare-metal machine to enable fast searching over UNC mapped drives?

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  1. Xiaowei He 9,866 Reputation points
    2020-12-30T07:03:35.58+00:00

    Hi,

    As I understand, you would like to configure pass-through disk for the Hyper V VM, please check if the following steps could work:

    https://thesolving.com/virtualization/how-to-configure-a-pass-through-disk-with-hyper-v/

    (Please note: Information posted in the given link is hosted by a third party. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy and effectiveness of information.)

    Thanks for your time!
    Best Regards,
    Anne

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