Server 2012 on USB drive?

[Gammawolf]

I can't seem to find much info on this as all that comes up is making a bootable usb drive for the installer files and not much on actually installing it to a usb drive? Is this possible?

 

[Gammawolf]

OP asks about installing 2012 to USB, specifically saying he doesn't want to install it from USB..... Gets 2 replies telling him how to install from USB.

I'm not sure it would be possible, or even sane to be honest. It's not designed to be an embedded type OS - it's one thing running something like ESXi from USB as you don't lose much if the USB stick dies and you don't need the capacity.

It begs the question......why?

Its not a production environment, just my home server. It's basically going to be treated as a hyper-v / esxi / xen server. So i thought it would be convenient to install each to a USB drive. On the long term i'd be using server 2012, but it would just be a glorified hyper-v server with anything substantial running in backed up VM's. The base 2012 install would only every do hyper-v processing and possibly file server duties. So reliability isn't an issue really since these can be re-setup quickly