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Hi there.
I LIKE the idea of a bare metal Hypervisor - I've tried Esxi (VMware) in the past and although it works it's a bit fiddly on what hardware it works on and there's no CLI for managing VM's --you have to do this with a separate machine using vCenter which USED TO BE FREE -- and now this part is NOT available in the free offering any more (if you upgrade to the latest version of ESXI (5.5) you won't be able to manage / modify VM's any more - at least in the FREE offering -- you have to BUY the latest vCenter -- so I've now junked Esxi.
It seems from Internet discussions that Free ESXI might be being phased out anyway so a good time to jump ship to Ms.
Read this :
https://communities.vmware.com/message/2295098
Does 2012 HYPER-V SERVER R2 (it's FREE BTW) work decently as a hypervisor -- I'm only really interested in running Windows VM's.
I actually quite like W2012 SERVER but I don't really need the full server edition for hosting VM's. I want to use W2012 server as a VM anyway.
I've been quite a happy user of VMware workstation in the past but it's quite expensive and needs a full blown OS to run on even though it can now run VM's in the background.
I need to run the following Guest OS's (or VM's) on it ===> W2003 server, 2 XP PRO VM's (one ENG, on ISL), one W7 Enterprise, one W8.1 Enterprise and one W2012 server .
The Host machine has plenty of RAM and storage and has a decent 3.2 GHZ QUAD processor in it so running these VM's should be fine in theory.
The W2012 server will replace the w2003 server. I like running servers as VM's - IMO servers should be run as VM's in any case.
I assume that there is an easy way to convert a VMware VM to a Ms one via various utilities.
Anybody using the HYPER-V server as the HYPERVISOR -- not running on W8 or W2012 server -- I want to try the bare metal HYPERVISOR out.
Cheers
jimbo
I LIKE the idea of a bare metal Hypervisor - I've tried Esxi (VMware) in the past and although it works it's a bit fiddly on what hardware it works on and there's no CLI for managing VM's --you have to do this with a separate machine using vCenter which USED TO BE FREE -- and now this part is NOT available in the free offering any more (if you upgrade to the latest version of ESXI (5.5) you won't be able to manage / modify VM's any more - at least in the FREE offering -- you have to BUY the latest vCenter -- so I've now junked Esxi.
It seems from Internet discussions that Free ESXI might be being phased out anyway so a good time to jump ship to Ms.
Read this :
https://communities.vmware.com/message/2295098
Does 2012 HYPER-V SERVER R2 (it's FREE BTW) work decently as a hypervisor -- I'm only really interested in running Windows VM's.
I actually quite like W2012 SERVER but I don't really need the full server edition for hosting VM's. I want to use W2012 server as a VM anyway.
I've been quite a happy user of VMware workstation in the past but it's quite expensive and needs a full blown OS to run on even though it can now run VM's in the background.
I need to run the following Guest OS's (or VM's) on it ===> W2003 server, 2 XP PRO VM's (one ENG, on ISL), one W7 Enterprise, one W8.1 Enterprise and one W2012 server .
The Host machine has plenty of RAM and storage and has a decent 3.2 GHZ QUAD processor in it so running these VM's should be fine in theory.
The W2012 server will replace the w2003 server. I like running servers as VM's - IMO servers should be run as VM's in any case.
I assume that there is an easy way to convert a VMware VM to a Ms one via various utilities.
Anybody using the HYPER-V server as the HYPERVISOR -- not running on W8 or W2012 server -- I want to try the bare metal HYPERVISOR out.
Cheers
jimbo
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