Hyper-V server or Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

I have a small business client that wants to consolidate their two physical
servers to one. The question is what product to use, Microsoft Hyper-V
Server or Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V? I’m thinking the latter due to the
following from the FAQs on Hyper-V Server website, “System Center Virtual
Machine Manager 2008 R2 is required to manage Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
R2. It is available today. An eval version of SCVMM is currently available�.
I’m sure the client doesn’t want to purchase SCVMM to manage two VMs.
Thanks in advance for any feedback.
Raymond

rjskelton wrote:

> I have a small business client that wants to consolidate their two physical
> servers to one. The question is what product to use, Microsoft Hyper-V
> Server or Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V? Iÿm thinking the latter due to the
> following from the FAQs on Hyper-V Server website, ´System Center Virtual
> Machine Manager 2008 R2 is required to manage Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
> R2. It is available today. An eval version of SCVMM is currently available¡.
> Iÿm sure the client doesnÿt want to purchase SCVMM to manage two VMs.
> Thanks in advance for any feedback.
> Raymond

I haven't gotten around to using Hyper-V yet. However, after doing some
initial reading, it became apparent that the GUI is stripped away and
you just get a command-line interface. If you're comfortable with the
old DOS days of working in console mode with some apps providing their
own standards on their UIs then Hyper-V is for you. It's a hell of a
lot cheaper since it is free (I don't recall the limitations regarding
business versus development versus personal use).

I figure if the customer wants a server version of Windows then it's
likely they want the desktop and the GUI that they are used to.

I would also recommend investigating vmware's ESXi platform. It's free
and you use a free client app to manage the server.

There's a free downloadable management app to manage single Hyper-V
servers, you don't really need SCVMM for small installations.

--
Bob Comer



On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:30:59 -0500, VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:

>rjskelton wrote:
>
>> I have a small business client that wants to consolidate their two physical
>> servers to one. The question is what product to use, Microsoft Hyper-V
>> Server or Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V? I´m thinking the latter due to the
>> following from the FAQs on Hyper-V Server website, “System Center Virtual
>> Machine Manager 2008 R2 is required to manage Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
>> R2. It is available today. An eval version of SCVMM is currently available”.
>> I´m sure the client doesn´t want to purchase SCVMM to manage two VMs.
>> Thanks in advance for any feedback.
>> Raymond
>
>I haven't gotten around to using Hyper-V yet. However, after doing some
>initial reading, it became apparent that the GUI is stripped away and
>you just get a command-line interface. If you're comfortable with the
>old DOS days of working in console mode with some apps providing their
>own standards on their UIs then Hyper-V is for you. It's a hell of a
>lot cheaper since it is free (I don't recall the limitations regarding
>business versus development versus personal use).
>
>I figure if the customer wants a server version of Windows then it's
>likely they want the desktop and the GUI that they are used to.

rjskelton,

I would advise Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. You do not need systems
center to manage a single hyper-v server implementation. It comes in handy
when it comes to building templates and dealing with a hyper-v cluster or
many virtual machines; but is not required.

Keep in mind the hyper-v licensing requirements. Check them out here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...07(WS.10).aspx.

Jess

"rjskelton" wrote:

> I have a small business client that wants to consolidate their two physical
> servers to one. The question is what product to use, Microsoft Hyper-V
> Server or Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V? I’m thinking the latter due to the
> following from the FAQs on Hyper-V Server website, “System Center Virtual
> Machine Manager 2008 R2 is required to manage Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
> R2. It is available today. An eval version of SCVMM is currently available�.
> I’m sure the client doesn’t want to purchase SCVMM to manage two VMs.
> Thanks in advance for any feedback.
> Raymond
>