Home Lab Hypervisor?

[FATeknollogee]

Any of you Hyper-V guys tried this at home? https://xenappblog.com/2017/setup-nano-server-as-nas-for-home-lab/

I set one up 3 days ago, was pretty easy & painless.
I then fired up a second instance & imported it to XenServer, it was almost too easy...

[Mike Davis]

@FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

Any of you Hyper-V guys tried this at home? https://xenappblog.com/2017/setup-nano-server-as-nas-for-home-lab/
I set one up 3 days ago, was pretty easy & painless.
I then fired up a second instance & imported it to XenServer, it was almost too easy...

Do I understand it correctly that Nano Server uses the same license as standard server? (so Nano consumes the same license that a standard server would?)

[FATeknollogee]

@Mike-Davis said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

Do I understand it correctly that Nano Server uses the same license as standard server? (so Nano consumes the same license that a standard server would?)

Looks like SA is required
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/windows-server-pricing

[JaredBusch]

@FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

@Mike-Davis said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

Do I understand it correctly that Nano Server uses the same license as standard server? (so Nano consumes the same license that a standard server would?)

Looks like SA is required
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/windows-server-pricing

Pretty clear cut..

[scottalanmiller]

@FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

@Mike-Davis said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

Do I understand it correctly that Nano Server uses the same license as standard server? (so Nano consumes the same license that a standard server would?)

Looks like SA is required
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/windows-server-pricing

Yup

[JaredBusch]

Also, based on that MSRP, you switch to Datacenter on VM #13.

6155 / 882 = 6.98

So the biggest whole number there is 6 licenses.

6 licenses = 12 Windows Server VMs

[EddieJennings]

@JaredBusch I did the math on that about a year ago, and, if I recall 13 was the magic number then.

[JaredBusch]

@EddieJennings said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

@JaredBusch I did the math on that about a year ago, and, if I recall 13 was the magic number then.

MSRP probably has not changed.

[scottalanmiller]

@EddieJennings said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

@JaredBusch I did the math on that about a year ago, and, if I recall 13 was the magic number then.

Correct. For Datacenter over Standard.

[brandon220]

Hyper-V 2102 R2 and 2016 for most everything. I have a host with ESXi and XenServer but they are turned off.