hyper-V in desktop machine (core 2 Deo 2 GB Ram and 250 GB in HD)
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i want to take your advise regarding the following setup :
i want to setup hyper-V in a desktop machine with the following characteristic : core 2 Deo 2 GB Ram and 250 GB in HD knowing that i want to host in it only 2 light VM (freePBX and pfsense) and this server will serve only 4 usersis it possible to do so ??
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Yes you could do this. You may want to check your processor model to make sure it supports virtualization. I think almost all Core 2 Duos did... but there may be one or two skus that did not.
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And you'll need to make sure virtualization is enabled in the BIOS, by default it was not.
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thank you very much for your advices, for the PC it is DELL optiplex 360, does this version support virtualisation ??
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@IT-ADMIN said:
i want to take your advise regarding the following setup :
i want to setup hyper-V in a desktop machine with the following characteristic : core 2 Deo 2 GB Ram and 250 GB in HD knowing that i want to host in it only 2 light VM (freePBX and pfsense) and this server will serve only 4 usersis it possible to do so ??
Should be quite possible. Memory is fine, but light. HD is way more than enough. CPU is plenty as long as it supports virtualization. FreePBX should get around 800MB of RAM ideally and can make do in about half that. pfSense should use far less, 300MB is likely more than enough.
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then it is OK, thank you
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i guess my CPU support virtualization as this image show :
is this image say that my CPU support VT??
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Looks like you are good to go then!
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great! now i have to install Hyper-V server 2012 R2, then connect remotly to it via Hyper-V role to add my 2 light VM
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@IT-ADMIN said:
great! now i have to install Hyper-V server 2012 R2, then connect remotly to it via Hyper-V role to add my 2 light VM
am i on the right direction ??Are you using HyperV straight or via a Windows Server 2012 R2 installation?
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And just because it's always good to ask, what is driving you to HyperV over XenServer?
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thank you Dear Scott for your interest to ask me about my decision, first of all i'm using Hyper-V server R2 the Hypervisor not the one included in windown server 2012 (for $$ reason) because it is totally free, concerning your second question why Hyper-V and not Xenserver, this is because MS solution are all the time easier than whatever else (i'm not ready to have headache especially i'm just an IT beginner)
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@IT-ADMIN said:
thank you Dear Scott for your interest to ask me about my decision, first of all i'm using Hyper-V server R2 the Hypervisor not the one included in windown server 2012 (for $$ reason) because it is totally free, concerning your second question why Hyper-V and not Xenserver, this is because MS solution are all the time easier than whatever else (i'm not ready to have headache especially i'm just an IT beginner)
That's why I was asking, because XenServer is quite a bit easier than HyperV, in my experience. Microsoft solutions are normally harder and more complex, rather than easier. XenServer is extremely easy to use, the easiest hypervisor for sure.
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i forget one important thing is unitrend offer free backup and restore solution for hyper-V while XenServer not
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And XenServer is a bit better at the workloads that you are wanting to tackle.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
thank you Dear Scott for your interest to ask me about my decision, first of all i'm using Hyper-V server R2 the Hypervisor not the one included in windown server 2012 (for $$ reason) because it is totally free, concerning your second question why Hyper-V and not Xenserver, this is because MS solution are all the time easier than whatever else (i'm not ready to have headache especially i'm just an IT beginner)
You really should check out XenServer... it really is not much different then Hyper-V and much easier to manage all things considered. The graphical installer walks you everything you need and XenCenter is much better then Hyper-V manager.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
i forget one important thing is unitrend offer free backup and restore solution for hyper-V while XenServer not
That's correct and that is a big reason to choose HyperV (for now.)
XenServer does have built in backups for free, though, so not necessary a big deal.
@DustinB3403 uses free XS backups and can tell you about them.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
i forget one important thing is unitrend offer free backup and restore solution for hyper-V while XenServer not
Ah yep that could do it. Although I think Unitrends has said their Spiceworks license does cover XenServer.
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At our environment we use XenServer CE, and a backup script named NAUBackup.
It runs via crontab jobs, and will make running state backups of the specificed VM's. It really works well.
We then pull these snapshots down, and test in virtual box on our workstations.
It's simple and free to setup, just needa NFS or CIFS server to host the snapshots.
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@coliver said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
i forget one important thing is unitrend offer free backup and restore solution for hyper-V while XenServer not
Ah yep that could do it. Although I think Unitrends has said their Spiceworks license does cover XenServer.
I know for a fact that it currently does not, but I've been pressuring them to change that.
