Hyper-V what is it, how to setup, is it free?

[Fli]

Hi, here im sharing my small research regarding hyper-v and Windows VPS reselling.


Microsoft Hyper-V Server k dispozici zdarma.
Integrated part of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012.

"vmware server" can be alternative to hyper-v but, it has almost no functions.

Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise VS Datacenter R2

Enterprise can run 1 physical Windows OS instance and 4 virtual OS instances. Datacenter can run 1 physical and unlimited virtual instances. Datacenter is licensed also per cpu on which is used.

Windows Server Pricing and license types table can be found there:
Microsoft | Windows Server 2012 | Pricing | Licensing | Buy (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/buy.aspx)
Datacenter: $4,809, Standard: $882

Which OS should be supported at Hyper-V?
Microsoft Windows Server 2003+
Microsoft XP Pro SP2
CentOS 6+
FreeBSD 8.2

Official hyper-V page at technet: Microsoft Hyper-V - TechNet Blog CZ/SK - Site Home - TechNet Blogs (http://blogs.technet.com/b/technetczsk/p/microsoft-hyper-v.aspx)

Converting VMWare - Hyper-V virtual disk using "Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)"


VMware uses Virtual Machine Disk Format — with the extension .vmdk
Microsoft uses Virtual Hard Disk Format — with the extension .vhd

[andrewlarioza]

Heya,

Nice to be invited to this forum site. Hope I can be of help to everyone :cool:. Anyways, Hyper-V is cool when you're planning to put up your VM farm. But if you want an open source totally free ;), KVM from RHEL and CentOS is also a very good alternative. Xen is also one of the best player in the hypervisor arena. Both are open source and has an optimum performance and well maintained.

HTH.