I've googled it a bit and from what I can tell, it's free. Is this correct? I have a client that I'll need to VM their old server while they migrate to a newer version of their software. They have Server 2008 R2 Standard. Can I just download it and install it and it's fully free? Also, can I convert the current server to a .vhd easily? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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They Hyper-V role is built into the operating system. You still have to pay for the OS licenses.
However 08 R2 standard only includes 1 VM. So you can only run 1 virtual machine on a standard license.
If you have a 2008 R2 Enterprise license you can run up to 4 VM's on the hyper-v host provided the host server isn't doing anything except the hyper-v role.
Read this, it will answer alot of your questions: http://blogs.technet.com/b/mattmcsp...-windows-server-in-a-virtual-environment.aspx
However 08 R2 standard only includes 1 VM. So you can only run 1 virtual machine on a standard license.
If you have a 2008 R2 Enterprise license you can run up to 4 VM's on the hyper-v host provided the host server isn't doing anything except the hyper-v role.
Read this, it will answer alot of your questions: http://blogs.technet.com/b/mattmcsp...-windows-server-in-a-virtual-environment.aspx
True, except that there also is a free stand alone Hyper-V server. See: http://www.microsoft.com/hyper-v-server/en/us/default.aspx
You will still need guest OS licenses.
I need to run a temporary VM (~4, 5 months max) just to do the migration. I'm just playing around with it on a spare server here. It works pretty slick, as good as VMWare as far as I've played with it so far.
Anyone have any experince with disk2vhd? I'm going to try it out here once I get server 2003 installed on a box. Are there any other better ways to convert a live server to vhd?
Anyone have any experince with disk2vhd? I'm going to try it out here once I get server 2003 installed on a box. Are there any other better ways to convert a live server to vhd?
So I tried disk2vhd and the image wouldn't boot. Well it would, but would BSOD, I'm assuming because it was still trying to boot with the old server's RAID drivers. How do you strip those out to get it to boot?
Edit: I'm seeing a program called fix hdc and also this link. http://forum.sysinternals.com/how-i-fixed-my-0x0000007b-problem_topic20751.html I think I'll give both a try tomorrow.
Edit: I'm seeing a program called fix hdc and also this link. http://forum.sysinternals.com/how-i-fixed-my-0x0000007b-problem_topic20751.html I think I'll give both a try tomorrow.
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Hyper-V can't boot off of SCSI drives, it needs an IDE drive to boot. It does support SCSI as additional drives just not as boot.
I have no experience with disk2vhd, perhaps there are some settings that will allow you to convert the disk to an IDE disk.
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Does Virtual IDE sound better? The virtual machine needs to use virtual IDE. Kind of a cheap and crap way to put it, but that's the basic idea. 