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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @FATeknollogee
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      @FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

      @scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

      @FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

      @scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

      @FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

      @scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

      ...Hyper-V cluster just spun up this week (three nodes.)

      Why are you using Hyper-V?

      HA Starwind cluster.

      Ah, should have seen that coming!

      Yeah, doing a small Starwind Grid.

      How "big" is small?

      It's very small. Three Dell R510.

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      • stacksofplatesS
        stacksofplates @FATeknollogee
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        @FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

        @stacksofplates said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

        Two KVM servers on CentOS 7.

        You need 2x CentOS 7 vm's to run oVirt?

        I'm not running oVirt. Just bare CentOS 7 with KVM.

        One host has an NFS share because it has bigger disks. The other has more RAM so it has most of the VMs running.

        I can transfer them between the hosts but I don't usually do that.

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        • Mike DavisM
          Mike Davis
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          Hyper-V. It's what I have been rolling for production so it only makes sense to have it in my lab so I can test stuff.

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          • restoronixR
            restoronix @Mike Davis
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            @Mike-Davis said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

            Hyper-V. It's what I have been rolling for production so it only makes sense to have it in my lab so I can test stuff.

            Restoronix are big fans of Hyper-V 🙂

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            • KOOLERK
              KOOLER Vendor @Mike Davis
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              @Mike-Davis said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

              Hyper-V. It's what I have been rolling for production so it only makes sense to have it in my lab so I can test stuff.

              This is very correct approach IMHO.

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              • JaredBuschJ
                JaredBusch @restoronix
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                @restoronix said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                @Mike-Davis said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                Hyper-V. It's what I have been rolling for production so it only makes sense to have it in my lab so I can test stuff.

                Restoronix are big fans of Hyper-V 🙂

                Well that is because you are baking in Veeam.

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                • ObsolesceO
                  Obsolesce @JaredBusch
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                  @JaredBusch said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                  @restoronix said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                  @Mike-Davis said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                  Hyper-V. It's what I have been rolling for production so it only makes sense to have it in my lab so I can test stuff.

                  Restoronix are big fans of Hyper-V 🙂

                  Well that is because you are baking in Veeam.

                  Hyper-V is a great hypervisor, too... there are few reasons not to use it, and most of those reasons have nothing to do with Hyper-V itself.

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                  • black3dynamiteB
                    black3dynamite @Obsolesce
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                    @Tim_G said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                    @JaredBusch said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                    @restoronix said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                    @Mike-Davis said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                    Hyper-V. It's what I have been rolling for production so it only makes sense to have it in my lab so I can test stuff.

                    Restoronix are big fans of Hyper-V 🙂

                    Well that is because you are baking in Veeam.

                    Hyper-V is a great hypervisor, too... there are few reasons not to use it, and most of those reasons have nothing to do with Hyper-V itself.

                    I'm curious, what would be your reasons not to use it?

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                    • JaredBuschJ
                      JaredBusch @Obsolesce
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                      @Tim_G said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                      @JaredBusch said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                      @restoronix said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                      @Mike-Davis said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:

                      Hyper-V. It's what I have been rolling for production so it only makes sense to have it in my lab so I can test stuff.

                      Restoronix are big fans of Hyper-V 🙂

                      Well that is because you are baking in Veeam.

                      Hyper-V is a great hypervisor, too... there are few reasons not to use it, and most of those reasons have nothing to do with Hyper-V itself.

                      I am not arguing that, and it is in fact the hypervisor I use in production at clients.

                      But you cannot consider a vendor such as @restoronix saying they are big fans of Hyper-V as an authority because they have a heavy bias to to it due to their product.

                      Technically, they only have Veeam baked into to their product, and thus they can work with any hypervisor that Veeam can work with. But as we all know, that is currently limited to VMWare and Hyper-V.

                      Add in the common knowledge that VMWare does belong in the typically SMB unless they have enough need to warrant Essentials Plus, and that tells you (well me) that Restoronix is going to heavily target the Hyper-V market.

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                      • FATeknollogeeF
                        FATeknollogee
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                        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...

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                        • Mike DavisM
                          Mike Davis @FATeknollogee
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                          @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?)

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                          • FATeknollogeeF
                            FATeknollogee @Mike Davis
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                            @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

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                            • JaredBuschJ
                              JaredBusch @FATeknollogee
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                              @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..
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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @FATeknollogee
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                                @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

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                                • JaredBuschJ
                                  JaredBusch
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                                  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

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

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                                    • JaredBuschJ
                                      JaredBusch @EddieJennings
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                                      @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.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @EddieJennings
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                                        @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.

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                                        • brandon220B
                                          brandon220
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                                          Hyper-V 2102 R2 and 2016 for most everything. I have a host with ESXi and XenServer but they are turned off.

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