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!

scottalanmiller

@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.

FATeknollogee

@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?

scottalanmiller

@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.

stacksofplates

@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.

Mike Davis

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

@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

KOOLER

@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.

JaredBusch

@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.

Obsolesce

@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.

black3dynamite

@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?

JaredBusch

@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.

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...