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Windows 2008 & HyperV Project

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have a project im looking into at present.

looking to buy a beefy HP server to run 3-6 hyperv machines running:

blackberry server,
wsus
BES Express,

can you confirm if hyperv comes with windows 2008 r2?
will i need to use 1x nic as local/lan setup and the other that is for hyperv machines?
is win 2k8 x64 only?
what sort of storage am i looking at (no san) for the server?
where shoudl i store the VM's on the server - D:\?
how much is windows 2008 with hyper v and an adequate server going to be for this project?
vmware too costly?

anything else i might be missing out, let me know?

thanks
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do you mean volume not disk as raid 5?
i was budgeting on 5k
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do you need to allocate minimum RAM or more than minimum ram for the VM's?
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and, are there any differences between standard, enterprise and datacentre in terms of hyperv options i.e. HA
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We might now look to use Vmware vSphere 4.1 standard (thats what im being sold).  We do not want all the options of HA and disk backups but we need the ability to backup the VM's.  
Would ESXi (free) do the job and use backup exec 2010 to backup the VM's - we are already at around 11hrs backup per evening for other servers.
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and use BE2010 Dedu option...
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i see dedup is pretty beefy (in terms of server specs).  what would you dedup?
Any reason why you're looking at VMware over Hyper-V? Or is that just what someone is trying to sell you.
I am deduping my backups to disk instead of sending them to tape or sending them straight to disk. Symantec's idea is that you would buy their dedupe option instead of an applicance from DataDomain, ExaGrid, Quantum, etc.
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yes, what people are saying about it, plus its not that much more £.
what sort of sized data are you dedupe-ing?  San in use (we do not have a SAN)?
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