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Moving from Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 to VSphere Essentials
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I've been playing with a Hyper-V 2008 R2 server with SBS 2011 & 2008 R2 (running RDS). I'm thinking of dumping Hyper-v and moving to the entry vSpere Essentials (physical machine has 64 GB which I want to access so the free licence isn't suitable with 32GB limit) Will SBS 2011 run on vSphere Essentials?
The biggest issue is because I have fixed disks in the Hyper-v backup selection for bare metal so taking forever to USB 2.
We have a pool of USB 2 drives 1TB. If I move to vSphere will I be able to use USB pass through to the SBS server? We have a backupassist licence so I would plan on installing backupasssit on the SBS VM and running backups from there. Is restore of the SBS reliable in this fasion?
Looking for gotchas etc on running these two VM in a vSpere from people who do it or have tried
Thanks
I've been playing with a Hyper-V 2008 R2 server with SBS 2011 & 2008 R2 (running RDS). I'm thinking of dumping Hyper-v and moving to the entry vSpere Essentials (physical machine has 64 GB which I want to access so the free licence isn't suitable with 32GB limit) Will SBS 2011 run on vSphere Essentials?
The biggest issue is because I have fixed disks in the Hyper-v backup selection for bare metal so taking forever to USB 2.
We have a pool of USB 2 drives 1TB. If I move to vSphere will I be able to use USB pass through to the SBS server? We have a backupassist licence so I would plan on installing backupasssit on the SBS VM and running backups from there. Is restore of the SBS reliable in this fasion?
Looking for gotchas etc on running these two VM in a vSpere from people who do it or have tried
Thanks
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Roshan Mohammed
please note that you do need volume license of sbs 2008/2011 to be able to virtualsie it. else all oem's need to stick the hardare it came with.
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Thank you for such a comprehensive response.
Just a couple of extra points
If I 'try' the free sphere and move the SBS to VMWare format on a SBS 32 GB virtual machine can I then purchase the essentials licence to unlock the extra funtionality and then add a 28 GB 2008 server. My Dell has 64GB phycial memory.
I notice that SBS 2011 has minimum requirements of Quad core 2 GHz 64-bit (x64) but Sphere only supports 2 CPUs per host. How many cores would sphere support per processor. Am I going to have an issue here?
Thank you
Just a couple of extra points
If I 'try' the free sphere and move the SBS to VMWare format on a SBS 32 GB virtual machine can I then purchase the essentials licence to unlock the extra funtionality and then add a 28 GB 2008 server. My Dell has 64GB phycial memory.
I notice that SBS 2011 has minimum requirements of Quad core 2 GHz 64-bit (x64) but Sphere only supports 2 CPUs per host. How many cores would sphere support per processor. Am I going to have an issue here?
Thank you
vSphere now supports unlimited cores.
but 1 virtual cpu = 1 physical core in the host.
design briefs, of 5-6 VMs per core.
You will be okay, start with 2vCPU in the VM, test, add more if required.
but 1 virtual cpu = 1 physical core in the host.
design briefs, of 5-6 VMs per core.
You will be okay, start with 2vCPU in the VM, test, add more if required.
thats a very large Windows 2008 R2 server?
are you using ALL that memory?
are you using ALL that memory?
Yes, when you purchase you get a license key, and you just change the license key from free to paid, Essentials.
ASKER
To be honest no, it's running Remote desktop services and will be very over speced but the vendor gave us a great deal on the config and 64 GB is what was supplied. Might as well use it.
ASKER
@S00007359 = no problem, this is volume licence
Thats often what people think, Ive got all this memory, so Ill use it!
thats what costs, when it may not be required.
thats what costs, when it may not be required.
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I do see your point, I mean I could run SBS on say, 24 GB RAM then use the RDS with the remaining 8 GB RAM. This client only has 15 clients accessing the RDS server which in tuern is running Office 2010 with online exchange to the SBS 2010. Would this suffice as config. If so that would allow us to us the free Sphere licence
Install and check your performance, and memory requirements, if you need to use more memory you can always upgrade to Essentials for little expense at $500.
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comrehensive