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Hyper-V Server 2012 (Datacenter) on VMware

We are currently running Datacenter 2012 and are looking to move all of our VM's offsite to a hosted provider who utilizes VMware, I wanted to see if there are any issues re purposing our DC 2012 license to run in a VMware environment?

Essentially we are looking to purchase 1 VM from the SP for DC 2012 and run as many Hyper-V instances as we need within DC 2012.  Is this a possibility?

I know VMware provides some support possibly in a limited capacity on 5.1?
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Hi,

you cant run HYPER-V on already virtualized server.


and here is license guide for Virtualizing 2012 in vmware and Hyper-v

http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/0/7707E736-4557-4310-9709-87358F7E6D1A/WindowsServer2012VirtualTech_VLBrief.pdf
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I guess I should rephrase slightly....

with datacenter I should be able to run as many instances of Windows Server 2012 as I want on one ESX host correct?
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you are probably right it looks it working with some hack but i thing no SP will do it.

I whose trying it in workstation this works but never on ESXi

http://thephuck.com/virtualization/installing-windows-server-8-hyper-v-3-in-esxi-5/