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Yes, I'm aware of needing to use the free Hyper-V.<br />
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Are there any other advantages other than additional virtual servers--any other features that Microsoft only adds to Hyper-V?<br />
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Any limitations of the free Hyper-V except for the lack of a GUI?
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Yes, I'm aware of needing to use the free Hyper-V.


Are there any other advantages other than additional virtual servers--any other features that Microsoft only adds to Hyper-V?


Any limitations of the free Hyper-V except for the lack of a GUI?

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Is there a compelling reason to virtual a single server (Windows Essential 2012) using Hyper-V if I use ShadowProtect with bare metal restores?<br />
I don't anticipate adding any other servers to the Hyper-V host.<br />
Thanks.
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Is there a compelling reason to virtual a single server (Windows Essential 2012) using Hyper-V if I use ShadowProtect with bare metal restores?
I don't anticipate adding any other servers to the Hyper-V host.
Thanks.

Single Windows Server on Hyper-V 2012 host?

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.

Microsoft Virtual Server

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems and supersedes Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks. Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. Administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network.