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Unless he has an enterprise version of hyper v ,he is limited to two production servers and 1 host per M$ licensing.<br />
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As for joining the domain ,no big deal,but the hyper v host can only be a host with no other roles assigned.
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We have been using ESXI free version for most installs as typically they are a Single Host with 1 or 2 Virtual Servers. <br />
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We want to use Veeam for backup so we need to move to HYPER-V for our hypervisor, Documentation indicates we should join Host to the domain, however my old school logic says that if it is Joined to a Domain that does not exist (Hyper-V must boot for the VM Domain Controller to start) so if there is an issue with the Server then is there going to be a problem accessing the HYPER-V Host?<br />
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Thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated<br />
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Thanks<br />
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Harold
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We have been using ESXI free version for most installs as typically they are a Single Host with 1 or 2 Virtual Servers. 

We want to use Veeam for backup so we need to move to HYPER-V for our hypervisor, Documentation indicates we should join Host to the domain, however my old school logic says that if it is Joined to a Domain that does not exist (Hyper-V must boot for the VM Domain Controller to start) so if there is an issue with the Server then is there going to be a problem accessing the HYPER-V Host?

Thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated

Thanks

Harold

New to using HYPER-V Join domain yes or no

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.

Hyper-V

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