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I have a new server box. I have a Server 2012 R2 Standard license. Someone has suggested that I set it up the initial install as a Hyper-V core installation as the base OS and run Hyper-V Servers off of this. Since I am not using the Data Center version I don't see any real advantage to this setup. Can anyone enlighten me? Is this a better way to setup the initial OS? If so why?<br />
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Thanks for your input.
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I have a new server box. I have a Server 2012 R2 Standard license. Someone has suggested that I set it up the initial install as a Hyper-V core installation as the base OS and run Hyper-V Servers off of this. Since I am not using the Data Center version I don't see any real advantage to this setup. Can anyone enlighten me? Is this a better way to setup the initial OS? If so why?

Thanks for your input.

Server 2012 Hypervisor

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Installation

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.