Hi there,
Just a general question regarding the hyper-v 2012 management tools.. say i had 4 dual socket hypervisors that i wanted to run hyper-v on and do some VM clustering on.. What tools would I need for easy system/cluster and VM management? As far as i know there are these routes?
1) Free Hyper-v and powershell
2) Free Hyper-v and Systems Center (this is licensed per server?)
3) Hyper-v standard with Hyper-v manager (GUI server install and just add the features)
4) Hyper-v datacenter with Hyper-v manager (GUI server install and just add the features)
5) Options 3 and 4 coupled with Systems Center?
+ i guess could you remote manage any of these from a Windows 8 PC with hyper-v installed? Would that enable you to manipulate the cluster as a whole or just hosts?
Are these paths right and which ones allow what you'd expect to get features wise from a cluster? Such as HA, fail over for hosts, live VM migrations etc?
Sorry about all that, hyper-v noob here!
Just a general question regarding the hyper-v 2012 management tools.. say i had 4 dual socket hypervisors that i wanted to run hyper-v on and do some VM clustering on.. What tools would I need for easy system/cluster and VM management? As far as i know there are these routes?
1) Free Hyper-v and powershell
2) Free Hyper-v and Systems Center (this is licensed per server?)
3) Hyper-v standard with Hyper-v manager (GUI server install and just add the features)
4) Hyper-v datacenter with Hyper-v manager (GUI server install and just add the features)
5) Options 3 and 4 coupled with Systems Center?
+ i guess could you remote manage any of these from a Windows 8 PC with hyper-v installed? Would that enable you to manipulate the cluster as a whole or just hosts?
Are these paths right and which ones allow what you'd expect to get features wise from a cluster? Such as HA, fail over for hosts, live VM migrations etc?
Sorry about all that, hyper-v noob here!