Hello everyone

 

Could anyone please help me understand the difference between Hyper-V and SCVMM?

 

I am the systems engineer of a small college and being mainly a Linux environment, windows user profiles are becoming a problem.

 

For that reason we are planning to get a Windows Server that will run 4 virtual machines.

 

VM1= for Windows Server 2008

VM2= for an SQL Server

VM3= for Sharepoint

VM4= maybe a print server

 

In order to manage these VMs I was looking at Microsoft's Hyper-V and SCVMM but I find it difficult to understand the difference. :unsure:

Could you please advise on what would be best for my case?

 

Many thanks

Hi,

 

You could consider XenServer from citrix which is free (with some limitation).

 

Anyway, Hyper-v is the "program" to virtualize VMs, SCVMM is more something to manage many VMs spread on your network and also to monitor clouding services and so on. Basically I think this is the main difference.

Thanks a lot ICTCity.

 

I understand now.

 

Having a non-english mother-tongue, I got confused with Microsoft's description on their website.

I'm not english mother language too, what's your mother language?

Greek. :thumbsup:

 

I am looking into getting an 8core server and split it into 4 virtual machines using Hyper-V.

Citrix was considered but I've heard that VM's crash for no reason quite regularly so I thought not to bother with it.

 

One is going to run Windows server 2008

One will be for Sharepoint

One for SQL

And the fourth one maybe a print server.

 

Dealing mainly with Linux OS, I have quite a lot of learning to do before and after setting this server up. :wallbash:

 

and also that is the reason I registered with this forum because I will be needing help :unsure:

 

If you have any books to recommend, please let me know. I am thinking to get "Mastering Active Directory 2008" because active directory is the main reason

we are getting a windows server 2008.

I don't speak Greek... But I was curious :)

 

I've installed xenserver many times but I never heard about "random crash".

 

Be sure to plan the storage, trust me, this is the most important part.

 

Regarding books, don't waste your time with specific topic. I read that book and... Yeah it rules but actually in real world is useless. Buy mastering windows server, you can learn more :)

Very late reply but thank you for your help.:)

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