I have been doing a lot of research on Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 and my Rackable server.
I have a 2U Rackable Server 2x Intel Xeon Quad Core E5345 2.33Ghz 8GB that I would like to install Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 on to work as a small VM server for my router(pfSense) and secondary DC and DNS server.
I have not tried this on the hardware yet due to limited access and I would like to figure out if its possible before trying it.
I have three main questions:
1. Can I install and use Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 on a Xeon E5345. Looking at ARK it is x64 with VT-x but it does not have EPT. I had ESXi 5.1 on it before without a problem but I know Hyper-V is a lot more picky.
2. I know it is possible to install Hyper-V on USB drive and boot from that link. Would this be ok for this use case? Would it work on this server?
2. If not would it be ok to have the VM store on the have spinning drive as the OS?
I have not done much with Hyper-V and would like to try it with my older server, if this can't work I will just use ESXi 5.5.
Thanks,
ARTbird309
I have a 2U Rackable Server 2x Intel Xeon Quad Core E5345 2.33Ghz 8GB that I would like to install Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 on to work as a small VM server for my router(pfSense) and secondary DC and DNS server.
I have not tried this on the hardware yet due to limited access and I would like to figure out if its possible before trying it.
I have three main questions:
1. Can I install and use Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 on a Xeon E5345. Looking at ARK it is x64 with VT-x but it does not have EPT. I had ESXi 5.1 on it before without a problem but I know Hyper-V is a lot more picky.
2. I know it is possible to install Hyper-V on USB drive and boot from that link. Would this be ok for this use case? Would it work on this server?
2. If not would it be ok to have the VM store on the have spinning drive as the OS?
I have not done much with Hyper-V and would like to try it with my older server, if this can't work I will just use ESXi 5.5.
Thanks,
ARTbird309