I have a friend who works on Azure and yet I always forget it exists...Microsoft does offer a good solution for Windows-based servers through it.
Sent from my iPhone On Mar 3, 2016, at 10:18 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Rackspace can do this and so can Azure. What size VM you need is dependent on a number of things (disk, ram, proc, etc.). ...and I'm not commenting on legality at this juncture. Like Jack said - $80/month doesn't suck. For this. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jack Kramer Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2016 7:24 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: VPS Hosting recommendations You would need a Windows Server license. Datacenter is required to share hardware, so you'd be consuming a license from your provider. Otherwise if you wanted to dedicate hardware you could simply use Standard. 80/month is pretty cheap for hosting a full VM somewhere honestly--you might not be able to beat that. On Mar 3, 2016, at 7:03 PM, Neil Standley <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >From what I've been reading vCloud Air is not doing well and may be shutting >down soon. Wowrack may have an option for me but as you mentioned it doesn't >sound like it's cheap, around $80/month. I'm no licensing guru so maybe someone can answer this for me. Would it be possible to purchase a new retail license and run with that after the p2v? From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jack Kramer Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2016 2:50 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: VPS Hosting recommendations Any place using VMware products will be able to accommodate, but you might not be a big fan of the pricing. Most of the light-duty VPS places are actually using jailing instead of true virtualization, so they can't handle separate operating systems. And they tend to be Linux-based. VMware offers a service themselves (vCloud Air) and Verizon Terremark offers a vCloud-based service. Not sure of other providers off the top of my head-Rackspace maybe? AWS possibly as well. Ultimately it will be fairly expensive to host a Windows VM somewhere else. As an aside: the Windows license on the machine your client is using also won't accommodate being converted to a VM, or being hosted on shared hardware. That may be part of the reluctance of the providers you've spoken to. On Mar 3, 2016, at 5:42 PM, Neil Standley <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: To expand on my request.... The requirement I'm having trouble with most is finding providers that will allow me to upload the client's virtual machine to host in their infrastructure. I've been looking, and have called several providers but with the exception of 1and1 they've all said no. TIA, Neil From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Neil Standley Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2016 2:32 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] VPS Hosting recommendations We have a dental practice client who is shutting down his business and wants to convert his Windows 7 "server" in to a VM and have it hosted somewhere. So far I've found 1and1.com<http://1and1.com/> can accommodate this, but I wasn't overly impressed by their sales people so I'm hoping some of you have recommendations. Thanks, Neil
