Yes. I think this is already becoming a recommendation in SBS-world. It makes the whole SBS restoration process (which includes Exchange, Sharepoint, SQL Server) easier
Cheers Ken From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 11:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V This brings up something I thought about when first heard of this licensing model....would there be any reason for a small shop not to buy a server, throw 2008 Server Hyper-V on it, then throw a VM'd 2008 Server OS on top of that to run the daily business? From a DR standpoint this would make it easy as a restore could go onto anything running Hyper-V, right? Seems like a painless way to do a "restore" to dissimilar hardware, as you could bring up the VM's OS and then just load whatever drivers you need - or am I overlooking something? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 4:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V The standard licenses that I received from MS came with two Product Keys - one for installing the physical host, and one for installing a VM. Not sure what type of license these where (retail, NFR, whatever), but if those are what you have, then you can install a Hyper-V host, and then use the same license to give yourself the first guest machine. Cheers Ken ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
