I have a dual quad running my HV box...with four VM's...still hardly any processor utilization...I need to add another 4 or 5 virtual servers to that box. I'm really impressed with HV so far...and still haven't gotten around to playing the SCVMM. Has anyone installed that tool on their HV server?
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Joseph L. Casale < [email protected]> wrote: > You _*can*_ do whatever you wish the host, but it's my opinion that it > should it be segregated to a manglement network and ran completely vanilla. > > > > Whatever you do to the host introduces any potential failure or instability > for all the guests. If your host is busy chugging away, it effects all the > guests as well. > > > > jlc > > > > *From:* Reimer, Mark [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, December 19, 2008 9:54 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 > > > > Hi folks, > > > > Quick question that my googling hasn't answered for me. > > > > I understand the theory of Hyper-V, and that the first VM is the "parent". > > > > My question is: Can/Should the parent be used as a regular VM (file server, > web server or whatever I want to do with it), or should it just be the OS? > > > > I'm assuming it can/should be a VM (file server, web server whatever), but > being the first VM, will also help control the hardware/VM setup etc. As > such, the first VM should run Windows Server 2008. Other VM's can run W2K8, > but can run other OS's (in my case, I would only use W2K3) as well. Correct? > > > > Am I way off base, or is this basically it? > > > > Thanks for any advice, and have a great Christmas. > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
