Hi thanks to everyone that replied ! I have a working solution as we used Vmware products before that's why I went down this route
I though with Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 you needed licenses for the clients to connect as we are running a mix of 2k and 2003 servers I gave this a miss, as we will have a number of people connecting to these virtual machines I want the bare metal route as we cant spend anything at the moment And our thinking was that bare metal would have less overhead and therefore allow us to run more machines on the same host Thanks for all the replies Regards Nigel -----Original Message----- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: 19 September 2011 17:10 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtualisation software For Bare Metal + Free, I think your only options are ESXi and XenServer. For nearly Bare Metal + Free, check out: Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 - http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=3512 ProxmoxVE - http://pve.proxmox.com/ We ended up using Hyper-V, but not the "nearly bare-metal" one linked above. We decided to use the full install of Windows Server and run Hyper-V on top so we could keep the ease of use functionality, 3rd party network and RAID management compatibility, and it wasn't _that_ much more headroom to have the full windows experience. The fact that the licensing allows us to the host server "for free" is nice, too. See: http://www.quicklearn.us/library/Virtualization.Windows-Server-2008-R2-V irtualization-Licensing.ashx Proxmox looks awesome for a linux based VM server. I recommend you try this one only if you're planning a small scale deployment, as they don't have any good clustering support, yet. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Nigel Parker [mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:16:57 -0700 Subject: Virtualisation software > Hi > I am looking for some Bare metal Virtualisation software the criteria I > have been given is that it must be > FREE! > > I looked on Vmware website and although they list > VMware vSphere Hypervisor > As Free it seem the product when I installed it said It was a 60 day > version - they gave me a serial number and I tired to follow the docs > about entering it however I didn't have the icon on my client to select > and install the license > > Is the product still free - > Do you have to run it for 60 days before you can enter the serial number > > Have I finally lost it ? > > Help would be appreciated > > Nigel Parker > > Systems Engineer > Ultraframe (UK) Ltd > Tel: 01200 452329 > Fax: 01200 452201 > Web: <www.ultraframe.com> > Email: <mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk> > > > Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > > The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not > represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. > This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is > confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended > recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you > are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or > other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is > prohibited and unlawful. > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
