Hyper-V Server vs Hyper-V Role

Hi

Is there a difference between having your cluster nodes running hyper-v host running hyper-v server versus windows server 2012 r2 hyper-v server role as far as capabilities are concerned?

September 14th, 2015 9:04am

Hi Alberto

Generally there is no difference Hyper-V feature wise. However, Hyper-V Server has no GUI, and as such will run only as Core edition. But other than that, you can join domains, run VMs highly-available with Windows Failover Clustering and have SANs attached via MPIO.

Good luck

Lyndon

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September 14th, 2015 10:53am

This is where there are caveots.

Hyper-V is Hyper-V.  The difference of Hyper-V Server vs Server with Hyper-V is primarily licensing - VM licensing is a consideration.

In regards to SCVMM - there are some small actions that SCVMM cannot perform with Hyper-V Server that it can perform with Windows Server with Hyper-V.

These are mainly actions impacting VM deployment with Service Templates in specific scenarios.

September 14th, 2015 11:20am

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