Thanks all. That's the route I'm going then. I wanted to try the VM's on Hyper-V Server 2012 because I didn't want the VM's tied to any one version of Windows Server, but it's proving to be challenging (for me, at least). The lack of GUI and name resolution issues requires a good amount of experience to overcome. But maybe I can move these VM images from host to host pretty easily? I know I can do that with VMWare.
There are people who say ESXi is a much more straightforward affair, but I think Sandeep mentioned that the backups are more of a challenge in this setting.
