ESXi and Hyper-V Server are quite similar. Both can't be managed from the host. ESXi requires vSphere and Hyper V needs Hyper-V Manager.
They're not tied to Windows Server. You are free to move them to other installation of Hyper-V. Do you have any server licenses currently? e.g. Server 2008R2?
If you're considering MultiPoint, I would get the full Server 2012 Standard instead since you get two instances. Then you can also use the full Server 2012 as the host. Have a Server 2012 VM acting as a terminal server. You also get your test Server 2012 VM. Then you can add the remainder of your virtual machines.
Thanks. Good to know that I can move the VM images from host to host. I do have a license of 2008 R2.
So let me make sure I have this straight:
- Install Server 2012 R2 Std on the physical machine as the host OS. This would be the domain controller, file server, DHCP server, etc.
- Create a Server 2012 R2 Std virtual machine on the host above using the same license as the host. This VM would act as a Terminal Server. This means that I don't need Microsoft Multiserver because this VM would do the same thing?
- I could create a third Server 2012 R2 (Std or otherwise) VM to play around with, but I would need an additional license for this instance, as well as any other VM's that i create.
Do I have this right?
