If you have 2016, may as well use that. There are certain hardware requirements. You can look at those here and find out when you install it.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...stem-requirements-for-hyper-v-on-windows

1GB seems like very little RAM. You can go P2P if you want. Makes a lot of sense to set up a hypervisor and VMs on a P2P. But, if you have a P2P, it probably goes without saying you aren't running server hardware.

As far as backup software, yep, you generally install on the host. OR...you can install it on a separate server running Windows Server 2016. Cool.

Bert
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