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Can the free version do what you need? Frodooftheshire Feb 11, at UTC. Ben Feb 12, at UTC. Supaplex This person is a verified professional. Replace Attachment. Add link Text to display: Where should this link go? Add Cancel. Insert code. Join me to this group. Read these next Skip Ribbon Commands.

Skip to main content. Turn off Animations. Turn on Animations. View program details. The Dannon Project is an IT service provider. I've used all 3 - I have a certain spot for Citrix XenServer since you get enterprise class for 0 bucks vs Free ESXi but again your Backup options aren't limited just have to make adjustments thats all. Here was a guide that got me going :. I have about 7 VM's running and only a few more to go. I plan on getting up to 3 Host Machines and getting the non profit discount for about bucks for Essentials and then a Windows Server Data Center License or a few server licenses from Tech Soup.

Then support is worth more than you paid for it. And VMWare's support is great. True - but its hard to debate that they have excellent tutorial videos unlike VMware that walk you through the install process.

It is bullet proof. I would recommend installing any hypervisor to a USB drive 8 GB or better and make a copy of that drive.

Kinda hard to have something go wrong after you point to a datastore for a basic install. Citrix XenServer is completely free without any limitations except for support you pay for that either way. It has all the same features as VMware plus if you ever go with any other citrix products you are only working with 1 vendor. Brand Representative for StarWind. ESXi install is pretty brain dead. One thing I don't like about Hyper-V and Linux is the "Integration services degraded" even though according to Microsoft they are fully functioning.

For something not mission critical, or being nice-to-have, I would certainly consider Hyper-V if you don't have an existing virtual infrastructure. As for Clustering I've run into some issues with Microsoft's clustering when it comes to doing updates. I also had to make some edits which ended with me killing the cluster entirely, and rebuilding it. May have been my mistake, but it still happened. Once it was running it did fine, failover worked perfect between my hosts, I was on shared storage with our SAN though.

No experience with a shared-nothing migration. I doubt you would need Essentials Plus, so that puts you at Essentials as the next step up in VMware. Just thought I'd mention that as you don't go into any detail about the hardware specs of your host. To me, it looks like you've put a lot of energy into learning VMware and it just doesn't make a lot of sense to start all over with Hyper-V. Depending on the discount, you might consider just buying the Essentials Plus then you have it if you want to put in a second host for some of the advanced features.

This comparison table may help you decide. For an install of your size, the choice is almost irrelevant. Hyper-V has come a long way in features, and for smaller setups 3 or less hosts, without shared storage any of the choices will do what you want. I get the desire to go to Hyper-V just for the learning experience, and I would encourage you to do that.

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