{"id":12769,"date":"2012-06-11T20:58:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T19:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12769"},"modified":"2012-06-11T20:58:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T19:58:32","slug":"ssssh-there-is-a-hyper-v-server-2012-release-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12769","title":{"rendered":"Ssssh! There Is A Hyper-V Server 2012 Release Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: Microsoft announced the new licensing for Windows Server 2012 since this post. \u00a0Check out the licensing scenarios here<\/a>. \u00a0And note that Hyper-V is free anyway if you are legally licensing your Windows Server VMs. \u00a0Hyper-V Server has a place, but usually not when running Windows Server VMs.<\/em><\/p>\n

I was downloading some stuff from TechNet for the lab at home when I noticed this:<\/p>\n

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In fact, I nearly accidentally downloaded it \u2026 ick! \"Winking I didn\u2019t read anything about this release at all.<\/p>\n

Hyper-V Server is the free to download hypervisor from Microsoft.\u00a0 Licensing-wise, it has a teeny tiny niche market.\u00a0 That\u2019s because you never license VMs for Windows Server, even with VMware or XenServer; you license hosts with Standard (usually SBS Premium), Enterprise (very small site), or Datacenter (makes sense financially with around 7 or more VMs per host).\u00a0 And if you license the host + VMs with one of those, then you might as well use it.\u00a0 I prefer the full install, even in WS2012, and others who like Core can flip back\/forth to the GUI in WS2012.<\/p>\n

Where Hyper-V Server does have a place is:<\/p>\n