virtualization Hyper-V On Enterprise

[HellowGames]

Just Wanting to talk about Hyper-V Virtualization on Enterprise hardware.

Things like old Dell Poweredge R610's running windows 10 with Hyper-V?

Dell R620 Overkill for virtualization for a startup?

Differences between Hyper-V as an operating system and\or running as an application.

Feature differences between Hyper-V on Windows Server and on Windows Pro installations.

 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Hyper-v its self doesn't need much resources. The resources it needs are basically the total off the resoucres needed by all the vms. Atleast for me, the priority when running vms is normally ram, then disk speed, then cpu for something like a homelab, but really depends on your useage.

 

Hyper-v server is just windows server with only hyper-v on it. Run this if you only need hyper-v. Its the same hypervisor(well a couple of extra features like live migration and pcie passthrough) as windows 10 hpyer-v.

 

31 minutes ago, HellowGames said:

Dell R620 Overkill for virtualization for a startup? 

Got a list of vms you want to run?

 

31 minutes ago, HellowGames said:

Differences between Hyper-V as an operating system and\or running as an application.

hyper-v always runs as a type 1 hypervisor built into the kernel, so it doesn't run as a app.

[HellowGames]

This is for the most part things I have done or are working on at the moment although I was curious what conversation it would turn up.

As for the list of VM's it is a lot of video trans-code servers for a platform build similar to float-plane that I am working on as a full stack development coding project with custom web and application servers.

What I am referring to about the Windows Hyper-V Server OS is the pain that they are to connect to if it is not setup in a active directory domain, while I found out that Hyper-V could be enabled as a "feature" (In Kernel) in windows 10 pro with a relativity inexpensive license (compared to windows server) and reached by RDP, although I recently got my hands on some windows server licenses and am exploring some of the added features. (Mostly GPU Acceleration and Live Migration)

 

I posted this post to find some people who are also working on home labs and\or large coding projects to share some experience and ask some questions. Thanks for the Reply Electronics Wizardy  

[HellowGames]

I was wondering what spec is your home lab and what do you run?

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, HellowGames said:

I was wondering what spec is your home lab and what do you run?

 

 main 24/7 server is a old isilon x200 with dual l5640s, 64gb of ram, 24tb of hdds+ 4tb of ssds + 10gbe. I have proxmox on it, pretty good hypervisor.

 

Running a full ad setup with clients on there + a few linux vms.

 

Why do you want hyper-v anyways? I have found it makes pretty good sense in a windows enviroment, but if you mostly running a linux stack, something like proxmox, esxi or others make more sense to me.

[HellowGames]

My Setup is

2X- Dell R610 with Dual Intel X5680 + 48GB DDR3 + 1TB SSD +10GBE

1X- Custom with AMD Ryzen 5 1600 + 32GB DDR4 + 2TB NVME SSD + 10TB Redundant HDD +10GBE

 

The reason I run Hyper-V on the R610's is that in my unique situation I have to use wifi adapters to connect to the internet (the drivers do not exist on linux after countless hours of searching) with a separate LAN connected at 10GBE through a Mikrotik switch.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, HellowGames said:

The reason I run Hyper-V on the R610's is that in my unique situation I have to use wifi adapters to connect to the internet (the drivers do not exist on linux after countless hours of searching) with a separate LAN connected at 10GBE through a Mikrotik switch.

why not have a wifi bridge that connects to the swtich so the servers don't have to have wifi? You can get those pretty cheap.

 

Or just use pcie passthrough for the wifi cards. What model are they anyways, wifi cards are pretty cheap

[HellowGames]

I have looked into a WiFi bridge and sadly haven't had good luck finding a reliable one.

The WiFi cards are Netgear A6100 USB cards.

I know it is an awful solution but it will change soon but until then I will look into the bridge.

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 minutes ago, HellowGames said:

I have looked into a WiFi bridge and sadly haven't had good luck finding a reliable one.

The WiFi cards are Netgear A6100 USB cards.

I know it is an awful solution but it will change soon but until then I will look into the bridge.

here is a quick amazon search, these should all work here https://www.amazon.com/wireless-wired-bridge/s?k=wireless+to+wired+bridge

 

WHy not get a pcie wifi card, there much better.

 

Also usb passthrough to a vm is super easy, did you try that?

[HellowGames]

I must say I completely forgot about USB pass through on proxmox  because of using hyper-v so heavily, if you happen to know of a guide that would show the basics that way I don't mess it up.

[HellowGames]

Although can you pass through the same USB card to multiple VM's?

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, HellowGames said:

I must say I completely forgot about USB pass through on proxmox  because of using hyper-v so heavily, if you happen to know of a guide that would show the basics that way I don't mess it up.

Here is their guide, super simple https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/USB_Devices_in_Virtual_Machines#Simple_Way:_pass_the_USB_device_ID_to_the_guest

[HellowGames]

I must ask what do you do? If I may.

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

15 minutes ago, HellowGames said:

I must ask what do you do? If I may.

 

currently work for a small company and run IT(I do most things now, like servers, networking, printers(eww), helpdesk). Still in college and IDK where to go from here. If your curious, I run hyper-v at work.

[HellowGames]

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