Hey Folks,
Wondering if you guys can clarify something for me if you've run into this before. Working with a small office that I'm trying to get inline. They currently have no central server, with 8 employees, and a new piece of software they asked me to install on a workstation and share out to the other users. I put the stop to that, saying its something I can't support. (the software itself recommends being run on a server, but the salesperson told them they could run it on a workstation... yeah, I don't trust Salesmen).
So anyway, I'm looking to see what I can get in there that's reasonably priced. but I'm getting conflicting stories from Microsoft if Server 2012 R2 Essentials can run the Hyper V role. Which will be used to run 1 VM to run the software. (using Hyper-V with 1 VM under it will allow me to back this up to a synology NAS using Veeam for easy restores in case it goes down).
I found this comparison for 2012 R2, showing that Essentials doesn't support Hyper V, but CAN be run in a VM (I'm guessing if you wanted to run this under ESXi, or under a Standard 2012 R2 Hyper V setup.)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ser...ows-server-2012-r2-essentials/comparison.aspx
However, I also found this Article, dated 2013, that seems to conflict with that, saying Hyper-V has been expanded to now work on Server Essentials.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com...he-windows-server-essentials-experience-role/
Can anyone clarify?
Thanks in advance!
Wondering if you guys can clarify something for me if you've run into this before. Working with a small office that I'm trying to get inline. They currently have no central server, with 8 employees, and a new piece of software they asked me to install on a workstation and share out to the other users. I put the stop to that, saying its something I can't support. (the software itself recommends being run on a server, but the salesperson told them they could run it on a workstation... yeah, I don't trust Salesmen).
So anyway, I'm looking to see what I can get in there that's reasonably priced. but I'm getting conflicting stories from Microsoft if Server 2012 R2 Essentials can run the Hyper V role. Which will be used to run 1 VM to run the software. (using Hyper-V with 1 VM under it will allow me to back this up to a synology NAS using Veeam for easy restores in case it goes down).
I found this comparison for 2012 R2, showing that Essentials doesn't support Hyper V, but CAN be run in a VM (I'm guessing if you wanted to run this under ESXi, or under a Standard 2012 R2 Hyper V setup.)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ser...ows-server-2012-r2-essentials/comparison.aspx
However, I also found this Article, dated 2013, that seems to conflict with that, saying Hyper-V has been expanded to now work on Server Essentials.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com...he-windows-server-essentials-experience-role/
Can anyone clarify?
Thanks in advance!