Fedora on Hyper V

[Tbirdkid]

So, I am downloading the latest version of fedora to use for some tools on my hyperv host server. It will be for monitoring my network.

Thoughts, opinions, ideas, tips?

 

[yinan]

Hyper-V sucks, use ESXi.

 

[classy]

I use to run Fedora on Microsoft Virtual Server, so I would have to assume it will run in hyper-v without a hitch.

 

[Tbirdkid]

yinan, if you needed the amount of virtual servers i need, you would go hyperv too. the cost of vmware is outrageous. dont get me wrong, it is by far better, when your business can afford it.

 

[quikah]

Hyper-V Linux integration components are only officially supported on SLES and RHEL. I haven't tried them on Fedora, so no idea if they work or not. They should, but who knows. I would keep them at 1vCPU only to minimize any chance of problems, you shouldn't need SMP for just monitoring tools.

 

[Chiropteran]

yinan, if you needed the amount of virtual servers i need, you would go hyperv too. the cost of vmware is outrageous. dont get me wrong, it is by far better, when your business can afford it.

ESXi is free.

 

[Nothinman]

yinan, if you needed the amount of virtual servers i need, you would go hyperv too. the cost of vmware is outrageous. dont get me wrong, it is by far better, when your business can afford it.

As mentioned, ESXi is free and the virtualization licenses that MS gives you with Windows apply to it as well. So unless you need all of the higher-end features and support you get from licensing ESX you should be fine.

But if you're really stuck on Hyper-V you'd probably be better of going with CentOS since it's virtually the same as RHEL.

 

[GhettoFob]

It's called VMware vSphere Hypervisor now, but it's still free.

 

[Emulex]

how the heck do you manage esxi 4.1 free? i've never tried a free copy. just curious. like how would you do a migrate (vm and host) to another server?

 

[RebateMonger]

how the heck do you manage esxi 4.1 free? i've never tried a free copy. just curious. like how would you do a migrate (vm and host) to another server?

I have very little experience with VMWare's stuff, other than attending occasional seminars. But I believe their management software (vSphere) is free for a single host server. It's only when you get into multiple hosts that you have to pay for it.

http://blogs.vmware.com/esxi/2009/06/esxi-vs-esx-a-comparison-of-features.html

 

[GhettoFob]

how the heck do you manage esxi 4.1 free? i've never tried a free copy. just curious. like how would you do a migrate (vm and host) to another server?

You'd need to buy vCenter for the fancier stuff (vMotion/DRS/HA/etc..). ESXi would just let you run the VMs.

 

[Chiropteran]

You'd need to buy vCenter for the fancier stuff (vMotion/DRS/HA/etc..). ESXi would just let you run the VMs.

Yes. But you can still move VM servers without the "fancy stuff". If you are moving from different versions of virtualization or from physical to virtual, you can use the free VMware converter. If you are moving a VMware virtual server from one VMware product to ESXi you can probably just copy the VM files directly to your ESXi datastore and run them from there, I have done this once and didn't have any issues although using VMware converter is probably safer.

Management is done through the VMware Vsphere client, which you can download by pointing a web browser to your ESXi host.

 

[yinan]

The licensing costs for VMware are well worth it. If you want to actually manage Hyper-V hosts then you need MS VMM which is not free either. The VMware platform is just better and more mature than MS' offerings right now. You probably dont even come close to managing the amount of virtual machines as I do, ~20000. So I do know what I am talking about.