It's not supported ..but..

re: It's not supported ..but..

Steve — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:16:12 GMT

Fabulatech's Serial over network product will not run in a 64 bit enviorment. At least v5.5 does not.

re: It's not supported ..but..

Joe_Raby — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:58:56 GMT

"if you want SBS 2008 to act as the VMM host then use Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1"

Is that even supported?

Besides the actual hardware virtualization (it's emulated in VServer, but hardware VT support accelerates it a bit), what is different in performance and isolation? VServer should be much slower than Hyper-V BECAUSE it's emulated hardware....

What is the deal with having to isolate a parent partition? Unless load-balancing between VM's is a major concern, what is the reasoning behind it? There's not a lot of explanation about it. I know the networking stack gets royally messed in SBS 2008, but what about other OS's? Would it be possible to implement Hyper-V with Windows Vista as an alternate to Virtual PC, barring the built-in system requirement restrictions?

re: It's not supported ..but..

Chris Knight — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:56:25 GMT

SBS 2008 on bare metal and be done with it.

If you must virtualise SBS and want SBSised backup + faxing wait for Hyper-V 2.0/3.0 (or whatever release they decide to virtualise USB, etc).

And if you want SBS 2008 to act as the VMM host then use Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1.

Be aware that virtualising on VMware (either as a parent partition, host or guest) means that PSS may ask you to replicate the problem on bare metal. Only products that are listed on the Server Virtualisation Validation Program are supported. See support.microsoft.com/.../897615 for more details. So far only ESX is validated, which most SMBs are unlikely to fork out money for.

re: It's not supported ..but..

Amy B — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:55:59 GMT

There's a very big reason why a consultant should not install the hyper-v role on SBS 2008. It's not supported. Ignoring that is setting up your client for failure and a technology failure could result in business failure. It's not ethical to recommend an unsupported scenario. Anyone doing this had better be certain that their client is fully aware of the implications.