PowerEdge 1850 (or 1750/750) and windows 2008 with hyper-V

Hyper-V in Server 2008 is a whole other beast than VMWare Server.  You will notice in the Hyper-V role event log that is complains the bios is not set for virtualization.  This is talking about support for virtualization which is built right onto the processor, not the ability to just run vmware.  Think of true virtualization is sharing of actual resources.  WMWare Server works because is creates a "generic" machine that can be used to run an OS, where everything "passes through" the host OS.   Unfortunately, the 1850 does not have processor virtualization support as intel did not include support on the processors at the time.  The 1950 iii support Hyper-V only after you edit the CPU Information in the Bios and enable the Virtualization feature. Hope this helps!

tnx, for quick reply..

 

Now I know that I cant use 1850 for Hyper-V, thats "bad", but I can use vmware insted...

Greetings Eddie

 

 

i have VMWare server installed on a couple 1850's wihtout any problems. As always, setup on up in a test environment and make sure all is good before going production.

Yes, i have also 1750, 1850, 1950 and up, in vmware lab/prod. and this is working _very_ good.

 

The challange is, that my company is Microsoft's right hand, and we are die'ing to sell MS produkts.

 

Since windows 2008 and hyper-v does not run on etc 1850, witch is not that old, i will having problems seeing where I actually can use Hyper-V instead of vmware.

 

I think this is very bad.

 

I undertand that the chipset inside the CPU prefereed a spescial chipset to use hyper-v, but IF MS want to start competite vmware, they should have made a hyper-v version that runs on 1850. :-)

 

I guess you know what i mean. :-)

 

TNX for god information.

 

 

Greetings Edward

I know exactly where you are coming from.  As for a product which is similar to VMWare from Microsoft you can use Virtual Server 2005 R2 on the 1850, but it only supports 32 bit & getting a non Wintel OS to install is like pulling teeth.  I think MS is just trying to compete with VMware higher end products with Hyper-V.