Hyper-V

[centelo]

Dumb it down for me a little, for some reason this is not clicking for me. Hyper-V is a VPS type setup right? Is this for individuals, resellers or both?

[Frankie]

Hyper-V is Microsoft's answer to virtualisation. It seems to offer a way to run virtual machines, offer access to virtual hardware somehow. It allows you to run more than one operating system alongside each other so it should work both for VPS and I would guess for resellers? I'm trying to understand myself.

[Divine Angel]

Hyper-V, It was previously named as Viridian, It uses Hypervisor based technology. It provides high availability, scalability, and reliability to your Hyper-V-VPS.

Hypervisor is the core component of Hypervisor based technology, Hyper-V. Hypervisor is that part which creates a very thin layer between the operating system which allows more than one operating system to run and the hardware simultaneously on a computer.

[carl owen]

Originally Posted by Frankie

It allows you to run more than one operating system alongside each other so it should work both for VPS and I would guess for resellers? I'm trying to understand myself.

Nope, you will be able to run only one operating system on Hyper-V VPS and that is Windows 2008 operating system.

Hyper-V is a Virtualization application by Microsoft for creating VPS's on Dedicated Servers. For better understanding, Hyper-V is a Virtualization application just like Virtuozzo, however, Virtuozzo offers Software Virtualization, whereas, Hyper-V offers Hardware Virtualization.

Hope this helps

[Frankie]

My apologies. My statement was based on this qupte;

"efficiently run multiple different operating systems in parallel, on a single server, and fully leverage the power of x64 computing." on this page;

Windows Server 2008 R2: Virtualization with Hyper-V: Home

Clearly I am misunderstanding this, so if you have any other resources for learning more about Hyper V, I would appreciate being pointed in the right direction.

[centelo]

Viridian. That is what confused me, I was reading some crazy site that had them listed as different things. Ugg, why do people do that? Let it be known as both rather than confusing new people like this.

[carl owen]

Originally Posted by Frankie

My apologies. My statement was based on this qupte;

"efficiently run multiple different operating systems in parallel, on a single server, and fully leverage the power of x64 computing." on this page;

Windows Server 2008 R2: Virtualization with Hyper-V: Home

Clearly I am misunderstanding this, so if you have any other resources for learning more about Hyper V, I would appreciate being pointed in the right direction.

It actually means that you can consider a Dedicated Server with Windows Operating system, install Hyper-V on it and with the help of that Hyper-V Virtualization application, you can create multiple VPS's on the Dedicated Server (the number of VPS's you can create depends on certain factors out of which the most important factor is the configuration of the Windows Dedicated Server on which Hyper-V is installed ).

Once you have created VPS's on the Dedicated Server using Hyper-V, it will be possible for you to install any operating system on the VPS's

Originally Posted by centelo

Viridian. That is what confused me, I was reading some crazy site that had them listed as different things. Ugg, why do people do that? Let it be known as both rather than confusing new people like this.

It is recommended that you do not trust websites which do not appear to provide useful and correct information. You can refer the official websites of the applications you are looking forward to as they provide useful and relevant information.

I hope all the doubts have been cleared

Please feel free to post if you have more questions.

[Caddie]

Carl_Owen, I do have more questions. I am actually fully confused now. I was under the impression that VPS and HyperV were the same basically. Instead, HyperV is actually creating multiple VPS setups and running them all on one dedicated setup?

[Martin]

Originally Posted by Caddie

Carl_Owen, I do have more questions. I am actually fully confused now. I was under the impression that VPS and HyperV were the same basically. Instead, HyperV is actually creating multiple VPS setups and running them all on one dedicated setup?

Let us put it in this way:- A normal VPS and HyperV VPS are 2 different types of VPS with different virtualization platforms. Multiple VPSs are created on one Dedicated Server. Similarly, multiple HyperV VPSs are created on one Dedicated Server. However, both these have different server, they can't be setup on same main server. Simply, because of virtualization platform and the Operating System. Both have different OS.

[carl owen]

Originally Posted by Caddie

Carl_Owen, I do have more questions. I am actually fully confused now. I was under the impression that VPS and HyperV were the same basically. Instead, HyperV is actually creating multiple VPS setups and running them all on one dedicated setup?

There is a difference between a normal VPS and Hyper-V VPS.

Multiple VPS's are created on a single dedicated server using a Virtualization application. There are different Virtualization applications available for creating VPS's on dedicated servers. If a Virtualization application except Hyper-V is used to create VPS's, the VPS's created will be simply known as a VPS.

Now, if Hyper-V Virtualization application is used to create VPS's on a single dedicated server, the VPS's created are known as Hyper-V VPS's

[Hezekiah Omar]

VPS's created using Virtuozzo are commonly known as a VPS, where as those created using Microsofts HyperV are called HyperV VPS. There is wide difference between both the technologies though. Virtuozzo is a software virtualization technique while HyperV is a hardware virtualization software. There are also,some difference in the resource availability.

[carl owen]

Originally Posted by Hezekiah Omar

VPS's created using Virtuozzo are commonly known as a VPS

There are other Virtualization applications available which can be used to create VPS's on Dedicated Servers and those VPS's are also known as normal VPS's, however, Virtuozzo is certainly one of the best due to the features it offers.

[Caddie]

Thanks for laying that out for us. lol That is a LOT of Vs and VPSs. I have heard nothing but positive things about Virtuozzo and the amount of capabilities it offers. I have a bunch of "V" notes now!

[Frankie]

So hyper V is simply the virtualisation software application that is used to create the (hyper v) VPSs? It acts as the application layer between the hardware and the virtual machines?