Have some VMware experience but completely new to Hyper V. We have a new DL380 G9 server we want to install Hyper V on so we can use & learn on in-house for future installs. Have a question about install & licensing as well as any best practices docs/links/suggestions that are relevant. Maybe not asking my searches right but not finding the docs I am interested in.
Hyper V appears to install somewhat differently than ESX or VSphere. Understand that Server 2012 R2 Standard licenses you for one physical or 2 Hyper V servers. Do you just install Server 2012 R2 Standard and then enable the Hyper V Role to allow for creation of your 2 Hyper V Hosts? If so does the "physical" install take one of the available licenses with an end result of (1) Physical & (1) Hyper V server?
Anticipated test platform install
DL380 G9, 1P 8core, 32GBRAM
2x146GB 15K SAS drives RAID1 for initial OS install
3x300GB 10K SAS drives RAID5 for Hyper V installs
Expect 2 initial Hyper V Hosts with a max of 4 - test platform for learning only
Any thoughts, suggestions, docs, best practices, etc welcome.