Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019 Features and Limitation

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Dear all,&nbsp;I would like to understand the&nbsp;Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019 Free Version Features and Limitation. Is it support Fail-Over Cluster and Cluster Set?&nbsp;Thank you and best regards,Natthaphol.

dave patrick · Answer

Something here may help.
How to set up and manage a Hyper-V Failover Cluster, Step by step (altaro.com)
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aliortul · Answer

Natthaphol Suntudkarn&nbsp;&nbsp;Hello Natthaphol Hyper-v is completely free. It's comes from with Windows Server licences. You can use 2 Hyper-V virtual machine with your base licence.&nbsp;&nbsp;And you can use for free and configure as cluster. The pricable one is System Center Virtual Machine Manager SCVMM

smpreston162 · Answer

Seems like there is a lot of confusion here,&nbsp; windows Hyper-V Server is based on a stripped-down version of windows server 2019 or whatever the main LTS server channel is at the time.&nbsp;When you download the ISO&nbsp; it will install just like windows server 2019 but will have the Hyper-V kernel running by default, but with standard and Datacenter this does not occur until the Hyper-V role is enabled on standard or Datacenter the&nbsp; OS becomes what is called the root partition. SIde not Microsoft did a push to the Linux kernel for Hyper-V that would allow the root partition to be Linux instead of windows.Other features that would normally be available in a windows server 2019 standard or datacenter will be missing such as AD, Storage Spaces Direct on Windows Hyper-V Server.&nbsp; However standard storage spaces will be available as well as&nbsp; Failover Clustering.&nbsp; The thing with the Windows Hyper-V server is that the guest OSs are not licensed.&nbsp; With the server 2019 standard you get two Guest licenses and the data center edition, grants you an unlimited number of guest licenses.&nbsp; &nbsp; If you plan to not run a VDI solution&nbsp; IE win10&nbsp; or Linux on top of it the cost of licensing each VM becomes cost-prohibitive vs just obtaining a standard or Datacenter License.

dave patrick · Answer

It's comes from with Windows Server licences. You can use 2 Hyper-V virtual machine with your base licence.&nbsp;

Completely false info here. The hypervisor does not need activation but in order to run windows on hyper-v server you'll need to license and activate.
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aliortul · Answer

Dave Patrick&nbsp;&nbsp;Hi Dave which information is false can you explain that.&nbsp;Probably you are confusing about concepts. Hypervisor is a term about virtualization. We are talking about Hyper-v and cluster features.&nbsp;Also you can see the page for Hyper-v licencing rights&nbsp;https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/pricing

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