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JanRingos
Sep 02, 2020Iron Contributor
Any chance to see preview builds of Hyper-V Server?
Great to see LTSC builds flighting again. We've already started some small-scale preliminary testing, and all is going great so far. But as I have also plain Hyper-V Server deployed here and ther...
Elden_Christensen
Microsoft
Sep 03, 2020Hi Jan,
We historically haven't released insiders previews of the Hyper-V Server SKU. I recommend also checking out the Azure Stack HCI preview:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-stack/hci/hci-download/
Thanks!
Elden
JanRingos
Sep 12, 2020Iron Contributor
Quick follow up and questions, if I may:
I've found some old VM and ISO backups and there actually were previews for Hyper-V Server. The ISOs were named Windows_InsiderPreview_ServerHypercore_17692.iso (till 17744).
The Azure Stack HCI is very interesting, but the preview available is based on build 17784, which isn't exactly recent. Would you know when/whether newer ones will be available?
Also Hyper-V Server licensing has important restriction, where it forbids from running production software (other than management tools) directly on the host. I haven't been able to find anything detailing this regarding Azure Stack HCI. Would you know where I can find this info?
- Elden_ChristensenSep 13, 2020
Microsoft
Hi Jan,
Azure Stack HCI, version 20H2 is based on the Windows Server 2019 code base with a few new features... hence it's build number and it is the most recent. The Windows Server Insider builds are pre-release builds for future major versions.
Both Hyper-V Server and AzS HCI are based on server core, and both are purpose built OS's for being a virtualization host. AzS HCI includes all the software-defined infrastructure features for a hyperconverged deployment (in addition to just compute, also networking and storage).
AzS HCI is a subscription model with deep hybrid integration.
Thanks!
Elden