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Comment by tonymet

17 days ago

I consolidated about a dozen raspberry pis and virtual servers onto a Hyper V server https://info.microsoft.com/ww-landing-microsoft-hyper-v-serv...

Hyper V Server runs any Linux VM via VHD or ISO installation image. You can provision using Vagrant to automate your setup.

It was nice to consolidate all of my resources, clean up the spider web of raspberry pi’s, and reduce VM costs by running everything locally .

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stock_toaster  17 days ago

I’m curious… Why hyper-v and not something like proxmox?

  • tonymet  17 days ago

    Originally the server & VMs were running on my windows 11 pro dev machine. Keeping HyperV made it easier to move them to another machine.

    Now that I have a separate server, I find it easier to develop the VMs on my dev machine, snapshot and then migrate them to the server. I have a library of base images for alpine, Debian & Kali Linux that I can launch as easily as AWS.

    Using Hyper-V across both makes this seamless. I can manage the servers using the Windows Management Instrumentation (gui) or RDP into the server.

    I know many Linux users have aversion to Windows, but I get a lot of benefit out of Windows for other applications as well (gaming, one drive, document indexing, copilot, as well as all the great native apps)