Hi,
I am experimenting with Hyper-V on some quite old Proliant severs and have a fundamental question that I'd appreciate some help with please . . . .
Using Hyper-V 2012R2, I can either install the hypervisor "bare metal", or by adding it as a role on Server 2012R2. There are probably pros and cons with both, but I think that the hypervisor overhead will be smaller if I install it "bare metal" with no GUI.
The question that I have is what does this mean for the HP Management tools, such as array and hardware diagnostics?
Am I better installing the HP Proliant Support Pack tools on each VM, and would they actually be safe to use on a VM basis?
Or is it better to install Hyper-V as a role and install the PSP on the same instance of Windows, then just ignore the PSP tools in the individual VMs?
Or, are the PSP tools best not used in virtualised systems anyway?
regards
Dave