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Hyper-V Server 2022
Anyone know whether there will be a Hyper-V Server 2022? i.e. the free version which is just for running VMs and has no GUI? I've seen mentions on forums that this SKU is being dropped, but not ...
Free 'Microsoft Hyper-V Server' product update
Since its introduction over a decade ago in Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V technology has been, and continues to be, the foundation of Microsoft’s hypervisor platform. Hyper-V is a strategic technology for Microsoft. Microsoft continues to invest heavily in Hyper-V for a variety of scenarios such as virtualization, security, containers, gaming, and more. Hyper-V is used in Azure, Azure Local, Windows Server, Windows Client, and Xbox among others.
Starting with Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019, the free ‘Microsoft Hyper-V Server’ product has been deprecated and is the final version of that product. Hyper-V Server 2019 is a free product available for download from the Microsoft Evaluation Center: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-hyper-v-server-2019
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019 will continue to be supported under its lifecycle policy until January 2029, see this link for additional information: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/hyperv-server-2019.
While Microsoft has made a business decision to no longer offer the free 'Microsoft Hyper-V Server' product, this has no impact to the many other products which include the Hyper-V feature and capabilities. This change has no impact to any customers who use Windows Server or Azure Local.
For customers looking to do test or evaluation of the Hyper-V feature, Azure Local includes a 60-day free trial and can be downloaded here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-local/ . Windows Server offers a free 180-day evaluation which can be downloaded from the Evaluation Center here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter
Microsoft remains committed to meeting customers where they are and delivering innovation for on-premises virtualization and bringing unique hybrid capabilities like no other can combined with the power of Azure Arc. We are announcing that Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019 was the last version of the free download product and that customers begin transitioning to one of the several other products which include Hyper-V or consider Azure.
Thank you,
Elden Christensen
Principal Group PM Manager
Windows Server Development Team
Well looks like this could possibly address one concern (although no news on single-node clusters or an item-level discount for education/nonprofit). Can someone do some sums to work out how many VMs you need for Azure Stack HCI + this to be cheaper than Datacenter licenses w/ Software Assurance?
Public preview: Windows Server guest licensing offer for Azure Stack HCI
To facilitate guest licensing for Azure Stack HCI customers, we are pleased to announce a new offer that brings simplicity and more flexibility for licensing. The new Windows Server subscription for Azure Stack HCI is available in public preview as of December 14, 2021. This offer will allow you to purchase unlimited Windows Server guest licenses for your Azure Stack HCI cluster through your Azure subscription. You can sign up and cancel anytime and preview pricing is $0 until general availability (GA). At GA, the offer will be charged at $23.60 per physical core per month. This offer simplifies billing through an all-in-one place Azure subscription and in some cases will be less expensive for customers than the traditional licensing model.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/public-preview-windows-server-guest-licensing-offer-for-azure-stack-hci/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure-stack/hci/manage/vm-activate#windows-server-subscription
$24 per core per month is nonsense for SMBs. On average I guess it's one host with 8cores and 6 VMs. You can easily license this with Standard core licences vs roughly 14 months of AHCI subscription. So you're overpaying next year... please feel free to correct me.
$200 monthly for the entire life of the host is just not acceptable for SMB environment I think.
So just give us back our beloved hyper-v SKU and we can close this thread 😋
$200 monthly for the entire life of the host is just not acceptable for SMB environment I think.
So just give us back our beloved hyper-v SKU and we can close this thread 😋
- Direct from Elden's profile
"Elden Christensen is a Principal PM Manager in the Core OS group working on Windows Server. Elden has been one of the core leaders in defining Microsoft’s Private Cloud story from its conception and is currently driving Azure Stack HCI."
From Elden's profile who one of those currently responsible for growing azure stack HCI. To make that happen they made the decision to try hit their goals faster by kneecapping an existing product instead of actually making asure stack hci a compelling product.
Cant say I'm surprised overall, hyper-v core had a growing userbase, why not try and take that userbase and just pivot it to a separate business growth metric for a fast win, then use that to leverage for a promotion or a bonus.That isn't really fair. Sounds like they are trying to grow the evolution of virtual systems and by extension, revenue. In larger deployments, Stack would be wonderful. In SMB it has no place at all as it exists now.
My suggestion is simply to create a free tier of stack that works with a single host. Paywall all the fancy features like clustering, and just let it have feature parity with HVS. That solves all problems and allows for direct upgrade/growth path to Azure for all companies.
Not sure why they are not jumping on that, it is win win win.
