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Gentlemen, I'm setting a brand new virtual environment and I need some advice. Budget is extremely tight so I am planning to use WS 2016 Core, free StarWind for storage, Veeam Free for backups. It's my first time configuring a virtual enviornment, so the suggestions on components came from spiceworks:D Any advice and best practises are most welcome.

Johnyd
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    If this is a business critical server, best advice is to hire a professional to help you out. Most of the times you will get a system that will have many problems with your starting knowledge. – Tero Kilkanen Sep 26 '17 at 06:05
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    Correct! https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-pro-active-support <= similar to SimpliVity|HPE OmniWatch, Nimble|HPE InfoSight, and Nutanix Heartbeat (?). – BaronSamedi1958 Sep 27 '17 at 09:05
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    Thanks for the replies, I've reached out to the StarWind guys and they are actually helping me set everything up. – Johnyd Sep 27 '17 at 22:07

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Windows Server Core is paid version of Windows, it just has no GUI... What you most probably want is called free Hyper-V Server.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/hyper-v-server-2016

StarWind / Veeam guys work just fine, people run hundreds of nodes configured this way.

BaronSamedi1958
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