HyperV

[lehmanp00]

We are thinking of moving our JSS to a HyperV VM. Any positives or negatives that anyone would want to share? My thinking is it would be fine.

Thanks!

[joshbuddy]

We don't have our entire environment moved into Hyper-V yet, but we have 2 of our 5 Web Apps in Hyper-V. They run great! Running on Ubuntu 14.04. We intend on eventually transitioning everything into the virtual environment.

[andrew_nicholas]

A VM in Hyper-V should work just as it would in any other Hypervisor. Obviously Windows is going to have a leg up on Linux as the guest OS but all in all there shouldn't be any issues with this, Azure or on-prem. That being said, it is still Hyper-V, so... YMMV?

[lehmanp00]

Actually, we will probably move to a clustered JSS as well. Joshbuddy, what load balancer are you using?

[joshbuddy]

We use a virtual load balancing appliance. We started out using the free version, but keeping up with SSL on the free version is a bit more tedious so we eventually purchased it. It's a pretty easy mode LB.

https://www.zenloadbalancer.com/products/zva64-ee4000-virtual-appliance/

[Jerod]

We don't use HyperV, but our entire environment is virtualized in VMware and things run very well, so they should run well in any other virtualized environment. We currently have a 4 JSS cluster, two internal that are load balanced behind our Netscaler, one that is in the DMZ for outside access, one that is used by the IT department and acts as the master in the cluster. Since switching to this setup, we had to load balance since our device count is nearing 10k and we're bringing in another 5k in the coming year, things have been running very well.