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SteveL
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Run Win7 on HP Server hardware with server2012 as the Virtual Workstation?

We have an older G6 HP server, and are buying a newer G9 server.  I would like to run the Server 2012 OS as a virtual machine so that we can use the older server hardware as a backup server.  To keep the cost down, I would like to know if this is possible?

Have both servers running Windows 7 Pro as the Host OS, and then VMWare Workstation 10 with Sever 2012 as the OS.  Do you loose any hardware functionality by running Win 7 instead of a Win Server* OS?

Also, can you use a VMWare WS OS as the domain controller?

Thanks,

Steve

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