Barry,

You imply that the customer is implementing this on their own, so I would have to assume they have the expertise or have someone helping them with the setup of the new environment.  

As for issues, I will let those in the community who have gone through the exercise of moving to Hyper-V on their own, describe their experiences. 

I just wanted to point you at two items from the Rocket Software websites.

Implementing best practices can help you streamline the deployment of your MultiValue applications to the Cloud

and OS Platform and Virtualization Support

Hi Mike,

the "OS Platform and Virtualization Support" document (Oct-2022) doesn't mention containerisation. Does Rocket have a support position on containers? [viz https://github.com/RocketSoftware/multivalue-containers]. 

Cheers.

Stuart,

Reading through the Rocket document - while it gives a few specific amples of virtualisation, it does not limit itself to only the examples cited. So to answer the query - Containers and Hyper/V are just other examples of virtualisation and are treated identically to all others - whether specifically listed in the document or not.

Rocket certify against specific Operating Systems and is the responsibility of the Virtual environment to exactly emulate the actual environment, If a difference should arise between the certified O.S. and the virtualisation then that would be a bug or configuration issue for the virtualisation vendor and their support team.

Picking a couple of lines from the document:

• This virtualization environment support statement applies to any virtualization technology providing binary compatibility between a non-virtualized and virtualized environment.
• For additional information about a specific virtual environment, contact the vendor of the virtualization technology.

Speaking personally I've used containers without any issue except on one occasion some years ago when there was a container software bug in a Windows host environment - long fixed. Again personally I've not used Hyper/V though I would expect it to work.

Hoping this helps - regards

JJ

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John Jenkins
Thame, Oxfordshire
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