Recommendations for a cloud/hosted server environment that can run different Windows VMs?

Posted by Rory on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Rory
Published on 2011-01-15T14:31:32Z Indexed on 2011/01/15 14:55 UTC
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I currently have a colocated Win 2008 server that I use for hosting different windows VMs for testing: Win 2008, Win XP, Vista, Win7, Win 2000. I'd like to ditch the server and use something like Amazone AWS but the key thing is I need to be able to launch VMs for these different windows versions. AWS doesn't allow this currently. Can anyone recommend somewhere that I could use?

The main reasons I want to get away from my own server are:

  • administration: backup, windows updates, etc

  • space: disk limitations mean I can't have all the VMs I want. I'd like to be able to pay for space incrementally. I'll typically only run 1-3 at a time but want lots of snapshots of different machines.

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