I can't speak for anyone else, but I like it. I don't find it hard to work with. I'm running 5 esxi4.1 hosts with 60 VM's. All of the hospital HCIS servers (Meditech) are running virtualized.
We did have some hiccups on the way to going LIVE with it. We had a situation where VM thought the server was shut down when it was actually running. We had another case where we tried to vmotion 2 servers and it would just stop working at around 60%. Both of those turned out to be 1) configuration issues and 2) not the same version of VM running on all 5 hosts. Management is easy through the vSphere client. We're using EMC SAN for storage so when I need to create a new datastore, it takes about 15 minutes: create the LUN on the SAN, open vSphere and create the datastore and add the LUN to it. OTOH, I haven't upgraded to 5 from 4.1 so I can't speak as to how easy it would be to upgrade. Paul Chinnery Network Admin Memorial Medical Center 231.845.2319 -----Original Message----- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 10:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hooray, I'm moving to VMware! Is the consensus that VMware is easier to use than Hyper-V? I've only used the latter, so I can't judge. John -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 9:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hooray, I'm moving to VMware! I'd assume ease of use and market leader. -----Original Message----- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: 16 April 2012 14:16 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hooray, I'm moving to VMware! Someone else asked about this, but I didn't see a reply (although Postini frequently blocks messages from this list)... What factors led to you choosing VMware over Hyper-V? John Hornbuckle, MSMIS, PMP MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us ----- Original Message ----- From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:38:47 -0700 Subject: Hooray, I'm moving to VMware! > Just got the ok to move forward with VMware/Citrix/Domain upgrade. > I have 10 physical servers, and it looks like this will be the solution: > > 3 hosts: ($21k each) > HP DL380 G7 E5660 > Pair of 146 15k drives mirrored > 196 G RAM <- this was $45k alone > Quad port gig adapter > > 2 Switches: ($1,800 each) > HP 2910 > > 1 SAN ($22,700) > NetApp 2240 > 12 x 600GB > > VSphere Essentials Plus ($5,200) > > 6 Windows licenses ($13,600): > Server 2008 Datacenter > > Windows/Xenapp licenses ($26,000) > > $40k services > Install/config SAN, switches, hosts, VMware, new Citrix farm, 2008 > Domain upgrade, P2V existing servers > > Total: $185,000 > > Sound good? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin