Greg, please look at the hardware requirements of Hyper-V their are things that may or may not cause you issues. One of which is you need the ability to do virtualization on the hardware it is not just drivers. I only wish it was. I have a Dell 2850 that will not support Hyper-V but will support ESXi and Virtual Server. At the moment it is a doing Virtual Server and I will admit that it is a bit of a hack but still ok for the limited about of work I expected of it. Hyper-V is much better and I am currently supporting 4 servers with 2 more in the wings waiting on the down time to move them over to our Dell 2900.
Jon On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Greg Mulholland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Firstly ESX and ESXi are two different beasts. ESX in any way shape or > form is not free. > > > > ESXi by itself is however. Without any added features like Virtual Center > etc etc > > > > Hyperv will run on just about any hardware as it uses the windows driver > model where as ESXi will be a little more tricky, not buy much though, Carl > was not quite right. ESXi will run fine on whiteboxes, or desktops. The only > requirements that you will generally find is the scsi or sata controller is > supported and the network card. I have successfully built a number using a > $150 sata controller and Intel 1gb nic's. In fact my home AMD workstation is > running ESXi right now. > > > > If you are looking at this from a licensing perspective (good luck) then > you will need to evaluate whether buying a std, ent, dc version of Windows > 2008 and the additional licenses to run Hyperv guests on that box will be > something that floats your boat or not. You would also need to look at which > version of hyperv you would use, full, server core or standalone. Pay some > attention to how you will manage these virtual hosts too, hint# if you are > planning server core or standalone then be prepared for some hoop jumping. > > > > I have used both and an unashamedly of the Vmware religion as is my job > these days and so am a little biased. But I have had a fair play with Hyperv > in all its forms and it still feels betaish to me. Some of the feature set > outlined for the next version look great but that is 2 years away. If we > compare these two versions only then I would say they both work but I like > the Vmware VIClient interface and management much more than the Hyperv > console. > > > > My advice, after all that would be to try them out. Presumably you are > going to have to look after them and feel comfortable supporting them so I > would start with building a box for yourself to test with and going through > the normal procedures you would to get this into production. Then try the > other type and you will get an idea of what suits your environment and your > skillset. > > > > Greg > > > > > > *From:* Reimer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Thursday, November 13, 2008 4:21 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi > > > > Hi folks, > > > > I know this has been discussed earlier, but it has been a few months, and > (iirc) VMWare ESXi has come out since then. Also I think/hope some of the > experts here have had a chance to try Hyper-V and/or ESXi a bit more, and > might have more comments. > > > > I am under financial restraints, and thus the full ESX version, or other > paid products, will not be viable for me. At this point, I'm looking at > virtualizing a few web servers, using MS Server 2003. These are front end > machines that "hook" to a back end SQL servers. A couple of these web > servers get very little traffic, and some will have more. I'll look into > Enterprise and DataCenter versions because of the multiple copies on a > virtual server that are allowed. > > > > I'm planning on using the local server for disk storage, no NAS/SAN > involved. I do have the hardware that can run the virtual software necessary > (maybe need some more RAM). > > > > My question. Preference? Also any new links that might compare the two? I > might also look into Xen/Citrix free version, so if anybody has comments on > that, please let me know. > > > > Thanks. > > > Mark > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
