Agreed. A nice thing about VMWare is that you can start out with the very robust ESXi for free, and if you determine you later need the more advanced features, you can simply license those features at that time.
-----Original Message----- From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 9:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V +1 For VMware, they are by far a more robust, flexible , 3rd party +supported, great tools for it. That being said, they aint cheap setup +does require some extra knowledge but don't think more than learning +Hyper-V from scratch It all depends on your requirements, budget, DR planning etc... I've been using Vmware for quite a few years now and it has done well by me, While I dabbled in Hyper-V at the time it didn't compare. You can have a production ready VM host in around 30 minutes provided you have a Server, Network and Storage for it -----Original Message----- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 9:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare vs Hyper-V Probably a can of worms here but we have not done much virtualization but are about to get into it more. It will be pretty simple virtualization, a couple of big boxes running 4 or 5 virtualized servers each. No cluster failovers or anything like that. We dabbled in VMWare before Hyper-V became mature but now I need to pick one and run with it. I am leaning towards Hyper-V because it is included with our license and so far has been pretty painless in testing. I found VMWare to be confusing with all the different packages, licensing...upgrades and all that. I suspect it provides far more flexibility but not knowing what that flexibility really is concerns me. So thought I would ask the knowledgeable masses here if I am missing anything important. TIA ~ 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 _________________________________________________________ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _________________________________________________________ ~ 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
