Do VMWare and Hyper-V fans both treat XenServer with equal disdain? I know I'm less than impressed with it (being an ESX evangelist myself)
On 26 October 2010 15:20, Martin Blackstone <mblackst...@gmail.com> wrote: > +2 > But to be fair, it really is a religious war. You will find people who like > one or the other. Personally I am a huge ESX fan. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 6:59 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 > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ 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
