We choose Hyper-V because it is an excellent solution for no additional fee. Also, 5 of my 6 servers may have been supported by the free ESXi, but the last one wasn't supported for it's raid, forcing us to look for a different solution.
The one thing of Hyper-V I was not thrilled about was their (lack of) built in backup solution. The Windows backup in Server 2008 R2 is okay, I guess... but I do wish there was a better solution. Anybody have a free/inexpensive backup solution that will backup a live Hyper-V VM? I have a server offsite where I want to do a weekly VM image backup for disasters that my file level backup cannot handle. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:47:39 -0700 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 > > ~ 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
